Chinese friend of mine (bright, Oxbridge first, investment banker) once told me she didn't trust Western media, for various hackneyed reasons - whether it's for-profit corporations or state broadcasting, none of them would tell you The Truth, and they kept a lot of secrets.
Fortunately Chinese agencies were more reliable. For example, the news that Russia had developed genetically modified frogmen-soldiers who are able to breathe underwater using gills, and that their military trials in the had been successful had been completely suppressed in the West.
Had to be true. She showed me the story. Pointed at her laptop screen, see!
Bloody self-made millionairess plonkerette.
I look at my bank account sometimes, and wonder if there's something wrong about the way I think. Not optimally adapted for the world, I fear. Why can't I just think like "normal" people/people several 0's richer than me?
Normal people aren't rich. They're in debt.
On a global scale normal people are both in debt and rich. Even those who have debt have assets and compared to the vast bulk of the world we have both more debt and more assets but the average Brits assets exceed their debt.
Rather than whingeing about it being unfair, they should bloody well make the case for the alternative, which they are spectacularly failing to do. That's hardly Cameron's fault.
You should stand for Membership Secretary for the party, your hectoring and disrespect of wavering members would be such a boon for the party
That is about 100 miles from me at the moment. It hardly made any noise at all in the local papers, but we are three months from presidential, senatorial, congressional, regional and local elections so it's endless politics in the papers at the moment.
Apparently they're doing a 5-page spread on it (they rang me and numerous others for comment). Whether it actually leads to by-elections as they speculate appears to depend on whether people make formal complaints and whether the police decide to follow up. The precedent is the Fiona Jones case, where the issue of whether election-related phone canvassing should have been declared raged on for years.
Bound to be stories about the Conservatives. The Mirror never chastises the Reds.
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