Bloody hell! I'm not actually opposed to spending plenty of money restoring the building, and obviously without moving them out en masse it would take quite a long time (I think the longest I'd previously seen estimated was something like 20 years), but 32 years?
I guess I'm reluctantly more in favour of the 6 year absence £3.5bn option in that case (as much as I do not like London, I don't like the idea of just putting parliament somewhere else).
I hear there is a parliament building in Strasbourg which is currently significantly underused. An option for decant?
Bloody hell! I'm not actually opposed to spending plenty of money restoring the building, and obviously without moving them out en masse it would take quite a long time (I think the longest I'd previously seen estimated was something like 20 years), but 32 years?
I guess I'm reluctantly more in favour of the 6 year absence £3.5bn option in that case (as much as I do not like London, I don't like the idea of just putting parliament somewhere else).
My first suggestion would be the London parliament building, go from there.
Bloody hell! I'm not actually opposed to spending plenty of money restoring the building, and obviously without moving them out en masse it would take quite a long time (I think the longest I'd previously seen estimated was something like 20 years), but 32 years?
I guess I'm reluctantly more in favour of the 6 year absence £3.5bn option in that case (as much as I do not like London, I don't like the idea of just putting parliament somewhere else).
Great! What a money maker! Cities and towns could bid for the right to host Parliament for 6 (more likely at least 12) years during the restoration.
You could make it like It's a Knock Out. Think of it - you could have Shepton Mallet playing the joker against Bishop Auckland.
On Greece. So the reports are from a German newspaper and do not give the conditions attached to any potential bailout extension or new cash.
Won't know if there is an extension then until Maria Callas sings.
Maria Callas died in 1977, so I could suggest a more recent demise, that of Demis Roussos who died last January.
Of course there's always Nana Mouskouri, who is still extant, I am led to believe..
Or Yanni. But I was going for the opera and fat (even though Callas was not) lady sort of thing
I tried to avoid thinking of Yanni at all costs - all those over starched flowing white shirts with huge cuffs on yet another interminable PBS special.
Bloody hell! I'm not actually opposed to spending plenty of money restoring the building, and obviously without moving them out en masse it would take quite a long time (I think the longest I'd previously seen estimated was something like 20 years), but 32 years?
I guess I'm reluctantly more in favour of the 6 year absence £3.5bn option in that case (as much as I do not like London, I don't like the idea of just putting parliament somewhere else).
I hear there is a parliament building in Strasbourg which is currently significantly underused. An option for decant?
If we are staying in the EU, there are many who would argue it makes a perverse amount of sense to try that option, and better than its current wastefulness.
Though looking at the details again, even with the need to play something like this very carefully, not even starting until 2020 seems unnecessary.
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Given that these subsidies are one of the very few benefits Scotland gets from the National Infrastructure Plan (cost to Scotland over £3bn per annum, benefit less than £200m per annum), it is indeed perverse.
Another own goal for Cameron.
And terrible news for consumers facing even more high cost electric reliance on nuclear in future instead of cheap and getting cheaper wind power.
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Yes, describing the decision of his government as perverse is bound to get him to work constructively to address issues. Though in fairness that is obviously not the point of such a tactic (I should say I don't have any view on the actual matter in question, but tactically it only seems to make sense if you don't care about changing minds, which is valid enough)
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
Mr. B, host it in Leeds, and force politicians to be mauled by disgruntled Yorkshire audiences on a regular basis.
That took me right back to those hilarious fake Eddie Waring commentaries Graeme Garden used to do on "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", particularly in their take off on Knock out.
Mr. Dair, I've always argued for the age to remain constant or increase.
If you think it's nanny state, you must advocate all living people getting the vote regardless of age. If it's just a question of where you draw the cut-off line, then you and I agree on the principle and simply disagree on the detail.
Most likely we do.
The best solution would be to throw the whole decision over all ages of consent/majority/contract/behaviour to technocrats and base it on some evidence based science. But the chances of that happening are probable as slim as Labour winning in 2020.
They may give an awkward answer, like there is no set age given people's different personalities, or that one sex can vote a year before the other!
Interesting one. I can see a strong argument for having a higher driving age for teenage boys than girls. (Even as a human rights issue, there's something to be said for protecting the potential victims of crashes... which often means protecting people from themselves.)
I'm sure earlier today someone commented on that clip of Martin Schultz saying Britain belonging to the EU - one assumes not quite what he meant - but it does make me think of a leaflet from the EU I saw recently describing Brussels as the Capital of Europe. Not in quotations or 'Europe's capital' tm or 'the EU's capital'
Bloody hell! I'm not actually opposed to spending plenty of money restoring the building, and obviously without moving them out en masse it would take quite a long time (I think the longest I'd previously seen estimated was something like 20 years), but 32 years?
I guess I'm reluctantly more in favour of the 6 year absence £3.5bn option in that case (as much as I do not like London, I don't like the idea of just putting parliament somewhere else).
I hear there is a parliament building in Strasbourg which is currently significantly underused. An option for decant?
If we are staying in the EU, there are many who would argue it makes a perverse amount of sense to try that option, and better than its current wastefulness.
Though looking at the details again, even with the need to play something like this very carefully, not even starting until 2020 seems unnecessary.
If they do go for the full decant, there was some worry there may actually not be enough labour in the workforce who possess the necessary skills. Must admit I was a tad skeptical about this, but what do I know!
Mr. B, host it in Leeds, and force politicians to be mauled by disgruntled Yorkshire audiences on a regular basis.
That took me right back to those hilarious fake Eddie Waring commentaries Graeme Garden used to do on "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", particularly in their take off on Knock out.
Wasn't that "I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue" described as the antidote to panel games. Even funnier was/is the double act with Barry Cryer as "Hamish and Dougal"
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
That was then. There's just not enough money for that sort of thing any more. Unless it's a new railway into London, obviously.
The marginal cost of nuclear is only a teeny bit higher, and you can have then even when there is no wind.
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Given that these subsidies are one of the very few benefits Scotland gets from the National Infrastructure Plan (cost to Scotland over £3bn per annum, benefit less than £200m per annum), it is indeed perverse.
Another own goal for Cameron.
And terrible news for consumers facing even more high cost electric reliance on nuclear in future instead of cheap and getting cheaper wind power.
If the subsidies are costing Scotland net £2.8bn, why is it an own goal for him to scrap them?
Mr. B, host it in Leeds, and force politicians to be mauled by disgruntled Yorkshire audiences on a regular basis.
That took me right back to those hilarious fake Eddie Waring commentaries Graeme Garden used to do on "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", particularly in their take off on Knock out.
Danny M Yougov on Sunday had Burnham ahead with Labour and all voters followed by Cooper, Kendall behind Corbyn with Labour voters, we shall see on Sunday if anything has changed
Labour voters
Burnham 21% Cooper 12% Kendall 5% Corbyn 8%
All voters
Burnham 10% Cooper 7% Kendall 4% Corbyn 4%
We shall see if Sunday post debate has been any change
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
Your premise only works if 'consumers of electricity'' and contributors to 'general taxation' are mutually exclusive.
Putting my pedant hat on, the general term for people who don't 'get' mathematics is 'innumerate'.
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Oh dear, all her chums whining about the loss in profits for manufacturing heavily subsidised McWindymills and power, on the hour or two a day they're actually generating.
Boris remains the Tories best chance in my view, Osborne is best behind the scenes, but Boris' best chance would have come from a Tory defeat, in power Osborne is the favourite
Mr. B, host it in Leeds, and force politicians to be mauled by disgruntled Yorkshire audiences on a regular basis.
That took me right back to those hilarious fake Eddie Waring commentaries Graeme Garden used to do on "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", particularly in their take off on Knock out.
Wasn't that "I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue" described as the antidote to panel games. Even funnier was/is the double act with Barry Cryer as "Hamish and Dougal"
Haven't a clue came after ISIRTA finished.
My favorite was when they would read UPC codes and had to guess the product - thick black, thick black, thin black etc
The answer always seemed to be either tampons or oven ready badger.
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
I think it makes sense to construct whatever gives the cheapest /kWhr costs over the entire lifetime of the project (i.e. including construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning). Pricing should be based on marginal costs, but investment decisions not.
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
That was then. There's just not enough money for that sort of thing any more. Unless it's a new railway into London, obviously.
The marginal cost of nuclear is only a teeny bit higher, and you can have then even when there is no wind.
The problem with nuclear (regardless of safety which is generally overplayed but in small landmass countries should be considered) is that the Decommissioning costs more than double the capital outlay.
The true solution (and it is expensive short term) is microgeneration backed up with some more pumped storage and part-time gas generation. Smart countries would be filling up with things like this
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Given that these subsidies are one of the very few benefits Scotland gets from the National Infrastructure Plan (cost to Scotland over £3bn per annum, benefit less than £200m per annum), it is indeed perverse.
Another own goal for Cameron.
And terrible news for consumers facing even more high cost electric reliance on nuclear in future instead of cheap and getting cheaper wind power.
If the subsidies are costing Scotland net £2.8bn, why is it an own goal for him to scrap them?
The National Infrastructure Plan costs Scotland £3bn. This is substantially more than wind subsidies. Wind subsidies are one of the very few ways Scotland gets even than shabby £200m back.
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
They have their sums right.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
That was then. There's just not enough money for that sort of thing any more. Unless it's a new railway into London, obviously.
The marginal cost of nuclear is only a teeny bit higher, and you can have then even when there is no wind.
The problem with nuclear (regardless of safety which is generally overplayed but in small landmass countries should be considered) is that the Decommissioning costs more than double the capital outlay.
The true solution (and it is expensive short term) is microgeneration backed up with some more pumped storage and part-time gas generation. Smart countries would be filling up with things like this
But sensible, long term decisions tend to be an alien concept in the UK.
Decommissioning costs of first generation plants, probably. New builds? Not so much.
Anyway, according to you, costs borne by the taxpayer are an irrelevance as all we need to do is look at the marginal cost. Make your mind up, old bean.
The problem with nuclear (regardless of safety which is generally overplayed but in small landmass countries should be considered) is that the Decommissioning costs more than double the capital outlay.
The true solution (and it is expensive short term) is microgeneration backed up with some more pumped storage and part-time gas generation. Smart countries would be filling up with things like this
But sensible, long term decisions tend to be an alien concept in the UK.
Decommissioning costs of first generation plants, probably. New builds? Not so much.
Anyway, according to you, costs borne by the taxpayer are an irrelevance as all we need to do is look at the marginal cost. Make your mind up, old bean.
No, they do need considered.
The problem is that the press (and the anti-Wind morons) create a misconception by calling the cost of building turbines included in electricity bills as a "Green Tax". It is not a green tax, it is a new way of pricing the cost of infrastructure and artificially makes wind look more expensive than Coal where the infrastructure costs are not on the bill *at all*.
I have absolutely no problem with changing to a price structure where investment is in the bill. Just not misrepresenting it.
@BBCNormanS: Scotland First Minister @NicolaSturgeon writes to PM demanding re-think over "peverse" decision to scrap wind farm subsidies
Given that these subsidies are one of the very few benefits Scotland gets from the National Infrastructure Plan (cost to Scotland over £3bn per annum, benefit less than £200m per annum), it is indeed perverse.
Another own goal for Cameron.
And terrible news for consumers facing even more high cost electric reliance on nuclear in future instead of cheap and getting cheaper wind power.
If the subsidies are costing Scotland net £2.8bn, why is it an own goal for him to scrap them?
The National Infrastructure Plan costs Scotland £3bn. This is substantially more than wind subsidies. Wind subsidies are one of the very few ways Scotland gets even than shabby £200m back.
This whole energy subsidy nonsense is completely distorting the market. If I lease a Nissan Leaf for 2 years the state gives me a $5000 tax credit. As leasing it for 2 years is less than that, I could actually make money by leasing one. But the car is so impractical that it is pointless. Its range is less than a daily commute in this part of the world.
Electric cars have no future, their carbon footprint is awful thanks to the battery manufacturing process, and they are impractical - why waste tax payers money subsidizing them?
The future of cars is the Honda Clarity and its next generation...
I could actually make money by leasing one. But the car is so impractical that it is pointless. Its range is less than a daily commute in this part of the world.
So lease it and leave it in the garage for 2 years. And no deductible for wear and tear
The problem with nuclear (regardless of safety which is generally overplayed but in small landmass countries should be considered) is that the Decommissioning costs more than double the capital outlay.
The true solution (and it is expensive short term) is microgeneration backed up with some more pumped storage and part-time gas generation. Smart countries would be filling up with things like this
But sensible, long term decisions tend to be an alien concept in the UK.
Decommissioning costs of first generation plants, probably. New builds? Not so much.
Anyway, according to you, costs borne by the taxpayer are an irrelevance as all we need to do is look at the marginal cost. Make your mind up, old bean.
No, they do need considered.
The problem is that the press (and the anti-Wind morons) create a misconception by calling the cost of building turbines included in electricity bills as a "Green Tax". It is not a green tax, it is a new way of pricing the cost of infrastructure and artificially makes wind look more expensive than Coal where the infrastructure costs are not on the bill *at all*.
I have absolutely no problem with changing to a price structure where investment is in the bill. Just not misrepresenting it.
Are we on coal now? Ok. The long-term costs of coal are all in the cost of fuel and annual running of the plant. Build and decommissioning costs are small beer in comparison. Comparing coal and wind by including wind turbine initial investment but not coal station initial investment is, I agree, a bit naughty and a bit innaccurate. Still, it's a quibble at best and would not change the overall pitcure.
With all this Waterloo talk around today, it made me think of something I was told recently, that Napoleon IV died fighting for the British in the Anglo-Zulu war. Strange turns families can take.
With all this Waterloo talk around today, it made me think of something I was told recently, that Napoleon IV died fighting for the British in the Anglo-Zulu war. Strange turns families can take.
Indeed - Napoleon XIV had a hit in the 60s with "They're coming to take me away"
Shame, quite enjoyed Evans when she was on Daily Poltiics, and especially This Week. I hope they continue to have her on like they do with Green for the LDs.
I could actually make money by leasing one. But the car is so impractical that it is pointless. Its range is less than a daily commute in this part of the world.
So lease it and leave it in the garage for 2 years. And no deductible for wear and tear
Taking part would just encourage more of this nonsense.
It seems to me that both the Greeks and the Yerpeans use the threat of Grexit against each other with equal abandon and equal insincerity, since Grexit would be equally disastrous for either.
It has always and still seems like there'll be a managed default in which pretty much everything gets written off. I struggle to identify anyone credible saying Grexit is either necessary or a good idea. It seems to come mainly from Kippers on the DT website, who'd like it to happen because it would damage the EU, but who have also spent the last 5 or 10 years thinking property and equities were a sell and gold was a buy.
This whole energy subsidy nonsense is completely distorting the market. If I lease a Nissan Leaf for 2 years the state gives me a $5000 tax credit. As leasing it for 2 years is less than that, I could actually make money by leasing one. But the car is so impractical that it is pointless. Its range is less than a daily commute in this part of the world.
Electric cars have no future, their carbon footprint is awful thanks to the battery manufacturing process, and they are impractical - why waste tax payers money subsidizing them?
The future of cars is the Honda Clarity and its next generation...
The point of the subsidy is to switch consumption which would not shift due to market intransigence. This would exist regardless and clearly does exist in terms of the automotive market as most people still burn hydrocarbons to get about.
The problem is not one of market interference but one of political incompetence leading to subsidising the dead end of stored electrical power instead of the obvious solution in Hydrogen Fuel Cells.
That scenario is what I reckon will not happen. Greece will indeed fail to pay the money at some point, but this will be by prior arrangement, i.e. a managed default.
If European politicians are asked to choose between writing off a few billion, and writing off ever-closer union by allowing default and Grexit, I would think they would choose the former.
Greece is 2% of the EU economy. Not exactly a major component. The debts are unpayable by Greece but not massive in the light of the EU as a whole.
With all this Waterloo talk around today, it made me think of something I was told recently, that Napoleon IV died fighting for the British in the Anglo-Zulu war. Strange turns families can take.
Indeed - Napoleon XIV had a hit in the 60s with "They're coming to take me away"
It is hard to decide which is the most bizarre: the Prince Imperial being killed in Zululand whilst serving with the British army, or him being buried in Chislehurst.
The Danish exit poll projects 89 seats for the centre-right, 86 for the centre-left.
One poll did. Over on the other channel they called it for the centre left?
DR's rival TV2 has called the election for Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her allies, giving them 87 Danish seats compared to 88 for the opposition, which it predicts is enough to give her another term once seats from Greenland and the Faroe Islands are added.
Up there with the all time stupidest political decisions. To throw away their best presenter and the person who produced a coherent manifesto. Madness. I hope after a break, the Conservatives are able to attract her back.
That scenario is what I reckon will not happen. Greece will indeed fail to pay the money at some point, but this will be by prior arrangement, i.e. a managed default.
If European politicians are asked to choose between writing off a few billion, and writing off ever-closer union by allowing default and Grexit, I would think they would choose the former.
Greece is 2% of the EU economy. Not exactly a major component. The debts are unpayable by Greece but not massive in the light of the EU as a whole.
If that were the choice, I might agree with you. But you are forgetting the moral hazard that would create vis-a-vis the rest of the PIIGS. That raises the cost beyond the affordable, no matter one's wishes re ever closer union.
Nice BBC story about Scots at Waterloo and the first-hand accounts they left of the battle. Plus delightful, sub-Wilfred-Owen poetry. All left me wondering the type of question the PB-brainhive might be good at:
What are the earliest battles we have "everyman" eye-witnesses for? We have accounts of the Battle of Hastings, but nowt from the point of view of Edric The English Archer. Poor sod wouldn't have been literate. By the Napoleonic Wars, enough soldiers and sailors could read and write that some scum-of-the-Earth's scribblings passed down to us. (Related, but different echelons: sure I read that when the Queen Mum was very young, some of the oldest people around the royal court could recount to her how splendid the Waterloo victory ball was. Is't true? Marvellous if so. Withered hands of history slip away from our tender, forgetful grip, etc.)
Often the final survivors played but peripheral roles, may never have reached an actual battlefield or even fired a shot in anger if they did. Yet it's interesting there were survivors of the French Revolution about in the 1880s, and of the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 to the turn of the century. The Texas Revolution and Bear Flag Revolt a few years later still. For comparison, the oldest surviving phonographs basically date from the 1880s (with the odd earlier recordings on tinfoil or phonautograph being exceptionally difficult to replay), but I doubt a "grunt's-eye-view of oral history" was one of the top priorities for the earliest recordists.
Going further, for what events do we have first-hand testimony on-screen (film or TV footage)? The last survivors of the Crimean War and War of Italian Unification were still around in the 1930s. The Zulu War, The Paris Commune, Franco-Prussian War and the US Civil War can take us through to the 40s and 50s. The Boer War, in theory, up to 1993. I've certainly seen and been very moved by TV interviews with WWI survivors and Russian Revolutionaries, and heard audio of US Civil War vets (and former slaves). Just how far back can we go?
Daniel Hannan, the British Conservative MEP who was in Denmark on Wednesday to help the campaign had congratulated the [eurosceptic] Danish People's Party on its result. "I'm delighted by the advance of our sister party, the Danish People's Party, as well as of the eurosceptic Liberal Alliance," he told The Local by text message. "Danes plainly remembered who wanted them to join the euro and who kept them out."
With all this Waterloo talk around today, it made me think of something I was told recently, that Napoleon IV died fighting for the British in the Anglo-Zulu war. Strange turns families can take.
Indeed - Napoleon XIV had a hit in the 60s with "They're coming to take me away"
It is hard to decide which is the most bizarre: the Prince Imperial being killed in Zululand whilst serving with the British army, or him being buried in Chislehurst.
The Prince had already been to Zululand, but possibly had not yet visited Chislehurst?
"20.27pm Daniel Hannan, the British Conservative MEP who was in Denmark on Wednesday to help the campaign had congratulated the Danish People's Party on its result. "I'm delighted by the advance of our sister party, the Danish People's Party, as well as of the eurosceptic Liberal Alliance," he told The Local by text message. "Danes plainly remembered who wanted them to join the euro and who kept them out.""
"20.27pm Daniel Hannan, the British Conservative MEP who was in Denmark on Wednesday to help the campaign had congratulated the Danish People's Party on its result. "I'm delighted by the advance of our sister party, the Danish People's Party, as well as of the eurosceptic Liberal Alliance," he told The Local by text message. "Danes plainly remembered who wanted them to join the euro and who kept them out.""
Sits with them in the ECR grouping (though as a member of MELD, no AECR like the Tories).
I think I know what the Danish "exit poll" means, though...
Not particularly good unfortunately. Plenty of graphics to look at though.
Just so long as they bring home the bacon......
This one's going to be close! Glad I only have 50p on it...
For those following who are not regulars to the Danish market, remember Greenland and the Faroes are not officially committed to the red camp, but are widely expected to agree a late deal.
@MyBurningEars N A M Roger's account of The Georgian Navy which covered the 18th Century suggested that printed recall notices were used, and enough of the crew were able to read them. Such notices were a comparatively effective way of communication.
@MyBurningEars N A M Roger's account of The Georgian Navy which covered the 18th Century suggested that printed recall notices were used, and enough of the crew were able to read them. Such notices were a comparatively effective way of communication.
That's very interesting. Wonder if any of them wrote up their memoirs. By the 19th century there's certainly some interesting material (not just from the navy, but also e.g. on whaling).
Often the final survivors played but peripheral roles, may never have reached an actual battlefield or even fired a shot in anger if they did. Yet it's interesting there were survivors of the French Revolution about in the 1880s, and of the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 to the turn of the century. The Texas Revolution and Bear Flag Revolt a few years later still. For comparison, the oldest surviving phonographs basically date from the 1880s (with the odd earlier recordings on tinfoil or phonautograph being exceptionally difficult to replay), but I doubt a "grunt's-eye-view of oral history" was one of the top priorities for the earliest recordists.
Going further, for what events do we have first-hand testimony on-screen (film or TV footage)? The last survivors of the Crimean War and War of Italian Unification were still around in the 1930s. The Zulu War, The Paris Commune, Franco-Prussian War and the US Civil War can take us through to the 40s and 50s. The Boer War, in theory, up to 1993. I've certainly seen and been very moved by TV interviews with WWI survivors and Russian Revolutionaries, and heard audio of US Civil War vets (and former slaves). Just how far back can we go?
Interesting questions. When it comes to images, what about sketches down by everyday soldiers in the pre-photography era, or trench-art style goods (e.g. a building in Southampton has graffiti from when French prisoners were held within it).
As an aside, there's a famous TV segment with a person who was in the theatre when Lincoln was shot. I think Plato linked to it once.
Up there with the all time stupidest political decisions. To throw away their best presenter and the person who produced a coherent manifesto. Madness. I hope after a break, the Conservatives are able to attract her back.
I only caught a few minutes of the DP interview earlier, and she was quite good but, perhaps, a little too forthrightly truthful in answers to questions.
Interesting questions. When it comes to images, what about sketches down by everyday soldiers in the pre-photography era, or trench-art style goods (e.g. a building in Southampton has graffiti from when French prisoners were held within it).
As an aside, there's a famous TV segment with a person who was in the theatre when Lincoln was shot. I think Plato linked to it once.
In terms of physical artefacts, I understand (in the broadest sense, and fuelled only by occasional subjection to antique-porn TV) that French POWs in England made a lot of crafts-stuff to sell to the locals (model ships and so on), many of which survive.
Interesting questions. When it comes to images, what about sketches down by everyday soldiers in the pre-photography era, or trench-art style goods (e.g. a building in Southampton has graffiti from when French prisoners were held within it).
As an aside, there's a famous TV segment with a person who was in the theatre when Lincoln was shot. I think Plato linked to it once.
In terms of physical artefacts, I understand (in the broadest sense, and fuelled only by occasional subjection to antique-porn TV) that French POWs in England made a lot of crafts-stuff to sell to the locals (model ships and so on), many of which survive.
The graffiti on the glass panels of Croick church in Scotland is heartbreaking, if you ever get a chance to see it (or camp in the graveyard, as I did, without knowing that I was far from the first to have been forced to sleep there).
Sadly as a witness he couldn't remember much about the incident ... except that he was very concerned for the health of Booth, who had jumped off the balcony and hurt his leg. He hadn't realised that the president had been shot.
@MyBurningEars N A M Roger's account of The Georgian Navy which covered the 18th Century suggested that printed recall notices were used, and enough of the crew were able to read them. Such notices were a comparatively effective way of communication.
That's very interesting. Wonder if any of them wrote up their memoirs. By the 19th century there's certainly some interesting material (not just from the navy, but also e.g. on whaling).
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You could make it like It's a Knock Out. Think of it - you could have Shepton Mallet playing the joker against Bishop Auckland.
@BBCNormanS: Scot First Minister @NicolaSturgeon warns ending wind farm subsidy cd cost consumers up to £3 billion
The SNP and sums; what are the chances...
Though looking at the details again, even with the need to play something like this very carefully, not even starting until 2020 seems unnecessary.
@GdnPolitics: Ukip deputy chair Suzanne Evans facing calls to quit over 'divisive Farage' claim http://t.co/w9NWGGhGpM
@kevverage: The Independence White Paper was literally an *order of magnitude* out even with its low-end oil revenue forecast. http://t.co/gXtuRI5ByT
Another own goal for Cameron.
And terrible news for consumers facing even more high cost electric reliance on nuclear in future instead of cheap and getting cheaper wind power.
As usually you are numerically illiterate.
The cost of the vast majority of the UKs generation infrastructure has never been paid for by consumers of electricity. The coal stations and previous generations of nuclear were all paid for from general taxation and only running costs used to price consumption.
Whether it is coal, nuclear or wind, new capacity will have to be built. It is sensible to subsidise and promote by far the cheapest Marginal Cost option - and that is Wind.
Which the UK government then includes in Scotland's alleged Deficit when categorising it as a "black hole".
Even funnier was/is the double act with Barry Cryer as "Hamish and Dougal"
The marginal cost of nuclear is only a teeny bit higher, and you can have then even when there is no wind.
I see you have the press release from Zoomer central.
Tell us the one about VAT again. It was a belter.
Labour voters
Burnham 21%
Cooper 12%
Kendall 5%
Corbyn 8%
All voters
Burnham 10%
Cooper 7%
Kendall 4%
Corbyn 4%
We shall see if Sunday post debate has been any change
https://yougov.co.uk/publicopinion/archive/?page=2
Putting my pedant hat on, the general term for people who don't 'get' mathematics is 'innumerate'.
My favorite was when they would read UPC codes and had to guess the product - thick black, thick black, thin black etc
The answer always seemed to be either tampons or oven ready badger.
http://www.cityam.com/218302/labour-leadership-race-poll-shows-burnham-slight-favourite-6-pc-party-supporters-back-fake
The true solution (and it is expensive short term) is microgeneration backed up with some more pumped storage and part-time gas generation. Smart countries would be filling up with things like this
http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2015/01/371076,xcitefun-wind-solar-lights-3.jpg
But sensible, long term decisions tend to be an alien concept in the UK.
@robindbrant: The e mail also instructs them to refuse any media bids for her and says 'she is not to be offered as an official @UKIP spokesman'.
Anyway, according to you, costs borne by the taxpayer are an irrelevance as all we need to do is look at the marginal cost. Make your mind up, old bean.
The problem is that the press (and the anti-Wind morons) create a misconception by calling the cost of building turbines included in electricity bills as a "Green Tax". It is not a green tax, it is a new way of pricing the cost of infrastructure and artificially makes wind look more expensive than Coal where the infrastructure costs are not on the bill *at all*.
I have absolutely no problem with changing to a price structure where investment is in the bill. Just not misrepresenting it.
Electric cars have no future, their carbon footprint is awful thanks to the battery manufacturing process, and they are impractical - why waste tax payers money subsidizing them?
The future of cars is the Honda Clarity and its next generation...
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/
Comparing coal and wind by including wind turbine initial investment but not coal station initial investment is, I agree, a bit naughty and a bit innaccurate. Still, it's a quibble at best and would not change the overall pitcure.
It has always and still seems like there'll be a managed default in which pretty much everything gets written off. I struggle to identify anyone credible saying Grexit is either necessary or a good idea. It seems to come mainly from Kippers on the DT website, who'd like it to happen because it would damage the EU, but who have also spent the last 5 or 10 years thinking property and equities were a sell and gold was a buy.
The problem is not one of market interference but one of political incompetence leading to subsidising the dead end of stored electrical power instead of the obvious solution in Hydrogen Fuel Cells.
http://www.cityam.com/218224/its-central-bank-warns-painful-euro-exit-would-greek-default-necessarily-lead-grexit
If European politicians are asked to choose between writing off a few billion, and writing off ever-closer union by allowing default and Grexit, I would think they would choose the former.
Greece is 2% of the EU economy. Not exactly a major component. The debts are unpayable by Greece but not massive in the light of the EU as a whole.
I guess they are just rusting-up somewhere.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jun/18/denmark-general-election-2015-results-live
Blue bloc: 89 seats
Red bloc: 86 seats
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/htm/grafik/2015/billeder/exitpoll-20-00_620.png
"requires politicians who are prepared to tell the truth to their people” Dijsselbloem
Lagarde: Deal with Greece needs dialogue with "adults in the room"
https://www.dr.dk/tv/live/event/folketingsvalg-2015-2#!/
I think I know what the Danish "exit poll" means, though...
What are the earliest battles we have "everyman" eye-witnesses for? We have accounts of the Battle of Hastings, but nowt from the point of view of Edric The English Archer. Poor sod wouldn't have been literate. By the Napoleonic Wars, enough soldiers and sailors could read and write that some scum-of-the-Earth's scribblings passed down to us. (Related, but different echelons: sure I read that when the Queen Mum was very young, some of the oldest people around the royal court could recount to her how splendid the Waterloo victory ball was. Is't true? Marvellous if so. Withered hands of history slip away from our tender, forgetful grip, etc.)
Moreover, from which Great Events (conflicts, revolutions, riots, disasters, technological or sporting firsts) are eyewitness accounts not just written, but recorded? TFOAN has some interesting pages on last survivors of historical events, last surviving European veterans by war, and a rather imposing list for all conflicts.
Often the final survivors played but peripheral roles, may never have reached an actual battlefield or even fired a shot in anger if they did. Yet it's interesting there were survivors of the French Revolution about in the 1880s, and of the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 to the turn of the century. The Texas Revolution and Bear Flag Revolt a few years later still. For comparison, the oldest surviving phonographs basically date from the 1880s (with the odd earlier recordings on tinfoil or phonautograph being exceptionally difficult to replay), but I doubt a "grunt's-eye-view of oral history" was one of the top priorities for the earliest recordists.
Going further, for what events do we have first-hand testimony on-screen (film or TV footage)? The last survivors of the Crimean War and War of Italian Unification were still around in the 1930s. The Zulu War, The Paris Commune, Franco-Prussian War and the US Civil War can take us through to the 40s and 50s. The Boer War, in theory, up to 1993. I've certainly seen and been very moved by TV interviews with WWI survivors and Russian Revolutionaries, and heard audio of US Civil War vets (and former slaves). Just how far back can we go?
http://fox59.com/2015/06/18/dylann-storm-roof-arrested-in-north-carolina-according-to-report/
Suzanne Evans is the best thing UKIP has going for it. Which means she is being forced out by the Faragists.
What do the PB Kippers have to say on this?
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150618/live-denmark-goes-to-the-polls
"20.27pm Daniel Hannan, the British Conservative MEP who was in Denmark on Wednesday to help the
campaign had congratulated the Danish People's Party on its result. "I'm delighted by the advance of our sister party, the Danish People's Party, as well as of the eurosceptic Liberal Alliance," he told The Local by text message. "Danes plainly remembered who wanted them to join the euro and who kept them out.""
For those following who are not regulars to the Danish market, remember Greenland and the Faroes are not officially committed to the red camp, but are widely expected to agree a late deal.
As an aside, there's a famous TV segment with a person who was in the theatre when Lincoln was shot. I think Plato linked to it once.
There is medieval graffiti in many a church, and some cracking stuff at the Tower of London
In 1995, Robertson said that "Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead" while he was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. (wikipedia)
http://www.croickchurch.com/churchatcroick.htm
And here's the newspaper cutting which the TV researchers had picked up on.
Sadly as a witness he couldn't remember much about the incident ... except that he was very concerned for the health of Booth, who had jumped off the balcony and hurt his leg. He hadn't realised that the president had been shot.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wooden-World-Anatomy-Georgian/dp/0393314693
https://twitter.com/ssoendergaard/status/611610334172971008