John Mortell’s blog

Not a bad fight here, nothing special but just thought it would be interesting to put Lashley’s fight out there…
I would doubt he is going to make it to Lesnar’s level, but it would be interesting to see a fight between the two, especially if Lashley improves on his martial arts:

Very good stuff here, nice to see Stewart back on form & the interview with Jim Cramer is pretty fascinating & rather disconcerting… :

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I’m often quite annoyed at the way my local student union occasionally gets itself into a tizzy over the most ridiculous of things, and for some reason this (slightly bitchy) post over at the Economist’s Charlemagne blog caught my eye:

In atmosphere, it combines pomposity with an obsession with perks, a touch of venality (there is much laziness, and sneaky claiming of unjustified expenses), all under a smothering blanket of moral superiority. Nothing excites members so much as their own power and status, and scoring points off national governments or the European Commission, the EU’s turbo-charged civil service. Like a student union with better expenses, it spends inordinate time on subjects which fall outside its legal mandate, like foreign policy, and its views often resemble those of a student union too, in their shrill lack of realism. One national diplomat in Brussels emerged from a recent tussle with the parliament, gasping with irritation: “That place is one big fucking NGO.”