If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
I think that the claim was that they had been told by someone who claimed they had a photo, so second hand at best.
Bloody silly to force a country to take people it doesn't want.
Especially since the migrants don't want to go there either.
This is a bureaucratic allocation by numbers which cannot possibly work. Having said that, I'm not sure that anyone has come up with any better ideas.
True, but a truly bad idea need not be implemented just because it's the only idea being floated. Rergrettable as it seems, further delays until a better idea comes along, with holding solutions until then to address the problem, may well be better.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
Was it even a Tory MP? There must be a few stirrers in the Labour camp with access to Ashcroft and Oakeshott.
O/T A surprise "hush hush" guest speaker is promised at the UKIP conference. Another defection? Danzcuk would seem the most likely. Any market on this?
Danzcuk will only act to promote Danzcuk and his large Labour majority make it very unlikely.
O/T A surprise "hush hush" guest speaker is promised at the UKIP conference. Another defection? Danzcuk would seem the most likely. Any market on this?
Danzcuk will only act to promote Danzcuk and his large Labour majority make it very unlikely.
If he thinks that, say, 75% of his local labour members did not vote for Corbyn in the leadership election, then perhaps he might think he could rely on a personal/anti-newnewlabour vote, but very risky even if he didn't go for a by-election.
Anyway, more important than a disgraced spin doctor's utterances is today's Scotland Vs Japan rugby match. Will the Brave Blossoms continue their superb form? Will Scotland potentially put themselves in position to top the group?
If Japan win, they could win the group themselves. It could be a cracker.
Also today is Australia Vs Fiji, and the less competitive France Vs Romania.
This is the Scottish rugby team you're talking about. Their last two great performances were in 2000 and 1990 when they upped their game to deny L'Angleterre the five nations.
We're talking about a side that regularly puts up the most embarrassingly inept performance against any Italian side since the Battle of Zama
Hey, we had a great performance in 2010 to smash Ireland in Dublin.
Ok. Three decent performances in twenty five years
And when we beat Australia Home and Away in 2009 & 2012 which is more than Wales have achieved in the last 7 years.
People seem to be concentrating on the Scotland Japan game and how Japan may be value at 5/1.
Forget that game. Romania at 50-1 vs a very poor France which only won 2 games in this years six nations side is the real value in todays matches.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
McBride was being interviewed by Galloway on Sputnik at the weekend, and said that he would like to work for Corbyn, but wasn't anticipating a call. Surely I'm not the only PBer who watches Sputnik?
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
Sorry, yes you right on that bit. But the individual didn't claim to have been there, and it doesn't have to be a Tory MP, so you need to add a few more to your list.
Anyway, more important than a disgraced spin doctor's utterances is today's Scotland Vs Japan rugby match. Will the Brave Blossoms continue their superb form? Will Scotland potentially put themselves in position to top the group?
If Japan win, they could win the group themselves. It could be a cracker.
Also today is Australia Vs Fiji, and the less competitive France Vs Romania.
This is the Scottish rugby team you're talking about. Their last two great performances were in 2000 and 1990 when they upped their game to deny L'Angleterre the five nations.
We're talking about a side that regularly puts up the most embarrassingly inept performance against any Italian side since the Battle of Zama
Hey, we had a great performance in 2010 to smash Ireland in Dublin.
Ok. Three decent performances in twenty five years
And when we beat Australia Home and Away in 2009 & 2012 which is more than Wales have achieved in the last 7 years.
People seem to be concentrating on the Scotland Japan game and how Japan may be value at 5/1.
Forget that game. Romania at 50-1 vs a very poor France which only won 2 games in this years six nations side is the real value in todays matches.
No chance. France will steam roller the monkey snot out of Romania.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
I suppose the only thing that really matters is whether or not Mr Cameron had his top button fastened whilst greeting the porker.
Anyway, I am looking forward to Tim Farron's speech...
...ending.
Any chance he will yell "Victory to the Farronite 451!"?
The best advice Farron could give would be "go back to your constituencies and prepare for boundary changes."
The Lib Dem national polling 6%? was it!? seems a bit at odds with their modest success/swings in recent local by-elections. If their fortunes modestly dip, Farron could be joining the Greens and UKIP with 3 seats amongst the lot of them.
And no doubt the BBC will waste hours of airtime on their irrelevant party even then.
Not to mention parliament will no doubt still recess for their irrelevant talking shop.
Mr. 30, it's entirely possible, though I suspect a journalist who is also a moron, and a billionaire who also has a vendetta is the simpler explanation.
Mr. 30, it's entirely possible, though I suspect a journalist who is also a moron, and a billionaire who also has a vendetta is the simpler explanation.
Ashcroft is still my second favourite billionaire with the Scottish polling leak though.
Mr. 30, it's entirely possible, though I suspect a journalist who is also a moron, and a billionaire who also has a vendetta is the simpler explanation.
Ashcroft is still my second favourite billionaire with the Scottish polling leak though.
Meanwhile, UKIP have come up with another way to repel voters:
"Former UKIP election candidates have said allowing high profile figures from outside Wales to apply to stand in the assembly election will put off voters.
Ex-MPs Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton, and Nigel Farage's head of media Alexandra Phillips are all applying to stand as regional list candidates.
Ken Beswick, UKIP's general election candidate in Torfaen, said Welsh members should run the party in Wales."
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
Sorry, yes you right on that bit. But the individual didn't claim to have been there, and it doesn't have to be a Tory MP, so you need to add a few more to your list.
The MP is, however, identified as a man so Jane Ellison can come off the list.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
What are the chances that the whole pig thing was a similar smear that someone successfully planted?
I asked that yesterday. It's in exactly the same vein: take an accusation / fact about someone (Osborne and Rowe, Cameron and Osborne) and build on it in a salacious manner to diminish the target. The Osborne attack even involved suggesting photographs and ''secret tapes' existed that would prove the claims.
The attack on Cameron's deceased child and Francis Osborne were particularly sick.
It's perfect possible that these claims were introduced at the same time. The McAlpine saga shows how Westminster is one massive rumour mill.
O/T A surprise "hush hush" guest speaker is promised at the UKIP conference. Another defection? Danzcuk would seem the most likely. Any market on this?
There's another obvious possibility.
*glances at the Daily Mail*
McBride or Cashcroft? Either would fit in at UKIP.
Tim Farron actually quoting from Big Yellow Taxi, there.
A song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.
Farron saying he will work with the Conservatives again is surely a turn off to the large part of their 2010 vote who deserted them at the very idea of a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition. Maybe the soft Tory vote is the Lib Dems most accessible target but it doesn't make up a large part of the electorate.
McBride was being interviewed by Galloway on Sputnik at the weekend, and said that he would like to work for Corbyn, but wasn't anticipating a call. Surely I'm not the only PBer who watches Sputnik?
What's sputnik ?
The best show on RT (Russia Today), hosted by George Galloway.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
What are the chances that the whole pig thing was a similar smear that someone successfully planted?
I asked that yesterday. It's in exactly the same vein: take an accusation / fact about someone (Osborne and Rowe, Cameron and Osborne) and build on it in a salacious manner to diminish the target. The Osborne attack even involved suggesting photographs and ''secret tapes' existed that would prove the claims.
The attack on Cameron's deceased child and Francis Osborne were particularly sick.
It's perfect possible that these claims were introduced at the same time. The McAlpine saga shows how Westminster is one massive rumour mill.
'McBride suggested the website spread false rumours that pictures exist of Osborne...'
Swap the names, and the supposed act. Mere coincidence? Or did someone steal the idea from a smear merchants playbook?
We'll never know, since confessing to the fabrication would destroy the story.
How can this Farron speech be so full of cliches and not be totally boring. Nothing new, the same old crap!!!!
He's a politician, what do you expect?
I quite like some of the content, but his delivery's more than a little flat. He doesn't do tub-thumping rhetoric, but I reckon he'll do a good job of starting the Lib Dem rebuild.
Bloody silly to force a country to take people it doesn't want.
Especially since the migrants don't want to go there either.
This is a bureaucratic allocation by numbers which cannot possibly work. Having said that, I'm not sure that anyone has come up with any better ideas.
Only Mr Cameron - ie keep them in the camps near to their own country. And of course bomb Syria... win the war.
Yes of course - more bombing will definitely prevent further people from leaving Syria. They love a bit of bombing. I can see them turning back in their droves even at the prospect.
Tim Farron actually quoting from Big Yellow Taxi, there.
A song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.
Interestingly (YMMV), Amy Grant's 1995 cover implied an average annual inflation rate of 11.9% since 1970.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
Sorry, yes you right on that bit. But the individual didn't claim to have been there.
But what is any of this meant to prove even if true (doubtful). Someone anyone aged 19 (?) was silly? Silly escapades involving being tied to a lamppost naked on your stag night for instance or even worse are the activities of all society irrespective of age race creed class or colour. lt signifies nothing.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
What are the chances that the whole pig thing was a similar smear that someone successfully planted?
I asked that yesterday. It's in exactly the same vein: take an accusation / fact about someone (Osborne and Rowe, Cameron and Osborne) and build on it in a salacious manner to diminish the target. The Osborne attack even involved suggesting photographs and ''secret tapes' existed that would prove the claims.
The attack on Cameron's deceased child and Francis Osborne were particularly sick.
It's perfect possible that these claims were introduced at the same time. The McAlpine saga shows how Westminster is one massive rumour mill.
'McBride suggested the website spread false rumours that pictures exist of Osborne...'
Swap the names, and the supposed act. Coincidence?
Might be, might not be. But it's slightly suspicious. If only the MP who talked to Ashcroft and the 'journalist' (I'm not quite sure she deserves to be called such any more) would come forward. It might harm his career though ...
It's almost comical that on a day where Merkel is facing potentially career ending problems over the twin problems of her Migrant policy and VAGs snowballing problems, while the fundamental future of the EU is under threat and the qualified majority vote has been used to enforce EU foreign policy on subsidiary states, the Daily Politics is wasting all but 4 minutes of a 90 minute show on an irrelevant, dead party with 8 MPs.
Mr. Dair, I'd agree, except that the Lib Dems have a considerable presence in the Lords and Farron appears to have indicated he'll be ignoring the Salisbury Convention [probably to try and make the Lords collide with the democratic chamber and increase support for Lords reform].
It's almost comical that on a day where Merkel is facing potentially career ending problems over the twin problems of her Migrant policy and VAGs snowballing problems, while the fundamental future of the EU is under threat and the qualified majority vote has been used to enforce EU foreign policy on subsidiary states, the Daily Politics is wasting all but 4 minutes of a 90 minute show on an irrelevant, dead party with 8 MPs.
Mr. Dair, I'd agree, except that the Lib Dems have a considerable presence in the Lords and Farron appears to have indicated he'll be ignoring the Salisbury Convention [probably to try and make the Lords collide with the democratic chamber and increase support for Lords reform].
And that is the only justifiable story for the BBC to actually cover. Anything beyond that is a complete failure of objectivity. It did get a brief mention earlier but was not properly followed up and faded away without any reasonable answer from any of the multitude of Liberals that are flooding the programme.
The Lib to Labour defector was quite entertaining though. But still probably not worth coverage on a national programme.
Tim Farron actually quoting from Big Yellow Taxi, there.
A song in which Joni complains they 'Paved paradise to put up a parking lot', a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.
The Environmental Impact Assessment also required they took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. Very thoughtful. Could have just cut and burnt....
That's pretty impressive in such a short period of time. That also suggests that the initial favourability etc polling is more useful than usual.
Note the figure for Andy Burnham - just 59%. A useful reminder that many people simply don't follow politics at all.
Won't yougov overstate recognition of public figures by the general population ? (There'll be more than 2% of the pop who won't know who David Cameron is methinks)
Won't yougov overstate recognition of public figures by the general population ? (There'll be more than 2% of the pop who won't know who David Cameron is methinks)
Maybe so. I was impressed that 10% recognised Heidi Alexander.
That's pretty impressive in such a short period of time. That also suggests that the initial favourability etc polling is more useful than usual.
Note the figure for Andy Burnham - just 59%. A useful reminder that many people simply don't follow politics at all.
Won't yougov overstate recognition of public figures by the general population ? (There'll be more than 2% of the pop who won't know who David Cameron is methinks)
More than 2% of the population wouldn't recognise a pig.
If the MP who told this story was a Tory MP in 2014 and was an Oxford contemporary of Cameron, then these are, as far as I can make out, the suspects..
Why would the MP have to have been an Oxford contemporary?
Didn't they claim to have seen it happen?
No. Surely we've been through all this. The claim was that someone else had a photo. It's hearsay.
From the Mail - "Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig"
What are the chances that the whole pig thing was a similar smear that someone successfully planted?
I asked that yesterday. It's in exactly the same vein: take an accusation / fact about someone (Osborne and Rowe, Cameron and Osborne) and build on it in a salacious manner to diminish the target. The Osborne attack even involved suggesting photographs and ''secret tapes' existed that would prove the claims.
The attack on Cameron's deceased child and Francis Osborne were particularly sick.
It's perfect possible that these claims were introduced at the same time. The McAlpine saga shows how Westminster is one massive rumour mill.
'McBride suggested the website spread false rumours that pictures exist of Osborne...'
Swap the names, and the supposed act. Coincidence?
Might be, might not be. But it's slightly suspicious. If only the MP who talked to Ashcroft and the 'journalist' (I'm not quite sure she deserves to be called such any more) would come forward. It might harm his career though ...
It's almost comical that on a day where Merkel is facing potentially career ending problems over the twin problems of her Migrant policy and VAGs snowballing problems, while the fundamental future of the EU is under threat and the qualified majority vote has been used to enforce EU foreign policy on subsidiary states, the Daily Politics is wasting all but 4 minutes of a 90 minute show on an irrelevant, dead party with 8 MPs.
Mr. Dair, I'd agree, except that the Lib Dems have a considerable presence in the Lords and Farron appears to have indicated he'll be ignoring the Salisbury Convention [probably to try and make the Lords collide with the democratic chamber and increase support for Lords reform].
This activity or guerilla warfare in the House of Lords is where the Lib Dems intend having a say. I expect them to break the Salisbury Convention and create a crisis. The results though may not be good for them.
Just noticed that BBC Laura points to the similar policy lines of Farron and Corbyn and their members prefer Corbyn to Cameron in the psehrical ball choice.
Mr. G, it's the nature of bets to be hit and miss. Don't worry about it (I've offered more losing tips than I've followed this year ).
A insufficiently contrite apology, to my mind. May I refer you to my effort the other day?
There is something I need to address. I often give tips on this site, always with the best of intentions. But if anyone has lost money as a result - and clearly some have - then that is of course a cause for huge regret. I'm truly saddened by it. But if I hadn't given the tips, then perhaps the bookmakers would not have offered such markets in future. If just one more market were offered, then maybe my losing tips were worth it. But I will take your criticism on board and only tip winners in the future. Thank you.
Out of interest, neither "Tim Farron" nor #libdemconf appears to have made the top of the UK twitter trends. This is actually quite a bad sign for lib dem activism. Number one trend in the middle of the day on a midweek should not really require a lot of activity.
This hedge fund manager who upped the price of AIDS drugs is a pretty disgusting story
I agree. It reminds me of the stories of US companies that tried to patent business methods to bankrupt their competitors. One lot even tried to patent putting milk on breakfast cereal so it could licence breakfast to eateries, hotels and restaurants.
Besides, how come a 70 year old drug is still in patent? My understanding is it was developed in the 1940s and, like many drugs, they found other uses for it.
Is it still in patent? I thought it was just that no one else bothered to make it because the sales were too low and the margins were too small
That is the reason. Although pharma companies seeking to evergreen their patents, or paying off generics to delay entering the post-patent market, is not unknown ;-)
FTC has been stamping hard on the delayed access and, more recently, the AG strategy, for years
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
It's almost comical that on a day where Merkel is facing potentially career ending problems over the twin problems of her Migrant policy and VAGs snowballing problems, while the fundamental future of the EU is under threat and the qualified majority vote has been used to enforce EU foreign policy on subsidiary states, the Daily Politics is wasting all but 4 minutes of a 90 minute show on an irrelevant, dead party with 8 MPs.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
McBride was being interviewed by Galloway on Sputnik at the weekend, and said that he would like to work for Corbyn, but wasn't anticipating a call. Surely I'm not the only PBer who watches Sputnik?
What's sputnik ?
The best show on RT (Russia Today), hosted by George Galloway.
It's almost comical that on a day where Merkel is facing potentially career ending problems over the twin problems of her Migrant policy and VAGs snowballing problems, while the fundamental future of the EU is under threat and the qualified majority vote has been used to enforce EU foreign policy on subsidiary states, the Daily Politics is wasting all but 4 minutes of a 90 minute show on an irrelevant, dead party with 8 MPs.
For the number of people which claim to be 'outside the Westminster bubble', Westminster must be a pretty empty place.
It's hard to thing of a group that is more representative of the Westminster elite than the Liberal Democrats. Whether right or wrong, on every issue they represent mainstream bubble opinion: open borders, balancing the books, supporting the EU, light prison sentences, privatisation in the NHS.
FWIW I think the half-denial was a mistake - "Mr Cameron says he does not recognise the description" or words to that effect. Ignoring it totally except to say we don't bother with comments on anonymous allegations in books would have been better. But the story is essentially froth and has now pretty much died.
Labour seem to be in hiding this week - conference preparation ?
There were some questions on the Ashcroft non-dom issue from a front-bencher, but I guess Corbyn would feel that it's not really his style to start nagging Cameron about pigs.
Out of interest, neither "Tim Farron" nor #libdemconf appears to have made the top of the UK twitter trends. This is actually quite a bad sign for lib dem activism. Number one trend in the middle of the day on a midweek should not really require a lot of activity.
Be fair, they were all in the audience at the time and it would have been embarrassing to be filmed using Twitter while TF spoke.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
The government isn't.
The University is in order to maximise their profits.
It's quite understandable, that is how Higher Education has been set up. We are now churning out hundreds of thousands with pointless, worthless degrees while failing to generate enough with valuable skills.
Out of interest, neither "Tim Farron" nor #libdemconf appears to have made the top of the UK twitter trends. This is actually quite a bad sign for lib dem activism. Number one trend in the middle of the day on a midweek should not really require a lot of activity.
Be fair, they were all in the audience at the time and it would have been embarrassing to be filmed using Twitter while TF spoke.
Well as a mark of the Lib Dems relevance, the hashtag #libdemconf was competing for a place in the bottom half of the top ten with #slf15 which appears to be some education conference in Scotland featuring SNP second stringer Angela Constance. I don't even know what the SLF part stands for. It is that bad for the Liberals.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
Universities need as many full fee paying, non-subsidised students as possible to generate revenue. It's a worse problem in Scotland because of the free places policy.
FWIW I think the half-denial was a mistake - "Mr Cameron says he does not recognise the description" or words to that effect. Ignoring it totally except to say we don't bother with comments on anonymous allegations in books would have been better. But the story is essentially froth and has now pretty much died.
Labour seem to be in hiding this week - conference preparation ?
There were some questions on the Ashcroft non-dom issue from a front-bencher, but I guess Corbyn would feel that it's not really his style to start nagging Cameron about pigs.
With conference season in full flow, surely there are no PMQ's today?
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
Universities need as many full fee paying, non-subsidised students as possible to generate revenue. It's a worse problem in Scotland because of the free places policy.
Shouldn't it be up to each university to balance their books? The university is blaming a central government limit.
In other news, for a Liberal Democrat, the new leader doesn't seem to really understand what liberalism is:
McBride was being interviewed by Galloway on Sputnik at the weekend, and said that he would like to work for Corbyn, but wasn't anticipating a call. Surely I'm not the only PBer who watches Sputnik?
What's sputnik ?
The best show on RT (Russia Today), hosted by George Galloway.
This hedge fund manager who upped the price of AIDS drugs is a pretty disgusting story
I agree. It reminds me of the stories of US companies that tried to patent business methods to bankrupt their competitors. One lot even tried to patent putting milk on breakfast cereal so it could licence breakfast to eateries, hotels and restaurants.
Besides, how come a 70 year old drug is still in patent? My understanding is it was developed in the 1940s and, like many drugs, they found other uses for it.
Is it still in patent? I thought it was just that no one else bothered to make it because the sales were too low and the margins were too small
That is the reason. Although pharma companies seeking to evergreen their patents, or paying off generics to delay entering the post-patent market, is not unknown ;-)
If you extend the licence you get a new patent. The drug was origionally a TB drug, but if they ran trials and found it had an effect on AIDS then they can get a new patent.
Use patents are worth the square root of bugger all.
Composition of matter is significant. Data exclusivity/Orphan status matters. Formulation patents can be important. Manufacturing patents can be worked around. Use patents not so much.
Once the first patent goes a Gx can be launched and will be used across all indications
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
Universities need as many full fee paying, non-subsidised students as possible to generate revenue. It's a worse problem in Scotland because of the free places policy.
University education in Scotland is not provided charitably by Universities. It is just not charged to the student. If you have any evidence that the Scottish Government pay less to Universities for Medicine than happens in England, you should post it.
Otherwise you just demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge about how university funding works.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Out of interest, neither "Tim Farron" nor #libdemconf appears to have made the top of the UK twitter trends. This is actually quite a bad sign for lib dem activism. Number one trend in the middle of the day on a midweek should not really require a lot of activity.
Be fair, they were all in the audience at the time and it would have been embarrassing to be filmed using Twitter while TF spoke.
Well as a mark of the Lib Dems relevance, the hashtag #libdemconf was competing for a place in the bottom half of the top ten with #slf15 which appears to be some education conference in Scotland featuring SNP second stringer Angela Constance. I don't even know what the SLF part stands for. It is that bad for the Liberals.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
Universities need as many full fee paying, non-subsidised students as possible to generate revenue. It's a worse problem in Scotland because of the free places policy.
University education in Scotland is not provided charitably by Universities. It is just not charged to the student. If you have any evidence that the Scottish Government pay less to Universities for Medicine than happens in England, you should post it.
Otherwise you just demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge about how university funding works.
The Scottish government pays the fees of all Scottish and EU citizens (non-rUK) who attend Scottish universities, but they put a cap on that number. Once it is reached there are no more places available. The short-fall is made up by fee payers, who are not from Scotland. Thus ...
Tuition fees for Scottish and EU students are paid for each year by the Scottish Funding Council. Since the academic year 2012/13, the number of full-time places supported by the SFC has remained steady at around 124,000. This figure represents a limit on the number of Scottish and EU students that universities and other higher education institutions – Glasgow School of Art or the Royal Conservatoire, for example – are allowed to accept. After this cap is reached, unis must give the remaining places to students from the rest of the UK and non-EU nations. Now, obviously, the money for all this free tuition has to come from somewhere, and accepting students who are obliged to pay is one way of bearing the burden. And, with around 230,000 students in higher education in Scotland, that’s a lot of people paying up.
This still? Dave might have done it, he might not have. No-one is surprised that young, repressed uber-toffs behave in bizarre ways. But like the rest of us they then grow up. Mostly. We are never going to know the truth about the pig's head. And no-one really cares. It was funny and vaguely interesting for a while. Now it is boring. The world turns.
You are persistent I will give you that.
As I pointed out before plenty of people do very stupid things and poshness or otherwise is not the main determinate.
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
Universities need as many full fee paying, non-subsidised students as possible to generate revenue. It's a worse problem in Scotland because of the free places policy.
Shouldn't it be up to each university to balance their books? The university is blaming a central government limit.
In other news, for a Liberal Democrat, the new leader doesn't seem to really understand what liberalism is:
To a limited extent they are right; the government is limiting places. This isn't a new thing though.
This uni is just offering a new medical degree that is not part of the gov funded/NHS system. Not sure where or how the clinical training at a teaching hospital will work.
He's in good company. Mandelson conjured up a game called 'Surfball' as one of the potential experiences in the spectacularly successful Millennium Dome.
Well technically he's right. If anyone was allowed to come here, from anywhere, and there were no fences in the way, then there would be no people smugglers, as movement wouldn't be illegal, and so there would be no need for smuggling.
On the other hand, we might have a very large number of people arriving here from all over the world, and associated issues (to put it mildly).
mac-ukip-always @nufcno1fan 4m4 minutes ago British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
Why is the government limiting medical places at university?
It's not. This is rubbish journalism.
The cost of a medical degree is more than the government grant for students. The consequence of this is that the NHS "subsidises" degree courses for medicine, where it regards them as sufficiently high quality.
If the University of Central Lancashire is not getting money from the NHS for its medicine course, then it will almost certainly be because the NHS does not regard the degree as rigorous enough.
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Not very convincing so far as I can see.
Forget that game. Romania at 50-1 vs a very poor France which only won 2 games in this years six nations side is the real value in todays matches.
No chance. France will steam roller the monkey snot out of Romania.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/apr/13/damian-mcbride-derek-draper-emails
What are the chances that the whole pig thing was a similar smear that someone else succeeded in planting? One has to wonder.
Not to mention parliament will no doubt still recess for their irrelevant talking shop.
The attack on Cameron's deceased child and Francis Osborne were particularly sick.
It's perfect possible that these claims were introduced at the same time. The McAlpine saga shows how Westminster is one massive rumour mill.
Anyway, that's enough muppetry for me.
Swap the names, and the supposed act. Mere coincidence? Or did someone steal the idea from a smear merchants playbook?
We'll never know, since confessing to the fabrication would destroy the story.
I quite like some of the content, but his delivery's more than a little flat. He doesn't do tub-thumping rhetoric, but I reckon he'll do a good job of starting the Lib Dem rebuild.
That's pretty impressive in such a short period of time. That also suggests that the initial favourability etc polling is more useful than usual.
Silly escapades involving being tied to a lamppost naked on your stag night for instance or even worse are the activities of all society irrespective of age race creed class or colour.
lt signifies nothing.
https://twitter.com/Politics_co_uk/status/646649611168391169
For that matter the 77% for Osborne is strikingly low, although maybe it's partly because he looks rather different with his new hairstyle.
The Lib to Labour defector was quite entertaining though. But still probably not worth coverage on a national programme.
Is her Big Yellow Taxi big enough for 8?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34332853
Apparently it is still under copyright in the UK.
How can music still be under copyright after 122 years?
Didn't there have to be an Act of Parliament to extend the normal copyright limit on Peter Pan?
Fallon on the other hand has an almost Churchillian perfection of delivery for a politician.
I'll stop making that mistake some day.
Just noticed that BBC Laura points to the similar policy lines of Farron and Corbyn and their members prefer Corbyn to Cameron in the psehrical ball choice.
British students BANNED from doing medicine at uni – as NHS forced to hire foreign staff http://shr.gs/IAoUjrj
Diabolical !!!
The University is in order to maximise their profits.
It's quite understandable, that is how Higher Education has been set up. We are now churning out hundreds of thousands with pointless, worthless degrees while failing to generate enough with valuable skills.
Kind of says it all really.
In other news, for a Liberal Democrat, the new leader doesn't seem to really understand what liberalism is:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPllMKnW8AAGNcr.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW479qn7fls
It's an opinion, I suppose.
Composition of matter is significant. Data exclusivity/Orphan status matters. Formulation patents can be important. Manufacturing patents can be worked around. Use patents not so much.
Once the first patent goes a Gx can be launched and will be used across all indications
Otherwise you just demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge about how university funding works.
Dave & Ed M
Ed B & Mrs Ed B
Steven Twigg
Meg Hillier
Mary Creagh
And LDs
Ed Davey
Steve Webb
To think people thought he would have been a better party leader.
Birmingham New Street pics, taken Tuesday:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Sunil060902&ilshowall=1
This one may be of especial interest:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Birmingham_New_Street_2015_v_2009.png
https://twitter.com/dailymailuk/status/646660046697439232
Tuition fees for Scottish and EU students are paid for each year by the Scottish Funding Council. Since the academic year 2012/13, the number of full-time places supported by the SFC has remained steady at around 124,000.
This figure represents a limit on the number of Scottish and EU students that universities and other higher education institutions – Glasgow School of Art or the Royal Conservatoire, for example – are allowed to accept. After this cap is reached, unis must give the remaining places to students from the rest of the UK and non-EU nations.
Now, obviously, the money for all this free tuition has to come from somewhere, and accepting students who are obliged to pay is one way of bearing the burden. And, with around 230,000 students in higher education in Scotland, that’s a lot of people paying up.
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/euan-mccolm-students-worse-off-with-free-tuition-1-3872594#ixzz3mZ4uroe6
As I pointed out before plenty of people do very stupid things and poshness or otherwise is not the main determinate.
Tim Fallon - LibDem Defence Secretary
Michael Farron - Leader of the Tory Party and MP for Westmorland.
This isn't a new thing though.
This uni is just offering a new medical degree that is not part of the gov funded/NHS system.
Not sure where or how the clinical training at a teaching hospital will work.
Clinton: 33%
Biden: 25%
Sanders: 24%
Webb: 2%
O'Malley: 1%
On the other hand, we might have a very large number of people arriving here from all over the world, and associated issues (to put it mildly).
The top floor of New Street (the oddly named "Grand Central" shopping centre) doesn't open until tomorrow.
The cost of a medical degree is more than the government grant for students. The consequence of this is that the NHS "subsidises" degree courses for medicine, where it regards them as sufficiently high quality.
If the University of Central Lancashire is not getting money from the NHS for its medicine course, then it will almost certainly be because the NHS does not regard the degree as rigorous enough.
Can we all join in on this "make up a word" game?
Here's my entry: flibberjacket.
Don't know what it means yet though.
Like Eurovision but with simpler scoring ?