Protest and inconvenience

I posted yesterday about the anti-designated-area protest in Parliament Square, and thought it might be worth explaining here why I support it, as I know not all of you do.

( Ignore if not interested )

Bizarre latest in ball-tampering story

According to Malcom Speed, the ICC boss:

"On Tuesday 22 August I was handed a letter written on that day by Darrell Hair to Doug Cowie, who is the ICC Umpires and Referees Manager," Speed said. "When I received the letter it is fair to say I was extremely surprised by the content and concerned as to how I should deal with it. In the letter Darrell Hair offered to leave his job as a top official in the ICC in exchange for a payment of $500,000 (£265,000)."

Hmm -- that seems slightly to detract from the case of those (mostly Australians) who'd been defending him as a supremely principled servant of the rulebook, unable to let the Pakistanis resume the Test however much it hurt him more than it hurt them.