News..........

Warzone too hot for helicopters. Heads must start to roll at the MoD.

Stimulus: Millions in grants, tons of scrutiny. Lot of money spent on bugger all.

New army chief: I need more men. We need to restore our military to 1989 levels.

A plague of politicians. 30,000 of the assholes.

Britain blocked arms sales to Israel during Gaza offensive. Which Foreign Orifice idiot dreamt that up.

CIA drew up plans to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders. Good.

Giant golf course to open in Australian outback. Cool.

Nullarbor Links: Hole by hole. Going to need a bigger buggy.

Zimbabwe constitutional conference broken up by riot police. Mugabe isn't going to give up power without a fight.

Army asked for 2,000 extra troops. Government sent 700. Send all MPs to Afghanistan's frontline for a look see.

Parents face fees increase as schools fail the charitable status test. Class war by the backdoor.

Al Qaeda vows revenge on China after riots.

Indian Army uses 10 million rupees of defence budget on golf carts. Shhhh. You will give the MoD ideas.

Brown took cheap option despite plea for boost to troops. This could be the end of Brown.

and finally

Mark Evison: 'We are walking a tightrope in Afghanistan'. The journal of one of our tropps killed in Afghanistan.