Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Live 8 for G8 summit week

Top News Article | Reuters.com

So the British holiday weekend is over and the French holiday week appears to be beginning. It's back to the grind here but cheered a little by Bob Geldof's announcement about an hour ago that the new Live Aid concerts are go. The link is for Reuters, but additions may be here.

London's concert will be in Hyde Park on July 2nd and I gather it will be FREE! The event is specifically designed to raise money (expect requests for healthy donations) for "Make Poverty History" but also hopes to take advantage of media attention of the G8 summit the same week. McCartney and U2 are probably the headliners, but rumours of the Stones are circulating too. As with the original Live Aid (Bob insists this is not Live Aid 2 but "Live8") there will be simultaneous concerts in at least five other cities around the world. So congrats to all who are making it happen.

According to today's wires, Blair is running around European leaders trying to get the new EU constitution scrapped altogether now. That runs rather contrary to my last-minute ruminations of last evening (below). We'll see. He is of course doing all this whilst on holiday (again) in Italy. The more intelligent line is probably from Jack Straw who wants to let things settle down a bit.

Maybe later, maybe not.

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