George Osborne Awarded Briton of the Year???

So the Times today announced George Osborne as Briton of the Year 2013 thanks to the economic recovery he has "brought about" I'm afraid I can't agree with this as all actions taken by politicians cause harm to the economy the best I can give him is that he "may" have caused less problems than someone else, but then that can't be proven one way or the other.

It has been pointed out that the award is likely to be motivated by politics coming from The Times who are not exactly anti-Osbourne but it's no different than the Guardian giving the person of the year accolade to Snowden, someone they helped risk lives for the sake of circulation rather than freedom.

So who would I have picked? To be honest I can't really think of anyone who had a stand out year, I guess that is to be expected after all the heroics of 2012 but if I had to give it to someone it would probably be Ed Miliband for standing up almost every week at Prime Minister's Questions even though he is clearly going to be exposed as rather simple yet he keeps getting up, he really is an example to us all on tenacity.

Letter in the Times

I saw an interesting letter in the times earlier in the week, it was from Miriam Gonzalez and was in response to an article they had published in which they condemned Spanish football captain Iker Casillas' girlfriend Sara Carbonero. The newspaper claimed that Sports Reporter Miss Carbonero had distracted Iker to cause Spain to lose the opening game against Switzerland.

The entire article was rather frivolous as after all as a sports reporter she was simply doing her job by being at the game, and I am sure that Iker can put up with more distractions than a nearby girlfriend, even one voted the worlds sexiest reporter, what interested me however was that the letter, quite rightly, stated that a woman should be judged by her own merits, not those of her boyfriend. A good point from Mrs Carbonero, who is after all the wife of our deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.