We’ll have to take our Curtain Call at the Derby instead
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
THE decision not to run Curtain Call in last Saturday’s Derby trial at Lingfield was not an easy one and was only taken once the track had been walked by our assistant, Ed, on Friday evening.
He reported that the ground was unsuitable not only because it was firm but also inconsistent and that was enough [...]
columnists Torch relay a magnet for trouble
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 19, 2008
Early one morning, around 6 a.m. it was, a solitary spectator sat in the stands of a boxing arena in Barcelona.He’d come, without fanfare and without entourage, to witness a preliminary round bout featuring a black South African flyweight the first athlete of colour to represent that country in the Olympics after decades as an [...]
Mugabe The Writing’s On The Wall
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on April 1, 2008
The writing was on the wall for Robert Mugabe last night. It was pinned to the side of polling tents, posted on school fences and written on the walls of community halls. The election results that Zimbabwe’s president had made every effort to rig were coming in against him.
First to go were his chief lieutenants [...]
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Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on March 29, 2008
FELLOW electricians Justin McInerney and Tony Bautista have
never met, and probably never will, but the pair are playing their
part in Earth Hour tonight.
Eighteen hours apart and on opposite sides of the world they
will throw the levers that turn off the lights above their cities’
great bridges, as the event sweeps through 35 nations at eight
o’clock local [...]
MPs sponsor Housing & Regeneration Bill amendments
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on March 29, 2008
Related ItemsCharity Commission welcomes housing bill amendments Warning over Housing Bill amendments 45 MPs are sponsoring amendments to the Housing %26amp; Regeneration Bill scheduled for debate on Monday March 31, backing council housing.
The set of four amendments require government to stop taking money out of council housing so that all councils can modernise their homes [...]
Canada Time to topple Tories: Layton
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
NDP Leader Jack Layton is urging other opposition MPs to join him in opposing Tuesday’s federal budget in a bid to topple the Conservative minority government. Unless the Liberals are willing to vote down the budget, there’s a chance Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
World Pakistan at a crossroads
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 21, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistanæ—illions of Pakistanis headed to the polls today in the most watched election in this nation’s history.Whether peace or rioting or the high-stakes horse-trading involved in building a coalition government will follow, is anyone’s guess.But one thing is certain: The firebrand lawyer who led a national resistance movement against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s suspension [...]
Canada Flaherty contracts questioned
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
OTTAWA%26ndash;A number of people with close ties to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty during his Queen’s Park days have received federal contracts and appointments from him, government documents show.They are mainly people who worked for Flaherty when he was an Ontario cabinet minister or [...]
That was the year that was
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
We look over the key events of the last twelve months in the housing sector.
Well, another year over, and what a year its been for those in providing affordable housing and tackling the rising housing crisis across the UK. Twelve months ago, when I sat writing the 2006/07 version of this very analysis, Tony [...]
DPJ has crucial role in reviving political process
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a government-sponsored antiterrorism bill for a second time, to make it law. With this, the curtain has effectively come down on the Country Curtain main event of the current extraordinary Diet session, which was held under a divided legislature. This situation arose after July’s House of Councillors election, [...]