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Also, shouldn't Scottorum have two Ts, on the basis it's derived from the Scotti tribe of Hibernia?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100027673/eurozone-economy-dead-in-the-water-with-crisis-expected-to-carry-on-a-long-time/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100027691/chinas-terrifying-debt-ratios-poised-to-breeze-past-us-levels/
And it is Malleus Scotorum.
His large grey marble tomb has no effigy or decoration and the inscriptions "Edwardus Primus Scotorum Malleus. Pactum Serva" (Edward the First, Hammer of the Scots. Keep Troth) were not painted on it until the 16th century.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/royals/burials/edward-i-and-eleanor-of-castile
Its no longer possible for a few people to control what people hear, see or read like in the past.
Israel's control or direct influence of some big western media centers (like New York media) doesn't work if people simply use the internet to see whats going on and how did it happen (see Arab-Israeli wars).
If people watch TV or read a newspaper especially in america they think that Israel under attack by moon nazis, but if they use the internet suddently they are presented with a different non-edited picture.
With the eurozone its just waiting for the bomb to go off and demolish the whole structure like it never existed, no one in its leadership knows how to turn the ship even if they cared.
That is the material difference, in europe politicians that fail (or get caught stealing) go to a nice cruise to the caribbean, in China they get executed.
Best to lay off the economic prognostications, huh?
TSE - wanted to submit this for your expert opinion.
Someone was arguing yesterday that this is the worst song/music video [Kris Jenner, I love my friends] in the history of mankind. I thought you'd have a view...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gUztf2a68
I submit to you these contenders
1) William Shatner - Total Eclipse Of The Heart - www.youtube.com/watch?v=J648lr8cjuw
2) Crystal Swing - Livin' la Vida Loca (I don't think I'll ever recover from this) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w7XHiRgqyo
3) The London Boys on the Top of the Pops was something special - as someone who was a child at the time, this left a real impression on me - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPs_IksWVaQ
"According to a member of the Labour leader's inner circle, the comprehensive-educated Thornton, with her non-political, provincial background, "roots him in real life".
Except Justine went to Nottingham Girls High School, which is not a comprehensive.
Curiously, her wikipedia entry makes no mention of NHGS, as well.
China already dominates the world but pollution and the obesity of the young foretell serious health issues in the future.
It is somehow a belief amongst Tories that anyone with a high income should be a Tory and they cannot understand why many are not.
As long as she pays her taxes, why is it any one else's business.
I am HR tax payer. Some years I buy ISA's - some years I forget. It hardly makes any difference anyway. That's about the sum of my tax planning. Not very good but I don't care. Many of us are not interested in looking at the Bloomberg screen.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4465/terrorists-reality-show
People coming from India thought the trains were great in comparison, those coming across Russia remarked how friendly the Chinese were.
Each will be insisting that they pay !
I can't decide.
Would be entertaining to read Sean T's reply to her sometime...
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Pahahaha troll!!
12% is the new 13% for yougov Kippers
I've not found the Chinese unfriendly either, once you get past a couple of cultural differences (like spitting and snorting), and hospitality rules the roost, as others have said. I need to take a variety of "typically British" gifts for the other side of the tradition - I suppose I'd better raid the horrible tourist shops at Heathrow on the way out.
Ah! Perhaps they'd like a gift set of Tom Knox novels.
I saw that and immediately thought of the 1988 song of that name by late great Gerry Rafferty. In fact his songs are now twisting and flowing and strolling through my mind just at the mention of his name.
Suspecting I may be on the wrong path, though, I used The Google and the references are to Kylie. Oh dear. Unfortunately I think I know which version TSE was referencing.
Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ)
22/07/2014 22:28
Interesting. With Nick Griffin gone, a man who despises #UKIP, how do 2010 #BNP voters plan to vote next year? --> pic.twitter.com/NqQhT2lX7H
Lib Dem MP David Ward criticised over Gaza tweets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28424396
(And I'd avoid the Tom Knox novels that deal with China...)
I was sneering at those who attempt to make political capital out from the backgrounds of politicians, such as George Osborne and David Cameron, contrasting them with down-to-earth Justine and Ed.
There is nothing wrong with her going to Nottingham Girl's High School (which after all was probably her parent's choice).
There is everything wrong with spinning Justine as a comprehensive-educated girl from the provinces keeping Ed in touch with real life.
The snippet I quoted is allegedly directly from the "Labour leader's inner circle", whatever that means.
It is not clear whether this is Labour Party spin. Or whether item 6 is just plain shoddy journalism by Mehdi Hasan.
That is, comprehensively-educated Mehdi Hasan, because he went to Merchant Taylor's school in a very rough part of Three Rivers, Hertfordshire.
Home Office research says between a third and a quarter of the fall in crime over the last two decades may be down to lower usage of hard drugs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10984149/How-heroin-played-key-role-in-rise-and-fall-of-crime-rates.html
What it doesn't seem to explain is why drug usage came down.
If we decriminalised all crime, the crime rate would be zero!
All crime is caused by law, let's scrap all laws!
'I was sneering at those who attempt to make political capital out from the backgrounds of politicians, such as George Osborne and David Cameron, contrasting them with down-to-earth Justine and Ed.'
What keeps Ed & Justine down-to-earth is their £4.5 million property portfolio and household income of around £350,000.
I know very few people who haven't taken drugs a lot, and I know many many people that have been caught with drugs by police... They are more or less legal anyway, no one got put away except for two who were caught with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth, one of whom was in France not here anyway
Alcohol is legal, but there are still a lot of crimes caused by its use, why should legalising drugs stop crime associated with it? It's not going to make them less addictive or make drug users have more money to buy them
And as for a common EU foreign policy on the whole situation....pull the other one. It really is a complete and utter farce, and the sooner the whole EU is consigned to the dustbin of history, which it will be when the Euro collapses after October 2015, the better.
With the eurozone its just waiting for the bomb to go off and demolish the whole structure like it never existed, no one in its leadership knows how to turn the ship even if they cared.
That is the material difference, in europe politicians that fail (or get caught stealing) go to a nice cruise to the caribbean, in China they get executed.
Speedy: didn't you once claim that PMIs were lagging economic indicators?
Best to lay off the economic prognostications, huh?
PS, talking of prognostications, and China, I'm going to win my bet with you, on Chinese GDP, aren't I?
Out of curiosity, what are the terms?
If I remember correctly, RCS reckoned Chinese GDP growth would slow below 5% this year, I said he was talking total bollocks.
The bet was evens as to whether it came out below, or over, 5%. A clearly absurd bet, yet he took it.
My view was that things would get worse quicker than people expected in China, largely as a result of the country approaching a Minsky moment (when debt servicing costs rise faster than economic growth, and you face a prolonged period of deleveraging). However, many of the concerns I have had have not come to pass, and the Chinese government has been much more open to reform than I had anticipated. This does not mean there will never be a recession on China. But the chances of one in the near term have receded. It is worth noting that the Chinese stock market has been one of e the world's worst performing in the last five years, and valuations are very low relative to most developed markets.
Its an absurd thing to bet on given how fabricated the number is. The Chinese stockmarket tells you a lot about what investors think of their economy.
And a farcical thing in our GDP figures (and the USA) is that we effectively count public sector employees twice, as we count them as government spending, and the expenditure that they spend in the economy with their wages as well! Gordon Brown couldn't have dreamt up a better distortion for valuing public sector employees over private sector employees if he tried! And then everyone puts so much store in 0.1% of GDP growth or contraction on such a bonkers figure. Such is the way of the world......!!!
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/labour_history_research/news_and_events/majority_pursuit.html?utm_source=laboursurvey&utm_medium=url&utm_campaign=redirect
As for the exact date - good question, lets see where we are in October 2015. We're starting to see a slow drift of capital back to Germany within the eurozone, in the vague belief that you'll get deutschmarks when it falls apart. The wider geopolitical ructions going on are just starting to set in motion a capital flow towards the US as the least dirty shirt - look at US stockmarket way outperforming European markets in the past few months.
Look at the farce of European foreign policy on MH17 - the wimplings towards Russia are basically the PIGs who can't do without Russian foreign capital, the on the fences are France (selling those specialist military helicopters towards Russia - imagine if the UK was doing that right now!) and Germany totally in hock to Russia on imported energy / exports whatever Frau Merkel says. And then UK and the baltic states and Sweden as the hardliners. Try getting a common foreign policy out of that unholy lot! The wimpling PIGs attitude towards Russia says a lot about how they view their own economic strength.....or not!
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/05/12/german-municipalities-in-crisis/
The one I found interesting was Dan Byles, for the most marginal Tory seat of Warwickshire North. That tells you a lot about the Tory marginal MP's belief in them getting an overall majority next year......or not!
I said incorrectly at the time that the 2010GE was the best election to lose - well I believe that about the 2015GE in spades, given the economic confidence model turns down post October 2015, in a Great Depression to 2020.
http://www.flightradar24.com/51.5,-0.13/7
Good night all!
From memory, the figure that the government uses is that a human life is "worth" £1 million: i.e. if a safety measure on the railway system (which has no other cost or benefit other than saving lives) costs £100 million, then it needs to save 100 lives (not sure over what period) to be considered a good use of taxpayers' money
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/07/21/global-warming-crowd-now-argue-it-is-cycles-that-mask-the-warming-trend/
Good night and good night Alistair Cook on the England captaincy!
You can't have liked how Private Eye described you.
The scientific method is designed to work out what is happening based on experimentation. When there are contrary indications experiments are made to see if the results are repeatable.If so the theory is refined. Newton wasn't wrong, but Einstein's work extended our knowledge.
AGW is an important subject and needs to be talked about logically. So less of the "absurd" "nonsense" please.