The Wardman Wire

To mention it once again, I continue - since the hyperlinks which they broke when they redesigned their website continue to be broken, and I have received no response to requests for them to sort it out. I have added this paragraph to the Daily Roundup template.

Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Comment

BBC (BBC) - In quotes: The ethics of embryos
The government says an accommodation will be reached with Labour MPs opposed to a controversial bill which would allow animal-human embryos to be created for scientific research.

Economist (Economist) - Egypt the pressure cooker
Social unrest has been growing on the back of rising inflation, which is undermining consumer purchasing power and fuelling general dissatisfaction with the fallout of economic reform. This has led to a rising number of demonstrations. These include further protests against rising prices by thousands of textile workers at Mahalla al-Kubra (who are generally credited with having started the current wave of labour protests in late 2006). Groups such as doctors, nurses and university professors have also threatened to strike, a rare phenomenon in Egypt.

Alan Sugar (Times Online) - Sir Alan Sugar: talking tough
As The Apprentice begins a new series, the show’s hanging judge reflects on what has made it, and him, a success

Magnus Linklater (Times Online) - The Army must go into schools
Rule one: never underestimate the vacuous posturing of the National Union of Teachers

News

BBC (BBC) - Constitution reform plans set out
MPs will have the key vote in future deployments of troops to war, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.

Jane Dreaper (BBC) - Many UK nurses quit for Australia
Last year almost 5,000 nurses formally signalled an intention to find work in Australian hospitals.

Ian Drury (Daily Mail) - Shameless: Speaker in £100,000 court bid to keep MP expenses secret
MPs launched a shameless last-ditch legal bid yesterday to keep how they spend millions of taxpayers’ money secret.

NEIL MacFARQUHAR (NYT) - Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling
LODI, Calif. — Like dozens of other Pakistani-American girls here, Hajra Bibi stopped attending the local public school when she reached puberty, and began studying at home.

Sky (Sky) - Tourist Faces Prison For Defacing Statue
A Finnish tourist faces jail after he broke off part of the ear of an ancient Easter Island statue to take home as a souvenir.

Robert Winnett (Telegraph) - Bid to keep Gordon Brown’s expenses secret
Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has launched a High Court legal challenge to stop details of Gordon Brown’s personal expenses claims being made public.

Scotland

BBC (BBC) - Salmond in independence test call
First Minister Alex Salmond is to challenge his unionist opponents to put their plans for Scottish constitutional reform to the test of a referendum.

Ruth Fowler (Comment is Free) - Border control freaks
There’s no sense in an immigration system that penalises C-list celebrities whilst turning a blind eye to more obvious dangers

Mike Selvey (Guardian)

- Panesar points way home as Black Caps go down fighting
The Sikh of Tweak, with career-best figures, bowled England to victory by 121 runs in the third and final Test at McLean Park this morning but not before some spectacular hitting by the New Zealand debutant Tim Southee sent the post-lunch scoreboard spinning like a fruit machine.

Wales

BBC (BBC) - Pressure mounts over embryo bill
The government faces mounting dissent over controversial embryo laws after the Archbishop of Cardiff joined calls for a free vote on the legislation.

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