This Is Class War
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Posted 07.03.2012
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UK Politics
It was Bertolt Brecht who reminded us that it's a far greater crime to own a bank than to rob one.
It was Bertolt Brecht who reminded us that it's a far greater crime to own a bank than to rob one.
What is it about sport that produces such emotional scenes as Andy Murray's cry fest on the Centre Court at Wimbledon after losing the men's singles final to Roger Federer just past?
As the Syrian conflict moves up a gear in intensity with the assassination of key members of the regime in a bomb attack in Damascus, it would be a mistake to consider events in Syria in isolation from the rest of the region.
If economics were an Olympic sport, George Osborne would be asked to hand his team vest back after a performance that sits somewhere between woeful and utterly incompetent.
The epic spectacle of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, courtesy of director Danny Boyle, with its dramatised depiction of Britain's social history taking centre stage at the expense of the pomp and pageantry which usually features when the nation celebrates its past, met with approbation not just in Britain but around the world.
