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Daily News: 27/07/2010
Tuesday, 27 Jul, 2010 – 9:36 | View Comments
Daily News: 27/07/2010

Round-up of the daily news for 27/07/2010

Football’s common experience factor
Saturday, 26 Jun, 2010 – 8:30 | View Comments
Football’s common experience factor

(c) vramak
It’s a funny old game. A game of two halves. It can leave you sick as a parrot or feeling over the moon. Even if you don’t have any interest in it at all, …

Spineless UN fails to counter the Iranian threat
Sunday, 13 Jun, 2010 – 21:05 | View Comments
Spineless UN fails to counter the Iranian threat

As conflict with Iran looks increasingly likely, it’s vital for world peace there is a united effort to invade if Iran doesn’t halt its nuclear enrichment programme.

World Cup fever sweeps the nation
Friday, 11 Jun, 2010 – 10:32 | View Comments
World Cup fever sweeps the nation

I’ve already filled in two wallcharts of predictions for this summer’s World Cup and compelled my girlfriend to do the same. There are few things which unite the English quite like a World Cup; invading …

Floods blight Eastern Europe
Saturday, 22 May, 2010 – 8:30 | View Comments
Floods blight Eastern Europe

Poland is still reeling from the loss of its president in a plane crash near Smolensk last month. Now thousands of its citizens are fleeing and suffering from the worst floods in 160 years. 2010 …

Celebrity culture contaminates our politics
Monday, 17 May, 2010 – 8:30 | View Comments
Celebrity culture contaminates our politics

As politicians model themselves on celebrities the British public is taking them less seriously and the boundaries between politics and showbiz are blurring.

Italian minister’s no-Cannes-do as anti-Berlusconi film gets special screening
Saturday, 15 May, 2010 – 9:04 | View Comments
Italian minister’s no-Cannes-do as anti-Berlusconi film gets special screening

Although the boycott is a small incident – by Italian standards – it again raises the question of why, or how, does Berlusconi continue to maintain such a strong support in Italy

At least the real bad guys lost
Saturday, 15 May, 2010 – 8:30 | View Comments
At least the real bad guys lost

Whatever your feelings may be about the Conservative-Liberal government, one thing that can be celebrated is that voters delivered blows by the ballot box on the villains of this election.

Hung parliament? Hang me!
Saturday, 8 May, 2010 – 11:07 | View Comments
Hung parliament? Hang me!

With a high turnout and the first hung parliament since 1974, this year’s general election is the most exciting in years. But what to make of the information flying in all directions?

The price of a vote
Thursday, 6 May, 2010 – 15:00 | View Comments
The price of a vote

(c) The U.S. Army
In the midst of the horrors of the Nazi holocaust in the Second World War, hid in the woods in Lithuania in 1944, were three Jewish brothers. The Nazis came for them, …

Minor Parties Hold the Key in a Hung Parliament
Saturday, 1 May, 2010 – 8:55 | View Comments
Minor Parties Hold the Key in a Hung Parliament

The 2005 Election suggested an increasing number of British people are willing to vote for minor parties whose support could be invaluable in a hung parliament this time around.

Trident: the must-have deterrent we don’t know what to do with
Monday, 26 Apr, 2010 – 8:30 | View Comments
Trident: the must-have deterrent we don’t know what to do with

There are no credible reasons for maintaining a so-called nuclear ‘deterrent’, so why do we have Trident at all?