The Holy Shroud in Turin is and remains a riddle, as honestly
recognised by the manager of the most important of the three
laboratories which analysed the cloth by using the carbon 14. This
manager acknowledged a serious mistake in the dating.
The only means we have at disposal to solve the riddle is that of
recognizing that, without any doubt, in such Holy Linen happened
something that we cannot and never we’ll be capable to explain : the
Resurrection of Christ.

Website : http://digilander.libero.it/antoniobragadin/mystery.htm
Email : ricercapap.bra@alice.it

NYT
May 9, 2008

Op-Ed Columnist

The Conservative Revival

By DAVID BROOKS

For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in
roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton’s Third Way approach
mirrored Blair’s. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich
revolution in the 1990s or the Bush victories thereafter. They got
their losing in early, and, in the wilderness, they rethought modern
conservatism while their American counterparts were clinging to
power.

Today, British conservatives are on the way up, while American
conservatives are on the way down. British conservatives have moved
beyond Thatcherism, while American conservatives pine for another
Reagan. The British Conservative Party enjoyed a series of stunning
victories in local elections last week, while polls show American
voters thoroughly rejecting the Republican brand.

According to the latest Rough Guide edition:

England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and
celebrity-obsessed TV addicts".

Sounds pretty accurate to me, although there might be a couple of other
suitable, equally complimentary descriptives that could be added ;-)

Article on the BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7391776.stm