Media folly: Morning roundup

We're assuming that you're reading this after recently arriving at your office for the Monday morning grind. Please accept our commiserations but rest assured that, despite the planet's usual state of discord, things seem to be pretty much in order. The best of the morning's stories are as follows:

Following the highly-successful and well-planned nobbling of the Olympic torch as it passed through London yesterday, the International Olympic Committe have publicly announced that pollution in China won't kill athletes, but may affect their performance a wee bit. Read more at The BBC.

Should you be feel the need to state your opinions about Gordon Brown's reaction to the torch performance yesterday you can do so at Jackie Ashley's Guardian blog.

In Africa, Robert Mugabe takes another step towards the Nobel Peace Prize as he encourages Black farmers to ensure that White farmers do not regain land taken from them, The BBC reports.

Further reports at The Telegraph claim that Mr. Mugabe is 'playing for time' concerning the Zimbabwean election.

Over in The Ol' US of A, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist has quit after a bit of a tiff concerning free trade with Columbia. Read further atThe BBC or The Telegraph.

The Guardian has a revolutionary piece about the failed attempts of MPs to encourage poorer kids to go to University. It could have something to do with Gordon Brown wanting to shoot the little bastards. Other news implies that the Tories plan to kick them out of school for being rowdy. The BBC has more.

If you have an abstruse interest in British politics there's an article over at The Guardian website simply entitled 'The Numbers'. We don't know what it means but it looks quite important.

Political tensions in Wales have increased for horses of English heritage. Word on the street is that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has postponed her upcoming visit to the country*.

Finally, should you still be perplexed about the axed 10p tax band that everybody keeps getting excited about then you can read a summary of the situation and how it may affect you over at The Times Online. Further news can be found atEpolitix.

*Not really.

Written by Oli Anderson on 7 Apr 2008 7:23 AM. Permalink