Miliband

In the new cabinet Prime Minister Cameron announces in the morning, MP Priti Patel (right) is expected to be one of a group of women considerably expanding the current ranks, which include Education Secretary Nicky Morgan (left) and Home Secretary Theresa May (center).

During the American Revolution, Patriots didn't just have the British Army and Hessian mercenaries to contend with. At least 20% of the white colonists, conservatives, were traitors and sided with the British. As many as 2.5 million colonials were Tories or Royalists and after the war almost 100,000 of them fled the 13 colonies for Britain, Canada and other British colonies.

Maybe you saw Emily Jane Fox's CNN story over the weekend on what it takes to raise a family on three minimum wage jobs. The story takes place in Chicago:

This morning I happened to hear a Southern drawl coming out of the TV in my bedroom when I was washing up in the bathroom. The drawl was making a lot of good sense on Syria, which surprised me. It walked over to see who it was: Lloyd Doggett, a progressive from the Austin area. Figures! He talked about how his constituents are adamantly opposed to an attack on Syria, particularly if it's just the U.S. alone holding Assad accountable. Thank you, Ed Miliband!The UK's imperialist establishment has the knives out for Miliband, the leader of Britain's Labor Party-- even more than usual.

I just spent some time in Tuscany with one of my oldest friends, Toon Janssen, a guy I met in the '70s when I was living in Amsterdam. Toon's from decidedly working class Amsterdam Noord and he's been working as a school teacher in the crime-ridden Bijlmer.

I suspect there aren't many DWT readers who know who George Mudie is. I'd never heard of him until a few days ago when I read in the Guardian that Mudie, a Labour Member of Parliament from Leeds, was about to unload on Labour leader Ed Miliband-- which he has now done.