President Obama’s decision to apologize to Medicins San Frontieres for the bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan produced pretty much the reaction you’d expect. Meanwhile, calls grow for an independent inquiry into the incident.
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WORLD
David Cameron’s speech to the Tory conference seemed to have echoes of another Prime Minister not so long ago… John Rentoul writes at The Independent:
I started by mocking David Cameron for lifting phrases from his predecessor-but-one as Prime Minister. He spoke about the morning of 8 May: “As dawn rose a new light, a bluer light, fell across our isle.” Silly poeticism, I thought, before recognising the echo of Tony Blair’s “a new dawn has broken, has it not?” Then Cameron was on “a journey” and even claiming to be the first prime minister ever to have said he wasn’t going to fight another election, which Blair said in 2004. Indeed, Blair said almost the same thing about not have much time left and therefore being in a hurry to get on with change.
As Cameron went on, however, I started to worry less about the borrowings from Blair and the clunkiness of the speech-writing (“Labour: you’re not for working people, you’re for hurting people”), and to pay more attention to the message. Because this was a big speech with a big message.
But even the gripping events in Manchester couldn’t compete with the really big story in Britain yesterday.
Meanwhile, the current Labour Party leader continues to create exactly the sort of kerfuffle the Tory press enjoy.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/652075754134589440
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BUSINESS
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MEDIA
As Jane Martinson tweets, Rupert Murdoch’s Twitter feed is the “gift that keeps on giving.” It now seems we know what the right’s problem with President Obama was all along…
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CULTURE
Of course there is…
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SPORTS
UPDATE:
https://twitter.com/dbardow/status/652072592552165376
But at least he won’t be out of work for long.
https://twitter.com/MirrorRowZed/status/652073005955325952
EARLIER:
FIFA President Sepp Blatter may be suspended on Thursday by the organization he runs for 90 days. That might still be the least of his worries.
(The Sun/Tomorrow’s Papers Today)
Looks like he’s on his way. Cue the Jurgen Kop back page headlines.
The Chicago Cubs will face the St Louis Cardinals in the NLDS starting on Friday, after outlasting the Pittsburgh Pirates in last night’s one-game Wild Card playoff. It will be the first time the traditional rivals have ever met in the post-season.
A big Euro qualifying weekend for the home countries kicks off tonight.
While the pool stage comes to a conclusion in the Rugby World Cup.
Have an enjoyable and peaceful weekend.
The Overnight Note 