daveydave

I have an excerpt from a speech for you: "I have been looking at the various objectives and reasons that the government have given to the House of Commons for making war on Iraq, and it really is desirable that when a nation makes war upon another nation it should be quite clear why it does so. It should not keep changing the reasons as time goes on. There is, in fact, no correspondence whatsoever between the reasons given today and the reasons set out by the prime minister at the beginning." Makes interesting reading doesn't it. Although I must admit to some deception on my part. You see, that paragraph is not from a speech on the current Iraq war, but one about the Suez crisis made in 1956: I have substituted Iraq for Egypt in the first sentence, yet the whole still holds true. Sobering.

Another international sporting event, another poor England performance. We really haven't performed particularly well for the past few months, team spirit seems to be lacking, and rather a lot was put on Michael Vaughan's shoulders: cetainly too much for a player who had been out of the game for a year. A word or two on the tournament itself. The thing really was far too long, a result of corporate interference I'm sure, and the tickets were too expensive and the security just too anal. So, instead of a Carribean festival, we ended up with a pretty souless event that seemend to drag on for aeons. A word in ICC's ear: drop the Super 8s, just go from group to knockout and let's get things flowing a bit better for 2011; drop the bloody prices so we have some spectators. Oh yes, and get the umpires to read the rule book. Now moving on to watching the games on the telly - or rather, not watching any games on the telly. Sky, of course, had the whole tournament sewn up so ...

Every now and then you see something nice, something that isn't sad, annoying, tragic, etc.. Basically, most of the stuff you see on the news these days. I know I'm 8 months late (no big surprise there!), and you've probably all seen it before, but I still wanted to highlight this video on YouTube . It made me smile.