Wayne Rooney and I share something in common: not the football team he supported as a child (Everton) - and certainly not the one he plays for now - but the school he attended, Gillmoss School in Croxteth, Liverpool.
The three main contenders for France's presidency last month were in agreement over one thing - the need for economic reform and increased accommodation for market forces.
When I was a young man way back in the days when Blair was a much loved performer and Brown was noted for his twin ambitions to be leader of the Labour Party and to drink Westminster dry (I speak of course of Lionel and George), the term "Bolshy" was a common one.
"Are you between 12 and 18 and looking for excitement?" asks the ad. "How does riding in a helicopter grab you? Or even rock climbing?"
Tony Blair hopes the Irish peace process will be seen as one of his greatest achievements.
According to subversive looking "Information Revolution" campaign placards, stickers and posters it is time to break with Google's "monopolisation" of internet search tools.
Toyin Agbetu famously protested against Tony Blair and the queen during the Westminster Abbey slavery commemoration. Here he writes about why he decided not just to sit back and watch.
"It went from a philosophy of 'we like people, we use objects' to 'we use people, we like objects'." So said Pierre Nicolas of the CGT trade union after three workers from Renault's giant "Technocentre" committed suicide in four months.
On 19 April over 3,000 Pakistani lawyers protested against the sacking of the supreme court chief justice, writes Haroon Khalid
These may be Tony Blair's last days, but Gordon Brown has made it clear that Blairism - war, privatisation and cuts - will remain. Charlie Kimber looks at the issues which are bringing workers into confrontation with the government and how trade unions are organising
John Rees talks to author Paul Mason about his book Live Working or Die Fighting and the importance of writing about workers' history
New government plans will remove the already pitiful rights of some of the most vulnerable migrant workers in Britain. Investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai talks to the women who have travelled across the globe to look after the homes and children of the rich
