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The brit press :
Is that the coffee i'm smelling ?
Voters 'want blair resignation'
Most voters believe Tony Blair should resign as prime minister within a year, according to a News of the World poll.
Of those polled 57% said he should go within a year while 42% want him to step down immediately.
Only 21% want him to stay after the general election. Mr Blair has pledged not to lead Labour into another election but he said he expects to serve "a full third term".
A third of the 1,012 UK adults surveyed think neither Mr Blair nor Chancellor Gordon Brown should run the country....
BBC
Should we be surprised :
Iraq terror backlash in UK 'for years'
SPY chiefs have warned Tony Blair that the war in Iraq has made Britain the target of a terror campaign by Al-Qaeda that will last “for many years to come.”
A leaked top-secret memo from the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) says the war in Iraq has “exacerbated” the threat by radicalising British Muslims and attracting new recruits to anti-western terror attacks...
Timesonline
Well i'll be dam-ned :
Official: Iraq war led to July bombings
The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.
Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict has made Britain a target for terrorists, the Home Office inquiry into the deadliest terror attack on British soil has conceded that the bombers were inspired by UK foreign policy, principally the decision to invade Iraq.
The government's 'narrative', compiled by a senior civil servant using intelligence from the police and security services, was announced by the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, last December following calls for a public inquiry into the attacks.
The narrative will be published in the next few weeks, possibly alongside the findings of a critical report into the London bombings by the Commons intelligence and security committee...
Theobserver
The minute(man) waltz :
MoD denies Iran military meeting
Reports that military officers will meet government officials on Monday to discuss possible US-led military action against Iran have been denied.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said there was no truth whatsoever in the claims, made in the Sunday Telegraph.
BBC Defence Correspondent Paul Wood said US plans for a possible strike are thought to be at an advanced stage....
BBC
Let's just change the subject shall we :
Human bird flu victims face end in 'plague pits'
FAMILIES may have to wait for four months to bury their dead in the event of an avian flu pandemic, stirring up folk memories of the burial pits of the great plague of 1665, writes David Cracknell.
A confidential Home Office report says as many as 320,000 people could die from the H5N1 strain of the virus if it mutates into a form that can readily be passed between humans.
It says the emergency services may have to enforce mass burial. “Common [mass] burial stirs up images of the burial pits used in the great plague of 1665 — where in London 70,000 people died,” it adds...
Timesonline
Shadenfreude :
Hop off, frogs' legs - couscous is the top dish
In the most classic of French restaurants, they will choke on their frogs' legs. Couscous, the dish of the Maghreb and of France's large immigrant population, has come in first for the first time in a poll of the nation's favourite dishes, beating roast chicken and 'le steak-frites'.
Pollsters commissioned by weekly magazine VSD asked 960 people to arrange a series of dishes in order of preference. Though the list was overwhelmingly composed of traditional French dishes, such as cassoulet, bouillabaisse, bœuf bourgignon and beef tartare, the handful of foreign dishes did best. Pizza is apparently the fifth-most popular meal in France, and paella the third.
But those who hope the poll results reveal a nation increasingly at ease with a multicultural and multiethnic population may be disappointed. According to Anthony Rowley, author of A Global History of the Table, the presence of three foreign dishes among the top five is more prosaic: 'You can make up couscous or pizza according to your own tastes.'
The pizza particularly has become a strong social indicator. 'The worse the area, the bigger the pizza,' Rowley said. 'You customise a pizza like you customise your motor.'
In the cosmopolitan Parisian quarter of Belleville yesterday, they preferred another reason for the popularity of couscous. 'It is lovely, it's tasty, it tastes of the Mediterranean, of North Africa, of my beautiful France too, it is a kiss on the lips every dinner time,' said Ahmed Sifaoui, owner of a couscous cafe.
The popularity of chicken shows that scares about bird flu have yet to impact on a national favourite, a rare piece of positive news for embattled President Jacques Chirac and his government.
Theobserver
Horror story :
Raising the dead
They replaced stolen bones with pipes; organs with rags - 1,077 corpses carved up by illegal body snatchers who sold their 'harvest' on the donor market. Paul Harris on the case ripping the heart out of America.
Every graveyard tells a story.
The Maple Grove Cemetery in New York is no exception. Its tombs mirror the waves of immigration to this bustling corner of the city. Inscriptions on older stones, flecked with moss, are mostly Jewish or English. The newer ones, shiny and polished, bear Chinese names, or Indian, or Hispanic.
Each grave is a full stop on an individual life: a point of final departure and no return.
Except for one.
On a chilly winter's day last November a team of gravediggers plunged their spades into the cold earth above Esfir Perelmuter and began to bring her back into the light.
When they prised open Perelmuter's pine coffin what they saw within sent shockwaves across America. The body of the 82-year-old grandmother had been desecrated.
She had been surgically carved up and was missing nearly every bone below the waist.
In their place were plastic pipes.
Cloth had been used to replace missing tissue.
Then she had been sewn up again...
Theobserver
Is that the coffee i'm smelling ?
Voters 'want blair resignation'
Most voters believe Tony Blair should resign as prime minister within a year, according to a News of the World poll.
Of those polled 57% said he should go within a year while 42% want him to step down immediately.
Only 21% want him to stay after the general election. Mr Blair has pledged not to lead Labour into another election but he said he expects to serve "a full third term".
A third of the 1,012 UK adults surveyed think neither Mr Blair nor Chancellor Gordon Brown should run the country....
BBC
Should we be surprised :
Iraq terror backlash in UK 'for years'
SPY chiefs have warned Tony Blair that the war in Iraq has made Britain the target of a terror campaign by Al-Qaeda that will last “for many years to come.”
A leaked top-secret memo from the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) says the war in Iraq has “exacerbated” the threat by radicalising British Muslims and attracting new recruits to anti-western terror attacks...
Timesonline
Well i'll be dam-ned :
Official: Iraq war led to July bombings
The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks.
Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict has made Britain a target for terrorists, the Home Office inquiry into the deadliest terror attack on British soil has conceded that the bombers were inspired by UK foreign policy, principally the decision to invade Iraq.
The government's 'narrative', compiled by a senior civil servant using intelligence from the police and security services, was announced by the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, last December following calls for a public inquiry into the attacks.
The narrative will be published in the next few weeks, possibly alongside the findings of a critical report into the London bombings by the Commons intelligence and security committee...
Theobserver
The minute(man) waltz :
MoD denies Iran military meeting
Reports that military officers will meet government officials on Monday to discuss possible US-led military action against Iran have been denied.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said there was no truth whatsoever in the claims, made in the Sunday Telegraph.
BBC Defence Correspondent Paul Wood said US plans for a possible strike are thought to be at an advanced stage....
BBC
Let's just change the subject shall we :
Human bird flu victims face end in 'plague pits'
FAMILIES may have to wait for four months to bury their dead in the event of an avian flu pandemic, stirring up folk memories of the burial pits of the great plague of 1665, writes David Cracknell.
A confidential Home Office report says as many as 320,000 people could die from the H5N1 strain of the virus if it mutates into a form that can readily be passed between humans.
It says the emergency services may have to enforce mass burial. “Common [mass] burial stirs up images of the burial pits used in the great plague of 1665 — where in London 70,000 people died,” it adds...
Timesonline
Shadenfreude :
Hop off, frogs' legs - couscous is the top dish
In the most classic of French restaurants, they will choke on their frogs' legs. Couscous, the dish of the Maghreb and of France's large immigrant population, has come in first for the first time in a poll of the nation's favourite dishes, beating roast chicken and 'le steak-frites'.
Pollsters commissioned by weekly magazine VSD asked 960 people to arrange a series of dishes in order of preference. Though the list was overwhelmingly composed of traditional French dishes, such as cassoulet, bouillabaisse, bœuf bourgignon and beef tartare, the handful of foreign dishes did best. Pizza is apparently the fifth-most popular meal in France, and paella the third.
But those who hope the poll results reveal a nation increasingly at ease with a multicultural and multiethnic population may be disappointed. According to Anthony Rowley, author of A Global History of the Table, the presence of three foreign dishes among the top five is more prosaic: 'You can make up couscous or pizza according to your own tastes.'
The pizza particularly has become a strong social indicator. 'The worse the area, the bigger the pizza,' Rowley said. 'You customise a pizza like you customise your motor.'
In the cosmopolitan Parisian quarter of Belleville yesterday, they preferred another reason for the popularity of couscous. 'It is lovely, it's tasty, it tastes of the Mediterranean, of North Africa, of my beautiful France too, it is a kiss on the lips every dinner time,' said Ahmed Sifaoui, owner of a couscous cafe.
The popularity of chicken shows that scares about bird flu have yet to impact on a national favourite, a rare piece of positive news for embattled President Jacques Chirac and his government.
Theobserver
Horror story :
Raising the dead
They replaced stolen bones with pipes; organs with rags - 1,077 corpses carved up by illegal body snatchers who sold their 'harvest' on the donor market. Paul Harris on the case ripping the heart out of America.
Every graveyard tells a story.
The Maple Grove Cemetery in New York is no exception. Its tombs mirror the waves of immigration to this bustling corner of the city. Inscriptions on older stones, flecked with moss, are mostly Jewish or English. The newer ones, shiny and polished, bear Chinese names, or Indian, or Hispanic.
Each grave is a full stop on an individual life: a point of final departure and no return.
Except for one.
On a chilly winter's day last November a team of gravediggers plunged their spades into the cold earth above Esfir Perelmuter and began to bring her back into the light.
When they prised open Perelmuter's pine coffin what they saw within sent shockwaves across America. The body of the 82-year-old grandmother had been desecrated.
She had been surgically carved up and was missing nearly every bone below the waist.
In their place were plastic pipes.
Cloth had been used to replace missing tissue.
Then she had been sewn up again...
Theobserver
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