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  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    New Nielsen poll Australia - GhostWhoVotes tweets that the latest Nielsen poll, conducted for Fairfax from a sample of 1400, has the Coalition’s lead blowing out to 57-43 after a relatively mild 54-46 last month. The primary votes are 29% for Labor (down three) and 47% for the Coalition (up three). That becomes 50-50 under a Kevin Rudd leadership scenario, with primary votes of 40% for Labor and 42% for the Coalition. The poll also finds Julia Gillard crashing on preferred prime minister from 46-46 to 50-41 in Tony Abbott’s favour.

    On the Green Agenda, considering that comres poll gave it 28% favourable and 23% unfavourable would not seem to have too much momentum

  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,962
    Sunil Prasannan ‏@Sunil_P2
    Metropolitan Railway steam engine No.1 was on the Epping Ongar Railway today! Will also be there next two weekends. Dates from 1898!
    https://twitter.com/Sunil_P2/status/346354301091844096/photo/1
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    edited June 2013
    Disraeli's secret love child? - http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article1274582.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_06_16

    Finally, OT, went to a great concert by Bruce Springsteen at Wembley last night, well worth catching while he is still going if you ever get the chance
  • AlastairMeeksAlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    I shyly Pray that some regular posters stop baiting other regular posters and instead turn Back For Good.
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    FPT re: Freggles' Guardian story

    I can just about see the public interest defence for the snooping on emails.

    Revealing that GCHQ spys on our allies (which I had assumed anyway), and exactly how they did so, seems a little off.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Enormously unsurprising that we spy on other countries. It'd be amazing if they didn't do the same to us.
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    Might be a chill in the air at the summit...

    https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/346362464088236033/photo/1
  • Mick_PorkMick_Pork Posts: 6,530
    Dacre seems to be going for the people's PM Tony Blair's throat these days.
    Blair's dirty money: As his tentacles reach Mongolia, how the ex-PM is making millions from some of the world's most evil regimes

    Tony Blair is to advise Mongolian leaders on 'good governance'

    The former Prime Minister won't say how much he is earning from the deal

    Mr Blair is said to be worth between £60million and £80million

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342032/Blairs-dirty-money-As-tentacles-reach-Mongolia-ex-PM-making-millions-worlds-evil-regimes.html
    This on top of his helpful front page story from the other day.

    I wonder why? ;)




  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    'It would be madness to arm the rebels in what has become a brutal religious war, says Boris Johnson'

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10123938/Weve-left-it-too-late-to-save-Syria-this-conflict-can-never-be-won.html
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Enormously unsurprising that we spy on other countries. It'd be amazing if they didn't do the same to us.


    And yet, now they can prove it.

    Probably won't change anything but it is a good story.
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    antifrank said:

    I shyly Pray that some regular posters stop baiting other regular posters and instead turn Back For Good.

    Don't relight their ire.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    @antifrank @sunil

    Depeche Mode were rather awesome last night.

    I've given up on them ever performing Master and Servant live for me though.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Boris, Farage and others are right. We'd be nuts to get involved in that way.

    It's mildly amusing that the leaker (who I think has some merit for the extensive scale of the surveillance he revealed) has run away to China, that well-known haven of campaigners for freedom and openness.
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    Montgomerie out for Boris 'the bold'(£):

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3792596.ece
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited June 2013
    antifrank said:

    I shyly Pray that some regular posters stop baiting other regular posters and instead turn Back For Good.

    Sure your prayers will be answered if you have a little patience

  • fitalassfitalass Posts: 4,314
    edited June 2013
    Carola said:

    antifrank said:

    I shyly Pray that some regular posters stop baiting other regular posters and instead turn Back For Good.

    Don't relight their ire.
    Some regular posters Never Forget. It Shouldn't take a Minute to run out of Patience, if it did, the threads would never make Progress.

  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Tiger Woods ends his US Open 13 OVER par. Wow!
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Anyone have classical history recommendations? It'll be a while before I buy some more books, but it feels like ages since I read about something ancient.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Well Tim M has pretty endorsed Boris as next Leader in his Times piece tomorrow.

    Elsewhere in the Times, David Davis has written a piece that is very unhelpful for George Osborne.
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Boris, Farage and others are right. We'd be nuts to get involved in that way.

    It's mildly amusing that the leaker (who I think has some merit for the extensive scale of the surveillance he revealed) has run away to China, that well-known haven of campaigners for freedom and openness.

    The only two political leaders with a bit of sense.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Anyone have classical history recommendations? It'll be a while before I buy some more books, but it feels like ages since I read about something ancient.

    Depends on your definition of ancient.?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    The "unforeseen circumstances" gag is one of my favs... Years ago there was a psychic fair at our local pub, and we printed out posters saying "cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances", stuck them over the signs advertising it and got everyone to phone up demanding to know what was going on... What rascals we were!
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Anyone have classical history recommendations? It'll be a while before I buy some more books, but it feels like ages since I read about something ancient.

    My little black book?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    PM to resign over illegal surveillance scandal.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22930710#TWEET791708

    (That's the Czech PM, not Dave)
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Mr. Eagles, preferably BC rather than AD.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    Mick Pork - He also said taxes should not be raised on the super rich, clearly he now has a personal interest!
  • Mick_PorkMick_Pork Posts: 6,530
    edited June 2013
    MikeK said:

    Morris_Dancer said:

    Boris, Farage and others are right. We'd be nuts to get involved in that way.

    It's mildly amusing that the leaker (who I think has some merit for the extensive scale of the surveillance he revealed) has run away to China, that well-known haven of campaigners for freedom and openness.

    The only two political leaders with a bit of sense.

    A bit premature.
    Boris is not leader yet and may never be. He has something else in common with NF. Neither are MPs.
  • fitalassfitalass Posts: 4,314
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Well Tim M has pretty endorsed Boris as next Leader in his Times piece tomorrow.

    Elsewhere in the Times, David Davis has written a piece that is very unhelpful for George Osborne.

    That made me chuckle. If Boris has suddenly become the answer to Tim Montgomery question on who leads the Tories, then he Still Hasn't Found What He Is Looking For. From Liam Fox to Boris Johnson, Tim's journey trying to find a bespoke Tory Leader who will prove to be Even Better Than The Real Thing.

  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    I hope Bob (who used to post about classical history and knew much more about it than me) comes back one day.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    Carola - Fully agree with Boris on that, particularly given the rebels Al Qaeda links
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Eagles, preferably BC rather than AD.

    I recommend the bible.

    It has, inter alia, sex, incest, murder, plotting, famine, the Devil, Gods and Angels
  • MonikerDiCanioMonikerDiCanio Posts: 5,792
    A decade after Blair's Iraq adventure began ;

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/16/iraq-shiite-bomb-shooting/2427797/

    What's the peace envoy up to ?
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Eagles, preferably BC rather than AD.

    I recommend the bible.

    It has, inter alia, sex, incest, murder, plotting, famine, the Devil, Gods and Angels
    And a happy ending! But I am giving away the plot...
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    HYUFD said:

    Carola - Fully agree with Boris on that, particularly given the rebels Al Qaeda links

    It's the Telegraph fp:

    https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/346368501004509184/photo/1
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Mr. Eagles, I fear the Bible's also quite repetitive and in need of some editing.

    I have read bits of it. Revelation's my favourite, as it was clearly written by someone who had eaten magic mushrooms.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Tonight's time machine has been set to 3rd June 1982:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGpt2ywiTzY&amp
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited June 2013
    Speaking of Spiderman II - I love this scene, bizarrely the person who posted it on YouTube thinks it was deleted - it wasn't...

    Spidey is having a bad day and his webby thingy isn't working,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHVjuiA9jcI
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    MikeK said:

    Tiger Woods ends his US Open 13 OVER par. Wow!

    If you'd watched him all 4 days, you wouldn't be surprised. His putting at majors is terrible. Plus there is a suspicion he's hurt again.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,962
    HYUFD said:

    Carola - Fully agree with Boris on that, particularly given the rebels Al Qaeda links

    Boris Johnson is an alpha bloke!
  • CharlesCharles Posts: 35,758
    Carola said:

    antifrank said:

    I shyly Pray that some regular posters stop baiting other regular posters and instead turn Back For Good.

    Don't relight their ire.
    They just need to Relax
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    Moniker - Doing very nicely thankyou staying in the most expensive hotels in Jerusalem with armed motorcades
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    edited June 2013
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Eagles, I fear the Bible's also quite repetitive and in need of some editing.

    I have read bits of it. Revelation's my favourite, as it was clearly written by someone who had eaten magic mushrooms.

    My favourite part of the bible is Proverbs 5:19

    http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Breast/

  • Mick_PorkMick_Pork Posts: 6,530
    Speaking of political betting, more startling pearls of wisdom with film and TV obsessive Philomena Cunk.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQafqIufnNw

    ;^ )
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    Carola - Thanks, Sunil - Agree, and in today's Times 2/3 of Tory MPs were said to oppose Syrian intervention
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    edited June 2013
    Morris_Dancer said:

    I hope Bob (who used to post about classical history and knew much more about it than me) comes back one day.

    Who needs Bob, when you have me, with my excellent knowledge of all things Classical History

    (But yes, Bob needs to come back)

  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    edited June 2013
    what about 2 Kings 9,8 from KJV?

    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
  • CarolaCarola Posts: 1,805
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    HYUFD said:

    Carola - Fully agree with Boris on that, particularly given the rebels Al Qaeda links

    Boris Johnson is an alpha bloke!
    Apart from his tennisballophobia:

    https://twitter.com/Markfergusonuk/status/346369122357112834/photo/1
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    The hotel I stayed in Paris, their wifi, blocked PB due to its contenus pour adultes.

    Totally unrelated, my wife wishes we would stay at more hotels like that.
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    The hotel I stayed in Paris, their wifi, blocked PB due to its contenus pour adultes.

    Totally unrelated, my wife wishes we would stay at more hotels like that.

    Ironically most of the adult content is posted by you in the first place...

  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Freggles said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    The hotel I stayed in Paris, their wifi, blocked PB due to its contenus pour adultes.

    Totally unrelated, my wife wishes we would stay at more hotels like that.

    Ironically most of the adult content is posted by you in the first place...

    I blame SeanT
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    Hebrews 11:32-34

    32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

    33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.

    34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    edited June 2013
    Gallup 2016 GOP favourables

    Favorable / Unfavorable {Net}
    Chris Christie 52% / 20% {+32%}
    Marco Rubio 37% / 22% {+15%}
    Paul Ryan 40% / 32% {+8%}
    Ted Cruz 24% / 18% {+6%}
    Rand Paul 34% / 29% {+5%}

    Among Democrats/Dem-Leaning Independents
    Chris Christie 54% / 17% {+37%}
    Marco Rubio 21% / 34% {-13%}
    Ted Cruz 11% / 29% {-18%}
    Rand Paul 16% / 45% {-29%}
    Paul Ryan 17% / 53% {-36%}

    Among Republicans/GOP-Leaning Independents
    Paul Ryan 69% / 12% {+57%}
    Marco Rubio 58% / 11% {+47%}
    Rand Paul 56% / 13% {+43%}
    Ted Cruz 40% / 8% {+32%}
    Chris Christie 53% / 25% {+28%}
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,962
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    @antifrank @sunil

    Depeche Mode were rather awesome last night.

    I've given up on them ever performing Master and Servant live for me though.

    Did they do Just Cant't Get Enough?
  • Mick_PorkMick_Pork Posts: 6,530
    On R4 it sounds like Cammie is considering driving through arming the rebels regardless of parliament and any vote.

    Boris is right to posture on this as it could get very ugly indeed should Cammie do so.
    It would also pile massive pressure on Clegg and the lib dems.

  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited June 2013
    Boris & Nigel knew...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22930386
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    @antifrank @sunil

    Depeche Mode were rather awesome last night.

    I've given up on them ever performing Master and Servant live for me though.

    Did they do Just Cant't Get Enough?
    They did, was part of the encore.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,774
    Now that JFK is back, Alan Pardew is 7/4 as next Prem Manager to leave with Skybet

    http://www.skybet.com/football/specials/manager-specials
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Hope PBers are finding the Mitcham & Morden election special interesting. I think hardly anyone's seen it for 31 years.
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Big battle between Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson at the US Open. But it's just started raining though.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392

    Twigg to ban non-qualified teachers from Free Schools:
    Mr Twigg said:

    "It is shocking that this government is allowing unqualified teachers into the classroom. High-quality teaching is the most important factor in improving education. We need to drive up the quality of teaching, not undermine it."


    A Department of Education source responded:

    "We are raising the standards required to qualify for taxpayer-funded training. However, we also need flexibility to allow brilliant teachers from private schools or abroad to teach in state schools.

    "It would be stupid to stop brilliant teachers who want to be able to switch from private to state schools from doing so. Having qualified teacher status and being qualified to teach are very different things."
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 4,557
    Ezekiel 23:20 always makes me laugh.

    http://www.biblestudytools.com/ezekiel/23.html
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    Mick_Pork said:

    Dacre seems to be going for the people's PM Tony Blair's throat these days.

    Blair's dirty money: As his tentacles reach Mongolia, how the ex-PM is making millions from some of the world's most evil regimes

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342032/Blairs-dirty-money-As-tentacles-reach-Mongolia-ex-PM-making-millions-worlds-evil-regimes.html


    The photographs of Blair may have been chosen to be unflattering but even so, the sainted Tony does seem to have got very old, very recently.
  • MrJonesMrJones Posts: 3,523
    There's a lot of bronze age social history buried in the Bible if you read it with that in mind.
  • MrJonesMrJones Posts: 3,523
    edited June 2013
    Morris_Dancer said:



    It's mildly amusing that the leaker (who I think has some merit for the extensive scale of the surveillance he revealed) has run away to China, that well-known haven of campaigners for freedom and openness.

    Interesting timing of the Blair-Dong revelations as well seeing as Blair was primed to be a major cheerleader for Syria.

  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,392
    Congrats Justin Rose on winning the US Open, the first Englishman to win the title in 43 years and the first since Faldo in 1996 to win any major!
  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    Rose wins!
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Opinium age splits:

    55+

    Con 29%
    Lab 28%
    UKIP 27%
    LD 9%

    18-24:

    Lab 45%
    Con 26%
    UKIP 12%
    LD 7%

    http://ukgeneralelection2015.blogspot.co.uk/
  • davidthecondavidthecon Posts: 165
    I must say that until a few hours ago I considered golf to be the most tedious inane spectator sport imaginable. Absolute garbage.

    NOT ANY MORE!!!!

    All hail the mighty greatness of Justin Rose! I knew you could do it my son, I was there rooting for you all the way. All hail England. God Save The Queen!

    Davidthecon, jumping onto bandwagons since the year zero.
  • davidthecondavidthecon Posts: 165
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    @antifrank @sunil

    Depeche Mode were rather awesome last night.

    I've given up on them ever performing Master and Servant live for me though.

    Did they do Just Cant't Get Enough?
    Get a room you two. Given your abysmal musical tastes preferably one with padded walls and including two free straightjackets.

    Hail Satan, the dark serpent deceiver.

    Depeche Mode, I vomit on thee and all thy works.

  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,667
    Kids from comprehensives outperform those from private schools at university:

    http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/16/accesstouniversity-private-schools

  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Good morning, everyone.

    Mr. Eagles, I fear that comparing yourself to Bob is like Valerian comparing himself to Aurelian.
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    @Freggles - you mentioned Spiderman III - I gave it an 7/10 - its not as good as SII, and has a bit of disjointed plot with 3 different things going on.

    That said, the Sandman makes a good baddy re concept. It's a lot better than I remember it when it first came out, so if your other half fancies it - I'd say give it a whirl.

    I find MJ rather annoying but maybe that's just me.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,850
    Mr. Observer, that's an interesting finding on education. This line did make me wonder, though:

    "One of the characteristics, along with differences such as age, gender and ethnicity, was the type of school attended."

    Obviously those three factors are not in the gift of parents or child, but if we're to embark upon social engineering by making it easier for those who did less well at a state school (on the apparently statistically sound notion that they do relatively better than private school peers at university), would this open the door for age, gender and ethnicity quotas?

    I'm not fond of the idea of differing entry requirements. However, it does seem that the system's going to be unfair one way or the other. It's worth mentioning, on a personal note, that my GCSE results were fairly good, my A-levels were rubbish (one was mismarked horrendously, but even so they weren't great) and I did end up with a 2:1.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,544
    Morris_Dancer said:

    Mr. Eagles, I fear the Bible's also quite repetitive and in need of some editing.

    I have read bits of it. Revelation's my favourite, as it was clearly written by someone who had eaten magic mushrooms.

    Teaching a group of care workers about drugs and their actions I remarked that had a particular anti-psychotic medication been available when the New Testament was written, Revelations never would have been.

    The very religious Matron was horrified!
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