Can't argue with this!

Brendan O’Neill In the terrible new movie Battleship, a US Navyman watches the arrival of gleaming, menacing spaceships in the Pacific and asks: ‘Is it the North Koreans?’ Doubtful. If North Korea’s botched missile launch is anything to go by, then the idea that this cut-off country poses a terrible threat to world peace is entirely a figment of our imagination. The transformation of an eccentric and hapless state into International Enemy No.1 says more about the international community’s need for a whipping boy than it does about North Korea’s ability to whip its neighbours or the world.

Let's educate to change unrealistic expectations!

Brendan O’Neill 
Let’s liberate youth from the grip of welfare
Cutting housing benefit to under-25s is actually not a bad idea – but let’s do it for the right reasons rather than to save the state cash.

Listen up! No more euro

Eurozone crisis: less is more, by Megan Greene

If the weaker eurozone economies abandoned the single currency, they would grow faster. The countries remaining would also benefit from the ending of an unhappy marriage...

So he wants global warming - that's what we'd guessed.

New UK Met Office global temperature data confirms that the world has not warmed in the past 15 years.

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"We also note a comment in an email sent by Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit: “Bottom line – the no upward trend has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.”"

Bloody ridiculous! Let them go out to work, and let old people retire!

Raising the school leaving – while learning from another age 
In April 1947 the post-war Labour Government raised the school leaving age from 14 to 15 and paved the way for a further increase to 16 in 1972. Now, 65 years later, as the UK prepares to raise the 'education participation age' to 17 in 2013 and to 18 in 2015, new research reveals that the transitions of 1947 and 1972 met with more controversy and difficulty than previously thought.

Good advice!

Arnab Das and Nouriel Roubini: Divorce settlement for eurozone  [Registration necessary] Splitting up may be hard to do, but it can be better than sticking to a bad marriage. The euro periphery debt crisis threatens to engulf the core in huge bank capital shortfalls and fiscal liabilities, trapping both in protracted stagnation. This reflects possibly intractable design flaws in the single currency. So we propose an amicable divorce settlement http://link.ft.com/r/QM42II/TU4MVN/8AYTHO/QN8D34/NJA3SA/T3/h?a1=2012&a2=4&a3=2

Khat

Study of 'khat' use reveals poor understanding of effects and regulation 
Australian states need to clarify inconsistent regulation of the stimulant “khat”, and users need to know more about the negative health effects, a research study has found.