With Hindsight... Yes

Now...

Jade Goody just over a week ago was told that she had weeks to live and since that time her ever move has been documented by every piece of media on this earth. And some reporting that you expect from the Daily Star you see on the BBC News, with her movements and actions tracked, but obviously adding comment by respected people, Gordon Brown, with his second comment, somehow (on his second comment) got her name wrong "Jane Goody".

Ever since the start of all this you would expect some sort "withdraw" (for want of a better word) for the internal media, I mean this is the time that you show some respect. But I have to be fair, the way she lived her life, it was the nature of the beast, you live your life in the open, your gonna live every waking moment in the open.

I hope that everything goes well for Jade with her wedding on Sunday and well played but the Ministry of Defense for letting her to be husband, Jack Tweed to stay with her on her wedding night, but apparently it's not unusual and why would it be, in this situation you would have to be heartless to not allow anything like that.

Even writing this blog I can see that I am myself part of the media's view and reporting on the events and no-one wants to be part of that and this will be the only thing I say on this, you know that's like. Only today I went to my first funeral and at any level death isn't something you want to shine on in a way that today's media seem to be doing.

Also in news Sir Allan Stanford (the only American ever to be knighted, due to his citizenship in Antigua and Barbuda) because of being part of fraud investigations in the states, over $8 million, yes $8 million in the fraud over certificate of deposits, he was missing over the first couple of days when this was released and in the end was found by the FBI (what a cool way to go, you can just imagine it, anyway) on behalf on the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). It turned out that he had been a dodgy case for quiet a while.

The people who are getting the real backlash for this over here is the ECB and ever since Sir Allan landing his helicopter at Lord's and the ECB finally getting in bed with him, people have been a bit nervous about all this was going, with the 20 million dollar game and the push and influence his money has had in Cricket in England really not helping (but now the England and Wales Cricket Board have broken all ties with him)... Heads will role.

If it was bad for the ECB they should spare a thought all the people who use his airlines and have money in his banks in the West Indies and Latin America who have been withdrawing quicker than every single former customer of Northern Rock were. Interesting that, actually, because Robert Peston had a piece on news night during the week he week up to (Not so)Newcastle and meet some people his report on them going down effected, it was posted on his blog, you can see the video here. And Now Stanford's Banks are being seized and suspended of trading throughout the Caribbean and South America, if the world economy wasn't bad enough, Sir Allan has help make a hash of it again, well done, shows you never to trust bankers in the world of sport (of even in banking for that matter).