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New Labour has been accurately desribed as being a marketing excercise rather than a party.In 1997 it espoused policies simply designed to appeal to Middle England rather than through conviction politics.Tony Blair himself said there was no longer a real working class (though lots of people...

End of discussion. Time for a new thread "Who is the second hottest Playmate of all time"? Still modelling and looking incredible 17 years on........

The medical profession routinely double the stated amount of ******* their patients say they consume.Personally I only ***** on two occasions; when it's raining and when it isn't.

One thing that needs to be mentioned was that Stalin purged the officer class during the 1930s which led to the Red Army being poorly prepared to meet the German onslaught.He was saved by the vast size of the USSR (though commanders who retreated were often shot) which stretched the German lines...

As nobody has the faintest idea how Robin would have spoken (assuming he existed in the first place;my view is that he was a composite figure) it doesn't matter a deal.

It's very good.But no single AV ptogram gives total security. It's still a good idea to do (say) a Malwarebytes full scan every week as well.Between the two of them you should be OK.

Just a thought of the many actors who seemed to crop up everywhere without ever taking the lead role. Familiar faces but never the star.Who remembers Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler ?

The Queen in fact receives no taxpayers' money at all.On her accession she handed over to the Treasury all her income from her Crown Estates in exchange for a yearly grant called the Civil List. As she pays in about double what she receives it's hardly a burden on the taxpayer.Most of the Civil...

Either way something is going to happen, we don't have the luxury of time to spare before having a settled government and this puts Clegg in pole position.If he helps the Tories the world financial markets will breathe a sigh of relief and our economic situation might just ease a little.We are...

But not in votes cast.Bearing in mind that a Tory vote is a ****** vote in much of Scotland, there were still nearly as many voted Tory as SNP or LibDem.It just takes 413 000 Tory votes to elect an MP but only 25 000 Labour votes will get a Labour MP.

"for free".......you can get something free or something for nothing but free is an adjective as in "free meals" ,not a noun. Quantum leap or jump. Used to decribe a massive change but a quantum is the smallest change possible in the universe. Errant apostrophes such as "apple's" , an...

mrtrebus, the Blair and Brown governments could give masterclasses about being scum.Lies, more lies,what happened to the promised EU referendum? taxes, more taxes , jobs for the boys and girls, fabricating a pretext to ****** Iraq,corrupt cabinet ministers being brought back over and over...

Time travel might be possible in theory under certain conditions.When it comes to shifting a whole human being through the process and coming out unscathed at the other end that's a totally different matter.

As someone said, anyone can write a good menu but it's what comes from the kitchen that matters. I'm ambivalent about electoral reform , on the one hand we are effectively disenfranchising a large part of the population , on the other hand countries using the system don't seem to derive much...

I agree about Trident , although we need a nuclear capability simply because we live in a world where they exist.But a system like Trident doesn't seem to fit any present or more importantly future situations. You are too sweeping about the Tories and the NHS-historically they were the prime...

"Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes"............usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin but it's quite likely to be earlier than that.

Trouble with voting LibDem is that it increases the chance of another 5 years of Gordon Brown and his likes. As to mrtrebus, to call the Tories scum after what we've just had is quite remarkable.Brown has destroyed the best pension provision in Europe (we had a pension fund bigger than the rest...

Let me get this right-you live in a supposed free country and are required to have identification? I would certainly have a problem because I don't have any and on principle wouldn't carry it if i did. Civil liberties are very important. Sometimes they cause difficulties but that's a necessary...

But some States became part of the US by swamping what was Mexico with ******* immigrants.It wasn't unincorporated land. Not making judgement on this but it seems to have been forgotten in all the righteous indignation over "illegals" .

In essence the majority of people are descended from ******* immigrants, the whole country was settled by people simply going there without much regard for the original inhabitants.And look at how many of the southern states were taken from Mexico simply by flooding them with settlers.That's how...

It was discovered and named by Sir Humphrey Davy as aluminium.Most metals in fact (except those known in antiquity) have names ending in "ium" and it's difficult to work out why our American friends started to leave out the i.

We are threatened with this in the UK as an anti-terrorist move. What they don't get is the fact that it's a gift to a well organised well financed terrorist organisation (or a criminal one) because they would have the capability of getting false cards. So if the police are looking for Fred...

Driving on the left was at one time pretty well universal but after the Revolution the French changed over and it all started from there. We have the last laugh though because as most drivers are right handed it's significantly safer to drive on the left. Our skills aren't ambidextrous after...

Where I come from it's the ****** and ****** who make the ***** so its logical that those with the biggest stake and involvement should be the ones doing the upbringing.I do like to see grandparents involved too-I'm one myself and find it a wonderful experience. I can also complement and extend...

Of course they are not, and some **** from stable homes turn out badly.But politics must address the general and face that there is a very much greater risk to ******** in broken homes than in traditional ones.They are more likely to do badly at school and to get into trouble with the law.But...

Do I detect a spot of prejudice? Labour had to shift because old thinking just didn't deliver the goods in a modern world.Their core values were at best wishful thinking. The Tories do not like the idea of ID cards, they are very keen on civil liberties.As for "outdated" ****** values, just...

Anything well brewed and well kept delivered straight from the cask with all its glorious freshness.I've never had anything from a bottle which comes anywhere near seducing me from this pinnacle of brewing.Just as I've never had any instant coffee anything like as good as that from freshly...

Forgetting that it was the Tories who rescued the UK economy in 1979 (overseas observers believed that Britain was irrevocably sliding towards being a banana republic) converting it from the weakest to about the strongest in Europe.Now somebody is going to have to do it again and it won't make...

Unfit recruits are as old as time itself. In WW1 the typical British soldier gre two inches and gained several pounds in weight during training.The problem in those days was poor diet and malnutrition rather than obesity.

There are two sorts of bad ****-that which is so bland and tasteless that it's insulting your intelligence.This unfortunately accounts for about 90% of world production , usually pale yellow fizz served cold.Everything from Corona through Red Stripe,Bud, Miller, Coors ,Fosters,Carling to Peroni...

The US micros vary from indifferent to world class.Just as the micros do in the UK and elsewhere.They are at least matched.US brewers have no skills not found in other countries. Globally quality has to be shelved in favour of quantity.Good **** requires good ingredients which for climatical...

Anything which follows the phrase "To be perfectly honest.........."

The jury had no difficulty in reaching its verdict having been presented with all the evidence.It took just two hours and was a unanimous decision.There were clearly factors which convinced these citizens that either he wasn't guilty or wasn't responsible for his actions at the time.He had been...

There are many bands in what might be termed the "first division" and I think there would be a general consensus on that. But best of the lot and for all time? For sheer musicianship and imagination the Electric Light Orchestra is well up there. All the bands have produced a variety of...

Put it this way, at minimum wage levels it takes just 6 seconds for a worker to earn 1 penny.That's less time than it takes for a checkout person to sort out your change and give it to you.I now just put all bronze coins into the charity boxes near the till , it might as well do some good. I...

German engineering is very good, their designing ability is shocking. Have you never seen an Audi TT?

**** in a box is nothing new. Many UK brewers sell **** to take away or even for delivery, the standard size is 17 UK pints. These have been around for more years than I care to remember. For example http://www.woodfordes.co.uk/shopping/ Difference is that these beers taste of something...

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To be honest, Blair misled Parliament over the Iraq business and most politicians voted on the "evidence" placed in front of them.A few more experienced and less gullible MPs like Kenneth Clarke and Robin Cook refused to vote for the war.The Tories backed the government after taking Blair at...

In a free country any person should be allowed to go about his business without carrying ID.It's different in a police state but do you want to become one? ID is so easy to forge anyway. Most forms are useless because they don't lock the bearer to the document.

Clegg came over OK but there still was no substance in what he said.But political parties must be more than a charismatic leader.We don't need someone photogenic with a good TV image we need someone who will get the job done. Pity that Kenneth Clarke isn't the Shadow Chancellor though.

Put gnat's **** in a box and it remains gnat's ****.

Many breweries are producing special beers for the occasion but we aren't a one ***** race like Ireland has Guinness.

Now that public transport is free for many people in the UK including all those of 60 or more the services are much more frequent and they do make a good option for many journeys. To visit my nearest city there's a bus every 15 minutes , it takes you right to the centre and you don't have to...

The difference is that even when riding on an unprecedented world boom he didn't put anything to one side for the proverbial rainy day but kept on borrowing to fund his pet schemes. He threw money at all sorts of things, not really bothering about where it landed (he called this "investment")...

I don't really like oaking of beers. What happened was that some brewers realised that in times past **** was brewed and stored in oak vessels.I can still remember seeing oak barrels being delivered to pubs, an awesome sight.They tried oaking beers to emulate this, but in fact the brewerrs of...

What about the ordinary British squaddie? A very few thousand of them spread out over millions of square miles managed to keep 400 million people peaceful for over a century.For all his victories, Napoloeon's ****** never beat them in battle either. No mention of Alexander the Great either.

It's one of those things which though true are misleading.OK, it takes 130 pints of water to make a pint of ****. But these 129 other pints aren't lost , they are what falls on the fields growing the crops.What isn't taken up by the plants goes through the normal water cycle; into aquifers or...

The need to be actually part of the EU is unproven. We depend on the EU fot trade not because of the organisation but because of all the people living there.If we left, the French would still sell us their **** ! Norway and Switzerland seem to cope tolerably well outside the EU. We benefitted...

That's a claim often brought against her but never substantiated.Not to mention the fact she was misquoted and misinterpreted.What she actually said and meant was in my view nothing more than stating the obvious.That it isn't society which foots the government's bills it's individual men and...