The Wardman Wire

Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Lead

Francis Eliott (Telegraph) - Users face Net ban in crackdown on pirates
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material, The Times has learnt. Ed Vaizey, the Shadow Arts Minister, said: David Cameron called on the internet providers to address this issue last summer. The credibility of the Government’s latest threat is undermined by the fact that ministers have spent so many years dithering on whether to legislate.”

Comment

Economist (Economist) - Kenya diary - Flash point
Mr Szapary circles around, and we see other crowds outside the prison, the Catholic church, and small groups moving along with weapons in hand towards the gates of some of the flower farms. Mr Szapary’s farm looks to be untouched.

When we land, he calls his managers. One has taken shelter in the prison, too scared to leave, the other is on a boat in the lake. Mr Szapary tells him to make for Crescent Island, which has a grass airstrip. He gets back in his plane and flies off. Alone, I call the Catholic priest in town and get on with my reporting for the day.

News

Times (BBC) - Warning of ‘Jeremy Kyle’ future
A lack of father figures is creating a Jeremy Kyle generation of men with little chance of work and a high rate of criminality, the Tories have warned - Chris Grayling

John Carvel, Social Affairs Editor (Guardian) - Pioneering 45-minute treatment for diabetes holds prospect of cure
Cell transplants approved for type 1 patients on NHS

Treatment may end need for insulin injections

NYT (NYT) - Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans
As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime, credit histories are falling behind on their payments for home loans, auto loans and credit cards at a quickening pace, according to industry data and economists.

Sky (Sky) - Designs Of The Year
The symbol for the congestion charge extension in west London is on the shortlist for best international designs of the year.But does is really deserve its place and what about the other contenders?

Robin Perrie (Sun) - eBay axe bids on scarves
INTERNET auction site eBay last night banned Manchester United fans from selling commemorative Munich disaster scarves — and accused them of profiting from human tragedy.

Times (Times Online) - China accused as space shuttle spy is arrested in FBI swoops
A former Boeing engineer was arrested in the United States yesterday for allegedly stealing space shuttle secrets for China, in a case likely to put further strain on relations between the two nations.

Obituary

Steve Clemons (Comment is Free)

- Remembering Tom Lantos
The US congressman, who died today of cancer at age 80, was a crusader for human rights who came to favour a new approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Scotland

BBC (BBC)

- Number of female inmates doubles
The number of female prisoners in Scotland has doubled in the past 10 years, a prison inspection has found.

Wales

BBC (BBC) - Drinking culture crackdown plans
It will pinpoint those who drink to excess and do not believe they have a problem, and will also target the young and binge drinkers in particular.

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