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refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.

Refitman in technology fail shocker!

refitman wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.

These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.

Refitman in technology fail shocker!

Not a fail, deliberate management of resources, leading to comical confusion.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
There you go PF. For next time you need it....

Conservatives split over Boris Johnson's Brexit article as backlash continues - Politics live

Think you’d never be so stupid as to put your savings in a rip-off hedge fund? You may well have already done so
Despite the awful returns and rip-off fees of hedge funds, 4.8 million people in the UK are invested in them through their pension schemes

The world’s biggest economies are sitting on a $70 trillion (£54 trillion) pensions time bomb that will balloon to more than $400 trillion within four decades unless policymakers take urgent action, the World Economic Forum has warned.

Last week he announced the closure of his hedge fund Eclectica, after haemorrhaging investors’ money. It may have something to do with the fact that last year Hendry was apparently betting on a break-up of the entire European Union.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:There was a time when Boris might have got away with it, but he's hacked off too many people now.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Saudi Arabia's application to attend the Labour Conference has been refused.

Brexit department loses its permanent secretary

Oliver (Olly) Robbins, permanent secretary at DExEU (the department for exiting the EU, and the government’s lead official on Brexit, is moving, the BBC reports. These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.


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May's chief EU sherpa, Ollie Robbins, moves out of Brexit dept and into Cabinet Office - relations had not been great with Davis
12:01 PM - Sep 18, 2017

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.

“I had a funny feeling in my gut,” [Colonel Petrov] later told The Washington Post.
“I didn’t want to make a mistake. I made a decision, and that was it.”
[He] attributed his judgment to both his training and his intuition.

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“We are wiser than the computers,” he said in a 2010 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. “We created them.”

PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."

So - in retreat, then?

tinyclanger2 wrote:PS - best wishes to the family RoT.

PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."

So - in retreat, then?

She [Theresa May] has always said she does not want to take a model off the shelf. The UK is in a unique position, she says. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)

PorFavor wrote:Night night.