Archive for September, 2007
Tory woes
You got to have some sympathy for David Cameron, the current leader of the Conservative Opposition. No matter how hard he tries to put forward his party’s message to the people, nobody seems to want to listen. The Conservatives are having one huge problem at the moment- The Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Brown, like [...]
THIS is what happens in a REAL dictatorship
One of many reports on the protests in Burma, this one from the BBC: Nine people have been killed amid a crackdown on anti-government protesters in Burma’s main city of Rangoon, state television has revealed….. Eleven demonstrators and 31 soldiers were injured…. The clashes came on the tenth day of protests against Burma’s military rulers [...]
The Brits aren’t that crap at sport… just lazy
Failed at the cricket, failed at the rugby, failed at the tennis, failed at the (womens) football. These high-profile cock-ups almost sum yet another year of British sporting disaster. When our teams lose a competitive game in any sport, the public moans, and constantly repeat the claim that we are crap at every sport that [...]
National Health Service through rose-tinted spectacles
The National Health Service has had its fair share of critics, but in an article in Monday’s Guardian, it was praised by none other than documentary film maker Michael Moore. His latest, Sicko, released here on October 26, deal with the problems of the United States’ healthcare system. Several NHS workers had been invited to [...]
Do we need an early general election?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is being urged to call a general election after receiving so-called high ratings in the polls. But do we, the people of the UK actually want one? It seems that the only people driving him to do this are certain sections of the media, who obviously feel that he needs to [...]
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