On the subject of gigs, just booked tickets for the Waterboys and Steve Earle playing together as the Fisherman's Blues Review at the O2 next September. (View Post)

Alex Harvey Band and Lowell George era Little Feat. That is a cracking support lineup (View Post)

Hmm. No they haven't. I mean yes, they are miles better than the UK but Norway still has 10% of children living in relative poverty using the measure you mention. Sweden has over 13% and rising.… (View Post)

Just looking that up, an interesting contrast to today. The budget was leaked to the Mirror and Piers Morgan, of all people, returned the papers without publishing as he said that was his 'publi… (View Post)

Actually they wouldn't be given a veto - at least not in the terms you mean. NATO operates by concensus but without votes. So if some countries do not agree with a course of action then they agr… (View Post)