The Blood is The Life 28-07-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Self-help after Yorkshire's deluge | UK news | guardian.co.uk
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• How to survive the London Olympics as a tourist
  "Most Londoners view the Games in the same way they did World War II: they didn’t ask for it and it’ll make their lives hell for a while, but they’ll be excited when their side wins anything."
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• Academies to be allowed to employ teachers without formal training » Spectator Blogs
  This is disquieting. What's the bets that most of the people without QTS will be some sort of religious minister?
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• Twitter joke trial man Paul Chambers wins appeal victory - Crime - UK - The Independent
  Sense prevails! Hurrah!
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• BBC News - Could Big Ben lose out in Diamond Jubilee name change ?
  Surely if they rename St Stephen's Tower to Queen Elizabeth Tower that won't affect the name of the bell within it?
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• Oh, Mitt: those Romney gaffes in full
  Mitt Romney has softened up the hatred that most politically aware Brits have for him by being utterly clueless and therefore amusing.
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• Iron Maiden's Eddie as an Olympic Hero
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Comments

[missdiane]

Veri and I were commenting that with our coverage of the opening ceremonies that they should've cut to a shot of Romney's reaction with the big NHS thing.

He's such an asshole.

[miss_s_b]

What worries me is that people might vote for him because they think he's funny, like some Londoners did for Boris...

[bagpuss]

Thankfully the American's don't seem to do that otherwise we would have Palin for VP surely

[gwenhwyfaer]

But then they put Reagan AND GWB in the White House, so anything's possible...

[bagpuss]

My Boss (who is American if this matters) suggests this is because Americans like electing the underdog at least when they don't have an incumbent and given Romney can't really be described as the underdog I really do hope they see sense