Why does Nelson Mandela need special permission to enter the United States? And why are Swedish traffic lights getting more woman-friendly?
Douglas McFarlane from the UK Theatre Network site came in to tell Martin Stanford the answers to these vexing questions on Sky.Com News last night. You can hear his take on the stories moving up the web agenda below.
Plus we had the day's best web videos, including the crazy footage of the surfer hitching a ride on the back of a Great White shark.
At 7.30pm tonight we'll have James Beechinor Collins from Electric Pig in the studio, plus we'll take a look at the dramatic local election results with bloggers from different sides of the political fence, Shane Greer and Jag Singh.
We may have the London Mayor result by then so one of them will probably be happier than the other!
Re The Council Elections: Speaking of lessons learned, one of the lessons any future Chancellor of the Exchequer could learn from last week's national thumbsdown is, when announcing proposed new tax measures almost a year before they take effect, he or she has the honesty to tell us the full story, i.e. the abandonment of the 10% tax band, not included in any statemnent made by the (then) Chancellor. Mr Brown has had his opportunity and has clearly fallen short of most of the qualities required by the office he now occupies. In many cases the end result of a lost cause is a victory for an undeserved alternative. We got Gordon the Taxman by default and now it seems quite likely we will get a Tory government in the same way.
Posted by: Robert Putt, Braintree, Essex. 4 May 2008 09:24:33
Now could [Holiday] and [Madonna] have anything to do with the good Bank Holiday Visa?
Posted by: Khalid 2 May 2008 12:52:29