Archive for May, 2008

30 years on, we’ve got another oil crisis

And it’s going to be painful.

Oil quadrupled in cost after the six-days war between Israel and its Arab foes 40 years ago.

This introduced rampant inflation into the Western World in the 1970s and we all suffered, for a bit.

The same …

It was a good Champion’s League final - but it might lead to grief all round

Why?

Well Christiano Ronaldo will probably schlep off to Real Madrid, leaving Champion’s League winners Manchester United not quite the biggest team in Europe.

Roman Abramovitch at Chelsea will fire manager Avram Grant (for no other real reason than skipper John Terry …

Serge is in Moscow (the Lubyanka actually)

Serge Poniatowski (Blatherskite’s chief celebrity interviewer): Ouch!

KGB man (aka UEFA press officer): If you think that hurts, wait to see what else we’ve got left over from the cold war!

Serge: But why are you doing this? I’m a journalist, I’m …

The Royal circus rolls on - with a big cheque from Hello!

At the weekend Peter Phillips, Princess Anne’s son, got married to a former management consultant who now works as PA to ITV boss Michael Grade.

And rights to the wedding were sold to Hello! magazine for £500,000, although the Queen was …

Will the Cup Final be ‘Arry’s swansong?

Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp will lead his team out today in the FA Cup Final as warm favourites to beat Championship side Cardiff.

Yet ‘Arry, everyone’s favourite ‘jack the lad’, even at nearly 60, is not a happy bunny; threatening to …

Wayne Rooney, a wedding - and no beer?

Surely some mistake?

But no, Wayne’s intended Coleen has banned the beer apparently, in case it tempts Wayne’s friends and family to act, well, normally, at the couple’s glittering wedding in the posh Italian resort of Portofino on June 14.

It won’t work, …

Cherie’s memoirs are something else; she went to Oxford, came top in the bar exams - how?

They do say that some people are all brains and no intelligence - and Cherie Blair, nee Booth, certainly bears that out in her just-published memoir.

This is being serialised in the Sun and The Times but the Daily Mail seems to …

Avram and Gordon would have had a lot to talk about

Chelsea manager Avram Grant, worsted by Manchester united’s Sir Alex Ferguson for the Premiership title at the weekend, and PM Gordon Brown met at Downing Street the other evening.

The two men have a lot in common apart from an interest …

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