Archive for December, 2008

Scotland to end hospital rip-off

Scotland is abolishing car parking charges at 14 hospitals on Wednesday, leaving just three private finance-owned establishments to extract stupendous charges from cancer patients and the like.

Wales has announced that it is to end such charges in 2011, leaving only dear …

Has Israel exhausted its moral capital?

Well the rest of the world is now united it seems, in calling for an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.

This afternoon the ‘quartet’, comprising the United States, the EU, the UN and Russia, of whom former British PM Tony Blair is the …

Lennon charity ad sparks image row

An ad by New York agency Taxi for the One Laptop Per Child charity, which provides cheap computers for children in the third world, has provoked a rather predictable storm by using John Lennon’s image and voice.

Permission was given by …

Victoria doesn’t know her crib sheet from her ‘research guidance’

Radio 5 phone-in host Victoria Derbyshire landed herself in hot water when she told listeners she’d been given a ‘crib sheet’ to prepare for a possible appearance on Celebrity Mastermind with fearsome inquisitor John Humphries.

Amid the loud noise of gaskets being …

Sinking pound, sinking spirits?

Nobody ever really expected the British pound to sink to the level of the euro (for years a euro has been worth around 70p) but it’s reached parity now and is still falling.

Which will be devastating for British holidaymakers to …

Will Europe intervene in stricken Gaza?

European foreign ministers are due to meet in Paris later today to discuss the crisis in Gaza, where Israel is still bombing despite calls from most of the world to call off the assault.

Among the items on the agenda is …

Gerrard charged over nightclub fight

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has been charged with assault and affray following the nightclub fight in Southport after which he was arrested on Monday morning.

Witnesses allege that Gerrard rowed with DJ Marcus McGee when he wouldn’t play the record Gerrard wanted and …

Palin news: It’s a baby Bristol

Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston and a boy actually, but Bristol Palin’s eagerly-awaited baby nonetheless.

Young Tripp came into the world on Sunday at seven pounds and four ounces but, beyond that, the Palin clan don’t seem to be saying very much …

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