No Rooney for Bolton

or Wednesday by the look of it. I hope Berbatov is in the right frame of mind for the game. It doesn't need stressing how desperate we are for Rooney to be fit for the trip to Anfield.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/6345233/Wayne-Rooney-ruled-out-of-Manchester-United-match-against-Bolton.html

Fergie embarrassed by private letter leak to Belgian starlet Steven Defour
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article6877321.ece

United have plans to step up their scouting operation in Brazil, i'm not sure about this.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/united-ready-to-step-up-scouting-in-brazil-1803528.html

A new extensive report savages New Labours record on education
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/generation-of-pupils-being-put-off-school-report-says-1803629.html
Completely agree with most of that, it has always struck me as typical new labour gimmick to use tests and spin the results as a substitute for any proper ideological analysis.

Johann Hari on the case for a proper comprehensive education system, which i totally agree with also
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-from-north-carolina-a-model-of-how-to-transform-education-1803563.html

Edmund Conway is not convinced by David Hare's new play on the credit crunch
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100001387/what-this-crisis-needs-is-a-the-wire/

Well at least one financial crook looks like getting his comeuppance
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6873649.ece

Simon Jenkins on our political pygmies who have still done nothing to change the financial system that has sunk us into this recession and who still live the life of Reilly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/15/paying-price-myth-banks-fail

Tomothy Garton Ash compares the UK to the dying days of the Habsburgs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/constitutional-reform-parliament-electoral-system

An interesting article on a book about communism, looks like a fascinating book. I would go along with most of his thesis
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2009/10/communism-state-communist

It looks like the business friends of the neo cons are just as much a piece of dirty work as the politicians, now there is a surprise.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/15/defence-contractors-rape-claim-block

Remember you can believe everything you read in the tabloids, course you can.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/14/starsuckers-tabloids-hoax-celebrities