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Paul Mason's Idle Scrawl

More Zizou and nuclear malarkey...

  • Paul Mason
  • 12 Jul 06, 09:02 AM

zidane_ap203.jpgAs the world awaits Zidane's definitive account of the provocation for the headbutt, in a primary school in Salford the headteacher tells me kids spent most of Monday "practising" the Zidane headbutt, despite pleadings to the contrary. It seems to have a similar fascination for amateur video editors who, courtesy of Youtube, have been adding everything from special effects, to . Plus this Matrix-style of Materazzi's greatest fouls. Back in the world of warm beer and elderly nuns cycling to church on a Sunday evening, curled ham sandwiches, extradited City businessmen (that's enough England metaphors, Ed.)...we are going nuclear...

...I spent yesterday reporting on the , which has a curiously large number of loose ends. As we reported - making nuclear power economic depends on the government either making the Emissions Trading Scheme drive the price of carbon up 2.5 times what it is now: OR the government taking "further measures". Following conversations with sources close to those who will take them, I now believe those measures will involve the UK government setting a minimum price on carbon, independent of the ETS. Interesting, no?

You could watch it all online except that the inclusion of large amounts of Syd Barrett footage in the programme means it is not available online until the man who looks after e-Newsnight fillets the programme into smaller bits. It will probably be available on Youtube before it's on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website!

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Thank you Paul. The Newsnight Blair interview and the energy debate are indeed available on the Newsnight media player. Youtube seems to have missed the boat...

Here in Miami, the two discussions have been the Head Butting and North Korea.

If you haven't seen it yet this is the game where you are Zidane and you have to head-butt as many Materazzi's as you can -

My life's been pretty dull recently. Shrug. My mind is like a void. I haven't gotten anything done lately. I can't be bothered with anything recently.


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