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The Guardian says clinging to fiscal rules and defensive managerialism will not save Labour Party after it loses a seat it held since 1906 when Labour was founded in the Manchester area on Feb 27, 2026. Prudence it says is like purposeless pain that corrodes "authority, loyalty and belief." Starmer not listening to his own self and speaking with authenticity replaced with the thinking of a young campaign manager McSweeney is a failure that resulted in his loss of credibility with British voters.

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Norwegian skier Lie McGrath with father US alpine skierand Norwegian mother on Vermont ski team, does something unusual in the Olympics. After leading 0.59 seconds and in a good position for first in downhill skiing in slalom he goes all out but makes one error missing a tightly set gate, then decides to throw his poles, teke off his skiis and go into the woods. He says-

"I thought I would get some peace and quiet, which I didn’t because photographers and police found me out in the woods. I just needed some time for myself.”

McGrath is a 5 time World Cup winner in slalom. He had lost his grandfather just at the start of the games and was distraught. He just decided this was it after the slight error. The Gold, Silver or Bronze medal meant little by that time.

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Iran war March 21 2026- Natanz hit by Israel and town of Dimona by Iran near Israeli nuclear reactor.

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The inspiring story of Afghan spin bowler Rashid Khan who helped the Gujarat Titans win the IPL final against the Rajasthan Royals. Coming from a war torn country he saw his mother die from coronavirus. He longs to play one day under the Afghan sky for screaming fans. He is close to his teammates in the Gujarat Titans and brings a positive spirit like no other after his struggles in Afghanistan and the hard work of his parents in getting him to play cricket.

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The last West Indies captain to lead a formidable West Indies team was Richie RIchardson. Sandip G of the Indian Express writes from Antigua about Richardson's early batting experiences at school and how he evolved facing fast bowlers. RIchardson started out idolizing legendary batsmen like Rohan Kanhai who were steady batsmen and batted in Test matches for days.    It was an early experience with his coach who put on fast bowlers at school to Richardson at bat, that got Richardson started on his trademark cut shot. Fearing for his life Richardson closed his eyes and hit one out of the field that was lost forever. Soon he became known as "the fastest blade in the Caribbean," for the way he could strike at fast bowling. Richardson says its not like he became good at the cut stroke overnight. He would practice the shot 1000 times a day.  It was Rohan Kanhai from Guyana who once said that you have to put every poor delivery away to the boundary and some good ones too, making the bowlers think. Flashing blade and canny, were words used for Kanhai. This was true for Richardson too with his cut shot. Today as he is perfecting his golf game or when his motivation dips he has only to look back over his shoulder to the high walls of his house, to his backyard where he practiced the cut shot, and all that drive and energy from that time would come back to him. ...

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US relations with UK 2026 and visit of King Charles to White House April 27-April 30 2026- "he is fantastic" says the US president. DJT says about US-UK relations and the impact-

"Absolutely. He's fantastic. He's a fantastic man. Absolutely the answer is yes."

"I know him well, I've known him for years. He's a brave man, and he's a great man. They would absolutely be a positive."

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Katy Balls of The Times of London on Charlie Kirk interview during an event in Florida. Kay Balls is The Times Washington Editor. She provides insights into Charlie Kirk who she says was polite in person than on the videos, mostly calling things as he saw it but also willing to engage with others which made him interesting to some young people on campus. His dad is an architect with his own practice who came up with the name TPUSA. The family is Republican and lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The parents wanted him to go to college, first an effort at West Point, then Baylor University, a Christian University in Texas, but he went to Harper College in Illinois. And he decided to drop out after work as a youth activist impressed Republican party organizers.

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Is Trichet's approach at the ECB more like that of an engineer who is good at fixing things when its clear that something is broken, but not so good at seeing things further ahead, which is what the next phase of the mortgage and credit crisis will present.

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Matt Dickinson of The times of Lonson gives this story of the youngest winner of the Tour de France, 22 years old,  from a small town 25 miles north of Bogota, Colombia. His dad is a guard for the local cathedral and is his son's motor pacer and mechanic.  Cycling is huge in Colombia. Zipaquira is 2600 metres or 8600 feet up in the Andes mountains. A nearby climb of 23 kilometres is described by Bernal as his "office" and his father rides up ahead with him on this daily training.  In the trials Bernal was 22nd and this never fazed him even though on Stage 13 in Pau he fell behind colleague Geraint Thomas by 1 minute 22 seconds. In the final run in the Alps Julian Alaiphilippe of France who had shaken up the race faltered, Geraint Thomas  also did not keep up. so that Bernal with the Andean training and serious work prevailed with 1 minute 11 seconds to spare to win. Much of his maturity comes from working within a family where the mom and dad live together to keep costs down but have separated. As the elder of two children Bernal gained maturity in having to work with both parents to keep the home together. The first thing he has done with his new earnings is to buy a flat for his mom. Sky team's Brailsford who hired Bernal describes the confidence and maturity he has encountered in Bernal. At 22 years of age he is seen as having a bright future ahead of him. ...

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U.S. president Obama in his speech at the Democratic National Convention describes Hillary Clinton as someone "who has been there for us- even if we haven't always noticed."  He warned against "home grown demagogues," and said " there were no serious solutions to pressing problems" at the Republican convention that was "not conservative, and wasn't particularly Republican."  

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Bartiromo talks to Mark Hurd of HP. He sees the services part of the business and the integration of EDS, as part of astep by step buildup of first infrastucture in hardware, PC's, servers, storage, networking, then software on top of that and services on top of the software. The idea is align all these capabilities and work them together. This way he thinks HP is well positioned to provide customer with infrastructure from the cloud, from a data center and let the customer choose. He sees HP in as strong a position in r&d now as before the global crisis, so that it can drive innovation to automate processes.