Le primarie del PD spiegate agli inglesi

Ieri ho preso il coraggio a due mani e ho provato a spiegare il senso delle primarie del PD agli inglesi. Farlo era gia’ di per se’ un’impresa difficile, ma farlo in cinquecento parole e’ diventato ancor piu’ complesso.

After His Death

It tourned out
that the bombs he had thrown
raised buildings;

EU bureaucrats are better than soldiers

The Euro-sceptic think-tank OpenEurope has released a research showing that more people is now working fort the EU institutions (170,000) than for the British Army (107,000).

Commenting on the figure, the author of the research, Nick Cosgrove, has said: “These people are not elected, and cannot be held accountable by ordinary citizens. But they have a huge effect on our lives”.

In my opinion EU bureaucrats are better than soldiers: they are both not elected, are both not accountable by citizens, have both a huge effect on our life.
Bureaucrats, at least, don’t kill people around the world.

Olympic truce (?)

Russian jets have carried out strikes on military targets in the central Georgian town of Gori: 60 people were killed when bombs hit two blocks of flats in the town.

“Our peacekeepers and the units attached to them are currently carrying out an operation to force the Georgian side to [agree to] peace”, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared. 

 

The truth

During Tony Blairs’s leadership, John Prescott was the man the Prime Minister used to send to tell Ministers, Members of Parliament and leaders of Trade Unions what they sholud done, how should they vote, how to behave in difficult situations.  Most often, particularly in the last years, it was the other way around: when the leader was getting something wrong, Ministers, Members of Parliament and leaders of Trade Unions used to send Prescott to whisper some words in Tony’s hear.

He is not longer the Deputy Prime Minister, but he is still playing the same role: he is the man in charge of telling the plain truth in difficult situations.

Accomplice

Batman actor Christian Bale is arrested by police investiating claims that he assaulted his mother and sister in a hotel suite.

Robin is still at large.

Gordon Blair

Having troubles with his Govrenment at home, Gordon Brown went for a state visit to Israel and the West bank.

Is he planning to step in Blair’s shoes again?

Happy Birthday Nelson!

Nelson Mandela, the man who liberated his country from the Apartheid and united white and black, giving them hope and shared values, is today turning 90.

His body is week and old, but his fight for human rights and for a better world continues. He has the strenght inside.

Time summarises is life in eight lessons: an unmissable article.

A woman at the Home Office

 

If I were Gordon Brown, I would appoint Polly Toynbee as Home Secretary

Farewell Bronislaw

 

“Warsaw – Bronislaw Geremek, a leading thinker in Poland’s anti-communist Solidarity movement and a former foreign minister, was killed in a car rash yesterday, aged 76″ (Reuters)

This is a sad news and a big loss for all the Europeans.

We will miss his courage.