The Daily Cartoon

This isn’t how it was supposed to be.  It’s as though we have returned to the dark ages of English cricket when a supporter dared not turn on the news for fear of finding out how England had managed to discover a new way of collapsing.

Day two of the Ashes series - Ponting makes it to 196 - at least he doesn’t have the psychological advantage of a double century. But that is a small consolation. Harmison starts with more wides - Flintoff is coming back from injury and is our best bowler, that can’t be right. Strauss is out plulling the ball, hardly an opportune choice of stroke given the circumstances.  Pieterson pulled the ball aswell, but as he suceeded he is not being villified, but KP, what are you thinking aswell?  We need you to make a big score.

So the test and the series is already in the balance. We are trying to save the whole shebang already.

I though this was a thing of the past, I thought we were able to give the Aussies a run for the money, if not quite six of the best, trousers down.

But the boys will come good.  Ofcourse they will.  Just first (and second) night nerves.

We’ll see.

The average person in the UK catches 4 or 5 colds per year. So we are very interested in curing it. But there may never be a complete cure as it is not a single virus but a collection, all of which would need a special vaccine. (more…)

An ex-soviet spy who defected to the UK in 2000 lies dying in a hospital bed in London after being poisoned after a meeting with other Russians in a Sushi bar.

The specialists looking after him still do not know what has poisoned him. (more…)

Could you cope with extreme poverty? The very fact that you are reading this probably means that you have access to a computer, internet, you have spare time - you are rich relative to many people in the world.  But what is life like for those who have nothing?

Unicef have developed a game for you to examine a life in poverty. Ayiti The cost of life is worth having a look at.

We’re so lucky, aren’t we, not being hungry.

From Harmison’s shocking first ball that went directly to Flintoff at second slip to Ponting raising his bat to acknowledge the crowds applause for his century the first day of the first test of this Ashes campaign was a disaster for England.

346-3 at the close of play is a terrible scoreline no matter how good the wicket for batting. (more…)

I didn’t make it much past Harmison’s unusual first ball, but here is a link to watch the highlights on broadband: here . Not that the first day was very good, but it’s good to see some cricket