Gaddafi might have been arrested by now if the international criminal court's warrant had been sealed, argues Alison Cole, legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.
A public international arrest warrant, as in the case of Gaddafi, appears to create a face-off between justice and politics. However, by definition, international justice is non-negotiable ...
Europe is to use Thursday's Friends of Libya summit in Paris to lift most of the sanctions on Libyan ports and companies, according to
One of the Gaddafi's sons Saadi has offered to surrender according to Abdelhakim Belhaj, the military leader of Libya's National Transitional Council in Tripoli.
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia says there is something wrong about reports that Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a baby girl shortly after arriving in Algeria.
She points out that Aisha claimed that Nato had killed her four-month-old baby girl Mastoura, in an air raid in April. Zeinobia asks:
"The regime crisis will grow as it leaves no room for a political solution," he said during a telephone call with the Guardian in May.
"People say the opposition is weak but they could run the country better than the group of security men". In a comment piece later that month he argued: "It is paramount that we act swiftly and decisively to erode and completely isolate the Syrian regime ... with a view to moving towards a multiparty democratic system that guarantees the rights of all Syrians and ensures their freedoms and the future of their children."
Other figures on the council say they are waiting for Friday's protests to test the response on the street to the initiative. A video filmed on Monday video in Ghalioun's hometown of Homs, scene of some of the worst violence, shows demonstrators from the neighbourhood of Baba Amr chanting: "The people want Burhan Ghalioun!".
The New York Times points out that Libya "remains divided into fiefs, each controlled by quasi-independent brigades representing different geographic areas of the country".
As promised more transcript from Luke's audio on the chaotic Eid celebrations in Tripoli.
That's a really interesting question. It is almost as if journalist vocabulary hasn't caught up with the fantastically fluid situation here.
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Ayat al-Qurmozi, 20, was sentenced to a year in prison but released in July. The information affairs authority said Qurmozi had been among those declared pardoned by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa during a speech on Sunday.
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Gaddafi might have been arrested by now if the international criminal court's warrant had been sealed, argues Alison Cole, legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.
He said:
#LIBYA as square emptied - fighters turned up firing round after round of celebratory gunfire in the air.
Fighters from the western mountain city of Zintan control the airport. The fighters from Misurata guard the central bank, the port and the prime minister's office, where their graffiti has relabeled the historic plaza "Misurata Square." Berbers from the mountain town Yafran took charge of the city's central square, where they spray-painted "Yafran Revolutionaries."
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Bahrain has pardoned a poet who was jailed after mocking the country's Sunni monarchy during pro-democracy protests this spring.
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Gaby Koppel grew distant from her domineering, hard-drinking mother. But 10 years after her death, she can appreciate her incredible strengths as a parent
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Yet the first five years of their marriage seems to have been a time of radiant happiness. Edith taught herself to cook and sew, running up a wardrobe full of dramatic New Look dresses. My father rose to chief engineer in the increasingly successful family business; Aero Zipp Fasteners now had a substantial share of the UK market. The couple socialised in a tight-knit group of young family and friends, mainly émigrés like themselves. And if the cultural life of the Welsh capital felt threadbare in those days, then they'd drive to London, see a play and have dinner. It seemed for a moment as if Edith had defied her past and remade her future. But when my brother and I arrived in 1955 and 1957, her demons returned, as if bringing us up reminded her of things she'd long since buried. From then on, the drink took hold, and stability disappeared through the door.
I'd come home from school to find her asleep in bed, reeking of booze. Often I'd finish cooking for guests because she was no longer capable. At nights, when my father was out at the bridge club, she would phone friends, relations, even business colleagues of my father for rambling, alcohol-fuelled conversations. Social situations were obstacle courses we had to struggle over, never knowing whether she would be fabulous fun or fall over drunk.
But that's not what people remember. After she died, the verdict of old friends was surprisingly unanimous, "Ach, you know, she meant well," they said, forgetting they'd indulged themselves at her table and enjoyed her company. Faint praise seemed to airbrush away her huge range of talents and skills. "She meant well" was a way of saying that the drunken, domineering Edith always proved more memorable than the talented, clever one or the witty raconteur.
. Gaddafi 'south to Sabha'
. Algeria 'would Libyan leader over \ hand "when he crossed border
. Army in Sirte has to capitulate to Saturday - NTC
. Gaddafi troops 'used civilians as human shields'
. Syria: seven dead during demonstrations after the morning prayer
. Read a summary of today 's important events
04:49: Here is an Summary evening .
Libya
. According to a former bodyguard for one Muammar Gaddafi 's sons, the Libyan head of state is south of Bani Walid direction Sabha, the route also told by members of his family who fled to Algeria have been used, have (See 12.20). Gaddafi was in Tripoli as late as Friday, with a 1:30 meeting with his son and his daughter Aisha Khamis, and then run south to Sabha, 500 miles (800 km) in the desert, according to Khamis 's 17-year-old bodyguard. An Italian news agency had earlier speculated that Gaddafi and another son, Saif al-Islam, Bani Walid had fled (see 10.54). The rebel National Transitional Council, government 's British co-ordinator, said Guma el-Qaddafi Gamaty he thought was there, too (see 2.12). Sabha is one of the last remaining major objectors to Gaddafi 's forces. Click here for a map of all these places and Gaddafi 's possible route. There are reports and intelligence chief Abdullah Khamis Senussi were killed over the weekend, for the third time Khamis been dead during the conflict (see 8:55) reports. A NATO spokesman called the "report" (see 1.30).
. Algeria would hand over Gaddafi, when he followed his family across the border, sources claimed to be an Arab newspaper (see 3.02) . Algeria, which has not recognized the rebel National Transitional Government Council is to close a portion of its border with Libya, reports say, because of "precarious situation," is (see 11.16). The NTC Algera called 's decision, Gadhafi \ host's wife Safiya, daughter Aisha and Muhammad sons of Hannibal and a "an act of aggression" and said they would try to extradite them. in Misrata residents expressed their anger at her neighbor let her in (see 2.52). Aisha had a little girl this morning, said the Algerian Ministry of Health. Algerian news said that Aisha 's pregnancy was a reason for the inclusion of the family in.
. Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte, Gaddafi 's hometown and a stronghold for his remaining troops to surrender to Saturday, has announced the head of the rebel National Transitional Government Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, (See 11.46). NATO jets have been over the city again, after seeing the reports (see 11.34 Clock). Anti-Gaddafi forces converged on the city from east and west, but not so far, \ an all-out attack in the hope that the negotiations on the city 's result. A NATO spokesman said that its bombing of Sirte remained while Gaddafi 's forces a threat to the Libyan civilians (see 1.30), but also suggested it was possible, the city could use "minimal hostilities' revealed as it happens elsewhere (see 3.45). Tripoli is now "in the main \ free", said the NATO spokesman.
. A human rights organization has evidence that Qaddafi 's troops and civilians as human shields for war crimes committed such as rape, summary killings used found (See 12.25).
. A team of experts in humanitarian aid to Tripoli by the European Union is trying to cut a contribution to the restoration of water supply from Gadhafi forces (See 3.50). A water truck driver in the capital, Ramzi Abu Shabaan said, the Associated Press news agency: "I don 't care if we go without water for two months - [if] frizz-head is gone' s value "with a derogatory nickname for Gaddafi.
Syria
. Seven people were shot today reported, six in the southern province of Deraa, including a 13-year-old boy and one in Homs, following demonstrations after the morning prayer (See Clock 9.30). Activists claim that 551 people were in the government 's action against the opposition during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month which this year fell almost exactly with August (see 1.02) killed. The local coordination unit committees to monitor the protests in the country, said Syrians kept their oath ceremonies to a minimum today in solidarity with those who have died. "There is no happiness, while the martyr 'blood is still warm," they said in a statement.
. U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford by a small group of pro-Assad in Damascus last week bumped loyalist unveils new footage (See 2.41).
. The EU is to impose an oil embargo against Syria this week (See 1.12). The EU is Syria 's largest trading partner and its exports to the EU are almost entirely of oil and energy prices, products worth more than ? 3 billion per year.
03:50: A team of experts in humanitarian aid to Tripoli by the European Union is trying to cut a contribution to the restoration of water supply from Gadhafi forces. If it is not the EU is packaged on a plan to send water bottles and refuel after Tripoli works.
In an e-mail to the Guardian, a spokeswoman for the EU's humanitarian aid office ECHO, said. "The interruption of water supplies to Tripoli is an important issue, the capital 's population, government troops closed the pumping station at Jebel Hassouna (on the north-south route from Tripoli to Sabbah) to escape from the capital."
She added: "Efforts are underway to restart the water distribution system, but the security situation along the road to the pumping stations is unpredictable, it is therefore uncertain when the full water supply resumes \ .."
If the offer, they said EU member states were planning to tankers and bottled water to send to Tripoli section remains, she said.
15.45: AP has a more interesting line of that press conference given by NATO Spokesman, Roland Lavoie. Asked if it was possible that could result in Sirte, as the rebels have demanded, he said:
"We have seen dialogues in several villages that were liberated I 'm not saying without hostility, but with minimal hostilities," he said.Lavoie said that NATO continues to support the rebels, while civilians are threatened in the country, although the area around the capital Tripoli, is now "substantially free \."
03:16: The Wall Street Journal has unearthed give evidence of the extent of foreign companies 'cooperation with the Gaddafi regime and the help they offered to monitor against his opponents.
He reports:
Espionage was \ is a top priority for the region such as Libya's Arab revolutions spring blossomed in recent months. Earlier this year instead of Libyan officials conversations with [the French company] Amesys and several other companies including Boeing Corporation, Narus, a manufacturer of high-tech internet-traffic-monitoring products, because they add to sophisticated Internet filtering capabilities to Libya was 's existing monitoring operation, said the people familiar with the matter.
Libya tries to advanced tools, to provide the encrypted online phone service Skype control, censorship, YouTube videos and block Libyans from concealing their activities online by using "proxy" server, according to documents, which the magazine and people familiar with the matter be reviewed .
A spokeswoman said in a statement Narus no sales were made by Narus equipment to Libya. Bull, which owns Amesys, declined comment.
15.02: Algeria would hand over Gaddafi to the international criminal court if he followed his family across the border, according to sources quoted in the the Algerian paper Echorouk.
The Arab newspaper said the Algerian President's Council had said the minister, his country would respect international law.
The Chinese state news agency Xinhuan carries this reportt:
Local Arab-language daily newspaper Echorouk quoted well-informed sources say that the government made the decision after the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Qadhafi and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
02:52: The people in the rebel stronghold Misrata today expressed anger over Algeria for harboring members of the Gaddafi family as they speculate on the whereabouts of the fugitive leader continues, writes David Smith.
Dr. Giuma Atigha, a lawyer and human rights activist, said: "It is an aggression against the Libyan people because this family did not want a normal family, most are of them for crimes, and they have a very bad history with Libya People.. The Algerian government is harming the Libyan people and their hopes for the creation of a new state. "
"While they are escaping across the country, maybe the Gaddafis will form an aggression against the Libyan people. They stole the country's money and they might form small terrorist groups and enter through the border to make trouble for Libya."
He added: "... I 'd like Algeria, they are returned to the hand, especially the ones that I wanted to fear that Colonel Gaddafi escaped with them or he could be in Sirte"
Baaiu Ahmed, an engineer, said: "It 's very bad for Algeria to do something like that It'. S is bad for all people who died here in Libya, it should return them It 's not .. have a good relationship like this because we are neighbors. This help is not something like this, the relationships in the future.
Foreign Policy magazine said the assault took place before Ford's unannounced trip to the restive town of Jaseem.
The NTC 's UK coordinator Guma Gamaty el-Qaddafi said the family convoy, which was the border with Algeria crosses, a total of 32 people in six armored Mercedes sedans.
He said the motorcade of Bani Walid, who has placed a stronghold Gaddafi.
Gamaty NTC said it was likely that the deposed leader himself is there to protect from Libya 's largest tribe, the Warf Allah, the Bani Walid is a stronghold.
The local radio is still pouring it per-Gaddafi broadcasts. The departure of the convoy of Bani Walid also say Gadhafi has strengthened the case
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Algeria has put itself on the wrong side of history by providing refuge to the Gaddafi family, writes Brian Whitaker on Comment is Free.
The NTC's London spokesman Guma el-Gamaty told my colleague Julian Borger that the Gaddafi family left for Algeria from the town on Bani Walid.
1.30pm: Nato says its bombardment of Sirte will continue while Gaddafi's forces remain a threat to the Libyan people.
He played down British Defence Minister Liam Fox 's confirmation that special forces helped Gaddafi goal. Lavoie said: "NATO is their mission, we are not engaged in direct coordination with troops on the ground \ .."
1.12pm:Europe is an oil embargo on strike Syria Later this week, writes Ian Traynor in Brussels.
The measures are currently grinding their way through the relevant committees in Brussels, approved by the EU foreign ministers meeting in Poland on Friday. The sanction may even harm.
1.02pm:
lunchtime summary
(see 9.30am).
12.25pm:
The deadline was given at a press conference in Benghazi by Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of the National Transitional Government Council.
He said there is a pause in the fighting during the Eid celebration, which begins today.
But speaking through a translator, he added:
From next Saturday, when there is no clear indication [of surrender], we can act decisively to end this situation in a military way. We don 't want to do this, but we can' t wait any longer than that.
11.34:
Pulled back slightly after advice from rebel recon party - then watched from a distance as number of shells landed close to where we were.
I should say, this eid is bitter sweet. We will never forget the loved ones we lost whom we owe our freedom for all eternity. #Libya
Yesterday a list of 94 names for a new national council was released from an unknown source. Those on the list were not consulted and members of a conference on 23 August in Turkey who proposed setting up a national council have said this initiative is not linked to theirs.
But there are some signs that blend the numbers on the list, which is divided roughly equally between people inside and outside the country, and can support for the initiative. Burhan Ghalioun, a professor at the Sorbonne has been proposed as head of the Council.
Meanwhile, activists are against the growing calls by some demonstrators to take up arms, or for international intervention as a no-fly zone, an increase of which was seen in the protests on Friday warning.
The Local Coordination Committees office is a group that has rejected the calls. "Militarization of the revolution would be to support the participation of the population and minimize," it said in a statement.
Nour Ali is the pseudonym for a journalist based in Damascus
09.07: While the rebels stressed that they try to negotiate a capitulation of Qaddafi 's stronghold of Sirte, NATO planes have continued to bombard the city.
Similar reports in the past turned out to be unfounded.
The National Transitional Council said it will seek to extradite Gaddafi's family from Algeria.
. Abdelbasset al Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, has been falling in and out of the coma up to three months after his family. Speaking outside Megrahi 's home, Tripoli, Abdelnasser Megrahi, described his brother' s condition. He said, "He is very sick two or three months, the coma came Sometimes he speaks to his wife or mother, sometimes he is in a coma, his life is in danger now \ ...." He denied journalists access to the house had been filmed by CNN Megraphi installed a drip and oxygen mask. He also insisted his brother was not responsible for the bombing. "From day one I believed he was innocent. The case was political rather than a crime. There is no real evidence. The world knows my brother is innocent."
. Libyan rebels can indiscriminately kill black people because they are innocent migrant workers confused with mercenaries, says the chairman of the African Union Jean Ping.
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Nim was born in a primate research centre in Norman, Oklahoma. His mother, Caroline, was treated as a breeding machine - all her babies were taken from her for use in experiments. She knew the routine well enough to turn her back to humans as soon as her baby was born, presumably hoping that they would not notice him. But how can a chimpanzee hide her baby, when she lives in a bare cage? Nim was taken from her a few days after his birth, to be used in Terrace's experiment, testing whether sign language could be taught to a chimpanzee. (His full name, Nim Chimpsky, was a play on the name of the linguist Noam Chomsky, who had suggested that only humans have the ability to learn language.)
Terrace visited Nim there a year later for a pre-arranged photoshoot. Nim recognised him immediately and engaged him in play and signing, but when Terrace left, Nim just lay there and refused food. Terrace admits that the primate centre turned out to be "surprisingly more primitive" than he had remembered and confesses to feeling that what he had done was "not the right thing to do. I was definitely doing something that he would feel was unjust or wrong". Nevertheless, Terrace took no steps to get Nim transferred out of the facility.
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As The Inbetweeners, the film about a guys-only vacation, opens with record box office, four British comedians call their own youthful journeys
LUCY PORTER
When I was 16, my friend persuaded her uncle to give Caramel a group of us to his Spanish villa. We were all very shy girl and not so popular at home, so we thought we could get abroad and tanned boys kissing. We had a lot of planning meetings and I have our travel documents in a folder with "Five Go Mad in Marbella" in bubble letters on the front. Unfortunately, the mansion wasn 't really in Marbella, it was miles out, on a steep hill. Thanks to my employee discount at Ravel, we 'd bought all new plastic sandals. We went into town once and were crippled.
Then we stayed put and tried to bask, but the place was littered with flying and retired British police officer next door asked if we were lesbians. For evening entertainment there was a novel that had been left behind in the House - James Clavell 's Shogun . I can still recite passages of me today.
Finally, we have decided one night, but because we 'd have all of our planning meetings to talk about boys, we hadn' t worked out our budget. B y the time we 'd taken a taxi into Marbella and eaten chicken and french fries, nearly all our money has been blown. We went to a bar, all divided, Bacardi and Coke and got a few guys from Preston chatted. The boys told us they would go home, but she accidentally broke a patio door repairs, for which we had to pay even months after we released her back. I snog one of them, though, so overall I thought it was a very successful holiday.
Shazia Mirza
I had a very sheltered. The most exciting thing we ever did was to go on holiday to Wales with my parents when I was six years old, staying in a caravan for four days. I had always planned and dreamed that when I got all the freedom that I would go somewhere really exciting, Judith Chalmers had anywhere.
I used a ice cream parlor, as a student and two guys with whom I worked looked like John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They were hippies, peace in the world, had beards and guitars and would go to Amsterdam every couple of months. She told me stories and show me pictures how great it was. I was curious and desperate to go.
None of my friends was available, so I went by myself for five days. I didn 't know the city at all, hadn' ta clue is where I'll stay to speak 't Dutch and didn' couldn \ t know what is legal and what wasn 't. I was in a Youth Hostel, which in retrospect like a prison cell, but at the time I thought it was really exciting, I like '\ d never been before a bunk bed with a stranger in a red-light area is divided.
I was fascinated by everything I saw. Every night I walked around the red-light area and stared at the women in the windows. They learned to know me and I thought I knew them. Such a night I have my camera out and began to photograph, so I could show my friends back home. Suddenly, the woman jumped from her window and ran after me through the red light area, which run all their friends too. There were about 20 women in their underwear running after me on one channel, shouting and screaming. Then a huge man with gold teeth and a Rottweiler came out of nowhere. All around me and shouted: "camera" I handed the camera, and they took from the film and threw it into the water.
I was so shaken I went to a coffee shop to have some tea and calm down. I bought a piece of cake to have with my tea, but didn't realise this was "Space Cake" and had grass in. It tasted nice but I felt really strange, so I decided to go on a boat ride to get some fresh air. On the boat, my head started spinning, and I tried to get off, while the boat was in mid-flow; the driver pulled me back by my Afghan coat to stop me falling in and I was carried to the nearest pavement.
In retrospect, I can not believe 't how brave I was. Brave, fearless, independent, or just plain stupid? I don 't know which. But I 'd never do that now. I had a sense of adventure and curiosity, which worsens with age - there 'rescue is a shame, but also life.
ISY Suttie
It was the summer after my freshman year in Guildford School of Acting, and I went with my Slovenian friend, Majita, and her mother stay in a place called Nova Gorica for two weeks. One of the worst moments was when we went to the river and she and her friends just took all her clothes off - men and women - and got in. You 'd been talking about doing this, but because I hadn' t they understood it came as a shock. I thought: "There is no way I 'm doing that \." I went so far as my trousers rolled.
All my baggage to Vienna instead sent to Slovenia, so that for the first few days I had this extra-large T-shirt with the Slovenian airline logo on it and a pair of shorts, Majita me.At was one point I was walking the street wear down, wearing my big airline T-shirt and shorts, cigarette in hand. Majita later said to me, it was all over the city, that I was a prostitute away, because no women smoked in Nova Gorica on the streets if they were prostitutes. I said to her, "Why 't you tell me before I got \?" I was really upset about it.
We had another argument, if we talk about beauty. "Your face ..." she said and then she looked me in the face for ages. "It 's like your eyes are of a face, the nose of a different face and your mouth is from a different face." I'm really excited. She felt that the English were too sensitive, because in Slovenia, they say what they think.
One day we went to the top of a castle in the village and I was so drunk, I started talking to the moon. I lay down on a wall, saw the moon, and almost fell out. I could have died.
Majita and her friends wanted to introduce myself only to their lifestyle, but I suspect it is really difficult was so drunk and then not be able to be understood by everyone, so I 'd end up feeling quite alone. I spent a lot of time daydreaming and I were planning a new image for me, braiding my hair in a lot of threads involved. These daydreams were "\ special place" a \ I would go if the people were talking and I could 't really understand everything that was going on.
Majita and I are still friends, but it was just this feeling, sometimes stranded if you couldn 't sense of anything.
Stephen K Amos
Hoover did so much amazing, where if you bought one of his vaccuum cleaner you two free round-trip ticket to New York. I was one of the many hundreds of thousands of people who went out and bought a Hoover for this reason. I think it's around £ 150 and two return flights to New York were probably costs about £ 500 per time. It was a PR stunt, which really go backwards. It is almost bankrupted the company.
It was my first time to New York and I took my younger brother. I was 19 and he was 16. It was everything I could have dreamed would be New York - yellow taxis, the people hanging out of the subway, the great lights of Broadway and the shady characters around drinking beer from brown paper bags. It was like being on a movie set.
A very good friend of mine had emigrated to New York from England and was living on 34th Street, just from the Empire State Building. So we stayed at his home on the living room floor. By coincidence, a woman named Delphine Manfield was staying at the same time. It 's the person who first said to me: "Oh my God, you' She was opening a comedy club in Putney, southwest London, and again really funny Have you ever thought about standup comedy \?" Big Fish called and told me to come. That 's how I got my first standup comedy gig.
We did all the touristy things - shopping for Levi's, wandering round Macy's, eating humungous pizzas and visiting Staten Island on the ferry.
I was used on the subway on the way, but nothing prepared me for the New York subway. It was a big maze. I remember one day I lost my brother after a dispute arose and panic. But 45 minutes later I found him, to his relief!
China Town was huge and I inevitably lost because all the street names were in Chinese. I went into a store and asked for Coke and always got the look of disgust, because they call it soda there. The shop owner thought I was looking for something else.
I also tried the clubs. It was in the days before former Mayor cleaned it up, it gave off a lot of meanness.
We stayed for 10 days and the ride feel like a bona fide adult. It was the whole process of manufacture make your own decisions, stay late and do not cause concern, say what someone wanted. There was no one there to tell me what to do.
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Writers such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens tend to equate religion with fundamentalism. A more nuanced examination of religious belief can be found in modern fiction
In the last 10 years or so, have the rise of American evangelicalism and the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged, together with developments in physics and in the theories of evolution and cosmogony, a particular style of aggressive, often strident atheist critique. Books like Richard Dawkins 's The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens 's God Is Not Great have sold in the millions. Apart from the unlikely success of these books, it also has the spread of atheist and secularist sites and blogs, some of them intellectually respectable, is another rather dogmatic and limited (ie, pretty horrible) was. The events of the 11 September 2001 were the obvious spur. In The End of Faith , The American writer Sam Harris argues that as long as America remains flooded in Christian thought, it will never defeat militant Islamism, since you can not backward religious system prevail over another backward religious system. Atheism would be the key to unlock this uneasy stalemate. Scientists such as Dawkins and Daniel Dennett have wider projects, perhaps - for them, the removal of our religious blinders will result in a correct appreciation of the natural world, and to describe the science 's ability, and to decode.
We know that many people hold religious beliefs, which are also suggestions - get up and pray creeds on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, they can tell you who will be punished in hell, and how, they believe that Allah is one God , and so on. The prayer itself is a statement: it suggests that God exists, and can be transmitted. Instead of simply declared all religious faith as non-propositional, which is obviously wrong, it would be interesting to know what you are than the practice of propositional beliefs. We know that people believe all sorts of things as sets. But how do they know them? In this area, the New Atheism has nothing to say very interesting, except to wish away all of those beliefs.
But the people 's beliefs are often fluctuating and changing - it's why people lose their faith or convert to faith in God. If you always ask people what they think as they think, spend and why they believe that the sentences they have dedicated themselves in the church or temple or mosque, you will find that there is nothing easy about propositional beliefs. Recently I spent some time with both Christian believers, both ordained a priest. One is an academic theologian and university chaplain, the other a religious affairs journalist. The academic theologian was walking with me, in a university town, and began a sentence, "I think". And then he caught himself and added:. "I don 't know what I think at the moment" A few weeks later I met the religious affairs journalist, who was a pastor for several years. In the course of our conversation, he claimed: ". It is impossible to be a serious Christian and believe in Heaven and Hell '\ When I was growing up in a strong and conventionally religious parents' house, was surprised and said that if you could stop the belief in heaven is also a belief in God, he said, violently: "It 's exactly the opposite is not the belief in heaven and hell is a prerequisite for serious Christian faith \." Trapped in childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian faith from the great temptation and threat of heaven and hell separated.
The New Atheism is locked into a similar kind of literalism. It lives parasitically from its opponents. Just as evangelical Christianity through biblical literalism and an uncomplicated faith is marked by a "personal God", the New Atheism seems often engaged in combat only with the written literalism, but the only way to fight with rivals such literalism literalism . The God of the New Atheism and the God of religious fundamentalism turn out to be strikingly similar facilities. This God is to fight the God's worth to the God we grew up as children (and soon developed from below, or ceased to believe in) has created this God created the world, controls our destiny, is sitting somewhere in heaven loves us, sometimes punishes us, and is prepared to intervene in order to perform miracles. He promises goodies in heaven for the pious and fear for the damned. As militant atheism interprets religious beliefs, again on the Protestant or Islamic model, such as blind - a blind leap of faith that the believer is thrown into an infinite stupidity - can thus no understanding or even interest, why or how people believe that the religious narratives are extended follow them, and how these narratives are often invaded by doubt, reverse, break and banality.
It is a telling moment in The God Delusion Dawkins, why countless generations of people speculated believed in God. How could the belief in an illusion for so long? Dawkins suggests that we developed a hadd, a "hyperactive agent detection device": \. "We hyperactive detect agents where there are none, and that makes us suspect malice or goodness, where, in fact, nature is only Indifferent "His example \ for this elementary error comes from the sequence of Fawlty Towers in which John Cleese 's car has broken down. Cleese gets out and hits the car starts. This is an example of the hadd, and by extension, \ of mankind's faith in God. Well, you really believe that the offer of a minute Fawlty Towers is an appropriate analogy for thousands of years of religious belief? It's not about whether you believe in God or not. You may find this an infidel and a little weak. Marx said that the study of religion was the most difficult project of an intellectual, was. If I told you that the history of warfare, we say, could "says" by some of the recent discovery of a particular receptor in the brain that Agincourt and Austerlitz, Antietam and the Ardennes were essentially the same thing, because by generated a universal deceit, what would I ask about the nature of warfare, politics, statecraft, to the enormous mass mobilizations that Tolstoy said as "the swarm-like life of mankind" characterized?
A good place to study, that "swarm-like life", and to see religious faith seriously and represent serious consideration, is the modern novel - by, say, Flaubert and Melville in the 1850s to say today. Melville, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Beckett, Camus - and in our own time, José Saramago, Marilynne Robinson and JM Coetzee - have all sustained interest in questions of belief and unbelief shows, many of them have struggled with the departure of God. Because they are writers, they want to see on both sides of a theological argument, and so they can \ cheap 't afford to do what militant atheism is not what is merely caricature of every form of belief, it doesn' t. They offer stories of faith, and novelistic narratives, that the real ambiguity, contradiction, intermittency, even the absurdity and irrationality of our spiritual life comedy. In a beautiful passage in Moby-Dick , Melville says that the sea constantly moves and stands like a human conscience. That could be said of our spiritual life, too.
Part of the weakness of the current theological warfare that it provided a stable, lifelong faith - every page curdled his rival (but oddly symmetrical) creeds. Also in today's politics is the worst crime you can commit to apparently change his mind. But the people 's beliefs are often not stable range, and. We are all flip-Floppers. Our "Ideas" can be thought of as more awareness Woolf, a flicker of different and even picks up impressions and beliefs. What if you were a strong Christian believer, and you woke up one night, terrified by the sudden awareness that God does not exist? Hours passed in this unillusioned crisis, and then blessed sleep finally comes back. The next day you wake up and the terrible doubt - a thing of the night - disappeared mysteriously. You continue, "believing in God". But what does this mean that faith now? If it was not explained by the doubt in the night to void, it now contains the memory of the inversion, as the case might smell a bad area?
An essay or work of polemic finds it hard to describe the texture of such fluctuation, whereas the novelist understands that to tell a story is to novelise an idea, to dramatise it. There is no need to make a tidy solution of belief; to the novelist, a messy error might be much more interesting. The Brothers Karamazov provides a famous example from the 19th Century - a novel in which the author, a hard-believing Christians who argued against his own convictions so strong that many readers of Ivan Karamazov 's varied atheism (as Dostoevsky feared might happen). For a contemporary example, there is recent work by Coetzee, who has explored the contradictory and irrational manner in which people hold ideas and suggestions. In Shame , Elizabeth Costello And Diary of a Bad Year , Essentially religious feelings (like Atonement, shame, mortification) rub alongside seemingly rational and propositional beliefs (for example, Elizabeth Costello 's belief that eating animals is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust). This blend of the sentimental and intellectual ensures an unstable compound, and Coetzee wants to dramatize, I think, how ideas not only kept, but actually lived - that is how they often lived irrational. If a college president Elizabeth Costello asks whether her vegetarianism comes from their moral convictions, it deviates seemingly rational argument, and the answers, religiously, that it 'comes from the desire of my soul \ save ".
Polemicist want to pursue intellectual contradictions, writers, to explore them. In the wonderful work of the 19th Atheist century Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847-1885), we find a writer to do the same dance as contradictory Dostoevsky, but vice versa. Jacobsen was an ardent atheist and an early translator of Darwin. Where Dostoevsky argues against his own Christian faith, seems to Jacobsen, to argue against his own atheism. The hero of Jacobsen 's great novel Niels Lyhne is a staunch atheist, but he is far greater glory of God 's presence, than he ever give to God' s supposed non-existence. At a crucial moment near the end of the book, as is his young son dies in his arms, Niels breaks down and prays to God, as he says the blunder of his proud atheism, as prayer is moronic. How many atheists seem not to Niels stop calling on a God whose existence he is not on credit. Niels is always in a relationship with God even if he does not explain the belief in God, brilliantly staged Jacobsen 's novel, like Niels seems only able to banish God, not kill him off.
Contemporary theological and atheist polemic tends to believe that we all just choose our beliefs - and thus may decide to have no opinion. That may be true of privileged intellectuals, but there are certainly many millions who don 't feel the freedom to choose to have faith or unbelief, but they choose their faith. Woolf seems to understand this in To the Lighthouse
There is an amusing clip on YouTube, in which Dawkins confronts Rowan Williams. Dawkins asks the archbishop of Canterbury if he really believes in miracles such as the virgin birth and the resurrection, happenings in which the laws of physics and biology are suspended. Well, not literally, says Williams. But, says Dawkins, pouncing, surely Williams believes that these are not just metaphors? No, says the archbishop, they are not just metaphors, they are openings in history, "spaces" when history opens up to its own depths, and something like what we call a "miracle" might occur. Dawkins rightly says that this sounds very nice but is surely nothing more than poetic language. Williams rather shamefacedly agrees. The scene is amusing because both men are so obviously arguing past each other, and are so obviously arguing about language and the role of metaphor. Dawkins comes off as the victor, because he has the easier task, and holds the literalist high ground: either the resurrection happened or it didn't; either these words mean something or they do not. Williams seems awkwardly trapped between a need to turn his words into metaphor and a desire to retain some element of literal content.
Both men could find themselves in Moby-Dick. For in that novel, Melville explores precisely the question that hovers over the Dawkins-Williams exchange. Can God be literally described, or are we condemned to hurl millions of metaphoric approximations at him, in an attempt to describe him? After all, in Melville's novel, the white whale is symbolic of both the devil and of God, and the writer tries very hard to describe the nature and mass and temperament of that indescribable whale: Melville uses scores of different metaphors to capture the essence of the beast, and fails. It cannot be captured in words. Only when the beast is killed will it be captured. Melville's novel is a kind of ironic counterpart to Aquinas's belief that God can only be described by what he is not. Melville, who fluctuated violently between belief and unbelief, seems to have been terrified by the idea that if God cannot be reached by metaphor, then God is only a metaphor.
Dawkins is dead, metaphors, and tried, by containing the literal occurrence in the actual words to explain the virgin birth and the resurrection to be void. And Williams stressed that such literalism shot on goal, and instead have recourse to the metaphor of the "event" a "room" in the opening story, an indefinable wonder aberration. One feels sympathy for both sides - and perhaps also a plague on both their houses - as Dawkins seems bullishly literal and Williams as quietly evasive. Contra Dawkins, God should be something metaphorical space allows, but contra Williams, God 's presence in the world, God' s intervention, should certainly not just metaphorically. God is not just a metaphor.
Of course, Melville is no evidence of a solution for the Williams-Dawkins 'argument (not least because it couldn' t be), as a writer, his task is, as Chekhov once put it, just put "the right questions to ". Which is no small thing.
This article is adapted from a recent Weidenfeld lecture in St. Anne 's College, Oxford.
- Richard Dawkins
- Christopher Hitchens
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- Religious Studies and Theology
Welcome to the first top-of-the-table showdown of the season. Well, if you insist on publishing the rankings so early ...
In any case, this game promises, fourth against the third party to be a cracker. Both teams started the season very well, above expectations - and Villa fans stared in disbelief at the appointment of Blues boss Alex McLeish to have had none - and both are hoping for something from this game. Wolves have to keep a 100% record and have won here 1-0 last season, their chances of doing this fantasy. Especially since they always score in the villa, with at least one goal in all but one of their last eight league visits. But Villa are hard to beat around here at Villa Park to defeat the wolves in March, their only defeat was here in their last ten Premier League games.
Luke Young, who held talks with QPR yesterday after the two clubs agreed a fee, is ruled out with a knee problem; Chris Herd is in his stead:Since, stove, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Bent N 'Zogbia, Petrov, Delph, Agbonlahor, Heskey.
Subs: Guzan, Ireland, Albrighton, Delfouneso, Makoun, Clark, Bannan.
Wolverhampton Wanderers name an unchanged side for the third league game: Hennessey, Stearman, Berra, Johnson, Ward, Jarvis, Henry, O'Hara, Hunt, Fletcher, Doyle.
Subs: De Vries, Elokobi, Kightly, Vokes, Hammill, Milijas, Foley.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
Kick-off: A take-a-good-look-at-where-your-life-is-heading-if-you 've managed-to-get-drunk, 12.05.
The Atmosphere: As you 'd expect for West Midlands derby, it' \ s blistering. I hope no one 's no longer in the pub on the way here. On the sideline, share the manager Alex McLeish and Mick McCarthy a laugh. I can 't be sure, but McLeish aware McCarthy flash a quick look at his tactics pad? Certainly not. No, he can 't have. But what drip for a move that would be the steady drip, drip of disinformation ...
And we 're off! Within seconds of kick off a triple substitution McCarthy and changes in its formation. Oh no, he order doesn 't. The two teams take turns, failing to keep hold of the ball. It 'sa scrappy start.
4 min: Wolves begin to settle in, the more impressive of the two thus far. Doyle caused a lot of trouble on the right, while Hunt is good to see a piece of the ball in the middle.
5 min: A few blocks down the right for wolves, Doyle and Hunt again what all kinds of difficulties.
6 min: Delph is booked for a late-clack on the knuckle of Jarvis. The free kick on the right side, in the Hunt swung and tipped over the bar by Given. The resulting corner comes to nothing, but that's a really safe and expressive start of wolves. If there was anything on McLeish 's pad, it was probably a game of hangman, or a picture of a cock and balls.
8 min: Petrov takes the ball into the middle half of the wolves, turns and strikes a low shot narrowly wide from 25 yards left. Not a great effort, not a horrible either. And yet something is better than nothing at all by the home team, who have otherwise begun, very slowly.
11 min: Villa win a free kick 30-plus yards. N 'Zogbia applies for a goal but only managed to rattle the ball directly onto the wall. That was absurd ambitious. "If, say, a friend of mine was still drunk from last night," writes Jon Comlay, one of Jon Comlay 's best buddy, "he would still have a good look at his life take is I don 't think he' s in the mood for introspection so early on weekends and holidays. "
14 min: A terrible moment as Herd, looking to get his head on a ball whipped into the near post from the Villa right, whacks his face on the woodwork. Ouch. He's down for a couple of minutes getting treatment.
17 min: A strong run from Agbonlahor on the left Villa wins a corner. 'T get as far as the mixer, but wolves Stream upfield by Stearman and O' The ball doesn \ Hara. Finally, the ball 's swung over to Doyle, but it' s too high for the striker. That looked dangerous for a second, but no. Nothing 's coming out for both teams at the moment.
20 min: Doyle swings a deep cross from the left on Hunt, who doesn 't catch his close-range header at the far post flush. Given the situation, to parry, and switch the ball from the danger area.
24 min: There really isn 't go far. It 's kind of weird, because most of the game is played at the ends of the playing field, there' s not too much faffing around in the middle, but will stick aren 't. And when teams win free kicks in dangerous positions or corners of junk they them. Pah.
25 min: Finally, some action! Agbonlahor skins Stearman down the left and zips a low cross towards the six-yard box. On the corner, just to the left of goal, Heskey slides in and whips a hard, low effort Inch far from the post office. Half the crowd thought it was in, and no wonder. Fine, incisive football.
28 min: "Why in the world, there are two games before kick-off 03.00 clock today?" Ask Nick Turnbull. "I don 't think, Wigan and QPR were this week in Europe that still wouldn'. T make sense to actually just announced the radio commentary positions. '! Heskey just wide ... "At least one thing' s don 't change" Here'. s even more classic Heskey: Delph together and Petrov slip a few passes to create space before the land at a great striker, but with time to shoot, he accidentally knocks the ball forward and toe loses possession of the kind. action to be accompanied by a muted trumpet soundtrack.
31 min: Villa Wolves push back on the right, to find the ball O 'Hara in the middle, left, flashes the header. It 's not terrible, this game, but it' s all a bit ... I do not know ... it 's all a bit nearly.
34 min: A brilliant finish from Petrov on the inside-left channel, free from a delicious ball from Warnock on the wing. Petrov reached the source, but with Heskey and N 'Zogbia it cries in the middle, sending his low too close to Hennessey, which boldly claims the shoes of Heskey. "Is it a good hard look at one 's waste of life, and despondency in the suppression of feelings of predictability in high-profile football, over a cup of tea at home, if you hasn' gone t to t 'Match? "asks Alex Simpson. "I have a feeling that at the beginning of the season optimism shouldn 't last beyond August." I love you in a bad way to sound. It 's not a cup of gin, you' re weigh, is it?
38 min: At last, an extended period of pointless midfield passing. Wolves will be perfectly happy with this. The Villa crowd appear less so. They're not agitated, just quiet.
40 min: A corner for Villa on the left. Petrov swings it in to the edge of the penalty area six, where at the near post, stove flicks a header wide left and high. Do not see a big effort, but a brave, he took a hell of a clatter on the past.
43 min: Villa see the ball a lot, but nothing to do with him. "As someone who has never felt the need to invoke a right to brag, I hate the term 'brag' to brag but if this game isn 't over, what is that?" Puzzle Gary Naylor The Gyles Brandreth de nos jours . "The battle for the prestigious tenth place come the end of the season?"
45 min: O 'Hara is booked for a cynical trip on Petrov as the Villa man looks specifically burst into the room in the middle.
45 min +2: From the edge of the area Dunne, shovels that Nándor Hidegkuti in the making, a clever pass on the inside right channel on the Wolves back line Heskey set free. The striker tried to get a shot on goal from a tight angle but his effort pushed for a corner. Which is wasted.
HALF TIME: Aston Villa 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers. That was ... that was ... that was one half of football. The teams run on a very muted reception.
Half-time optimism: "Looks like you re 'the best of a bad game," writes Rick Short, very friendly. Our goal is to please. Like "I want to the comments on the new season ends with optimism after August to add. As a Sunderland supporter, I had no optimism, as I do, that 'Clattermole' our captain is learned. But he is consistent, we 'll give him dass Brainless, but consistent manner. My hope is to bring our poor early season form, therefore, continue the promise of 'the Fat Geordie Bastard', dismissed. Far better to relocate to our mid-season slump at the start of the season when it brings such a result? To return to take on Villa with (almost), Martin O 'Neill, please prepare at Sunderland! "
And we 're back! Wolves have gone 43 games without a goalless draw, according to Sky. You know what's coming 's up, then. And further take the gloss of this meeting here 's Nick Einhorn: "This is only the second top-of-the-table showdown of the season was the first last weekend, tied as Bolton and Manchester City, played for first. each other. "
47 min: N 'Zogbia Ward robbed on the left and so nearly succeed in breaking free in the area, but the fullback is fighting back well to deny the Villa man. A few seconds later, stove rushes to the same wing and sends a cross over the narrowly escapes Heskey. This is a sprightly start from Villa: McLeish, a disciple of Alex Ferguson may well have turned on the hairdryer.
49 min: Herd, who hasn 't by rattling in the earlier post attract any, gets his head on a right side Petrov corner. He can only control the ball far to the right and highly respectable, though. Wolves are hardly what touched since the restart. "Any chance we see 'll play-maker and ex-professional footballer Stephen Ireland?" Ask Chris Murray. "I think his decline fascinating. One wonders whether he McLeish 's kind of player. In his time he could have enlivened this dull encounter, and showed us his pants."
50 min: A ski run from Agbonlahor on the left. He cuts in the region and sends a low shot to the far corner. It 'sa great effort and go in, but Hennessey is well to palm it out. Wolves hack clear before Heskey or N 'Zogbia can tap in. The audience is suddenly for it.
52 min: A free kick for Villa, 30 yards out, just right of centre. N'Zogbia hits a lame effort straight at Hennessey, who swallows it like a tot of fine cognac.
55 min: This is a much better performance from the villa. Wolves can 't string two passes together at the moment. You 'll have to settle this soon, because the home team' s tail is up. Petrov wins a corner down the right, it 's see a lot of the ball. Nothing comes from him.
57 min: Another Villa corner, the 585th half. But not for the first time in the game, Petrov 's delivery arm, so that wolves break upfield on the left. Doyle looks skinned Warnock have to race clear into the area but the referee gives the full back a generous benefit of the doubt as a wing defender falls to the ground. "A letter from pedant 's corner here," begins Nick Turnbull, promising, "but weren' t Liverpool top before Bolton - Manchester City on Sunday by virtue of their lunch time on Saturday playing on game days, or we are talking top at the beginning of the 'game week'. With each e-mail I hate modern football more and more. "That 's the spirit. Only nine months to go until next summer sports!
59 min: This is such an improvement from Villa. First Agbonlahor twists and turns through the penalty spot, but can 't get off a shot. Then hunting Dunne heads a powerful header off the line. And finally a majestic herd tips Hennessey header over the crossbar. Wolves hold, but they 're beginning to rock exert pressure as a villa.
61 min: N 'Zogbia powers laid down the inside-left channel and when reaching the goal line, a low ball hits in the six-yard area. Hennessey, who has earned his salary, as much as Premier League footballers can ever get off, and throw a blanket over a very dangerous fire. "Stephen Ward can meet again on the left side for decent wolves," said Daragh Robinson. "But the real question is whether to oust the immovable object, Kevin Kilbane on the ROI page? 66 competitive matches in a row and counting!"
63 min: Henry is booked for a pull back on Petrov. "Is Ringo Starr on the lower right corner of the picture of Kevin Doyle?" Miracle Rob Preece. "A singing Yellow Submarine and Gold?" Haw. But wait, he 's not holding the Vs, and struck at about peace and love one another (not that it' s nothing wrong with that). And he 's in a good mood. It 's not Ringo. It can 't Ringo.
67 min: A double change for Wolves: Foley and Elokobi on, Hunt and Jarvis off.
69 min: A witless Wolves free kick into the area thrown into a pot. Since extinguished. Remember him from earlier? "Well, Emmanuel Eboue has his comic-cuts taken in Turkey, has Charles N 'Zogbia have the most well-sounding names in the Premier League?" Wonders Gary Naylor. Very possibly. If only someone sign Siphiwe Tshabalala.
71 min: Villa still \ the lion 's share, but they' re not too much to do with it now. In this sense, wolves came the flood.
72 min: Stearman is seen in the book for dragging on the ground Agbonlahor as the Villa man to turn around and break you clear the left.
74 min: Barry Bannan (aka "of Scotland's Paul Scholes"): Charles N 'Zogbia he melodious monicker is another player with a name replaced pleasing to the ear.
78 min: A lull. Which allows us some time to think. "Without \ not 'it' s as good as it once was, I remember when this was all fields, including the football field '," begins Tim Murray, "but during my happy childhood, I can 't remember newspapers or show Match Of The Day / The Big Match even bother tables until the first games of the season have been out of the way. I' m certain the phenomenon with a table for one or two games played is one Premier League era thing. Football, eh? Definitely not as good as it once was. "Yes, and remember when this was all fields? I agree with you completely on the tables. There was always something nice about the first one is released after three or four games, and the fervent disbelief in stuttering "on hold. Wimbledon / Coventry / Carlisle are top!"
81 min: A corner for Wolves on the left. It 's dropped without much fuss. This is fizzle out in a lackluster fashion. A Derby, as well. For shame.
84 min: A fiery burst of speed by Ward on the left. He 's clear, but again well on stove will deter the looters; Ward' s cross is too deep. This is now officially very bad.
85 min: Albrighton is for Delph.
87 min:
Fletcher is exchanged for Vokes.
- Aston Villa
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Premier League
Perhaps the only highlight of the former Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson 's painful reign came last season when his side has the double over Bolton Wanderers. But even those slim pickings, secured on New Year's Day with a late Joe Cole goal at Anfield, not long before Roy was told to do one, can be put into context: it was Liverpool's fourth Double rooms in a row over the Trotters. Ho hum. Oh Roy!
Assumed, in fact, Bolton haven 't one point from the Reds since September 2006 when Sam Allardyce alone when Gary Speed ??and Ivan Campo them a 2-0 victory at the Reebok. In addition, they won haven 't a league game at Anfield since 1954. While there, the FA Cup victory over Liverpool 's patch in 1993, at least. Nevertheless, with this kind of track record, a Bolton win today would be a coupon buster. Do people still vouchers?
Liverpool drop the generally backfires Andy Carroll on the bench: Reina, Kelly, Carragher, Agger, Jose Enrique, Adam, Lucas, Kuyt, Henderson, Downing, Suarez.
Subs: Doni, Carroll, Maxi, Spearing, Shelvey, Skrtel, Robinson.
Bolton Wanderers lost unchanged from the side that Manchester City: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Knight, Robinson, the Eagles, Reo-Coker, Muamba, Petrov, Kevin Davies, Klasnic.
Subs: Bogdan, Sanli, Mark Davies, Blake, Pratley, Wheater, Riley.
Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)
Kick-off: 5.30pm.
The teams take to the pitch. Liverpool in their all-red strip, Bolton in their white shirts and navy shorts. He won 't last long. "I 'm sorry to say it but I think Liverpool Carroll = bad news for Bolton," says Rob Cobourne. "To say that Dalglish has forgotten about Maxi 's hat-tricks at the end of last season, Henderson could certainly thus making for a game?. 4-1 to Liverpool"
And we 're off! Liverpool get the ball rolling, and they 're come to the Anfield Road end. The ball 's pumping right, where Henderson Suarez is almost one to one with Knight, but the big defender succeeds, of course.
2 min: Liverpool happy she's back for a minute or so to happen, so that all its defenders to touch. It 's just like the 1980s. Sort of.
4 min: Suarez rips the inside-right channel and is awkwardly placed to the ground Reo-Coker. The free kick from 25 meters, it takes just to the right of the D. Adam there, and I have no idea what he was trying to do, the ball clatters straight into the wall. With the aim of getting the ball and perhaps in the lower right corner?
5 min: Liverpool started very strongly. Suarez wins the ball from Steinsson on the left while sitting on his ass, jumped up and almost breaking free on the wing. Adam then hits a pass over to the left to Downing, who reached the ball yet to win a corner. The set piece comes to nothing, but that's a decent opening time for the hosts.
8 min: Petrov wins a corner after twisting and turning Kelly down the left. From it, Liverpool break upfield, Suarez releasing Downing down the inside-right channel. He should tear clear and get a shot on goal, but takes a heavy touch and must settle for a corner. Agger gets a head to Adam's kick from the right, but can't direct it goalwards. Bolton hack out for another corner, which is wasted. This is a bright opening.
11 min: Liverpool still enjoyed the majority of possession, but especially in their own half now. A few times they try to spring us with long balls through the channel, but nothing lasts.
13 min:
Liverpool are pinging it around in pretty triangles, but it's all a bit hectic, and eventually Adam belabours a weighty ball down the left that Suarez has no chance of catching. Their early-game mojo has definitely evaporated. The Uruguay defender Sebastian Coates is in the stands, by the way. He's had his medical, but the Is and Ts on an Anfield contract haven't been dotted and crossed yet.
43 min: Adam rakes a long diagonal ball to Downing down the left. The winger tries to knock it past Steinsson with his first touch, but the full back deliberately handles on the edge of the area. He's booked, but there's no penalty, because the referee - correctly, and brilliantly - spots that the Bolton man's arm and hand were operating outside the area, even though the rest of him was in it! The crowd aren't happy, which you can kind of understand, because that was super-marginal, but that's the way it is. The resulting free kick is a load of nonsense.
46 min: Suarez roast Knight for pace on the right side. Just before he reached the area, Knight managed to awkwardly near Suarez slide by the striker. Suarez then decides to fall in the range shamelessly scream, after a penalty. That 's never happened again. I 'm kind of surprised that he' \ s not the book, but obviously the referee is of the opinion that he simply lost his footing.
[Post-Game Note: see 63 minutes, that's nonsense, I 'ma one-on-eejit Suarez was tap-attack of Knight' s hand]
48 min: From the goal line on the right side, Skrtel sent a low cross into the middle, but the ball is hacked clear Cahill brilliantly. Liverpool are flying off the blocks again.
49 min:
53 min: GOAL!!! Liverpool 3-0 Bolton Wanderers.
A rousing chorus of "Justice for the 96" from the home support.
A wise head ball in the middle of Carroll is almost free Maxi. Cahill is to cover completely, then readjusted, if the ball is worked on Kuyt. Before the striker can get his shot in from the edge of the box, kidnap the ball 's away from him.
88 min: Downing really wants a goal. He 's close to the touchline on the left shoulder last fall, two men and one in the area, before the start of a fierce effort just over the crossbar. He raises both arms in the air as he looks into the sky.
90 min: From left to right, Jose Enrique curls a beauty through the six-box, but none of his Liverpool team-mates are in any kind of position to submit to bid on this goal.
- Liverpool
CNN just cut off mid-flow Christie. He 's obviously too windy for them.
14:14 ET: And he doesn \ disappoint 't. Christie is not a category with this nonsense. This is a big storm for a big guy and he 's on it. Especially the beach.
The best way is to preserve life on the Jersey Shore to be no human beings on the Jersey Shore, in view of coming to what 's. The tracking of the storm is still very dangerous for our country. While there are some minor weeaking the storm to a Category One stream was the reduction in wind speeds of 10 mph or 15 is not to make much difference, what 's going to cause harm to people here.
2:07 ET:
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's news conference earlier (see 9.36am ET) was his suggestion that power would be cut pre-emptively to Lower Manhattan (from where I am blogging). Fortunately, Consolidated Edison, the power company, has said it has no such plans.
12:43 ET: We 've just released our latest news story on Irene. My colleague Karen McVeigh Reports:
More than 2 million people in low-lying and coastal areas were asked to evacuate, and millions more have been for days of gale force winds, rain, power outages and interruptions in the preparation in their wake.
The Ronald Reagan Washington national airport and Washington Dulles international airport are still open, but most flights are cancelled. These airports may close later. Philadelphia airport will clsoe at 6pm. Also closing today are JFK and LaGuardia in New York, Newark in New Jersey, plus Stewart and Teterboro.
My colleague
Irene is not expected to strengthen as it makes its way up the coast, Bill Read, the director of the national hurricane center, said. But the sheer size of the storm still means its carries heavy risks.
Lower Manhattan , The streets are very quiet. Many stores - even those not in the evacuation zone - are closed. Normally clogged streets are almost deserted, and the tunnels linking Manhattan with New Jersey and Brooklyn are running unusually free.
The few shops that remain open must clarify the essentials.
11:42 ET: Airlines have canceled a significant number of flights. United / Continental hit 2300 runs, Delta 1300, JetBlue has canceled 900 services. Furthermore, BA and Virgin Atlantic have begun canceling flights to and from New York and Newark over the weekend and into Monday.
There is another issue too. The hurricane is expected to make landfall in the New York area some time on Sunday morning and could coincide with high tide which should be around 8am, Vaccaro explained. Finally, due to the natural movements of the moon which controls the tides, tomorrow's high tide is expected to be an unusually high "spring tide". All of which will raise the level of the sea even higher and further worsen the impact of the expected storm surge.
has just released a new update, warning of storm surges of between 5ft and 9ft above ground level in North Carolina, with sustained 85mph winds and tornadoes.
Storm surge is the biggest threat to NYC, because Irene covers such a huge area, so lots of water drives it. In addition, it is consistent with very high water levels caused by this weekend because the new moon - known as astronomical high tide.
Stuart, you should know, has a 'A' at O-grade physics (it 's no direct U.S. counterpart, but were O-grades Scottish High School qualifications acquired at age 16). We 're pitching for someone with better academic credentials, but I' m going with this for the moment. Can someone explain to me? @ Matthew wells on Twitter or in the comments below.
9.59am ET:Important Pet News from the New York City Council: ". If you take your pet to a shelter, please bring a copy of your pet 's medical records and vaccinations, a leash and muzzled, porters and food"
That may not be as stupid as it may seem. There are an estimated 500,000 dogs in New York City, only 20% of them are licensed.
9:46 ET:
I've been asked who named Hurricane Irene. Seasoned storm-watches will raise their grizzled eyebrows and emit a knowing sigh, but for those wondering (like me), it's the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva. Here's the full list of projected names at the National Hurricane Center.
8.41am ET:
The National Hurricane Service is reporting winds of 85mph in coastal North Carolina, with Irene tracking north-northeast at a sluggish 14 mph.
Here in New York, Mayor Bloomberg was slammed over his slow response to the huge snow dump last year. City Hall is located at the end of my street - they 've been there all night, coordinating the response to this.
Hurricane Irene is political, as well as meteorological.
7:34 ET: Hurricane Irene makes landfall now at Cape Lookout, North Carolina. It is the first hurricane hit the U.S. mainland since 2008.
Atlantic Beach
New York is braced for the worst as Irene threatens the city with its first hurricane in decades. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas and, for the first time ever, has shut the subway and bus systems from noon today. The storm is expected to make landfall on Long Island tomorrow.
More than 7,000 flights were canceled.
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If this is the last year of GCSEs?
Here we go again - another Monday, another results day - and this time it 's GCSE pupils who' re biting their nails.
But Jeevan Vasagar argues that GCSEs should be abolished as a whole - they give young people the false impression that it 's okay to leave school at 16.
We 're asking schools to let us know how their students performed by filling out this form. We 'll the results on a map of the UK plot, so that readers can compare how the local school performed with other schools in the region and throughout the country.
We 're looking forward to Lexy Topping live blogging the day's events have. Get in touch with her on alexandra.topping @ guardian.co.uk or tweet @ LexyTopping if you have to report newsworthy items.
So, what we know so far?
. The value of holding a degree has been eroded as the share of the population with a university education has more than doubled over two decades, an ONS study shows. The Guardian datablog looks at how much a degree is worth.
. The Improbable Researchers have uncovered an interesting theory about Mozart's death: not enough sunlight. Apparently towards the end of his life, the man was as nocturnal as a vampire.
. Don't forget #ukedchat is on from 8 and tonight will be hosted by @creativeedu. The topic is "getting to know your new class". Everyone will be encouraged to share activities that have been successful in helping them get to know their new pupils - so it will be of particular help to new teachers about to take on their first classes. There is a beginner's guide to ukedchat here.
Whether it's sharing good news or handling a crisis, headteachers and school management teams need to be able to handle the media in all of its forms. This one-day seminar in association with the NAHT is essential for new and aspiring heads as well as established school leaders who wish to update their knowledge. It includes a session on social media.
September 22, London.
Life after a PhD
Whether it 's ever published, convincing an employer that you have transferable skills, or to secure an academic post, you are well prepared to achieve your goals. This course will help you career opportunities for people with scientific skills and expertise.
28 September, London.
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