The New Greek Bailout
Greece is the Pakistan of Europe.
It is corrupt, totally resistant to change and bankrupt in both a financial and moral sense. And as I pointed out earlier, they can’t even spell tax.
When a company goes bust, you put in administrators to see if they can sort out the mess.
Where are the administrators for Greece?
Let’s face it, I’m sure Disney could make a better job of running the Parthenon!
Imran Khan Gives It Straight
I have a great deal of respect for Imran Khan and that has increased after reading this article on the BBC’s web site. Here’s an extract.
Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan has urged the UK to cut aid to his country, saying it fuels corruption.
The former cricketer told BBC Radio 4 that Pakistan was more poverty-stricken than ever but little international aid money reached its intended target.
The UK plans to increase its annual aid from £140m to £350m over the next few years.
But Mr Khan said: “If we don’t have aid we will be forced to make reforms and stand on our own feet.”
The sooner that the west stops giving the Pakistan government any aid the better. After all we gave a lot of aid for the floods last year and can anybody say that that money got to be used for the purpose it was intended.
The Greenway Bridge Over Stratford High Street
The structure of this important bridge, which is just known as Olympic Bridge T12, is now in place.
It will be much needed to get Olympic visitors from West Ham station to the site. There’s more on the bridge here.
The Arcelor Mittal Orbit Is Taller Still!
The ArcelorMittal Orbit is getting towards its full height.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit on September 24th, 2011
Note that the trees have been planted in front.
The Funeral Expenses of Troy Davis
The execution of Troy Davis in Georgia has been rightly condemned by many.
I have just received an e-mail, which says that his family are responsible for the expenses of his funeral.
BT’s Copper Is Worth More Than The Stock Market Value
According to The Times today, BT has 75 million miles of copper cable, which at £5,000 a tonne is worth £50 billion.
Compare this to their stock market value last night of just £14 billion.
This figure came from an article on the massive amounts of metal theft in the UK.
How NuLabor Fiddled The Books
Two papers today; The Times and the Daily Mail have a story from an updated edition of Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge’s book, Brown at 10, that Ed Balls asked Treasury officials to produce economic forecasts that Brown would like. The report in the Mail is here.
According to The TImes, a spokesman for Mr. Balls said it was all “absurd and untrue”. In other words a load of old balls!
The Hitchcock Gallery at Leytonstone Station
I’d never been to Leytonstone station, that I can remember until Wednesday. So I hadn’t seen the gallery of mosaics in the subway dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock and his work.
There are always things to delight like this, as one travels around London.
Were BBC Radio 5 and ITV Watching Different Rugby Matches?
At half time in the England-Romania match, I switched over to BBC Radio 5 to avoid the adverts.
Whereas the ITV commentators were gushing about England’s performance by leading comfortably, Ian Robertson on the BBC was more professional and clinical in his analysis.
Here is a typical comment from Robertson.
If I was a fanatical England supporter I wouldn’t be thrilled.
I know he’s a Scot and I know little about rugby, but England did seem to make too many mistakes for my liking against Romania’s second team.
But then ITV commentators are more interested in ratings to get more adverts, than good balanced commentary.
But could you expect any more from a channel that produces some of the rubbish it does?
Prostate Cancer Drug Trial Stopped Early
The headline was the bad news. But it was stopped because it would have been unethical to continue according to this report from the BBC, as the tests were so succssful.
So it was really good news!
The Anonymous Widower 