Friday morning update

Good news for students! Gordon Brown will not return to teaching

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6579263.ece

“Gordon Brown: ‘I have been a teacher. I’m not going back to it’”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5638668/Three-quarters-of-Britons-say-cut-public-spending.html

“More than three quarters of Britons believe that public spending should be cut over the next few years, an opinion poll for today's Daily Telegraph has found”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/26/brown-miliband-global-warming-plan

“Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband's blueprint for global warming deal”

(EDITOR: They can't ruin Britain, yet, in their conceit, they imagine they can run the world)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1195565/QUENTIN-LETTS-Watch-Burberry----comes-Bercow-ware.html

“Try as some might to prune the thing, Squeaker Bercow's ego is sprouting as fast as Clematis montana”

(EDITOR: Opines Quentin Letts, a man not known for his own excessive ego, of course...)

http://www.prweek.com/news/915871/Tara-Hamilton-Miller-Speaker-election-colossal-farce/

“Tara Hamilton-Miller: Speaker election a colossal farce: The election of a new Speaker was an opportunity for Parliament to show voters it was capable of doing something democratic with a modicum of grace. But alas, getting one over on the Tories was more important for our Government”

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/UKIP-will-stand-against-Buckingham.5402229.jp

“UKIP will stand against Buckingham MP at next General Election”

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13919553

“It’s best not to know how John Bercow was elected”

http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/c-12016/order-order/

“The MP for Buckingham, whose new role will see him chairing parliamentary debates and representing the chamber to outside bodies, defied the odds and allegations over 'flipping' to be elected as the chamber's first ever Jewish speaker, following a six-hour voting marathon on Monday”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5636916/MPs-expenses-Conservative-MPs-to-repay-250000-says-David-Cameron.html

“Conservative MPs are to repay more than £250,000 in the wake of the expenses scandal, David Cameron has announced”

(EDITOR: Who will be more upset? The Tory MPs for having to do this, or Gordon Brown for not having thought of the idea himself?)

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6579297.ece

“Every time executive pay is published, the mood ranges from astonishment to sheer outrage, when they see what the bosses are getting,” one radio journalist said”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1195360/STEPHEN-GLOVER-How-Brown-humiliated-Mandy-manipulator.html

“How Brown has been humiliated by Mandy the manipulator”

Oh, dear. This will rumble on and on...