Gaddafi gets betrayed and Space Tourism is on its way...

Gaddafi has suffered another fatal blow to his regime, as his former buddy and Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa (what a name) switches sides and sneaks over to the UK. Why he has turned up here is anyone’s guess because we certainly aren’t fans of him.

Gaddafi has a strong record for helping out anyone who is willing to terrorize the West. Pretty much anyone. As well as the usual candidates, such as the IRA, he has gone as far as Australia and New Zealand to try and get aboriginals to attempt revolutions.

In 1988, he ordered the bombing of a flight from the UK to the US because he was cross with us – which blew up over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 270 people. Moussa Koussa is said to have masterminded the attacks, as well as many others.

Although Cameron apparently gave him the green flag to enter the UK (purely on the grounds that he has jumped ship from Gaddafi) – he does face questioning and potential prosecution for his role in the Lockerbie bombing.

Speaking of prosecution, former labour MP Jim Devine has been jailed for fiddling his expenses, making him the third MP to be busted and put behind bars for the same crime. Plenty of people in companies all over the world take advantage of the company credit card whenever they can, usually justifying it by the fact that they are overworked and under paid, and that their boss is a wanker anyway. In this case, its taxpayer money they have been cheating with, so people do not look kindly upon it.

America has had its say on the situation in Egypt, or at least the New York Times has. Egypt was the first of the Middle Eastern countries to rise up and kick out their dictator – and apparently the scene they have ended up with is “a mess.”

This comes as no surprise. Young democracies nearly always take a while to settle. One thing we have been nervous about is that radical Islamist groups will take power. Seemingly, this hasn’t happened. The Muslim Brotherhood are now in charge, and are said to be relatively moderate and NOT in bed with al-Qaeda. So we are all a bit relieved, so says the New York Times.

Elsewhere in America, a BBC journalist has been first inside the Virgin Galactic spaceship – which will probably be launching very rich passengers into space within a couple of years.

I say very rich because I can only imagine a trip into space will be very expensive. Virgin claims, however, that in 20 years, everybody will know somebody who has done it. Furthermore, they claim that a trip into space will produce lower carbon emissions per passenger than a flight across the Atlantic. Which, if true, is seriously exciting no?

See you tomorrow…