Cameron doesn't budge on Falkland claims

No talks on Falklands, David Cameron tells Argentina
David Cameron is set to restate "robustly" Britain's Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in unscheduled talks with the Argentine president at the G20 gathering of world leaders.

In wake of blown calls, pressure mounts on FIFA to give referees some high-tech help
FILE - This Sunday, June 27, 2010 file combination of six photos shows Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer looking at the ball that hit the bar, bounce over the line during the World Cup round of 16 Soccer match between Germany and England at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The goal was disallowed by the Game's referee. After blown calls at vital moments of vital Games, before a worldwide audience at the World Cup, the guardians of international Soccer are being pressed harder...

Bad-call blues: FIFA urged to allow video replay
Johannesburg (AP) - Tennis does it. Baseball does it. Even American Football and hockey do it. So why not Soccer, too? After two blown calls at vital moments of vital Games in the World Cup, the guardians of international Soccer are being pressed harder than ever to explain their resistance to video replay and their embrace of Human Error. The clamor for change spread around the World Monday, after many millions of TV viewers over the weekend saw England deprived of a clearly valid goal in...

Nutty Story of the Day: “Global Warming” is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica
This picture is my own choice - it is not related to the UK Mirror story You have to wonder how the Press allows stories like these to get published without some basic Fact checking. I’m reminded of the recent CBS News story about “resonance” and Global Warming causing more Earthquakes. From the UK Sunday Mirror: Plight of the p-p-p penguins By Richard Cooper 20/07/2008 This shivering penguin is just one of thousands close to death in Antarctica. Rain storms have ...

U.K.'s Cameron Becomes a G-8 Convert?
By Alistair MacDonald Fresh back from his first meeting of the Group of 8 leading nations in Toronto, British Prime Minister David Cameron has a few ideas on how he can change a forum whose continued relevance has been questioned in some quarters. Reuters U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron A noted cynic on the G-8 going into last week's meeting, Mr. Cameron ended up a convert of sorts. "The wealthiest democracies coming together for a strategic discussion to hammer out a common view on things...

Cameron digs in over Falklands as oil revives former tension
Source: The Independent (UK) Cameron digs in over Falklands as Oil revives former tension PM tells Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner that Islands' Sovereignty is not up for discussion By Andrew Grice in Toronto Sunday, 27 June 2010 David Cameron is to issue a strong warning that he will never negotiate over the Sovereignty of the Falklands. A tense stand-off between the Prime Minister and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, is expected when they hold a brief...

Petraeus gives evidence to UK's Iraq war inquiry
London (AP) - The head of Britain's inquiry into the Iraq War says his panel has held a private meeting with U.S. General David Petraeus. John Chilcot leads a five-member panel appointed by the British Government to examine the case made for the War and errors in planning for post-conflict reconstruction. The inquiry has taken live Testimony from politicians and Military and intelligence officials—including ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair—and held private talks in France and...

Britain is squandering lives in Afghanistan to save the faces of politicians
The thrashing around of Military and political leaders in the quagmire of Afghanistan is an increasingly desperate exhibition of impotence. Yet, through the contradictions and incoherence, a familiar pattern is emerging. The latest symptom is the remarks of The Army chief General Sir David Richards, advocating talks with the Taliban: “If you look at any counter-insurgency campaign throughout history there's always a point at which you start to negotiate with each other...” Not...

Britain is squandering lives in Afghanistan to save the faces of politicians
The thrashing around of Military and political leaders in the quagmire of Afghanistan is an increasingly desperate exhibition of impotence. Yet, through the contradictions and incoherence, a familiar pattern is emerging. The latest symptom is the remarks of The Army chief General Sir David Richards, advocating talks with the Taliban: “If you look at any counter-insurgency campaign throughout history there's always a point at which you start to negotiate with each other...” Not...

Cameron digs in over Falklands as oil revives former tension
David Cameron is to issue a strong warning that he will never negotiate over the Sovereignty of the Falklands. A tense stand-off between the Prime Minister and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, is expected when they hold a brief meeting during the G20 summit in Toronto, Canada, which ends today.

Bad-call blues: FIFA urged to allow video replay
Johannesburg (AP) - Tennis does it. Baseball does it. Even American Football and hockey do it. So why not Soccer, too? After two blown calls at vital moments of vital Games in the World Cup, the guardians of international Soccer are being pressed harder than ever to explain their resistance to video replay and their embrace of Human Error. The clamor for change spread around the World Monday, after many millions of TV viewers over the weekend saw England deprived of a clearly valid goal in...

Britain's Labor Party plots a return to power
Reporting from Peasedown St. John, England — The last time Britain's Labor Party was banished to the political wilderness, it wandered there, chastened and weak, for 18 years. This time, Party stalwart Frances Butt doesn't expect such a long exile. Get dispatches from Times correspondents around the globe delivered to your inbox with our daily World newsletter. Sign up » "I don't feel quite as depressed about this, because in my mind, it's only temporary," Butt, 66, said of the...

EU to ban selling eggs by the dozen: Shopkeepers' fury as they are told all food must be weighed and sold by the kilo
By Christopher Leake British shoppers are to be banned from buying eggs by the dozen under new Regulations approved by the European Parliament. For the first time, eggs and

BP denies Hayward to resign
AFP BP has denied that its embattled chief executive Tony Hayward was set to resign over the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, after revealing that the crisis has so far cost $US2.65 Billion ($A3 Billion). Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, preparing to meet Hayward on Monday, said the British boss was to resign and present a successor, Russian news agencies reported. However, a BP company spokeswoman insisted Hayward was not stepping down. "Tony Hayward remains chief executive and is not...

Reports of G8’s death greatly exaggerated
I t’s become conventional wisdom that the G8 is on its death bed. Kept alive by a stubborn Stephen Harper. To be put out of its misery by Barack Obama before the 2012 meeting — after one more Summit next year in France. However, in Monday’s edition of Le Devoir, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is quoted as saying that “a unanimous decision was taken [by G8 leaders in Canada] to continue with the [separate G8) meetings.” And, in its Tuesday edition, the...

Afghanistan troops pullout raised by PM as bomb disposal expert is shot
David Cameron told the Commons: 'We are after a stable Afghanistan able to maintain its own security and prevent al-Qaida from returning.' Photograph: PA David Cameron again injected a note of urgency over the withdrawal of British Troops from Afghanistan today as the Ministry of Defence announced the death of another British soldier in the country. A bomb disposal expert from 101 Engineer Regiment, who has not been named, died in a gunfight with Insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj district of...

Record win for Argentina over France
AFP Argentina achieved their best-ever rugby win over France in Buenos Aires on Saturday, outplaying the Six Nations Grand Slam champions 41-13. The Pumas scored four tries to one with fly-half Felipe Contepomi scoring two of those and adding three conversions and five penalties for a personal haul of 31 points It was a welcome return to winning ways for the South Americans, who lost both Test matches to Scotland at home earlier this month. For France it brought the curtain down on a miserable...

Why Do British Conservatives Treat Deficits So Differently?
Every once in a while, one experiences a “clarifying moment,” foreshadowing an important Policy debate that hasn’t yet taken shape. In 2003, for example, just before the Iraq War began, I heard Paul Berman give a talk to a group of Liberals and leftists on his new Book, “Terror and Liberalism.” The reception was almost uniformly hostile, so much so that Berman warned that the left was in danger of demonizing George Bush in the same way that the right had demonized...

Why Do British Conservatives Treat Deficits So Differently?
Every once in a while, one experiences a “clarifying moment,” foreshadowing an important Policy debate that hasn’t yet taken shape. In 2003, for example, just before the Iraq War began, I heard Paul Berman give a talk to a group of Liberals and leftists on his new Book, “Terror and Liberalism.” The reception was almost uniformly hostile, so much so that Berman warned that the left was in danger of demonizing George Bush in the same way that the right had demonized...

David Cameron's agony and ecstasy | Simon Hoggart's sketch
David Cameron came back from the G20 and G8 summits in Canada, and like all Prime Ministers before him explained how world leaders had agreed with everything he said. "Why, the scales have fallen from our eyes, Prime Minister!" " that was the gist of what Messrs Obama, Sarkozy, etc told him. But it wasn't all fun. "I suffered the exquisite agony of watching England lose 4-1 to Germany in the company of my good friend Angela Merkel and the German summit team." Well, it's his own silly fault....

Afghanistan: the wait for talks to start | Richard Norton-Taylor
'We need to get the job done and bring our Troops home," the Prime Minister told the House of Commons today. A day earlier, the head of The Army said talks with Taliban leaders could begin "pretty soon". Officials are anxiously trying to downplay these comments from David Cameron and General Sir David Richards . But the interventions are hugely significant, for they go the heart of how Britain's Military presence in Afghanistan is justified " namely, to prevent Afghanistan becoming a safe...

Poverty tsar: shirking fathers should lose their benefits
Frank Field: 'I believe we have been obsessed with getting young mothers back to work,

Indian Kashmir on the boil again
AFP Indian Kashmir is on the boil again: this time over the killing of eight young Kashmiris in less than three weeks allegedly at the hands of Indian security forces. The Deaths have brought thousands of war-weary residents out onto the streets chanting "Blood for Blood!" and "Freedom for Kashmir!". Authorities have responded with bullets, Tear Gas, curfews and arrests. The latest wave of unrest started on June 11 when a 17-year old Student died after being hit by a teargas shell fired by...

Morning Bell: Will Elena Kagan Defend the Rule of Law?
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its Hearing today on the nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is no stranger to the Confirmation process; in fact, she devoted one of her few academic writings entirely to the subject, writing : The Senate’s consideration of a nominee, and particularly the Senate’s Confirmation Hearings, ought to focus on substantive Issues; the Senate ought to view the Hearings as an...

The Rise of the Euro-Right, Part II
A follow up to yesterday's Post on the European Elections: Anne Applebaum, writing in the Washington Post , argues that the results were a vindication of Capitalism: In last weekend's European parliamentary Elections, Capitalism triumphed, at least in its mushy European form. Admittedly, these European polls are a peculiar species of election. Far fewer people vote in them than vote in national Elections, and those who do cast ballots are Far vaguer about what their deputies, once elected...