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Sneijder, Barcelona and the Ballon d'Or

I must say I was shocked when I saw the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or this year. Not because the three players on the shortlist (Xavi, Iniesta, Messi) were not excellent players who had achieved a great deal in the last year. But because there was a glaring, glaring omission form the list.

For me the player of the year.

That omission being Wesley Sneijder of Inter Milan and Holland. The player who I felt should not only be nominated but also should have won the award. Inter Milan were *the*

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Vince Cable, Murdoch and the Coalition

For me there are a few distinct factors in the in the whole Vince-gate debacle. Now I have slept on it and my anti Murdoch vitriol has subsided a bit I now feel in a position to make some considered comments.

Ministerial Conduct.

 

Vince the man with the Plan

Whatever you may feel about the issue at hand (Murdoch’s takeover of Sky) it is clearly entirely inappropriate for a Minister to be prejudging such an important decision. For Cable (or any minister) to talk in terms of a “war” on a particular

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Obligatory Wikileaks Assange blog

Well seems the entire blogosphere has some sort of an opinion on this one way or another. So like the trend following sheeple I am here is my quick take. A few points:-

Wikileaks

1. I hugely admire the work that Wikileaks are doing. The main stream media has largely (IMHO) abandoned its role of properly holding power to account. There isn’t that much investigative journalism happening, and much of the way the Press media operates seems to me to consist principally of moving forward the political agendas of their wealthy

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Drugs debate needs to have different frames of reference.

Earlier I was reading Hopi Sen’s blog at Liberal Conspiracy about Bob Ainsworth’s intervention on the drug debate. There was some stuff I agreed with, parties have to win elections and Hopi was right to say that the position espoused by Ainsworth is massively unpopular with the public. And in that sense Ed Miliband absolutely had to distance himself, and official front bench policy, from what Bob Ainsworth said.

But, for me one of the reasons I am political is that I want to change the world, I want to make

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