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Paul Mason on Hi-Viz jackets, photo-ops and the reality of modern work, over in the Graun.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... s-bullying

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Has this site been playing up again?

Yup, playing havoc with my lurking.

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Good night 'm Lady.

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Oh bugger. Last up again.

I'll just bid you all goodnight, and hope that that sprog one's mates don't make too much noise when they wake up after their sleep-over.

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This is a cracker. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/maxherve-george-the-man-fighting-a-merciless-legal-war-against-insurance-giant-aviva-10168427.html Have these companies never heard of due diligence? Hah! Looks like Aviva should've read the small print, just like the rest of us ple...

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/may/09/election2001.comment1?CMP=share_btn_tw One of the great unsolved mysteries of modern British politics is the role of the Tipp-Ex trick in John Major's narrow victory over Neil Kinnock in the 1992 general election. The Tory triumph was almost entirely ...

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Well, I've had a hell of a week, could it be any worse with added QT?

Lets find out....

*Edit* Oh, not yet available on iplayer. Ooops.

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Guardian headline for tomorrow is The day the polls turned :clap: Here's a bet - NickyB will either (i) not turn up or (ii) stick a grudging two liner on an obscure thread where hardly anyone will notice it. I noticed that Open Seas/Tweety went AWOL as well. Sanguine's heart isn't in it and notso s...

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Just to be irrelevant - Is anyone here following the Hatton Garden safety deposit box robbery story? The police's main concern seems to be that the robbers didn't tidy up before they made off with the loot. Maybe they're taking a similar approach to the Feds with Capone and the tax charges, and pla...

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Re that fantastic set of pictures of Cameron inna Cowshed, I posted the official picture of the gathering and the picture from the back of the enormous shed with the bus obscuring the hordes of acolytes to a friend in Mevagissey. I have never had so many likes'n'shares.

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Young was educated at Creighton School (now Fortismere School), Muswell Hill and King Edward VI Community College, Totnes. He left school at 16 with one Grade C GCE O-Level in English Literature and did menial jobs under a government Workfare programme. He then retook his O-Levels and went to the S...

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I smell a rat with the Sturgeon story. Why would there be a record of her smalltalk with a French Ambassador. Unless she's thicker than she looks, why did she blurt that out anyway? Looks like a "wind up the Scots" story to me. But I'm confused, qui bono? *edit* - that does mean 'who bene...

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I smell a rat with the Sturgeon story. Why would there be a record of her smalltalk with a French Ambassador. Unless she's thicker than she looks, why did she blurt that out anyway? Looks like a "wind up the Scots" story to me. But I'm confused, qui bono? *edit* - that does mean 'who bene...

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Evening all, just a quick fly-by to wonder if it's just a coincidence that the Graun have illustrated their top NHS story on the mobile site with a picture of a young girl having her ear examined?

Or am I still scarred from '92?

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Good grief, damage limitation at Rusbridger Towers, Ed was only "fractionally" ahead appears to be the editorial line, and Tom Clark says that Ed was judged to have "won" the contest by 25% - his quote marks, not mine.

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According to a tweet I've just seen at t'Graun from ITV, ComRes say that 8% think that Sturgeon would be best to lead the United Kingdom.

According to the man in the bar in Seville, 8% of respondents are either a) Scottish nationalists, b) idiots, or c) an unholy mixture of both.

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I'm following this over a tinto in a bar in Seville in the middle of Semana Santa, surrounded by celebrating/mourning Andulusians, and I'm hooked on the blogging here. Keep it up! Cheers, The International Lurker Of Mystery Edited due to tinto. I said it before, I'll say it again, Git! :D intervac....

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BTW, the previous post was more a comment on the blogging than the quality of the actual debate.

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I'm following this over a tinto in a bar in Seville in the middle of Semana Santa, surrounded by celebrating/mourning Andalusians, and I'm hooked on the blogging here. Keep it up!

Cheers,

The International Lurker Of Mystery

Edited due to tinto. Twice *hic*

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Buenas Dias everyone. Please don't hate me too much, but for the benefit of the many green-fingered FTN'ers, I'm posting this from a shady corner of the gardens of the Alcazar in Seville. Nice plants. We're here on a house swap, so we only had to pay for travel, which makes for a cheap way to experi...

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Right, off home to bed, but I'll leave you with a little oddity - a Telegraph ode to bureaucracy! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11493932/Did-Schengen-ruin-the-romance-of-travel.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Don't get your hopes up though, it is both an ...

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PorFavor wrote:Am I the last one here?

Nope, I, the ever-lurker, am lurking while I clean up after work and make some supper sarnies.

So don't worry, you aren't alone!

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I'm posting this up for my daughter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6T5wqXN60" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; No subtext, but many of you will know exactly what I mean. Utterly. And all those people who say that you must enjoy these times as much as you can because they ...

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Spinning Hugo, International Man of Mystery*, is a deep undercover operative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Affairs and Tractors (MaGRAT) who travels the world's fairgrounds with his Waltzers, holding secretive meetings with powerful movers and shakers in his specially adapted tea-cup, and f...

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Just a thought, but perhaps this Cameron to step down stuff is an attempt to give the party some sort of bounce similar to that that Major got when he replaced Thatcher, but without the chaos of a defenestration.

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RogerOThornhill wrote:"A very interesting report from the Adam Smith Institute"

Isn't that one of those oxymorons?

Could it be an instance of the leopard changing its shorts?

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I love Will Self

Purple Revolution review? I thought he pulled his punches a little and it flagged a little in the middle. Maybe he was edited?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m ... a-ordinary

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:Hurrah!!

Victory for the Lib Dems with the worlds first tidal lagoon!

It waz Ed Davey that did it!

Ermm, not quite such a ground-breaking Libdem innovation - there was a tidal lagoon powering a mill in our town from the mid-thirteenth century...cutting edge medievalist thinking from the LDs then.

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A literal heads up to fellow night-owls, there is an exceptionally good chance of seeing an aurora over the next few hours. Sadly we are in a valley, facing south on the South Devon coast, so no chance for us. Hope others get to enjoy it! *edit* Here's a link to a forecast site: http://www.aurora-se...

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A quick question/musing; if these interviews go ahead, what order will they be in, and will other candidates be able to see the recording?

I can see Callme organising himself an entire hour of having the last word, with no comeback.

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Blimey. Posting on here this weekend feels a bit like trying to push a marble uphill with my nose. What's up Mrs ohso? Hard work getting any sort of response. Only a few bothering. :lurk: Sorry Ohso, lurking whilst making gravy! Am keeping up with stuff, but just being my usual reticent self.

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ohsocynical wrote:Ian ‏@Mancman10 40 secs40 seconds ago Manchester, England
Last 5 national polls:

YouGov: Con 34 Lab 34
Opinium: Lab 35 Con 33
ComRes: Lab 35 Con 33
Populus: Lab 32 Con 29
IpsosMORI: Lab 34 Con 33

Ooooh! Five polls - has NickyB over at the other place been informed?

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And the chair. Why the sodding hell was Ed parked in a chair that had his knees up around his ears?

Despite all that crap, and a bunch of Ruperts and a mad Kosovan, or indeed because of them, a very good performance.

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Just catching up on the Miliband prog on BBC3. Crikey, "Alex", the second questioner, in his corduroy jacket swore blind that he was from "a long line of Labour voters in his family" I paraphrase, but not by much. Got hit out the park by Ed. I rather suspect CCHQ will be less tha...

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I'd like to see him gone from Top Gear, to be replaced by someone fiercely left wing who's actually into cars. Suggestions? Were you pointing at yourself and coughing as you said this? On Clarkson, I would refer back again to the Stewart Lee video I posted last night. A masterful deconstruction of ...

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A couple of thoughts .... On BBC producers, who don't necessarily have as much power as you might think. In fact, in some cases, the title is little more than an honorific; in the days before the advent of BBC Online a friend of mine was the editor of the online version of the Radio Times and, as s...

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But Cameron will just skate around any commitment... He is, after all, a Dab hand at this, and telling him otherwise will cause Pouting. OK, I think that's all I've got. Hope you don't mind but I'm floundering somewhat so I will just perch here awhile. Oh, I say, well played m'lady. Time for bed fo...

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Would Dave do the debate if they gave him some fish to point at? Ed did say that he'd debate Cameron any time, any plaice, anywhere... But Cameron will just skate around any commitment... He is, after all, a Dab hand at this, and telling him otherwise will cause Pouting. OK, I think that's all I've...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:Would Dave do the debate if they gave him some fish to point at?
Ed did say that he'd debate Cameron any time, any plaice, anywhere...

But Cameron will just skate around any commitment...

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Oh look, our old friend Labour's Defense Black Hole has popped up again!

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Hey where'd you go Hobie Joe? Literally? Norway. Brought the sprogs here for snow, skiing, huskies and family time. Damn fine country until you buy a beer in a bar. Wow. Sounds great. Yes understand the beer problem from time spent in Sweden ;-) The good news is that you can get beer at upto 4.7% i...

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Hey where'd you go Hobie Joe?

Literally? Norway.

Brought the sprogs here for snow, skiing, huskies and family time. Damn fine country until you buy a beer in a bar.

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Sorry, got a little PF'd in my posting.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
mbc1955 wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:"A unique unprecedented coalition of people who would like to break up our country. The only people who can stop them are us, the people in this room."

Who said that?
Judge Dredd?
Close

Actually not very close...

Ian Paisley at an Ulster Unionist seance?

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Fortunately they didn't install this on business machines. But anybody allowing BYOD, or buying cheap consumer laptops has a problem. Bugger. I had to buy a new laptop at very short notice at the end of the last VAT quarter after the 2nd hand IBM Thinkpad that I got for £200 on eBay because it had ...

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I've been doing some contract work for NHS England over the last year. Guess who provides all the IT - Atos Guess what laptops they issue everyone - Lenovo PWC still go with Lenovo Thinkpads. Fortunately they didn't install this on business machines. But anybody allowing BYOD, or buying cheap consu...

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Just following on from TE's link and some of our comments about the Lenovo adware story yesterday. It seems it only affects laptops, not desktops [or at least desktops made before mid 2014]. I've been doing some contract work for NHS England over the last year. Guess who provides all the IT - Atos ...

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I believe this happened a few weeks ago, but just in case, this is for the plane lovers among us :) http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/559104/RAF-jets-intercept-two-Russian-bombers-near-Cornwall-coast I saw a similar report today. Was going to tease a Cornish friend by asking him how the Mebyon Kerno...

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Our local hospital has a Lloyds pharmacy in the reception, wonder where Lloyds are based? They used to be a small local based firm but now seem nation wide. According to Companies House, they are still a UK registered business with no overseas components. So that's something... I quite like the Llo...

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I fear he's right. With the odd notable exception. If the Mirror has started writing moving pieces like this I may have to check it out more often. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ed-miliband-holocaust-victim-grandad-5061471#ICID=sharebar_twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);retu...

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