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.

chuckle chuckle and oh dear oh dear oh dear

suddenly LABOUR caught up in £2m corruption scandal ..... bet there'll be lots of excuses, denials and similar from certain parts of certain BB's

Hangon,

You must feel better after getting that off your chest. 8-)

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Manuel.


Remember this.

Tories call on wealthy donors to stump up £19m for election fund
Conservative party has suffered dip in income since Brexit vote as pro-EU supporters have kept cheque books closed

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/27/tories-call-on-wealthy-donors-to-stump-up-19m-general-election-fund


I like a level playing ground!

splashed across many headlines, it merely gave me much amusement

such antics have been widespread for generations across all political and industrial sectors, but it's the holier-than-though brigade (did i hear hypocrites?) who have been shouting long and hard that it was only the tories thus tainted

chickens come home to roost eventually :-)

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FRED clearly thinks that being asked to donate to party coffers is much the same as asking your (LABOUR) buddies for £2m to enable them to secure contracts

fred reckons he's always right, so obviously i am just thick :-)

Pay more to save money..not sure how the snowflakes will cope tho.



Students to save £25,000 under radical plans for new two-year degrees



By Harry Yorke, Online Education Editor
10 December 2017 • 12:01am




Students will save up to £25,000 under radical plans for new two-year accelerated university degrees, unveiled by the Government today.

Universities will have to provide 45 weeks of lectures a year, meaning prolonged summer and Christmas holidays will be slashed to make way for “more intense, condensed teaching”.

The reforms are designed to add more “flexibility” into the system, which Jo Johnson, the Universities Minister, believes is currently “skewed” in favour of traditional degrees and offers a “pitifully low” number of alternative courses.

It follows a damning report by National Audit Office earlier this week, which found that the poor quality degrees offered by some institutions have left many graduates with lower earning potential than their peers who did not attend university.

The fast-track degrees will cost £11,100 a year, saving students £5,500 on tuition fees alone.


More if you register: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/10/students-save-25000-radical-plans-new-two-year-degrees/

from my own childrens' experience, 2 years would have been ample to complete BSc (Durham)and BA (Nottingham) degrees

Yes, agreed. The first year for able students is a waste of time and money.

I hope that applies for Oxford and Cambridge degree courses.

no reason why it should not .... to all intents and purposes, oxbridge degrees are no different from those from elsewhere

Valued differently in the marketplace?

I would like to mention the passing of a great rock and roll star of Johnny Hallyday French singer, artist ......and I recommend a viewing of some of his earliest works that are truly superb that captures all the wonderful essence of France.... believe me......

What a bunch of wets the French are acting like a bunch of screaming teenagers of the death of a rock and roll/singer performer - just as soppy as the British were when Diana was pronounced dead.

Will there be such an outpouring of emotion when The Queen or Philip shuffle off for better or worse?

Will there even be a wet eye from the public when Charles follows them?

79674 - to some extent, but then so are degrees from east anglia uni and similar in media studies

Coalition student fees deal; better than those being offered by Labour and the Conservatives?

So all that coz he wants sympathy . Michael Owen lives in a village the family basically took over a cul-de sac (whatever) and sort of made it their own so to speak . They do not how can i say engage with the local people and are i would say disliked , , you don't spend your day following all these twits do you hilary .

No, Victim, I only use social media commercially. My daughter WhatsApp'd it to me after a friend sent it to her.

Keith Chegwin dies .

Inflation- Apart from the blunt tool of interest rate hikes. How do you bring it down in globalized World. I sure don't know.

Any ideas.

Stop this , how ridiculous a two bed cottage in Mousehole for one Million .

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51505794.html