Daily News Roundup - 27 January 2007
Here is todays roundup of stories.
Comment
Stephen Smith (Comment is Free)
- Remembering the Holocaust
Remembering the Holocaust cannot change history, but it can change us, says Stephen Smith
Will Hutton (Comment is Free) - This reckless greed of the few harms the future of the many
The government must act firmly to control an industry that destabilises all our lives with its naked pursuit of huge profits
Economist (Economist) - Children remain at the centre of Hungarian life
Correspondents love to complain about their foreign domiciles, but we also can give credit where it is due, and Hungary deserves high marks for its child- friendly culture.
Economist (Economist) - Hillary gets thumped
While Mr Obama dismissed talk of an election divided along racial lines, his big margin of victory in South Carolina here was due largely to black voters.
Telegraph (Telegraph) - The trouble with British men
British men are certainly witty and charming, says Jennifer, now 39 and a cell biologist. In fact, I’d say they were witty and charming to the point where they’re a bit in-your-face. But then you ask them out and they run a mile. Basically, they charm the pants off you but then they run away when they see your knickers.
Jay Leno (Times Online) - BMW Hydrogen 7
I have magazines from the late 1920s saying that American gasoline reserves would be used up by 1936, so car makers were looking at alternatives even after the petrol engine had made its mark.
News
- Kabul vetoes Ashdown envoy role
Afghanistan has made it clear it does not want Paddy Ashdown to be the new United Nations envoy to the country.
Economist (Economist) - Starship enterprise: the next generation
A fleet of privately financed spaceships is emerging. It heralds a new business in space travel.
FT (FT) - 2007 Best IT year since 2001
For the European IT services industry, 2007 was the best year for technology spending since 2000. Unfortunately, the recent fall of share prices suggests that the slump of 2001 is due an encore as well.
Denis Campbell, (Guardian) - Pro-life MPs seek free embryo vote
Gordon Brown is facing a revolt by cabinet ministers who are demanding a free vote over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, claiming that the ethical issues it raises are matters of conscience.
SIMON McGEE and GLEN OWEN (Mail) - Brown banishes 300-year-old tradition by removing Britannia from our 50p coin
After extensive behind-the-scenes consultations, the Government confirmed that it had indeed been sanctioned - by Gordon Brown as Chancellor, shortly before he entered Downing Street last June.
NYT (NYT) - Obama Wins South Carolina Primary
Senator Barack Obama won a commanding victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, drawing a wide majority of black support and one-quarter of white voters in a contest that sets the stage for a multistate fight for the party presidential nomination.
Sky (Sky) - New Drivers May Have To Have ID Cards
A leaked Home Office document indicated that “coercion” tactics were being considered as a way of introducing the controversial scheme. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has always insisted that ID cards will remain voluntary for Britons unless Parliament decides otherwise.
Laura Donnelly (Telegraph) - Do not treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors
The findings of a survey conducted by Doctor magazine sparked a fierce row last night, with the British Medical Association and campaign groups describing the recommendations from family and hospital doctors as outÂÂrageous and disgraceful.
Times Online (Times Online) - It is Paxo Goldenpants
Kirsty Young, Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs presenter, paid £1,400 for a signed pair of Paxman’s boxers at a fundraising auction on Friday in aid of NCH, the children’s charity.
Scotland
- No more resignations, says Browne
There will be no further resignations of prominent Labour politicians over the donations row, Defence Secretary Des Browne has predicted.
Wales
- Wigley is nominated as Plaid peer
Former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley is set to return to front line politics as one of the first party members to be nominated for a peerage.
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