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The photo of Corbyn all alone on the Front Bench tonight has actually made me sad. Damn my middle-aged hormones pic.twitter.com/CaqPrZGoWs
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Although speaking of other Lost alumni, Once Upon a Time is from a couple of Lost writers, and given how its timeline and characterisation is all over the place without a lick of sense, it's the guys who had to be reined in by all the rest of the staff on Lost I'd bet.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUhjmrEWEAId7Om.jpg
It is a pretty disgraceful turn out on the Labour benches full stop. They can't all of had extremely important / urgent meetings to attend to. I think most of the public will ask the question, what the bloody hell do we pay them for?
It was brutal.
He argues that fears about Islam may turn out to be overblown - firstly due to the fact that many Muslim countries are seeing plummeting birthrates (countries including Qatar, Oman, UAE but also Iran and Algeria have seen a 60% drop in birthrate in the last 30 years) and secondly due to increased secularism in these countries. He cites a 2012 poll that found 5% of Saudis were atheists and 19% non-believers, while for Lebanon it was 37%. These figures may be underestimates as in Saudi and many other Islamic countries non-belief is a criminal offence
"Whatever your origin and however well you have been brainwashed there is just something about living in a society with restaurants and mobile phones, universities and social media, that makes it hard to go on thinking that morality derives exclusively from superstition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1OVtNBSktI
Not going to happen.
I wish I hadn't. There are good aspects of a character study in the series. Indeed, if he completely ignored the random inclusion of "mysteries" it would be a much better piece of work.
But every time he added a new "mystery" and given the widespread coverage that nothing would be answered, then reading more about how Lost actually played out, it seemed best to just drop it.
In Season One, I was thinking about the elements he included, wondering what it all meant and how it would all tie together (the way, for example Mr Robot did) and then realised it never would, the showrunner was laughing at his own audience and just gave up.
Lindelof is a troll. His shows just troll his own fanbois.
Where is NIck Palmer when you need him.????. I'd like to tell him what I think of Corbyn too, and ask him to justify his support.
But in that picture there is only one disseminator of untruth and his surname begins with "C".
I know it's silly, as Corbyn fans will no doubt insist, and it means nothing about Labour's electoral prospects (except insofar it reflects, perhaps, its internal politics and subsequent impact), but it's one of the more amusing photos I've seen since the Edstone, that glorious moment where even most of those who thought Ed M would win, like myself, could have a good old chuckle at a proper stupid joke.
Survation was approached by the Sun because the paper’s regular pollsters, YouGov, “didn’t want to do the poll”. YouGov said it did not want to carry out the study because it could not be confident that it could accurately represent the British Muslim population within the timeframe and budget set by the paper.
A spokesperson said: “To survey Britain’s Muslim population, particularly at a time of such heightened sensitivities, requires the kind of time, care, and therefore cost, that is beyond a newspaper’s budget.”
Other pollsters told the Guardian that it could require tens of thousands of phone calls at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to generate a statistically representative sample of the 2.7 million Muslims who live in the UK.
http://bit.ly/1Sg1obb
You're being trolled by Lindelof and you deserve no pity.
There is nothing trite about expecting an answer or at least an *indication* of an answer when a series raises a question. It's called Checkov's Shotgun. Lindelof is the opposite,. He introduces concepts for no reason, with no meaning, for no purpose.
In effect a Lindelof show is a Choose Your Own Adventure, where you read the first paragraph and it sounds AMAZING, then it says "choose x or y, turn to page a or b" and page a and b are blank except for teh "turn to page g or h" at the end and it wants you to write out what you think based on... nothing.
It is absolutely disgusting televion, it is absolutely worthless and should not be given the time of day.
Watch Mr Robot, then go back and realise how badly Lindelof treats his audience.
MPs used to 'donut' around the leader/speaker to make it look like there were lots of them when the camera closed in.
Now they cannot get far enough away. Corbyn is toxic, and they know it.
Me, I think he deserves everything he gets.
The Ed Stone was genuinely funny: funny in concept and funny as a photo.
The second part is the clue. They just didn't want to do it.
I doubt they would have expressed such reservations/concerns about 'accuracy' about any other group though.
Politicians are generally a thick skinned breed, but Corbyn is so isolated in his own parliamentary party. He can't go a week without opening his mouth and coming out with yet another gaffe that causes uproar not just on the government benches but amongst his own MPs too. The question is how much can he take? He doesn't look to me like he's enjoying being leader at all.
Having watched Mr Robot, do you still feel the same.
The essential idea was to keep the old fuselage (heavily refurbished) and replace the wings.
The new wings famously didn't fit. This was laughed off as part and parcel of using a 1950s plane - fits where it touches. But this touched on (ha) the fact that the original Comets were in fact badly built by De Havilands and a poor design. Many of the early crashes weren't due to metal fatigue, but simple poor design.
Anyway, the other thing the new wings had was an increased sweep. This moved the centre of lift backwards. So the MRA4 would tend to dive unless corrected... So BAe installed a massive trim tab on the tail. In effect a permanent tip-the-nose-up.
The only slight problem with that is that it meant that the fuselage of the MRA4 would be permanently under a bending strain in flight - together with vibration from the trim tab.
The MOD air safety people discovered that BAe hadn't done proper fatigue calculations, or indeed proper stability calculations on the modified aircraft. The answer to those sums, when done was pretty horrifying. To add to the fun, the fuel system which caused an earlier Nimrod to explode in mid air was unchanged....
The air safety people came to the conclusion that the MRA4 was not just unsafe, but that no practical redesign would make it so.
Surely that is the core here. At least 25% of the British public agree completely with Corbyn. The Electoral System wants their opinion excised from the debate.
The FPTP system is forcing politics where parties bend with the wind instead of taking a principle and trying to persuade and sell that to people. Multi-party politics is needed an Corbyn demonstrates that.
Changes since last month
http://ind.pn/1MNAzYq
That plus the carrier comedy has essentially killed alot BAe influence with the current government. Notice poor old Con Coughlin getting all upset in the Telegraph about their lost orders....
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A quarter of the public may not consider him completely crazy. A quarter may find him less repellant than they find Cameron. But a quarter agree "completely"? I don't think so.
What Esmail did was subvert this with several very hard to spot twists (although once you see them they are so obvious - as the best writing does).
Sadly, time stops me watching the whole thing through again knowing how it finishes but I will do so in the weeks leading up to Season Two. It is an absolutely amazing show. Probably the best television show I have ever seen (although to share that, you probably need a reasonable interest in technology, sub-culture and corporate culture).
It just wouldn't be enough to form a government. Which is why quite a few people in the Labour party aren't enthused by the idea.
Surely all contracts should involve risk on both parties. When you see companies who bid low then "revise" the price and governments simply agree to pay the extra, the whole premise of Public Sector contracts is undermined.
If a private company offers to build something for £10bn in a Public Sector contract then it should deliver exactly what is required for exactly £10bn and if it needs to spend more and make a loss, it should be the private company that pays the difference.
Going back to Keiran's previous thread,it's clear The Sun was following the islamophobic orders of its' proprietor.This image though has consequences in the permission it gives to those who would persecute hate crimes,just as the framing of disabled people as faking scroungers does for increasing hate crimes against disabled people.The Sun makes hatred acceptable and does not care about the consequences.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/paris-attacks-british-muslims-face-300-spike-in-racial-attacks-in-week-following-terror-a6744376.html
Let us offer the British people fully representative government instead of gerrymandered, broken voting where people get ignored even when tehy have a significant plurality of support.
AMS offers all the proportionality of a proper electoral system while maintaining the (apparently) valued "local representative". A perfect system. Give it to the United Kingdom.
Now.
We can build bespoke supercarriers but not aircraft?
It could indeed be argued that we could just let others take the burden of the cost but that is a very selfish proposal and should be stated as such.
Jeremy Corbyn will face an unprecedented Shadow Cabinet revolt over his opposition to war in Syria.
Labour frontbenchers will seek to defy their leader and organise a whipped vote in favour of extending attacks on Islamic State.
If successful it would leave peace campaigner Mr Corbyn in the position of having to rebel against the party he leads if he wishes to vote against war.
“It sounds unlikely but it could happen - I think we have the numbers,” a source told the Mirror ahead of the weekly Shadow Cabinet meeting in Westminster.
http://bit.ly/1OcnLiH
AV is a form of FPTP, it is neither proportional nor fair.
FWIW I think Labour's vote on this has ceased to be about Syria, now, and is more about Corbyn.
He's f___ing dead,
He had a bomb,
Dropped on his head.
Nothing quite as good as the Norwich Family.
The UK is a very corrupt state.
Having a bit of support in part to a degree or another does not qualify for leadership. The tough point about leadership is to take a decision on a matter to which there is really no answer.
I mean how the feck do you manage to position yourself on the side of Jihadi John?