Ms Landmine

Highlighting the horrors of landmines and the injuries often brought upon the innocent long after a war the Norewegian Arts council is funding an organisation to run a Ms Landmine competition.

Ten women will show off their beauty and brains — and their landmine injuries — in Angola next April in a competition to win a golden prosthetic limb and the title of Miss Landmine 2008.

The project, created by Norwegian theater director Morten Traavik, is designed to raise awareness of the plight of landmine survivors. Contestants will have to demonstrate their skills and take part in an interview, though the details have yet to be finalized.

You can visit the Ms Landmine website at http://www.miss-landmine.org/misslandmine_news.html

You can meet the ladies taking part here and learn more about their plight.

Tony Blair’s $9million book advance.

Guarding Blair’s war cash.

Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, has agreed to sell his memoir for an advance of about $9 million, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

After a four-day auction, the book was bought by two divisions of Random House, Alfred A. Knopf in the United States and Canada, and Hutchinson in Britain.

Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief of Knopf, said that Blair intended to write a “serious and frank book” about his life and in particular his decade at 10 Downing Street.

More here.

That’s nice isn’t it. I’ll be reading the bit about where he ignored two million marchers in London before going to war. Tosser!