The Guardian:
Stephen Poliakoff's antipathy towards the peacemakers of 1939 reveals cinema's love of a futile struggleThe movies have played their part in giving appeasement a bad name. Conflict, not surrender, is the essence of drama. Hence, Princess Leia can't be allowed to knuckle under to the Evil Empire, whatever fate resistance mig (Read More)
The Guardian:
Social polarisation, the growth in lobbying and a loss of faith in process has left government paralysed in the face of huge challengesIt is hard for international observers of the United States to grasp the political paralysis that grips the country, and that seriously threatens America's ability to solve its domestic prob (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Former vice-presidential candidate's memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shopsSarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale.Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Former vice-presidential candidate's memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shopsSarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale.Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Leaks are showing up John Chilcot's inquiry, as secrecy prevails – but perhaps he's about to publish a raft of documents...Andrew Gilligan has returned to haunt the government on Iraq. His revelations in the Sunday Telegraph and today's Telegraph tell us a lot about the attitude of the military before and after the invasion (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Arizona's plan to sell prisons to the highest bidder is a leap back in time for correctional thinking, and a recipe for fiscal disasterHere's an idea: sell off our prisons to the highest bidders, reap a pile of short-term cash to inflate near-empty state coffers, then lease back the prisons for 20 years at a cost to the sta (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Speculation 'does not affect me at all' says Fà bregas• Gibbs returns but Diaby, Clichy, Djourou remain injuredCesc Fà bregas insists he will not be distracted by his name being used in Barcelona's presidential election campaign, and hinted he could even stay at Arsenal for life."It does not affect me at all," said the 22-y (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Here is a rather vicious attack on Rich Rod from a cbssports.com analyst. It seems that Michigan's worst back-to-back seasons in nearly 50 years are ... Lloyd Carr's fault! Here is a video of one of the more interesting trick plays you'll ever see, from a Nov. 14 game between two small colleges. The no-look pass. And yes, t (Read More)
The Guardian:
There's a lot of dispute about whether "medmal" reform really produces significant cost control. I'm told that in Michigan, where these reforms are law, it hasn't really changed much. Last month, at the request of Orrin Hatch, the CBO issued a report on estimated savings of a medmal reform package that would cap real damage (Read More)
Huffington Post:
A new ad campaign from a coalition of mayors who support gun control cites the shootings at Fort Hood as a reason for President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to strengthen restrictions on the sale of firearms. The group Mayors Against Illegal Guns took out an ad in Monday's Washington Post, petitioning Obama to ta (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If body does not launch investigation it will look like it is protecting one of its own; if it does it will be ignoring its own adviceOn Friday David Curry announced that he was standing down as chairman of the Commons standards and privileges committee after allegations about his expenses appeared in the Daily Telegraph.He (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The idea that the Lib Dems want to jump into bed with Cameron is a fantasy. But multiparty politics is likely to be the new normThere has been much excitement at Nick Clegg's decision on Sunday to state the bleeding obvious. When asked by Andrew Marr if he would seek to work with whichever party got the strongest mandate at (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thousands take to streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to denounce Iranian president's record on rights and IsraelProtests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour intended to bolster the Iranian president's legitimacy and ease his country's international isolation.Thousands of demonstr (Read More)
The Guardian:
President Sarkozy and Carla Bruni appear in unauthorised episode of US show that coined 'surrender monkey' phraseFirst it coined the insult "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" to describe the French. Now America's cult television series The Simpsons has taken a satirical shot at France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wi (Read More)