UK Riots: A Sign of Things to Come?

Phone hacking - what's that? A story that I thought would have control over the headlines for weeks to come has been quickly snuffed and set aside as the UK was rudely thrust into the new age of the recession. Rupert Murdoch is probably breathing a massive sigh of relief. A protest over the shooting last Thursday of Mark Duggan by police officers in Tottenham quickly escalated into a violent frenzy on the streets of Tottenham on Sunday. Like wildfire, the riots spread across multiple boroughs of London the following night (Brixton, Croydon, Islington - the list goes on), and before long news was filtering to the watching world that cities including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Liverpool and Manchester had become victims of mob rule as well.

Rinse & Repeat: Libya and the Mistakes of History

Well it didn't take them long, but Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama have got themselves stuck into a nice, juicy war. It's headline-grabbing stuff and mainstream papers like The Sun are having a field day, pumping the public full of patriotism in support of our air strikes on Gaddafi and his forces as he continues to brutalise his own people and stifle the rebel movement. Colonel Gaddafi has been transformed into an international pariah (again) in the space of time it takes to fire a Patriot missile into Tripoli.

Not Even a Sporting Chance

So there will no longer be a national P.E. scheme. The Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the £162m budget for school sports will no longer be set aside, instead allowing school headteachers to decide how best to spend on P.E. Basically, it's screwed.

Too Little, Too Late

You can't help but flinch when reading today's headlines, no matter what walk of life you're from or what paper you happen to read. It was the day everyone was dreading. The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne promised cuts and boy did he give them.