We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: Scandal erupts as it emerges that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have gatecrashed the US presidency. Breaking News: Al-Qaeda says it has been gatecrashing official functions at the White House since time immemorial. What’s the big deal, spokesman says. Even a child can do it. Breaking News: After the gatecrashing scandal White House admits that President Obama often mingles with people who should not be there [...]

Thomas Mathew writes: Pardon me for asking, but do you think the members of Britain’s Supreme Court knew that what they were doing was wrong when they ruled, unanimously, this week in favour of the banks imposing extortionate charges on people who have current accounts with them? Hmm, that’s a tough one, eh? A catch 22 situation. Especially considering that all the previous courts in this case ruled in favour of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that represented the [...]

We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team.Breaking News: President Barack Obama announces that he is going to be present at the Copenhagen climate summit. If Al Gore has made a fortune out of climate change I’d be foolish to miss my chance, he says. Breaking News: White House says that the US is ready to give any promise on cutting CO2 emissions as long as the deadline for it comes after President Obama’s second term. Breaking [...]

Adam Lovejoy writes: Pardon me for asking, but are you a fan of that great man, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King? He is able to keep inflation under control all by himself and transform a crippling recession into a recovery with just one statement. He can make tens of billions of pound sterling disappear and then reappear again, as if by magic. And with one word he can flood the markets with billions of new crispy [...]

We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: The newly appointed President of Europe, Herman van Rompuy, reveals that he is a sucker for a left-wing orgy with right-wing undertone. I’m all things to all people, he says.Breaking News: European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, warns people not to mistake her for a blonde bimbo. I might be cute and sexy but I’m hard as nails, she says. Breaking News: Chancellor Angela Merkel [...]

Martin McCauley writes: When the father of Chinese perestroika, the late Deng Xiaoping, had won the struggle to succeed the late communist leader, Mao Zedong, in 1978 he ordered the removal of statues and mementos of the Mao period. Deng wanted to demonstrate that the era of dead pan communism was over. Policy was supposed to be decided not by the whims of the leadership but on the basis of hard facts and figures. Mao was probably turning in his [...]

Dan Majestic and Adam Lovejoy write: Few people are holding their breath as the long awaited Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq opens this week in Britain. To expect that it would give answers to any of the serious questions about Britain’s involvement in the illegal war would be too much to ask, considering that the current Labour government would be the last to want to get to the bottom of things. Not to mention that Sir John Chilcot, [...]

R.F.Wilson writes: Pardon me for not joining the indignation brigade that has been busy screaming their heads off, demanding a replay of that supposedly ‘fateful’ World Cup qualifying match between France and Irealnd because Theirry Henry had helped to score the decisive goal in injury time with a skilful hand gesture. And let me also discard the preposterous suggestion that the disputed goal supposedly put the integrity of the beautiful game into doubt. I will start with this: what exactly [...]

Gren-Hilda Duval de Villeneuve writes: Today, I’m going to tackle a profoundly important and complex subject, that of women’s shoes and the range of conflicting feelings this issue inspires in me. Men’s footwear will have to take a back seat here, as it does not even register a blip on the radar when compared to the abundance, and really quite decadent variety, of women’s shoes.Adam Lovejoy has already expressed his views on this subject (read his piece, Give Women Proper [...]

Martin McCauley writes: There has long been speculation that the Chinese Air Force has been developing fifth generation fighters. The aim is to have them in service within eight or ten years and certainly by 2020. Recently, the deputy commander of the Air Force confirmed these rumours. Flight trials will begin soon. These revelations came as a shock to Western analysts who have been taken aback by the speed of this modernisation. It also reveals that the Chinese defence industry [...]