Current Affairs

Speaking to the BBC, David Beckham says: “It’s impossible to trust people for me. And I don’t like it being like that, I’m not that sort of person. But I’ve been made into that sort of person because there’s been so many things and so

Eric Forth, the right-wing MP for Bromley & Chislehurst has died. I didn’t follow his politics, but his performances in the House of Commons were always very witty and vigorous.

Euro-MP Cecilia Malmstroem has launched a petition to keep the European Parliament in one place, rather than have it move for its plenary sessions to Strasbourg. An eminently sensible aim, and if you agree you can sign the petition here.

An interesting article in the NYT Magazine about the spread of the anti-abortion movement into anti-contraception.

Well, the honour roll of the British media just got one name longer with the withdrawal of Luis Felipe Scolari from the England manager job. Reason? The British press. It’s win-win for the Daily Mail, though – they get to chase off one of those ghastly foreigners with their unEnglish

The US Senate debates the rises in petrol prices there, and the “I think what the American consumer is saying is that filling up your gas tank shouldn’t empty your wallet” I don’t doubt that that’s what the American consumer is saying to Sen. John Thune of

Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker discusses the Administration’s plans for Iran.

An interview with Chris Patten in le Monde discusses the French economy and Europe’s prospects for the future.

There’s a fairly interesting article in today’s Guardian about the benefits or otherwise of organic food. It would have been a very good article, but for two pieces of lazy journalism. The first is the ‘spurious confession’ spin – common in political writing – where a perfectly ordinary statement is