Yep Still Trivial.

At around midday today (17/7/11) Rebekah Brooks was arrested over the phone hacking scandal. This seems to be a deliberate attempt to make sure that Ms Brooks has no choice other then to appear cagey and evasive when she answers questions in front of Parliamentary select committee on Tuesday (19/7/11).

Then about five minutes before the kick off of the women's football world cup final the commissioner of London's Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson resigned over the scandal. Apart from the fact that the referee in the world cup final is also a German policewoman this is worth a mention because it is an attempt to convince all the young lefties who took part in the student riots of last winter and the older lefties who took part in the print union strike of the mid-1980's that the campaign is working and they should continue to support it. I'm not sure if this will work though because the older lefties at least should know that police commissioners come and go but the office rarely changes. Mind you both the students and the print unions both lost their respective battles so it might work.

Elsewhere it has been announced and then denied that the ex-President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak has fallen into a coma whilst in hospital where he has been treated for months following a heart attack. Mubarak is meant to appear in front of a court in two weeks so obviously a lot of people think he's trying to use the health excuse to get out of the prosecution. What I think he's trying to do is remind the Egyptian people that when he resigned he felt he'd entered into an agreement with them that in return for his resignation they would allow him a dignified retirement and the Egyptian people now appear to be going back on that deal. Obviously it's not my country or my revolution but I think that at the very least his trial should wait until after September and all this Palestine nonsense is out of the way.

As for the football for what is essentially an amateur competition it was actually quite a good game. The USA went ahead after 69 minutes then Japan drew level in the 81st minute forcing the match into extra time. After 104 minutes the USA went ahead for a second time but Japan equalised again in the 117th minute forcing it into a penalty shoot out which Japan won 3-1 meaning that Japan win the World Cup for the first time ever. Personally I'm celebrating with a good measure of Black Bush Whiskey mainly because no-one makes a Black Blair Whiskey.