It's pretty obvious my British influence is thick. Having studied there for 13 years one can't help but to have affinity to the place. In fact every weekdays I will listen to the BBC News Podcast on my way to work, recorded merely 4 hours prior to my morning commutes. I will also look at the BBC RSS Newsfeed, not to mention my undying support to my beloved the red half of Manchester. I even download Chris Moyles' weekly Podcast for good measure.
From my reading, the Police is UK are currently in hot water (again!). One of the senior officer, Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick lost his job yesterday when a piece of paper he was carrying into 10 Downing Street prior to a briefing was inside out. The paparazzi with long lens in front of the Prime Minister residence managed to snap clear photo of a top secret document he has with him.
The paper unfortunately have details of some important intelligence data, to be used to raid a few residence in the North East of England which was suspected of harboring terrorist. As a result, there were frantic phonecalls made to the press the embargo the pictures, and the execution of the raid had to be done the same day.
The next morning, during a live telephone interview, the Mayor of London went to publicly announce that he had accepted the officer's resignation, much to the dismay of the Home Secretary who I thought is in charge of such matters! She must have steam coming out of her ears by then. Will somebody from Bukit Aman resign from such a blunder? Hang on! They either don't brief the ministers or they have their minions carry their papers from them. The thing is, the officer concerned have a long and distinguished career thus far.
Another police incident involved a protestor at the G20 summit in London last week. A newspaper seller on his way back from work was caught in the commotion with protestor and was turning to walk away from the riot police with his hands in his pocket. CCTV footage caught the riot officers striking down the gentleman who later managed to run away. Unfortunately not far from the place, he suffered what suspected as a heart attack and died at the scene. Investigations are now under way to look at the connection between the incident and the death.
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 1:56AM 200 Harvard Medical School students are confronting the administration demanding an end to pharmaceutical industry influence in the classroom.
