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A bear, a lion and a chicken meet.
Bear says: "If I roar in the forests of America the entire forest is shivering with fear."
Lion says: "And if I roar on the great plains of Africa, the entire savannah is afraid of me."
Says the chicken: "Big deal. I only have to cough, and the entire planet wets itself."
Liberty Central has arrived.
Portugal has followed Spain and Finland and lifted restrictions on the free movement of workers from new EU member states. This amused:
Having assessed the first two years of measures, the Commission said that most of the barriers to the free movement of workers had proved ineffectual, and that those three countries that has chosen to welcome workers from the EU-8 states had seen great benefits.
After the arrival of Polish bus drivers and plumbers come the Polish dentists. Hurrah for the single market, and down with monopolies.
(English readers of a nervous disposition look away now...)
(Courtesy Getty Images)
One clue to Scotland's 18-12 victory:
Tackle completion - Scotland 94% England 87%
An epic afternoon, watched from the East stand at Murrayfield. Well done, lads.
Gordon Brown's recent travails with the ONS over the debts of the channel tunnel are as of nothing compared to the issues that confront his opposite number in Zimbabwe. As the New Republic reports*:
The Zimbabwe dollar has apparently stabilized. Unfortunately, prices have nudged upward, as noted in the article "zim's inflation rises to 613 percent." But there's an explanation: "The Central Statistical Office (CSO) on Monday attributed the rise to increases in the prices of postal services which went up 3,064.1 percent, hair dressing saloons which rose 2,687.3 percent, purchase of bicycles, 2,293 percent and drugs which went up 1,367.7 percent." Once again, price gougers prey on the weak. See you in hell, hairdressers.
Burma (sorry, Myanmar) has its own solution to oil-dependency; grown your own bio-diesel. Burmese scientists have hit on the physic nut to provide them with their energy needs:
"Myanmar produces bio-diesel from physic nut: extend physic nut as national duty," The New Light of Myanmar gives an update: "Now, the target has been set to put seven million acres under physic nut across the nation." But that's adjustable: "[T]he total sown acreage is to be extended as much as possible yearly in the interests of the nation if it shows a great benefit." Uncharitable prediction: It won't.
In some parts of the world it is still 1984.
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Britain lost to Finland last night in a fiendishly close game in Turin; the Finnish skip won the game with his final stone. I watched the last few ends with Mrs Seat who was lustily cheering on the Scots (er, sorry, British) team. Brought up to believe that curling on outside ice was something grown men left work for, and children skipped school to join in, this is one of the few sports that gets your correspondent's heart racing.
Even Google got in on the action:
Five inches of Ice - it's a boon without price,
We'll all go a curling the morn...
Here's to the Bronze Medal, boys.
A view of China's long-term future, from India:
So the China Modernisation Report 2006 is just a fantasy. The day will never arrive when half of China’s population owns cars. On the other hand, the day must arrive when China’s people (and India’s and Brazil’s and Indonesia’s) will live as well as Americans, or else there will be hell to pay. So the day may well arrive when more than half of all Americans don’t own cars either.
Are we sure the day will never arrive when a majority of the Chinese own a car? Surely it is better to prepare for that eventuality, rather than hope it never arrives.
Spamalot to open on the West End...hoorah!
Is this what happens when you spurn the Labour party?
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