Sky News and others are full of righteous indignation that the Chinese only care about profit and aren't thinking about the side-effects of the drugs they're manufacturing for consumption in the West.
I think the saying is something like: What goes around,
'A' Company 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment on their tour and return home. reports from Afghanistan, the soldiers and families. Previous post from mid March here.
No fatalities which is an impressive result, not forgetting ten of the battalion were wounded, including two soldiers losing both legs. Welcome home.
Probably the first maiden speech I've watched in full. A good speaker, none of the screeching so often heard from the Labour benches and destined for higher office as long as she keeps her fingers out of the till.
On the downside, none of which is irreparable, she occasionally looks just like Tory Boy, really, and while I might not find 'hair flicking' particularly annoying, there are limits.
Education questions 7th June. Balls opens, has a moan that the Tories are doing what Labour consistently used to do, makes up some stuff that doesn't stick which Gove bats away effortlessly.
Gove replies by taking the piss, "at variance with the facts" is a lovely euphemism, then hoiks him with his own pre election statements about cutting three thousand Head and Deputy Head teachers.
Fraser Nelson discussing the coming spending cuts speech by David Cameron at 10:00 today with Eamonn Holmes. Some interesting points for reference:
Thatcher never actually cut public spending and the ConDem coalition is going to have to cut spending in successive years, the first time since the Second World War.
Ed Balls makes a stunningly. . . . bad fist of his time on The Politics Show.
34 seconds, 1.44, 4.15 and 8.23. Ed is a very honest chap, just ignore his completely different stance on a whole range of policies he supported the last thirteen years.
Ed for leader, Abbot for Deputy. Give us all a laugh:
Update: It was only after posting this that I thought to title it 'Old Holborn' elected mayor of Reykjavík, he does after all look just like him. . . .sort of.
When icelandreview.com called the Best party a “joke party” earlier this spring a spokesman for the party complained. However, the party seems to be very hard to define on old fashioned political scales. Nobody can deny that party leader, Jón Gnarr, is a comedian, and one of the most popular in Iceland.
He is also a member of the Libertarian Society in Iceland according to an article in Morgunbladid.