Bebe in under 21 call up

New boy Bebe has been called up to the Portugese under 21 squad to play England, i might get to see some of it then. With Smalling, Cleverley and hopefully Welbeck also on the pitch there will be plenty of interest for us reds in that match.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_6350027,00.html

Police are trying to ramp up security before the Rangers game at home in a couple of weeks time.
I suppose that means they will be trying to shut all the pubs around the ground again. So no pint in the Tollgate pre game for no good reason once again then.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/31/manchester-united-rangers-security-measures

Robinho happy to be in Milan, who will be the next big signing to follow him out of the boo camp.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/robinho-very-happy-as-he-secures-city-exit-2066977.html

Henry Winter writes that England's pampered stars should look at Hargreaves current woes and realise that a footballers life could be over tomorrow, so give it your all today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/7972039/Henry-Winter-Owen-Hargreaves-fate-serves-as-a-warning-to-Englands-pampered-stars.html

Martin Kettle has a world exclusive with the man of the moment, Tony Blair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-a-journey-interview
Well i will not be reading his self serving memoirs, there is a great biography to be wrote about Blair, but it won't be written for a good few years yet.

The FT on the questions it would like to see answered, you may have to sign up. I can think of loads more than that. Where are the questions over foreign policy, religion, civil liberties and on and on.
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/08/will-tony-blairs-book-answer-these-difficult-questions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ft%2Fwestminster+%28Westminster+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Jason Burt argues if you take City's involvment in the transfer market out of the equation, this summer has seen a collapse. It's no surprise, we all know why we have spent so little.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/7974027/Manchester-Citys-cash-has-propped-up-Premier-Leagues-summer-transfer-market.html

Robert Peston talks about the tory and labour party are funded and how that affects their policies. And that is the reason i have no faith in the ability of this coalition to reform the financial system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/08/how_money_talks_to_labour_and.html

Larry Elliot's latest Monday column argues that house prices have nowhere to go but down. Which is surely a good thing in the long run.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/30/house-prices-first-time-buyers

Sarah Arnott in the Indy comes out with unsurprising news that one leading economics think tank thinks the north will be badly hit by the recession that was started in the city of London, whilst London and the south east will grab an even larger slice of the pie.
Of course the ruling coalition's ideology presumes that this is fair and perfectly natural. This is surely a useful line of attack to take for whoever is chosen as the next labour party leader.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/one-in-10-northerners-will-be-jobless-in-next-5-years-2066271.html

US home ownership and recessionary times Florida style. The Wall street crash was also preceeded by a wild real estate boom in the sunshine state.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/30/us-homes-borrowers-foreclosures

Steve Richards writes that new labour must be left behind, the tactics that Blair and co used to such great effect, for them that is, will not work in todays conditions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-its-time-to-move-on-from-new-labour-2066183.html

Neil Davenport writes about Serge Gainsbourg as a new biopic is released in France. Having just read a biography of Leon Blum, how the director portrays French anti-semitism will be fascinating to watch.
I have read about the Dreyfuss affair and Vichy France before so new the French right was vehemently anti-semitic but the Passages of debates in the chambers shock and appall as they drip with anti-semitism. In one debate he ends up being called a protestant, marxist Jew, which sounds like the worst possible mixture a man could be according to the pre-war French catholic right. Of course in large part, these were the very same people that went on to form the collaborationist Vichy government.
All of which means it must have played a part in the young Serge's life.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9434/






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