The Wardman Wire

Here is todays roundup of stories.

Comment

Edward McMillan-Scott (Comment is Free)

- The US cannot deliver
Europe must help a troubled globe to understand that its founding principles offer more lasting peace and prosperity than the Bush formula

Economist (Economist) - The militarisation of space
Modern American warfare relies on satellites. They make America powerful but also vulnerable, particularly in light of China’s new celestial assertiveness

Ian Williams (Comment is Free) - How much for my pound of flesh?
If doctors, hospitals and insurance companies can profit from selling our organs when we die, we should be able to sell them while alive

News

Independent (Independent)

- Crash! Biggest fall in shares since September 11
Recession fears wipe £84bn off the value of Britain’s biggest companies as stock markets tumble across the globe

Mail (Mail) - High-flying city banker posed as economics student to help friend cheat in university exams
A high-flying city banker has admitted helping an accomplice cheat in university economics exams by posing as the young student.

NYT (NYT) - Crossing Mayor Giuliani Often Had a Price
Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.

Sky (Sky) - City Braced As World Stocks Plunge
Investors are waiting nervously for the London market to open after Monday’s meltdown saw more than £70bn wiped off the value of blue chip shares.

Sam Jones (Guardian) - Furious mayor fails to block TV hatchet job
Channel 4 documentary attacks one of our most controversial political figures, already facing allegations over key advisers and a Trotskyite plot to take over the capital

Rhys Blakely in Bombay (Times Online) - Rising costs and falling demand hit technology boom in India
The decison by Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street bank, last week to close an India-based mortgage capital division sent shivers through the sector, with executives fearing that the sub-prime mortgage woes had reached Indian shores.

Independent (Independent) - Suzanne Pleshette: Actress whose roles included being pecked to death in Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
Suzanne Pleshette, actress: born New York 31 January 1937; married 1964 Troy Donahue (marriage dissolved 1964), 1968 Tom Gallagher (died 2000), 2001 Tom Poston (died 2007); died Los Angeles 19 January 2008

Independent (Independent) - Joan Gillchrest: Cornish naïve artist
The vibrant, colourful and poetic paintings of Joan Gillchrest belonged to the ongoing Cornish tradition of naïve, primitive or outsider art.

Scotland

BBC (BBC)

- Council staff paid to attend rallies
Council workers in West Dunbartonshire have been given paid time off to attend anti-war demonstrations. Management and unions agreed to give all non-essential staff up to an hour off to attend rallies in the council area.

BBC (BBC) - Oil transfers bill support urged
MPs have been urged to support a bill at Westminster to regulate ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Firth of Forth.

Wales

BBC (BBC)

- Badger culls to tackle bovine TB
Badger culls should be part of a holistic approach to tackling bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Wales, according to a report by the Welsh Assembly.

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