Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18922967

Re: The US Cinema Shooting........

Anybody got any Sunday newspaper tip's to paste on here ?

I bet your the bloke who is reading the papers every week I go in WH Smiths as he is to tight to buy a newspaper. :-)) only joking

Bravo to Bradley Wiggins.....winning the tour de France .....the most difficult bike race in the world......the leg muscle power and stamina needed to win is incredible...have to mention Mark Cavendish with an incredible number of stage wins....really bravo !.....

Maybe he should light the flame next Friday.

I took part in the Tour de France and they haven't asked me to carry the cigarette lighter.

Could 'Wiggo' be the one who is chosen to light the Olympic Cauldron?

Or will it be James Bond?

David Bekham, I think is a good choice.

Kinda brings a lump to your throat! London 2012 Games lanes: Traffic delays of two hours

Drivers coming into London have faced delays of up to two hours after new restrictions came into force for the Olympics.

That's partially the result of blocking the roads for Tourch travelling in London.

People are learning not to use private cars during this period.

Northern Rock sell-off nets extra £538m for taxpayers

The UK will make an additional £538m from the sale of failed lender Northern Rock after a new agreement with Richard Branson's Virgin Money, UKFI has said.

UKFI, the body managing the government's stakes in bailed-out banks, said Virgin had bought £465m of Northern Rock's mortgage assets.

It had also agreed to pay an extra £73m in cash for Northern Rock.

UKFI said the original deal for £747m, agreed in January, did not reflect the true value of Northern Rock's assets.

Also that still represents a loss on the £1.4bn pumped into the lender by the government.

I think many of the problems would be resolved if the debt between countries would be swapped.

Most countries have debt to each other. If there was a mechanisum to exchange their bedt, they wold be ok, some debt free. The world would be then less complicated.

I think the banks and organisations like MOODY, FITH etc won't like this to happen as everyoone would be able to asses the situation, no manipulation!

Hi Ahoj,

Agreed it would sort of make sense for all the debt held between governments, IE tax payers.
The problem is that most of that debt is held at differing levels of interest, which allowing for inflationary interest debt measures, would be extremely difficult to level out.
Also of course, much of the world debt is held by institutions, with a very minute percentage held by individuals, both the institutions and individuals buying through the bond markets.
Also just think what the banks would say, as debt levelling would not make them any commission or transaction money, although they would probably make a fortune on 'advice'.
Not that I give a fig about bankers, but as we well know, banks losses are reflected in our everyday world, especially regarding pensions.

So although a great idea in principal, it would not work in practise.

Fully agree the manipulation comment!

That was brilliant , very , very funny.

Boris is really a very clever man and for a politician honest and straight talking.

Birds of a Feather or Close Confidants?

I wonder if they will get David Cameron and Osborne to vouch for them as character witnesses.

(Problem is that their testimonies aren't worth much.)

But is does sound as if Rebecca has been coached by Dave;

“Mrs Brooks, who is also a former chief executive of the paper's publisher News International, faces three charges relating to the alleged accessing of phones belonging to Milly and former Fire Brigades Union boss Andrew Gilchrist, CPS legal adviser Alison Levitt QC said in a statement.

In a statement, Mrs Brooks said: "I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship."”



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18961228

24 July 2012 Last updated at 14:41

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson face charges

Alison Levitt QC: "This statement is made in the interests of transparency and accountability"

Eight people, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

Seems to be a few names missing!

I don't understand why American sell their shares in the morning and buy back in the afternoon?

Clearly we follow them, so we buy in the mornings and sell when US sell their shares in the first couple of hours of their opening?


Any clever idea why this is the case?

Because they wake up with a hangover and don't like the look of the world, until they top up again.