Good Friday,
Today the entire population of Britain has been crawling slowly out of the darkness and swaying gingerly into the sun for the first time this year. Or glaring furiously at passers-by doing so, from within the confines of their stuffy offices. Either one.
Our chancellor, George Osbourne, has pointed to Portugal (who have just asked the rest of Europe to bail them out of their financial Armageddon) and said that it proves we are right to be making big cuts because at least we won’t turn out like them. Or like Ireland, or like Greece for that matter – and he is probably right. Labour rivals have accused of him of being overdramatic.
News International (the media giant which owns The Times, The Sun and The News of The World amongst others) has admitted that yes, it has been hacking the mobile phones of the rich and famous to get their hands on gossip. They have apologized to the celebrities in question and have agreed to pay damages. One victim with a sense of humour about the whole thing tweeted yesterday: “Just left a message on my answer-phone thanking News of the World for their apology.”
In other journalists-getting-in-trouble news, President Sarkozy of France apparently exchanged harsh words with a writer who had penned a rude article about him: “I should smash your face in,” he snarled. You wouldn’t find nice Mr David Cameron saying that now would you?
In more serious news, a man has been killed and another injured on a British nuclear submarine. It was docked at Southampton when the incident occurred and arrests have been made. It sounds like a sailor went mad with a gun. Police have stressed that it wasn’t a terrorist attack.
Things are getting worse in Libya, as Nato admit killing 7 more Libyan rebels by mistake. The talk of today is that the rebels may well be too disorganized to win this battle against Gaddafi, as has been demonstrated by our recent spat of (not so) friendly fire.
And in Japan, a huge mass of debris in making it’s way over to the west coast of America as a result of the recent tsunami disaster. Mangled trees, cars, bodies and whole houses have been spotted from the air, floating towards California. It is likely to threaten certain shipping routes and possibly damage a chunk of ocean life.
See you tomorrow and enjoy the sun…
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