Unfit to Govern

Random items from this morning's press: NHS Farce Dr Duncan Newton, the medical director at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, urged other hospitals to follow its lead by asking patients to walk to the operating theatre to cut portering costs. The Independent. UK's Bird tests may be missing flu virus. “If you left a swab in the refrigerator in its sheath like that, it would dry out and you'd lose all your virus” New Scientist Freedom Threatened

An unnecessary evil Daily Telegraph Leader (Filed: 13/04/2006)

Economic incompetence UK alone among G7 to see rise in jobless

By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor Daily Telegraph (Filed: 13/04/2006)

Unemployment is rising faster in the UK than in any other major developed country, it has emerged, as Britain's jobless total rose to the highest level in two and a half years.

April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Britain's trade deficit was unchanged at a record level