On the contrary: they have been portrayed as sissies for failing to keep their women in check
On the contrary: they have been portrayed as sissies for failing to keep their women in check. As one paper put it: “Are the EastEnders hardmen just a pair of big girls’ blouses?” Quite what they should have done differently remains unclear. It is a code of honour among all decent men – hard or otherwise – that you never hit a woman, even if she hits you first. “Bish! Bash! Bosh!” ran the Daily Mirror’s cheery headline yesterday, after Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden – the actors who play Phil and Grant Mitchell in EastEnders – were both set upon by the irate women in their lives. There’s nothing like a spot of domestic violence to lift the nation’s spirits.
That lit the touch-paper on an explosive situation that had been heating for some time.. Ballot papers have been dispatched to 300,000 Tory party activists. The power to choose the next leader of the Opposition now lies exclusively in their hands. Although party members have until 5 December to return their ballots, around half are expected to fill them out as soon as they arrive. That is what happened last time members were asked to choose their leader, when they foolishly elected Iain Duncan Smith over Kenneth Clarke by a hefty margin.
This time the race has been rather more exciting, with the field now narrowed down to two. After a poor start, David Davis is running a lively campaign. He performed well in Thursday’s televised debate and is justifying his reputation for being a pugnacious character. And his opponent, David Cameron, showed his inexperience in the debate. Those who were predicting a Cameron landslide after he came top of the ballot of MPs may have been too hasty..
These riots which erupted in Clichy-sous-Bois did not emerge from a vacuum, but had two distinct causes. The first is the attitude of the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who threatened to “hose down” the “scum” on the estates. It took eight years of bitter debate before the ban on hunting reached the statute book. And what has been the upshot?
Today the opening meets of the fox-hunting season will take place Some 50,000 people are expected to attend Foxes will be killed, many possibly illegally We don’t yet know for sure.. Why is it that, four weeks after the terrible earthquake in Kashmir, the world has provided less than 25 per cent of the money needed to help three million homeless people as the bitter Himalayan winter approaches? So grave is the shortfall that the World Food Programme yesterday warned it might have to scale back vital aid flights if it did not receive more donations.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has accused the international community of double standards on aid. The Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina both raised much more, he said, because Western tourists were caught up in both It is instructive to wonder at the difference.. Politicians talk endlessly of devolving power from the centre, but only rarely does it actually happen Over the next few weeks, though, it will. The debate over hunting with hounds will go down as one of the greatest wastes of time in political history. He was a private man and, although he spent most of his adult life in smoky and boozy night-clubs, managed to stay fit and healthy. Simon notoriously looked younger than his years, although jealous rumour had it that he shaved a few years off his official age.Simon Hobart’s family have announced that his clubs will stay open, “run in the manner and style that Simon wanted”. A great lover of fashion and jewellery, he was edgy in his look but never his attitude.
