{"id":5555,"date":"2005-02-28T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2005-02-28T20:49:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T20:49:42","slug":"current-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/02\/28\/current-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4305677.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">US raps Russia and Saudi Arabia over the knuckles on human rights<\/a>. One in the eye for Chomsky? I guess only if the Americans really mean what they say.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/4305927.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Entire Lebanese government resigns after protests<\/a>. Somehow I can&#8217;t imagine HMG resigning if ever there were massive protests in the UK. Oh. Yeh. There have been massive protests. Hmm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4304179.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Virgin GlobalFlyer set for take off<\/a>. Rather him than me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4305385.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Clarke retreats on house arrest<\/a> in a half-hearted way, whilst thumbing nose to Parliament. As is often the case, I agreed with what the other Clarke had to say (I mean Ken, of course &#8211; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/news_story.jsp?storyId=604094\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Channel 4 News\">quoted on Channel 4 News<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_div_1\/4279875.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC Sport\">McGhee wants Brighton to finish with 50 or 51 points<\/a> &#8211; 6 or 7 points from 11 matches. Not an impossible task, particularly with matches against Coventry and Rotherham still to be played &#8211; but I have to say that I&#8217;m not too keen on some of the other fixtures between now and the end of the season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US raps Russia and Saudi Arabia over the knuckles on human rights. One in the eye for Chomsky? I guess only if the Americans really mean what they say. Entire Lebanese government resigns after protests. Somehow I can&#8217;t imagine HMG resigning if ever there were massive protests in the UK. Oh. Yeh. There have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-miscellaneous","category-science","category-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}