Round Up - 100th entry

Let's start with politics its the week of the Lib Dem conference, and my chance to rant at Chris Huhne. Months ago i wrote that nuclear power would be the breaking point of the coalition; it seems I was badly wrong. I thought that nuclear power was an issue on which you could compromise, you either believed it was a safe alternative to carbon based fuels, and its cheaper or it remains deeply flawed , is fundamentally unsafe and leaves waste that is not disposable in any ethical sense. Well its seems you can compromise, Huhne says he still opposes nuclear power but will build new reactors, because they will be privately financed and anyway its part of his party's sacred deal with the Tories. The perfect case of power before principle.

On Tuesday night Spurs played Arsenal in the Carling Cup. arsene Wenger was banned from the touchline , but out foxed Redknapp and the Gunners came away with a 4-1 victory. Very sweet, I doubt whether Spurs will be bringing out a DVD of that game.

Wednesday and England rounded off an excellent summer by defeating Pakistan 3-2 in the ODI series. The last month has been ravished by controversy over spot betting and match fixing, but nevertheless its to England's credit that they remained professional and saw the job through. Today the Ashes squad has been announced and delighted that Surrey's Steve davis, Chris Tremlett have made the touring party. I'm also pleased that Monty Panesar is seen as the back up spinner to Graeme Swann. Monty may spend a lot of time carrying water bottles but that is in large part to Swann's magnificant performances over the last 18 months. He must walk away with the player of the year awards and could easily be rewarded with the ICC World cricketer of the year, he has been that good.

It's two months to the Ashes, and the weeks ahead will see me give greater priority to football,unfortunately I'm missing the AFC Wimbledon v Crawley game which has been moved to Thursday to suit TV; even at Conference level someone other than the fans is calling the tune.