Christina Fernandez, good on ya, sis! You hit the nail right on the head. Yes, to 'a crude colonial power in decline'. They committed atrocities in their colonies & plundered the poor people of India, Africa & the East. Today they feel they've got to go round interfering in other countries as if they own them & constan...more

@Far Too Much I don't think Professor Philipp Bonhoeffer is an African! It is the allegations that involve children in Kenya.

It's way out of control, no one listens to anything, no learning takes place. Why is money wasted on this?  School Heads & top staff suck up to pupils to stay in their good books. One School Head brought 3 big boxes to end of term assembly & randomly shelled out mobile phones, ipods, iphones etc to pupils who attended....more

@Lel 2001 Just checked my atlas and the Falklands are in the South Atlantic, near S. America!  A bit short of Britian, mate.  Bet you also think Gibraltar (Gibr Al Tariq = Rock of Tariq) is not part of Spain?

Memory stick left in computer lab, caddish pupil out to dish the dirt on nice lady art teacher (or was there a £££ motive??) ... precocious sleaze & scandal in Harrow's ivied cloisters. Whatever next? Yet, in the end, it's just a pair of breasts causing the stir. Why are we so odd about women's breasts; we know why t...more

True, South Africa has great beaches, clean white sand, clean, strong surf ...  Cape Town has fabulous beaches, so does Durban, and there are a great many along the wild Southern African coast between these two cities.  So, come on MSN, why not show one of the beaches, instead of some random, unnamed sand dune?!

It's all a bit unreal. A hollowed-out loaf of bread stuffed with a jar of jam, a jar of peanut butter and 1 lb bacon. Plus $50,000 to fly Elvis & mates there and back to buy the stuff in his private jet. It's kinda sad, really. What a life. As for the quality of the food he went for,  he must've had a death-wish.

Well said, Joanna!  She's doing a programme called 'The Cheat' and it's brought certain things to the fore and she's bold enough and articulate enough to speak out. Of course you get howls of derision and a lot of playing the person, not the ball.  (Do you really criticise what a person says on the basis of where they ...more

@Aluminium On the other hand, as just another big-mouth arm-chair critic, I suspect the bottom would fall out of your world if ever got near real living yourself. And your 'know-it-all', 'feel nothing' attitude would give way to some serious whingeing.