Week 35, and perennial loser and great hope of English tennis, Tim Henman, this week announced his retirement from top-class tennis.
Archive for ‘August, 2007’
Card-i-cature a week.. Week 34 – Angela Merkel (the Queen of Spades)
by Alex on 23rd August 2007 at 3:30 pmApologies once more for the second brief hiatus recently. Anyway, retrospectively back again with this card for the week ending 24 August – German chancellor Angela Merkel, who was in Britain this week partly for a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and partly to attend the England v Germany game at Wembley Stadium (England [...]
Card-i-cature a week… Week 33 – Amy Winehouse (the Four of Diamonds)
by Alex on 16th August 2007 at 10:30 pmWeek 33, and the turn of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who pulled out of a few gigs this week due to taking time out to address ‘health issues’, amidst rumours of alcohol, cocaine and heroin abuse and a return to rehab.
Card-i-cature a week… Week 32 – Thabo Mbeki (the Five of Spades)
by Alex on 9th August 2007 at 8:11 pmThis week it’s South African President Thabo Mbeki, who this week shocked AIDS/HIV campaigners across the world by sacking his Deputy Health Minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. Madala-Routledge was responsible for the large-scale roll-out of antiretrovirals across South Africa, a scheme opposed by both Mbeki and her superior, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who favoured, amongst other things [...]



