Labour says Sepp Blatter should resign. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Here's a statement from Clive Efford, the shadow sports minister.Sepp Blatter's comments are utterly unacceptable and totally outrageous, and they show how he is deeply rooted in a bygone era. Football in Great Britain has made fantastic progress to show racism the red card, but this excellent work is undermined when the President of football's international governing body makes such despicable comments - he should resign.10.10am: David Cameron has today announced a ￡250m pilot which will involve the government giving money to firms to invest in training. Some ￡50m will be available in 2012/13 and the rest the following year.
10.51am: Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, has announced that than 9,000 tonnes of British-funded food and medicine will arrive in drought zones in the Horn of Africa over the Christmas period. Andrew Mitchell. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images In an interview on the Today programme, he said that what happened in Somalia was a threat to UK security.It is a place from which emanates piracy, drug running, this weight of people trying to come to a more attractive economic shore. There are probably more British passport holders engaged in terrorist training in Somalia than in any other country in the world ... This is not only about saving the lives of huge numbers of vulnerable babies and children, it is also about doing the right thing to promote British security.
Some understood this at the time. Labour's former foreign secretary, turned breakaway SDP leader, now crossbench peer Lord Owen, has long been pro-European, but anti-euro. The speeches of Tory sceptics like Peter Lilley stand up well. "There has never been a currency in the history of the world which has not had a government to run it," he once wrote.In other words a currency union needs a central government to transfer money from rich regions and individuals to poorer ones in hard times – as Washington does from Texas to Massachusetts and vice versa. But neither leftwing socialists,
marc by marc jacobs bag, New Labour euro-sceptics nor Tory free marketers have created a model which has resolved the underlying problems facing an ageing Europe increasingly challenged from Asia.
We shouldn't expect to have a definitive position emerging from today's meeting. We certainly wouldn't have a definitive position emerging from any meeting this week between the prime minister and Mr Salmond. The Scotland Office and the Scottish government will be the vehicle for reaching that agreement.10.38am: You can read all today's Guardian politics stories here. And all the politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper, are here.As for the rest of the papers, I've already covered Trevor Kavanagh's outburst about the supposed "witch-hunt" against the Sun (see 8.30am) and the Prescott interview in the Independent (see 9.16am). Here are some other stories that are particularly interesting.
"I would very much like to meet him face to face and have a very in-depth discussion with him about responsibility and the power that he has and how it should be used appropriately,
marc jacobs wallets," Foulkes said. As PoliticsHome reports, Foulkes said the thought that journalists were listening to the private conversations he was having at the time was "horrendous".After the explosions in London nobody from the authorities contacted us or any of the families at all for quite some days so we were in a very dark place there, and we were using the phone and frantically trying to get information about David and where he'd been and if he was in hospital or whatever, and talking very intimately about very personal issues.
It's here, covering everything from alcohol duty to the winter fuel allowance.Our colleague Simon Goodley has also rounded up the latest Budget betting, here. The bookies reckon we're odds-on to hear Osborne (who apparently is the thirstiest chancellor on record) to mention Britain's "triple A rating". You can also get 5/1 on Vince Cable shaking his head during the speech.11.19am: In the comments below, readers have come up with some great ideas for Budget Bingo. Politics Home has handily created its own budget bingo board, so here are some popular choices for our own bingo card (with thanks to our colleague Laura Oliver)Yorkieman suggested:"The mess we inherited""13 years of Labour""The nations credit card""We are all in this together"GeoffreyManboob offered:"Record low borrowing costs""Britain is a safe haven""Navigating troubled waters""This coalition government is working tirelessly to ensure that everyone contributes""Eased the markets fears""The economy inherited from Labour/previous govt""confirmed by the indepedent Office of Budget Resposibility""Would you like to buy: a watch / a road / the health service / a school / our children's futures / my grandmother"IntravenousDeMilo came up with:'Maxed out credit card''Fair but responsible''Paying down the debts we inherited''Without these changes [beloved INSTITUTION] would not be sustainable'And we had some good suggestions over Twitter:@GdnPolitics 'clearing up the mess left by xxx - [insert party of choice] #budgetbingo from @paulonpolitics .
But not vote. I can only do that once.And that's it. Easy. You've got one week to do all that. The deadline is midnight 9 August. Which is to say,
www.cnnhkids.com, the middle of Thursday night ready for an announcement on Friday morning. Watch this space!LATE BREAKING NEWS!!Sorry to everyone who's been having trouble posting reviews on to the books pages. We're trying to resolves the technical problems, but to make things easier, if you write your review in this thread, we'll count it. Don't forget to start your post with the title of the book you are voting for. Thanks!MORE BREAKING NEWS!!!For reasons too horrible, chaotic and confusing to explain, the vote will now open for an extra 24hrs. Enjoy!That means it's due to finish at 14:11 on Saturday 11 August.
Why, having read Famous Last Words and Pilgrim, did I stupidly wait so long to read more Findley? And why do I never seen Findley's name mentioned anywhere?goodyorkshirelass:Eagerly devouring The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Had dismissed it previously as I feared it might be twee, but the positive comments of @AggieH and @GetOver99 persuaded me to put aside my prejudices, which I'm happy to say were way off the mark. An absolute delight.judgeDAmNationAbout halfway through 'The Lady in the Lake' by Raymond Chandler, and for my money it's the best one so far - every other sentence I want to read out to someone. Also on a whim, having not really read any graphic novels or comics, I started Chris Ware's 'Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid in the World' which I'm also enjoying - not entirely following some passages, but it can be quite heartbreaking at times, and quite special in its mundanity.
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