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.

so they do, but not between 1708 and 1832 :-)

Now it is a question of who is trustworthy?


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From Wicki,


The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society. The magazine has, according to its present self-description, a left-of-centre political position.[2]
The longest serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–60). The current editor is Jason Cowley, who assumed the post at the end of September 2008. In 29 May 2006 issue, then-editor John Kampfner stated that the New Statesman remained "true to its heritage of radical politics". The magazine has notably recognized and published new writers and critics, as well as encouraged major careers. Its contributors have included J M Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens and Paul Johnson
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To be honest I think I look at it a few times it as a student as my flat-mate was a public school boy and I think he "bought" it.

I may have read since then, but I will buy a copy of it on your recommendation!

I think the reports seem to have more truth in them than Cameron's, Osborne's and Fallon's failing campaign propaganda.

Perhaps, your faith is based on faith.

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8-)

http://news.sky.com/story/1463116/tory-poll-boost-as-ukip-fall-to-two-year-low

The Tories have gained three points to lead Labour in a new poll that puts UKIP on its lowest tally for two years.

The Opinium survey for the Observer has the Conservatives up three from a week ago on 36% - an apparent boost after several polls in recent days gave Labour a lead.

Manuel,

The tory campaign of bribes reminds me of the retreat of the Romans from the Empire.

Trying to consolidate on London and SE without accepting their dependence on the rest of the UK and Europe.

So be it!

Ed Miliband could still win. Here’s what would happen next

He’s not an out-and-out ideologue. But he is indecisive, full of strange ideas about business, and convinced that he’s a man of destiny

Dan Hodges 11 April 2015


One head of a FTSE100 company recently granted a rare audience with the putative First Lord of the Treasury sat dumbstruck as Miliband asked him, ‘Why exactly do you need to pay your shareholders dividends?’




Whole article here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9494602/ed-miliband-could-still-win-heres-what-would-happen-next/

well I am back had a few days in scotland and can say this sturgeon is all mouth
a big mouth gutless woman a man hater a woman hater
she is false a liar and will hide before she answers questions on defence
she would put up the white flag and give Scotland to any attacker fact
she is a gutless big mouth hiding behind her position
my brother in law and all is family are scottish and ashamed of her

She speaks very highly of you TANK. :0)

sturgeon is a foul person

glasgow

lets let Scotland go close the border .

Glasgow

A few weeks ago Ed Miliband went into the FT to meet the senior editorial team and put his case. The FT is the most Europhile paper in Britain, with a surprisingly large number of left-of-centre journalists for a business paper. The paper prides itself on operating more like an Oxford college than a go-getting scoop-hungry newsroom, far too grand to indulge in partisan campaigning. In short Miliband had a good chance of winning the pink ‘uns endorsement by emphasising his Europhile credentials, reminding them of Cameron’s supposed Euroscepticism and by signalling that he sounds more anti-business than he would be in office. All to play for…

Ed is not famously sympathetic to business – he has never worked in the private sector. One head of a FTSE 100 company recently given facetime with Miliband was reportedly stunned into silence when Ed asked him “Why exactly do you need to pay your shareholders dividends?” It went just as badly at the FT. Miliband misjudged the room, incorrectly assuming that the FT’s donnish commentators were intrinsically hostile. His answers to questions were embarrassingly shallow and by the end of the Q&A Lionel Barber, not famed for suffering fools gladly, was verging on contempt. Only Phil Stevens could muster any enthusiasm for the Labour leader. The FT is a swing paper for opinion formers, backing Labour in 2005, it backed Cameron in 2010. Insiders say it is now out of the question that the FT will endorse Miliband and his anti-business agenda.

Tory fears that the paper would back Labour because of Miliband’s opposition to an EU referendum are turning to hope that the FT will endorse the coalition’s continuance.

If the Scots had gone independent......there would have been 2 time zones perhaps within the British Isles....I say perhaps...

Don't like the BBC news website since the change.....was much better before....

I dunno rf, but where else could you get cutting edge news stories like this?



Gay penguin story on list of disputed library books


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32283933

Classic Guardian misprint today