NSA Under Scrutiny for ‘Orwellian’ Order
The news that the NSA has been collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans is an example of the genuine threat of ‘Big Brother’ governance in the digital era. While it shouldn’t surprise people that the government...
Japan Head To Brazil!
Japan are going to Brazil. They are the first side, apart from the hosts, to have sealed their qualification to the premier international football competition. Keisuke’s injury-time penalty against Australia secured Japan’s place at the...
The Special One Back at Chelsea
The return of ‘The Special One’, though perhaps judging on the elder, greyer and not as slim Jose Mourinho of the 2012/2013 season, that should perhaps be ‘The Grouchy One’. Plenty has been and will be written about Jose’s return to...
FiFA Appoint Woman
It’s not very often you get a good news story about the FIFA executive committee. The governing body’s upper echelons have usually been dogged by a constant stream of corruption headlines but the news that Burundi FA president Lydia Nsekera...
The Joy of Hay
‘The Glastonbury of the Mind’ is how Bill Clinton described the Hay Festival and while I would loathe to describe Glastonbury as mindless, the overt selling point of Hay is its intellectualism.
Authors, philosophers, poets, ecologists,...
Knickers In a Twist?
Hands up any bloke reading this article whose never worn a dress…Very few hands right?…Right? Well I’m not going to be ashamed to admitting to the deed, having myself done it for a couple of parties at university – that’s...
Can Bayern Retain The European Cup?
Alas, it is done, the European season has ended bar a cup final here and there, with Bayern finally winning the top prize and Jurgen Klopp’s manic smile restrained by pride but also disappointment. It was a game fitting of the occasion –...
Bring on Ze Germans
And so, alas, the Champions League final has come – probably the biggest event in club football. Many here in England would have been anticipating a final with little intrigue once the English representation were extinguished in the last...
Should Bestiality Be Legal?
Germany is considering a ban on bestiality – the practice of having sex with animals.
…wait, what was that? That must mean that Germany…doesn’t currently…ban sex with animals…
What the duck!? Germany, a modern,...
Freedom For US National Kenneth Bae
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor & publisher of Weekly BLITZ appeals to His Excellency Kim Jong Un, to please consider of releasing Kenneth Bae so he may get back to his family in USA.
Choudhury, who himself is in prison now with a plotted...
