The yanks will love this: Secret letters reveal Labour’s Libyan deal – Times Online 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6814974.ece
And I would guess that it won’t just be the Americans who will be up in arms…
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Is the inevitable newsworthy?
What is it about the British media?s desire to report on Bank Holiday traffic? The story currently has equal billing with pig flu, Jacko and Ted Kennedy?
As sure as eggs are eggs and night follows day, the Bank Holiday means an exodus of holiday makers hitting the motorways. It happens every Bank Holiday.
At the grand old of age of 31ish I have experienced this phenomenon, perhaps, 30 odd times. I know it is going to happen. I am used to it happening. I take evasive action to avoid it happening to me. And importantly, I don?t bore people with stories about six mile tailbacks… zzzzz
Stories about Bank Holiday travel are a good way for the BBC et al to fill time while the ?real? journalists are away on holiday. They can call in the eager correspondent from Bristol to report on the M5 junction, while the rest of the team take the day off.
My question to you all is this: is the inevitable newsworthy? If the inevitable is news then it is not very interesting! Wake me up when the Sport comes on…
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Just when you thought the Americans were just like us Brits, you get a real shock to the system.
The new healthcare reforms in the US, meaning everyone regardless of wealth can access care, are proving a sticky wicket for the president.
The proposals are
‘communism by stealth’, will ‘put politicians in between the people and their doctors’ and is pretty much the end of the world as we know it.
There are demonstrations and in some places violence at town hall rallies.
It just goes to show the power and influence of lobbying and the in-built love of the free market within US society.
The whole situation is funny, frightening, enlightening and remarkable.
Trying to convince the US public that healthcare reforms are in their interest would be a great campaign for a PR man like myself to be involved in. Instead, though, I will watch from the sidelines, via John Stewart. And with the thousands of miles of distance between us and them, I can kick back and enjoy the spectacle on TV.
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