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Industrial production has been devastated by the tsunami of March, but the characters are from a classic V-shaped recession, with a jump in the output of a quick recovery. Retail sales have bounced back and is now higher than before the earthquake, but were weak job growth looks like. While unlikely to be the source of global instability of its own means in Japan 's dependence on exports, it would be one of the first victims of the contagion.

FRANCE

How much self-sufficient economy than Germany, France, recorded a much smaller decline in output during the crisis and has a slower recovery. The focus on the Southern European member states of the Monetary Union has led to little attention to France 's modest benefit has been paid, since the single currency was created. An overvalued real estate market is the most immediate cause for concern.

MEXICO

Rising oil prices, growth in Latin America 's second-largest economy, which has taken over a decade and a half to shake off the effects of the mid-1990s, underpinned currency crisis. With inflation low and the current account deficit is only in Mexico nnot currently tops the list of concerns for the financial markets.

GREECE

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Elsewhere, things are not so blithe. The clever Tom Mison has thought about Prince Hal so hard that he's worried him out of existence: he's preening (which makes sense) but too vain to capture a heart. He treats each line as if it were an adventure in self-assertion, accompanying phrases with sign language: at the name of God, he crosses himself; when he talks about being here, he points to the ground. His speeches seem to take ages, as if each were a mini-Beckett play.

It is obscene poverty directly at the SNP 's doorstep and yet it is a waste of time to sectarian posturing

In , John Carpenter's malevolent and under-rated 1981 classic, Manhattan has become a walled penitentiary where America's most violent criminals are deposited and then forgotten. What social structure that exists is administered with extreme prejudice by the Duke, the meanest, baddest, smartest "mutha" in the joint. When the president's plane crashes inside the city limits, Kurt Russell, a Purple Heart hero gone bad, is given 24 hours to rescue his unappreciative leader.

We have been building a wall around the north-east of Glasgow and soon it will be so tall that we will be spared sight of their squalid little lives. If this government held a poverty summit and ceased its worthless sectarian posturing, and if the plight of our urban poor was made an urgent priority, then it will be entitled to have its independent Scotland.

Bin Hammam has indicated to friends that he will continue to fight to clear his name. "There is nothing I can say more than I deny the allegations and insist that I have not done anything wrong during the special congress at Trinidad," he said in a statement.

"Yesterday, at the announcement of my self-directed retirement from the positions I held in world football confirmed that Fifa that its ethics committee procedures, of which I was a subject had been set. Were tried in their statement Fifa that the assumption emphasizes the mean innocence is maintained.

"It is now evident that those in a section of the Fifa fraternity who are dishonest, not only morbid, but in the face of the FIFA 's stated position and their voluntary recognition of my contribution to the world of football, and by definition to Fifa will stop at no length to destroy my heritage and destabilize the Caribbean, whose interests I've always advocated vigorously. Despite the attacks of the division either in the Caribbean I'm still all we have to be destroyed.

"I expect that these malicious attacks continue, but I will confront them on the head every time they occur, let me once again to the benefit of the people reaffirm with ulterior motives;. I, Jack Warner, do not participate in the distribution of cash Gifts for the members. I hope, prevail for the good of the game properly, or at least I will live in hope. "

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A story about Ashley Young, who is so young, he 's called "Young', is even younger than Andre Villas-Boas, 33, and has never WORKED for Jose Mourinho

While the assumption that the only football history in the city that is new Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas, 33, and used to be forgiven for Jose Mourinho but doesn 't more the fact, work that new Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas is 33 and used to be for Jose Mourinho but doesn 't work anymore in fact not the only story in town.

Oh no.

In fact, during Villas Boas, 33, etc and so forth was Fielding monotonously predictable questions about his young age and previous employers that exactly 200.3 miles was away at Old Trafford, were medical personnel snatch warmed up her rubber gloves and their Littmann Stethoscopes Master in preparation for Ashley Young 's medical before joining Manchester United.

Boy 's transfer fee of ? 15 million, coincidentally ? 1.8m to pay more than Chelsea after Porto, which had been the release clause in the Treaty of Villas-Boas, or ? 834.49 for each day cause younger boy as a young Villas-Boas, 33 (and yes, of course, we 're also the additional days in the years 1980 and 1984 were leap years).

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NO, IT WASN'T EMILY MAITLIS. OR KIRSTY WARK FOR THAT MATTER. BUT WE WERE IMPRESSED

In 1994, against enormous odds, saved two men hundreds of Tutsis during the genocide in Rwanda. Finally united, they remember the extraordinary story of their first meeting

In a park in London, two men greet each other like old friends. One is gray-haired and Americans, the other a big Rwanda in an elegant suit. They hug. The American wipes tears from his eyes. The last time the two men met was in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, in 1994: the year of the genocide in which 800,000 people were killed in 100 days.

The two men, Jean-Francois Gisimba and Carl Wilkens met a few times this year but in the most extreme circumstances. Together with Jean-Francois 'brother, Damas, saved them more than 400 children and hundreds of adults from the Interahamwe, the Hutu militia intent on eliminating the Tutsi " inyenzi "Or" Cockroaches ".

Carl was the only American who stayed through the genocide. By negotiating with key militia figures including Colonel Tharsisse Renzaho, the prefect of Kigali, he managed to get supplies of water and food through to people in dire need. Renzaho had told him there was an orphanage that needed help.

"He said: 'Be ready to be evacuated.'"

By the next day, more militia had surrounded the orphanage. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the Tutsi rebel army fighting their way back into Rwanda, were now close to the capital. "Bombs were landing like rain from the hills," Jean-Francois says. "I thought: now we are going to die.

More than 17 years later, Carl and Jean-Francois has again because the Gisimba orphanage (even by Jean-Francois Damas and run) money needs met. Next week is the 25th Anniversary of the orphanage 's Foundation. "We want to have a future \," said Jean-Francois.

In London, the power of the Americans, the Rwandan and says, "I never knew if it was the right decision, was left at the orphanage \."

"It was the right decision," Jean-Francois answers. "But what about my question - why did you help us,"

Carl does not abandon its Rwandan staff and friends, but Jean-Francois, he is shaking his head. "They were on the other side of town so why get into all the roadblocks Cross to bombs and bullets to the orphanage?"

Carl looks at him as if he should know. Jean-Francois, finally, is a man who resorted to know hundreds in the orphanage, it meant almost certain death to leave. "Why did these people?" He asks.

The headteacher, Michael Murphy, glows with pride at the new set-up. The son of Irish immigrants who was rejected by a secondary modern before being educated at a mixed comprehensive in Brixton, he is keen to point out all the ways in which standards have been driven up. When he took over the school, it was in special measures, and was "losing out" to grammar schools in Bexley and the selective comprehensive schools in Bromley. Now Murphy says the school is over subscribed for the first time, and is enjoying a more balanced intake of social classes and abilities. The reason, he says, is the streaming.

The school 's students are all positive about the new building and are proud to send in their uniforms. Some tell me they like the small school model, because they feel safer there than in a playground full of making thousands of students who can not name them left. Some of them are not so keen on the open-streaming model.

A girl aged 15, visited the Sherwood School, says that the student \ in the upper school "look" on the students ability in other schools like them. She says, arguments and fighting, between the various schools, broken, which she says began when the students learned that they block 'd go.

"If you were friends with someone in Delamere, you are kind of enemies now, because you 't want to talk to them. If you talk a bit with them you feel like you' don \ re betrayed (your school). "

"It was an argument at school the other day and the girls were arguing between the fences ... it just feels like we 've been cut off from them."

"They say if you 're gifted and talented, you' ll in Delamere, but there are other people in Sherwood and Ashdown, who are talented as well."

• By the whiskeriest of whiskers, Cambridge academics have failed to declare a vote of no confidence in the universities minister, David Willetts. Members of Cambridge University's governing body the Regent House backed a motion condemning the government's higher education policies by 681 votes yesterday - but exactly the same number voted against.

• The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has refused an official "impact assessment", which sets the cost to Britain 's economy of its curbs on foreign students with up to ? 3.6 billion to take over. \ May has dismissed her own department's official analysis of the effects of visa policy, the migration advisory committee instead of a "better assessment and better assess the true picture" has asked for.

• What 's going on in the Independent Schools Council, the body which speaks for private schools? It 's to say just lost a second chief exec in three years, let alone its chairman. Liz Lightfoot studied.

• Students are to fight for seats on the Oxbridge of catering courses. Louise Tickle looks they tested through their culinary paces.

• Hesa ??figures show only 62% of graduates in recent years been working for months after they graduate. Don 't universities have a duty to ensure that their students use?

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as children will need to learn in the digital age; as active agents, using multiple simultaneous interactive resources. In his rather radical paper 'Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age' MIT professor (and creator of Scratch) Mitchel Resnick proposes a total re-think of the classroom space, adopting the modes of the multimedia, multi-tasking era:

"Instead of a centralized-control model (with teachers provide information to a room full of students), we should take an entrepreneurial approach to learning. Students can active and independent learners, with the teacher, as adviser does not chief executive. Instead of dividing the curriculum into separate disciplines (mathematics, science, social studies, language), should we focus on issues and projects that cut across the disciplines by taking advantage of the rich connections between different domains of knowledge. "focus

Resnick sees a shift from a "knowledge society" a "Creative Society" in which the general population are active, imaginative participants. This is exactly what happens in games at the moment, with the advent of the "user-generated" content and build-it-yourself games like LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers. Allow many titles now with level editors users to create and share their own things to come - and in an age of social networking, social news aggregation, and interactive television passive consumption is over. So, what place it has in the school have?

Gove 's view is certainly a step forward - games should be, and indeed are

Charity Yuyada, 68, who watched the televised ceremony in Juba because they let \ part "too old" Personally, recalled forced to take classes in English rather than Arabic. "Done, who hate us, the language and the [Arab] people," she said.

This first war lasted 17 years and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Yuyada spent two and a half years in the bush. Peace lasted from 1972 to 1983, before Garang has a new rebellion led by his Sudan People 's Liberation Army (SPLA).

So hard was the fight in the country that Yuyada was forced to Juba, which was held together by forces moving north. When the SPLA attacks on the city launched in 1990, moved to Khartoum Yuyada for safety. She remained there, a second class citizen separated from their extended family, until in January this year when she returned a day before the referendum Juba.

"In the 21 years of war we had lost hope of freedom," she said. "I 'm so happy we are separated."

But could not hide their excitement their continued bitterness that can be seen on the hand in the inner city. Among the many banners with positive messages for the new country 's future, there was this poem, printed on a banner by the Ministry of Energy and Mines funded:

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After presenting the proposal to the government's council of ministers, they received the go-ahead and a budget – and the news that the statue would be the centrepiece of the independence celebrations. "I am so proud to have been part of this moment," Morbe said. "This day that we have wished for."

It was probably one of the most complex pop shows ever be, and after Bj?rk, it would still work out even more. "Manchester is the prototype," she says. "We had to omit many things because of budget and time and stuff." As it is, has lasted the entire project three years and so much money it cost him his to Rolling Stone that "we 'll glad if we earn zero ".

But for purely artistic reasons, it 's hard to see biophilia as anything other than a success. When the lights go out, Bj?rk 's childhood hero David Attenborough' s distinctive voice, recorded only on that day, fills the space to explain the songs. The show includes Bj?rk 's favorite play footage from BBC nature documentaries, when she performs older songs. '- One seal \ s Life's corpse through psychedelic-colored starfish and worms devoured Hidden Place is represented by a beautiful but disturbing clip from Attenborough \. See all 10 tracks from the new album will be played. Such an onslaught of new material would try the patience of most viewers, but this is entranced - no one even goes to the counter.

Much of this is due to the sensory bombardment of music, and costumes - not least Bj?rk 's bright orange wig that one comment on the Guardian' s assessment says she makes a tamarin monkey are similar. Their decision, cameras and other recording devices from the venue ban has also contributed its part. "I feel as each such an effort, all together there at the same place and time has made, we might as well go for it," she says. "It can be hard to get music for people who are you shooting for Twitter or whatever play It 's like putting a restaurant with someone who keeps her friends text message while you talk with them -.. to concentrate hard "

Then there 's Bj?rk' s extraordinary voice, which once compared by Bono to pimples, and imperishable even in 45th "My voice has changed," she says. "I thought it was a gone a little deeper. On my last tour I have nodules have [on the vocal cords], but managed to stretch out with three years of vocal work, so I 'm back to my old field now." Bj?rk "love" a number of singers: "Chaka Khan, Beyonce, Anthony" - the latter Antony Hegarty, a former employee, who in this audience - even though it 'favorite singer live "Azerbaijani devotional singer Alim Qasimov. She is a 24-piece Icelandic choir accompanies herself on YouTube.

After having carefully for as long Biophilia, performance feels liberating. To do live shows and an album, says Bj?rk, "extreme opposites. After noodling for ever on an album together the best moments, it 's to have a refreshing and healthy to get it all in one do blow. Then sort has to take real life into it and accept that you only what you on this day -. and that is enough "

Molly McCloskey was haunted by the idea she might develop schizophrenia as she grew older, like her older brother. Then, one day, she realised her anxiety was caused by something else

In the mid-1990s, when I live in the west of Ireland, I saw my drinking was out of control. I had moved to Ireland from the United States a few years ago, and had enjoyed more than a decade, often unconventional drinking. But in my late 20s, I had entered a period of unhappiness and psychological discomfort. Cat had stopped, only physical ailments and conditions with a hint of darkness and paranoia.

Many days I was a free-floating anxiety overshadows my perceptions often feel out of kilter. I would reach my hand to look for something and see it stutter, as if under a strobe light. When the phone trilled, it seemed, would blow up the air, like a pane of glass. Other people took a hyper-real quality. I slept too much and was prone to gray, apathetic mood. My memory and concentration were sometimes terrible. My thoughts are crawling over each other angrily or dripping so slowly it seemed large empty spaces between them, and I would stare at whatever I feel as though life were a dull slide show.

Despite the fact that the reasons were for my state of mind in front of me, I was side-stepping the hand. And just when I thought that the shaking in my hands could be the beginning point of a neurological degeneration, so I imagined my psychological stress to onset of schizophrenia could be linked.

It was not a random fear. In 1973, when I was eight, my brother Mike, the oldest of my five siblings, with paranoid schizophrenia, an illness from which he still hasn diagnosed 't recovered. He was 23rd For the next 10 years until I left town in Oregon where my family lived and went to the University, I witnessed Mike 's battle with the disease.

First, mixed with the hallucinations and delusions, he had periods of clarity and increased motivation when it seemed it could again. (Studies indicate that up to one third of people diagnosed with schizophrenia have a full recovery.) But then there would be a result - Mike pulled his clothes out of our church, Mike suddenly grows manic, racing around in circles moving our front yard , yelping as he went - that would end with his re-election admission to hospital. He hated the hospital and sometimes without leaving anyone to easily throughout the country, to take his medication and end homeless and disoriented, at which point my parents somehow repeat it back home and stabilized, then the whole cycle would.

One thing my brothers and sister and I learned following Mike's diagnosis was that as siblings of someone with schizophrenia, we had a greater chance of developing it ourselves – 7-9%, versus the 1% in the general population. And what struck me as particularly frightening was the way the illness had taken hold of my brother without any apparent warning. No one had seen anything in him growing up that indicated future trouble.

At the time, I didn't realise how extraordinary her handling of these crises was. But as I grew older, I realised that strength is not a given, that it is easy to implode under pressure, to lose perspective. These things became clear to me when I was in my 30s.

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As a Brussels correspondent in the 1990s, Toby Helm reported on the EU at its zenith. Now, as Observer political editor, he returns to a city of uncertainty – over the Greek debt crisis, the future of the euro and the whole political project

To catch up with Europe's progress, Schwaiger, a former press officer who retired in 2003, returned to a Brussels summit last week to take the temperature. Much had changed. "The historical idea has faded," he said wistfully. "When we started it was about Germany and France and the Benelux countries building a new Europe to stop the endless wars. Germany, and that generation of Germans, was ashamed of Hitler. It was about creating security, a secure Europe and a secure economy. Then they wanted to have Europe as their new home country."

In the run-up to the euro's launch, painful battles were fought between France and Germany to establish a stability pact to ensure members of the currency zone observed fiscal discipline. Euro countries, it was agreed, would have to have debt-to-GDP ratios of no more than 60% and deficit-to-GDP ratios of no more than 3%. "It was about Germany getting a stable euro, a euro like the deutschmark," observed a German official. But when the original 11 countries were admitted in 1999, no fewer than six were allowed in with debt levels well over the required level. The rules were waived as long as their debts and deficits were moving in the right direction.

In the case of Belgium and Italy, their debt was nearer 100% of GDP than 60% – but in they went. The same leniency was shown when Greece joined in 2001, with a debt ratio heading towards double the level required. "We might have been a little too relaxed with Greece," said Richard Corbett, a former Labour MEP who now works as an adviser for Van Rompuy. Within a few years, France and Germany were also busting the stability pact rules.

Optimists in the EU try to convince yourself that something good could come out of crisis - that means greater economic integration and harmonization of taxes - steps towards the individual EU economy, which Prodi dreamed. One of the arguments the Commission sends to calm anxiety make that Europe is no stranger to crises - yes, she says she has always thrived on it.

Mark Gray, a spokesman for Barroso, said: ".. The temptation to look back at the past through rose-colored glasses, but there were always ups and downs" \ He points to the queue of countries wishing to join the EU and the euro as evidence that they are now more than ever in a globalized world. Corbett believes that Europe could emerge even stronger from it. "This is what we hope will happen," he says. "But you don 't hear much about in the British press."

The pressure is for the Murdoch family is growing by an even greater sacrifices for the survival of the media empire 's offer gains

Pundits were chatting in a television studio during a commercial break early this week on Fox News Watch , Dedicated to hot topics in the world of media. Faith itself off the air, the three guests, conservative commentator James Pinkerton and Cal Thomas and the former New York Times Reporter Judy Miller laughed and joked with each other.

But by the end of the week that mission was in tatters. Allegations and fears that phone hacking might have occurred in the US led to a series of calls from politicians for investigations into News Corp. The department of justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been asked to examine the company's work and the FBI has now started an investigation.

The American empire is vast. In print it runs the and the feisty tabloid the

With Brooks and Hinton gone, many shareholders are concerned that they will not be the last senior figures to fall – or be pushed. The focus is now on James Murdoch. His position as deputy chief operating officer means the crisis has now reached the giddiest heights of News Corp and threatens the grip of the family itself. James, who has admitted misleading parliament over phone hacking and said he had not been given all the information he needed, has suffered a catastrophic loss of his reputation. The man who was once clearly next-in-line now faces an uncertain future. "One can safely rule out James taking over at this point. That's not going to happen. Everybody in the company recognises that," Wolff said.

But the greatest legal threat to News Corp in America is likely not to come from courts where lawsuits are filed on behalf of investors. It is from the threat of investigation by top US law enforcement officials. In a sign of how quickly and dangerously things had spun out of control, a single report in the

Some think, however, much damage was already done at News Corp 's cry enough to cost many millions of dollars in the future. Even when the crisis ended in the U.S., and the FBI investigation found no evidence of illegality, the impact of the last two weeks, leaving a scar across the kingdom over the United States. Buy with the deal, the rest of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB on the table, News Corp. has spent billions of dollars to suddenly expand and the desire. But with their brand tainted News Corp. can not find its growth as easily as it did in the past. There will be no special treatment from regulators in the future. In fact, it is likely to be reversed. "Murdoch is going to have to apply for permits and licenses and permits, and this company has been corrupted. There will be a problem. Your ability to expand, was hurt," said Lule.

The couple had been almost two years a pair when they said Shennib broke up with the player, who famously claimed a book, 85% of major league players took steroids. The break-up occurs after he "had [she] dirty" - a reference to specific events she did not want to reveal more.

Canesco was deleted and now angry tweets got it from his chest, starting with: "Be careful of woman who demonstrate, there are tits and ass and think that 'sa \ career" to trot: "I 'll never forgive or forget what u told me leila ur evil, "before posting their phone number, whereupon a significant number of hate messages from fans.

Inevitably, there were also philosophy: "Love makes fools of us all, especially me"; despair: "Leila will you marry me please" and finally pity: "I had a totally stupid of me for someone who is never cared about me. what an idiot I am. "

But like any love-sick teenager, he bounced back soon, and as a professional athlete, he managed without a long period in his bedroom, closed tears to a soundtrack of The Smiths and Joy Division either: "I would like to meet a nice holesome midwest girl here in Chicago. We play tomorrow night at 7 zion clock in when someone is there for me. "

Unfortunately, there is apparently only a few answers as soon after the @ ashleyarizona, a female Twitterers have announced their followers that it was messaged by Canseco: ". [Laughing my ass off] Lmao Jose Canseco hit on me via DM" to Fortunately, they took a screen as a grave example Canseco wish to focus only on where he goes off with the ladies can see them. "Ur hot baby" to read.

"We couldn't help but notice your recent tweet about looking for a new line of work in light of the lockout," Cywinski's letter said. "We're always looking for folks with precisely your qualifications – initiative, teamwork and the ability to make buckets in a hurry."

Fan takes the bottom line for Dirk Nowitzki

The celebrations in Dallas after the Mavericks clinched the NBA Championship seem destined never to be forgotten, literally in one case as a fan's find idle promises came back to haunt him. In the case of Derek Dilday, in tattooist's ink. On his arse.

headed the piece with the descriptive and amusing headline: "Why I Got This Tattoo of Dirk Nowitzki On My Ass (As If It's Not Obvious)" accompanied it with a picture of Nowitzki's face disarmingly looming out of a right buttock and closed, gloriously with Dilday's own cheerful sign-off: "Now I realise that I will be sitting on a big German man's face for the rest of my life."

A fairytale start for Thomas Bjorn at the Open created the potential for an extraordinary comeback story. One, it seems, that the media believed was not going to last. How else to explain headline writers

for going with "Bjorn Supremacy". And, intriguingly, to the Danish press where, consumed by the Tour de France, Bjorn was barely to be seen at all. Instead,

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Germany makes peace with the new interim Bayern fans

Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was given a hostile welcome reports of five Bayern Munich fan groups who were outraged by her side the signing of a player who not only played for, but is also an avowed fan of the arch-rivals Schalke 04, Image .

Last week Neuer met the groups involved in an attempt to find a way forward. The details of what was discussed have not been made clear, but Bayern's chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was unimpressed, saying he has run out of patience with the fans. President Uli Hoeness, meanwhile, looked to play down the situation: "I think it does not make much sense to shout one's mouth off. I think most fans have grasped what is at stake."

The fans later released a statement which may have a more peaceful future. "If Manuel holds the new rules of behavior and maintains a respectful distance [from us], it is no longer organized demonstrations against him."

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In July 1981, some of the most violent rioting ever seen in Britain erupted in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. Thirty years on, the local community is still paying the price

After the second night of the fire and the fury, the police burst through the door of the Simon family home in a small terrace along Beaconsfield Street, Liverpool, the 13-year-old grabbed Michael and threw him into a pile of other young body wrapped in the back a van. "I thought I was going to be killed \," recalls Michael. "There were 10 in the van and I was at the beginning -.. Only a small, thin boy, with most beatings They beat me until I could hardly feel it no more and I thought it was \ for me"

Michael was arrested over a nine nights of Wrath of 500 people - three decades ago this weekend - in which 470 policemen were also wounded, a disabled man was killed by a police car and burned 70 buildings. The so-called "Toxteth riots" from July 1981 was the single most virulent insurgency on the British mainland since time immemorial, and were considered the most far-reaching.

"Back" said Michael Simon, "it looked like where you stood. I was 13 years old, and from my perspective it was about the brutality of the police, who were always racist only in hindsight, we recognize that it was on the machine, the system that was all. "Michael in Beaconsfield Street, a six, a father born in Liverpool of West Africa, Antigua and Irish descent and a Scouse-Irish mother. His father worked as an electro-plater for Triumph and Ford, where the chemicals he handled chrome preparation seriously damaged his health. For the boys in the family, says Michael, "was harassment by the police, a daily thing, especially for the older boys when I saw my older brother, our Brian, was for ever to have been beaten by the police. Not even sometimes arrested -. was only beaten once till he was accused of stealing lead from a roof, and my mother had to walk down the street and jump on him so he would not crush 't get arrested and they also got ".

Michael Simon 's mother, Mary, was now a new home in the heart of Toxteth resettled. The farm is all coming and going of a morning, so that Mary 's daughter Karen tea in her hospital personnel tunic before Michael and his brother swing round.

"Even when I was younger and paler skin than Brian," says Michael, "I have not taken up. I remember one time I get on the bus at the Lodge Lane to the school, was with . my brown leather gym bag stolen A car and the police moved into a van, grabbing me from the bus and started on my bag and I thought. "If a car 'robbed s what' s that has to do with my bag? '"After the riots, but" in the period immediately after, we' d raised the fear. We 'd been a no-go area. We were too powerful even for the police. "The insurgency, he says, was broken out of" a new confidence in our identity, we had to apologize to \ nothing. "

The conversation shifts, as it invariably does – and importantly – in Liverpool 8, back to the history of the city and its black community, the key to understanding why Toxteth was the most violent of the insurgencies of 1981, and, over the long term of 30 years, the most thoroughly punished. "I mean, it was obvious, even to me at the age of 13," says Michael, "that if it's all about cohesion and integration, then Liverpool 8 should have been a shining example, par excellence. But it wasn't – the discrimination was worse here than Manchester or anywhere else. Why wasn't it the shining example? Well, it's what [sociologist] Paul Gilroy writes, isn't it? That complex: mixed-race kids remind the greater part of a racist society about the union of black and white, and they just can't handle it."

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"It always amazes me when I look back that more people were not killed on both sides. And look at the one who died, David Moore, disabled and run down – and no justice for that lad."

The official aftershock and aftermath of the riots is well recorded. In London, Lord Scarman would conclude – after the Brixton riots – that moves towards positive discrimination favouring black people in society would be a "price worth paying". Lord Gifford, tasked to report on Liverpool, found that racial discrimination had been "uniquely horrific" in the city. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously dispatched Michael Heseltine to be minister for Merseyside and launch a garden festival site, which is now a wasteland.

Local developers are not available, ready to fight and willing to renovate to maintain the stocks and let people stay on site, and their number does not contain anything other than the Amoo brothers, Eddy and Chris, the Real Thing, Liverpool 8 's famous band and composer of the hit "You are everything to me ',' 't Can Get Without You" and - more importantly - the anthem and the soundtrack, the riots, "Children of the Ghetto" . The brothers and Eddy 's wife, Sylvia, now run a property company called ECAM (the brothers' initials), Eddy Amoo calls the "my retirement plan" together with the proceeds of the countless silver discs up his living room wall. "We want to bring buildings back to what they were," he says. "Of course, it 's got to be done commercially, but we don' t want to crush things. We 're against the hidden agenda to see that Granby will disappear street, or that beautiful church in Princes Street, where someone just waiting until it is so dilapidated it \ re to destroy landmarks 'll fall And we'.. look at the Rialto, where we learned what we know about music, you have seen it? You 've turned it into offices, a piece of junk. "

Liverpool 's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party political - it was on by a Labour Council, passed the Liberal Democrats and now back to work - yet it is unique in Toxteth. Parts of the structurally solid Victorian terraces at Anfield, near Liverpool FC 's ground feel the Toxteth bricked windows "Regeneration" effect, as well Smithdown Road, and - in a current controversy - the flattened Edge Lane and Kensington area to the many people from Toxteth were "resettled ', as the polite phrase it, after the riots.

Again Liverpool 's sage and fool, Jimmy McGovern, the voice of the people (for him, the destruction of Edge Lane, ostensibly for a road-widening a matter of inches, was the last straw). Five years ago I went with McGovern about the "Granby Triangle" riot zone, said he, \ wouldn "I 't visit often as a white working-class boy, unless it was to buy everything what fantastic fruit, mangoes, and things that - if my memory doesn 'play t Tricks - were sold wood drayman' \ s car "McGovern was furious fuming:" If this regeneration, what 's vandalism \.? "he hissed. "If that is the capital of culture, what \ 'Sa Philistines are decent houses, I left my decay, what is their problem, we've been through all this in the 1960s, we know what a disaster?.? - don 't it \ learn "?

The official reason given by the BBC for hiding away England's match against France in the women's World Cup on the red button is that they do not screen sport on both terrestrial channels at the same time. So with BBC1 showing the Scottish Open golf tomorrow afternoon, the women have been shunted off to the service that takes on average 16 hours to load and isn't quite as good as Ceefax.

"Thanks to the news aggregation service my employer uses, a link appeared to be yesterday 's Fiver on our intranet site. Engineers are natural pedant. I hope you realize the implications. May I therefore suggest that you Michael Beaven false \ 's last name "- Hossein Motevalli.

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Little things

Manchester City 's stadium will be known as Etihad Stadium for the next 10 years, after the airline of the Government of Abu Dhabi owned ? 100 million handed to a club by a member of Abu Dhabi \ property' s ruling family. And just when everyone asked me, as I said Uefa club 'would satisfy s new financial rules of fair play ...

After citing a desire not to uproot his family when he returned to England from Perth Glory in June, Robbie Fowler, now Thailand 's United Muangthong came instead.

STILL WANT MORE?

Well, the Arsenal way is not working and the fans know it, so they resent the constant demands patience shoot ticket prices. They want less Abou Diaby and Yaya Toure. You want the spirit of Patrick Vieira in midfield and the dog-bite Adams, Bould and Keown in the defense.

Arsenal were never effete. The current generation grew up watching the trailer George Graham 's team, the soundness and the skill of Wenger \ admired' s first double-winning side and worshiped The Invincibles. All that they ask what is that beauty is more of the old pugnacity realigned. They yearn toughness and a winning spirit.

The construction of a new site for Jack Wilshere, could Wenger use the coming windfall to a period of six years of dreaming officially declare, and to find employ proceed to use the market to determine the kind of players Arsenal, before frailty was the norm. The tricky part for the manager is an admission that a wrong turn he took all his talents Sorbonne. The next job is rebuilding from the back, where United and Chelsea set up barricades better.

To clean for Wenger to a failing culture and start anew with hardened winners this could be the best chance - the last chance -. Ideally he would want to take the passengers as the officer class, but that luxury is denied to him by his own mistakes in over-investment potential. It may sound shallow to say, ? 70m-? 80m of incoming wealth should be spent immediately, but that's where Arsenal can happen: at the end of something in front with a better way to go.

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