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Times Online - US embargo of Cuba to stay in force after Castro quits, by David Byers

The United States stressed that its embargo of communist Cuba would remain in force today despite the resignation of Fidel Castro as President after almost 50 years in power. Mr Castro, 81, the dictator [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Daily Telegraph - Seasick chain-smoker rows Atlantic

AN overweight chain-smoking aquaphobic has beaten an infection and the competition to be the first solo Australian to row across the Atlantic - a 76-day journey across 5500km of open seas. Pete Collett, 32, arrived at in the West Indies on Saturday night, after [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

The Times - Scissors, Paper, Rock Ministers had three options: they reached the least bad result by the worst possible route

The nationalisation of Northern Rock is a colossal indictment of the company’s mangement, the country’s system of financial regulation and the Government’s economic competence. For six months, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have been [...]

Categories: Business & Media

A long quote but since this topic is one of my pets…

The Times - Another day, another country for Europe The transformation of the map of our continent, by Tim Hames

It has been a fantastic two decades for those who make flags or sell maps but it has been a thoroughly confusing period otherwise. [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

In the Wizbang Blog, courtesy of Instapundit:

With yet another mass shooting in a “gun-free zone,” I find myself thinking a great deal about that concept. The first idea is one that is bouncing around the blogosphere — the notion that the powers that be that designate such places ought [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Ron Liddle, in The Sunday Times:

With an irony rather more delicious than your average high street rogan josh, the Bangladeshis who run our domestic curry houses are moaning that the new immigrants to Britain – from eastern Europe – are hopeless when faced with the task of preparing a naan bread or boiling [...]

Categories: Food

Hilarious!

Telegraph - Dr Rowan Williams’ ‘Cat Sat On The Mat’ by Craig Brown

And:

The Times - The king who wanted Sharia England Past Notes: The Times unveils an amazing plot to turn this nation into a Muslim state, by Graham Stewart

Hilarious!

Categories: People and Current Events

This made me laugh:

Telegraph - Only teenagers have teenage dreams, by Michael Henderson

There is something embarrassing, to be frank, unmanning, about the inscription on the memorial to John Peel, the broadcaster, who passed away four years ago. Freshly carved in a Suffolk graveyard, the stone reads: “Teenage dreams so hard to beat”. [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The Tank (NRO) - Does Congress Realize We’re at War? by Joel Arends

At midnight tonight America will become much more susceptible to a terrorist act. It will happen because the Democrat-controlled Congress failed to reauthorize the Protect America Act. This legislation gives our military, intelligence, and law-enforcement communities the tools they need to [...]

Categories: War and Peace

LGF - Mughniyeh: Killed in a Work Accident?

Categories: War and Peace

This is interesting:

Telegraph - What do Tom Cruise and John Travolta know about Scientology that we don’t? To non-believers, it seems barmy. But to the faithful, like John Travolta and Tom Cruise, Scientology is life-affirming, empowering and the secret of their success. What do they know that we don’t? William Shaw reports

It goes for three pages, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Alternative title: Democrats Finally Undoing the Eight Years of Bush Alienating Important Allies.

Politico - Putin vs. Clinton

When Hillary Clinton said, way back in New Hampshire, that Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have a soul,” I figured that would be the sort of thing the Russian wouldn’t be pleased about. But when I called the foreign [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - E-books will never be our friends Traditional books are here to stay. Some things are worth cutting down a tree for, by Ben Macintyre

The death of the traditional book has been predicted, wrongly, from the very start of the digital revolution. This week, as British publishers announced the further digitisation of [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

One of the things I meant to say about all this is that it came out just as the Druid did his thing on the radio that there are upwards of 17,000 victims of honor crimes and forced marriages every year in Britain. And that the Archbishop can say all he likes that those qualities [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Wheat & Weeds - The McCain Tax Cuts

Kevin Stach demolishes the trope that McCain’s not Conservative because he voted against the Bush tax cuts. In 2001, with the bitter primary battle still fresh, Mr. McCain voted against the final Bush tax-cut package. Why would he deviate [...]

Categories: Politics