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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/30/bbc-radio-3-slow-radio-programmes-walkers-boots-chanting-monks Raft of new BBC Radio 3 programmes will take 'slow radio' to next level Station to feature sounds of a walker’s boots and chanting of Benedictine monks as ‘an antidote to today’s frenzied wo...

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Thanks, tried to reply earlier, but fell foul of triple nesting thing, then had mobile signal blocked by Winchester Cathedral (on holiday), then ran out of battery.
I think my understanding of brexit's getting steadily worse as it goes on, though could be sun

Well stop reading it.

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Thanks, tried to reply earlier, but fell foul of triple nesting thing, then had mobile signal blocked by Winchester Cathedral (on holiday), then ran out of battery.
I think my understanding of brexit's getting steadily worse as it goes on, though could be sun

Well stop reading it.

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Afternoon folks, I do wish people who take offence at each other, for whatever reason, could take their arguments away to private messages or something. Perhaps one of the propellor heads could set up a 'Shutyourfaceyouslag' page elsewhere on the forum? Anyway, it's gloriously sunny here in Saxony, ...

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Miliband made a fair bit of rolling out the London model to the country, but of course, lost. I don't recall Livingstone as mayor bothering too much with public ownership of buses, trains, DLR. Even though the tube is publicly owned. Evening folks, Tyne and Wear used to have a superbly integrated s...

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Afternoon folks,
About that magic money tree. Seems that the rate for training civil servants to negotiate Brexit is £10,000 per day, according to a chap I know. Imported academics seem to be doing very well out of it.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40418457 There are warnings of confusion over university admissions from changes to GCSE exams in England which will create two different pass grades. A number of universities have minimum entry grades at GCSE level - such as a C grade pass at maths and English. ...

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Evening folks,
Courtesy of New Scientist, I happened on this site. It's very good, and I recommend watching the videos (each clip is only a few minutes, although there are loads). I think we should have this course on the national curriculum.
http://callingbullshit.org/index.html

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Morning folks,
A German perspective on the state of the UK:
http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/2017/uk-and-brexit-5121166

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Afternoon folks,
Here's something for Hugo.
https://politicsmeanspolitics.com/why-d ... 186e3e7683

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Evening folks,
Here's a good article by Chi Onwurah.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -telegraph
I think she is destined for greatness (as one of the few scientist/engineers in the House).
Vested interest: I taught her science when she was 11.

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Evening folks,
Here's one for RoT. Those Baker UCT school thingies don't seem to be doing so well.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... s-13188230

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Afternoon folks, been a busy day. I drive an ambulance for a local charity occasionally and today got caught up in this: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/byker-hostage-incident-live-newcastle-13161408?service=responsive Someone with a knife & possibly a bomb took the local job...

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Nick Brown just held my seat.
If you know what I mean.

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Soggy good morning folks,
This is a decent long read about the decline of the industrial north, from an Americans perspective:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -elections

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Lord Sugar is tweeting the Sun front page and saying "says it all, you cannot vote for this man" (Jeremy Cor-bin, oops my sides have fucking split you soulless cunts). For the record, I always thought Lord Sugar was an irredeemable bellend, even when he sat on the Labour benches. He is. I...

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John McDonnell was on the World at One a few minutes ago and he described Jeremy Corbyn as the strongest and most decent leader Labour has had, possibly for generations. Why do they keep doing this? Why do they keep alienating long time Labour supporters by suggesting the party and leaders they hav...

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I'm vaguely fascinated (in a ghoulish way) about the degree to which people hate other people. What's the emotional need that drives the cognitive dissonance of eg: climate change denial? Is it hatred of other people causing their denial of climate change? I don't think so. Hatred is a secondary ph...

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Evening folks, Just watching Look North. The reporter noted that there was little detail in Theresa Mays speech in Guisbourough, and showed her doing a classic Maybot non-answer. She also pointed out that the workers at the plant hire firm hosting the speech were not invited to attend, then cut to a...

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[quote="frog222"Do you mean overturning TWOTP ?[/quote] In all seriousness, I could see an argument for suspending TWOTP in order to have a genuinely informed debate, debunking lies and bollocks. A lot of people who voted Brexit would support that. I believe that if the EU vote had had thr...

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Out of internet action for boring personal and work reasons. This seemed interesting to me http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2017-united-kingdom-general-election" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; That looks horribly close to me. Do Corbyn and Co really really want ...

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Evening, folks,
A medic chum put this on her BookTube page. It's worth sharing, although I'm sure it's not news to many here.
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It's an explanation of how the Tories will force the sale of NHS land and assets.

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Afternoon, folks,
On a completely unrelated topic, why Newcastle is the best UK city to raise a family.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... t-13039652" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Hugo said: That franchise now makes considerably more money for the UK than it did when nationalised. That is the franchise system working. At huge expense to the average citizen who is paying for profit that gets ploughed into other nations infrastructure rather than that of their own. Thus we hav...

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Nationalisations. <snip>But there is very little reason to think that nationalisation will make the running of businesses better, and several theoretical and evidence based reasons for thinking it will make it worse. The franchise system for the railways, for example, works well, and should be cont...

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Girls would be provided with free sanitary products in schools under a Liberal Democrat initiative that the party has said would end the hidden problem of “period poverty” – where teenagers miss school because they cannot afford pads or tampons. This election is just getting weirder and weirder. I'...

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Those keeping an eye on their blood pressure might want to avoid the latest ICM poll over at the G :( And they should stay away from this as well: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/08/hartlepool-angry-voters-make-fertile-ground-for-ukip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return ...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:Afternoon all.

just got back from football, and let's just say it was...interesting.

You've got my sympathy, Roger. We may be at opposite ends of the footballing spectrum, but all Toon fans know what its like to have a shitbag as an owner.

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Afternoon, folks, Taking great pleasure in the misfortune/sadness in others with a particular penchant for targeted deliberate kicking when known down -first two words,is the action of a grade one arse. Speaking of arses, did anyone listen to the outrageous interview on R5L a few minutes ago? BBC ha...

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SpinningHugo wrote:
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SpinningHugo wrote:I do love a board where people argue that the ERM was a great policy,
I must have missed that. Who said the ERM was a great policy?

Plenty of people here arguing that it wasn't a cause of economic harm, the earlier Lawson boom was, See above.

You seem to have misunderstood my question.

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SpinningHugo wrote:I do love a board where people argue that the ERM was a great policy,

I must have missed that. Who said the ERM was a great policy?

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It is indeed. Amber Rudd, it seems hard to believe now, had a go at getting across the idea of amplifying influence through being part of a bigger group, but nobody else much did. I think the "left behind" areas would have been tough whatever, but there was surely more of a sense that the ...

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Outrage as Spain and EU accused of using Brexit to take back Gibraltar, as MPs say Britain will 'not be bullied' https://uk.yahoo.com/news/outrage-spain-given-effective-veto-112505427.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Bullied my arse. Gibraltar voted 96% to Stay in the E...

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Evening folks,
Here's an interesting article about political liars, and how it pays for them to do it. Set in the America/Trump context, but equally applicable to the UK, Brexit, and one of our bumboils.
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article ... ps_support

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The DfE seem to have had a bit of a day today. 1. Changed the definition of what will be a pass at GCSE and confused pretty much everyone - two months before said GCSEs will be taken. Incidentally Nick Gibb said last year that no way should anything less than a Grade 5 should considered a pass beca...

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Evening, folks, Here's a cheery story that makes you wonder what will happen when Liam Fox gets the employment deregulation the brexiteers are gagging for: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/coty-staff-northumberland-claim-poor-12745336?ptnr_rid=109220&icid=EM_ChronicleLive_Nlet...

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The soft coup is underway! http://labourbriefing.squarespace.com/home/2017/2/26/the-soft-coup-is-under-way" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Brilliantly funny. Made my day. Almost as good as that laughable piece by Ellie Mae last night. Not necessarily far fetched. https://ww...

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Afternoon folks, @AngryAsWell (from last night) I posted a link the other day to an article from - I think - Local Schools that basically said if your school is relying on inclusion then you & your teachers are failing. (it was much better - and fuller - than my synopsis by the way) If I has a ...

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Afternoon folks, @AngryAsWell (from last night) I posted a link the other day to an article from - I think - Local Schools that basically said if your school is relying on inclusion then you & your teachers are failing. (it was much better - and fuller - than my synopsis by the way) If I has a b...

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/02/volvo-seeks-volunteers-for-self-driving-car-trial-in-west-london-public-roads Volvo seeks volunteers for self-driving car trial in UK London testing of semi-autonomous vehicles on public roads is to be conducted in tandem with one in Gothenburg, Swed...

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Michaela Community School Set To Hire £35,000 Detention Director To Be School’s ‘Sergeant Major’ ‘This role isn’t suited to someone who wants to be every child’s best friend.’ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/michaela-community-school-detention-director_uk_589054b8e4b03ab749dd76e4" onclic...

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Evening folks, Here's Chi Onwura explaining why her support for a second reading is anything but 'unconditional', as I think a WUM would put it. I'll vote for debate on #Article50, but not for this Govt's dystopian, alt-right, free market vision. My speech: goo.gl/QOIhFZ PS - I hope the link embedde...

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Good morfternoon. When the dreadful consequences of "Brexit" become obvious to the public, what will they do? I believe that they will turn on the politicians who professed to be in favour of remaining "In" who, nevertheless, helped "Brexit" along its way. People will ...

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I started looking at the East London Science School which seems to be headed up by people associated with Spiked and the Institute of Ideas. I thought for a science school this was somewhat less than impressive... http://i65.tinypic.com/2v1q6mu.jpg :roll: This is not particularly great either. Curr...

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Morning folks,
North-East MPs reveal how they intend to vote on triggering A50.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor ... r-12500549

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Oh, and Evening folks, My MP was, and I presume still is, a Remain supporter. He's also the Labour chief whip, and at the moment, seems likely to be asked to whip MPs to support a decision almost none of them really agree with, along with 70%+ of the members. The ones who are going all Burnham are c...

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The boss of Nissan Carlos Ghosn has admitted that the car giant's UK investments will be "re-evaluated" if Theresa May delivers a bad Brexit deal, despite last October's high-profile commitment by the firm to build its next Qashqai and X-Trail model at its Sunderland plant. Indepindie My ...

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On a positive note, May's speech has resolved the issue of the NHS. No more gloom and doom reporting. They are through it (at least the winter crisis) for the year. There is a sharp uptick in demand at the start of January because people postpone seeking medical care over the Xmas break. That uptic...

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Morning. (No doubt Theresa May doesn't accept that though) She might not accept it's a good morning, things not going so great for the Ice Queen eh? So, a great night for the Libs gaining two new councillors and regaining control of Three Rivers Council. But oh dear those who to took Labour’s thump...

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Evening folks, Feeling a bit Baltic here, but nee snuur (been out in Northumberland today). Anyway, this tome looks interesting: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/01/socialmobility/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; You can't have social mobility without reducing inequality...

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