How Did I Forget These?

Over the weekend the anonymous blogger known as Belle de Jour whose blog and novel "Diary of a London Call Girl" inspired the ITV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" finally reveled her identity. She is Dr Brooke Magnanti, a PHD in epidemiology working out of Bristol University. No doubt this has caused quite a stir a Bristol University and has led to lots of discussion linking researchers at the university to prostitution. Obviously it would be a bad idea for me to contribute to this scandal, which must be very stressful for female PHD students at Bristol, no matter how vindicated I feel. After all I've been saying for years that researchers at Bristol University are only good for one thing and it ain't science.

There were also five anti-terrorism arrests in Manchester, UK this morning. This is hardly surprising because the large number of coffins returning from Afghanistan means that support for the war has dropped to less then 30% according to some pollsters. Also this evening Gordon Brown gave a very, very important speech to the City of London Guilds. The main thrust of the speech was Britain's continuing war in Afghanistan and the Prime Minister once again trotted out the old mantra that Britain must keep fighting in Afghanistan to stop Al Queda launching terrorist plots in Britain. Of course the fact that after eight years of war Al Queda are still, according to the police, more then capable of mounting terrorist plots in Britain does rather contradict this argument but hey, it is Gordon Brown after all.