I've worked with some BBC technical bods in the past on projects. They're excellent, and have developed great tech. If they get the managerial backing they can do amazing stuff (or if they skunkworks it).
Like the £100 million digital media project that they had to abandon after trying to reinvent the wheel when they could have just brought a solution of the shelf?
I didn't say they were perfect.
Didn't ?Siemens? (or ?Fujitsu?) also have trouble with the same project? It'd be interesting to read up on exactly went wrong - I'm presuming mismanagement rather than hard technical issues.
But seriously: the BBC tech bods I've worked with have been excellent.
The problem isn't and has never been the tech teams or even the production teams. It's the dead hand of management that chokes everything creative at the BBC. How does HBO produce world class TV on less than half the annual budget? How does Netflix commission the best global shows? How does Amazon TV end up being able to fund tentpoles like TGT?
They all run a massively tight ship. The BBC could dump all of their daytime shit and just show repeats of older shows instead and invest the savings in top end drama and documentaries like Netflix.
Pretty much agree with that. But how much are BBC tied by the charter?
I've worked with some BBC technical bods in the past on projects. They're excellent, and have developed great tech. If they get the managerial backing they can do amazing stuff (or if they skunkworks it).
Like the £100 million digital media project that they had to abandon after trying to reinvent the wheel when they could have just brought a solution of the shelf?
I didn't say they were perfect.
Didn't ?Siemens? (or ?Fujitsu?) also have trouble with the same project? It'd be interesting to read up on exactly went wrong - I'm presuming mismanagement rather than hard technical issues.
But seriously: the BBC tech bods I've worked with have been excellent.
The problem isn't and has never been the tech teams or even the production teams. It's the dead hand of management that chokes everything creative at the BBC. How does HBO produce world class TV on less than half the annual budget? How does Netflix commission the best global shows? How does Amazon TV end up being able to fund tentpoles like TGT?
They all run a massively tight ship. The BBC could dump all of their daytime shit and just show repeats of older shows instead and invest the savings in top end drama and documentaries like Netflix.
In my experience, public sector bodies are quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations first, and businesses second. And the businesses they tend to emulate are the traditional pyramidal corporations of old.
A good chunk of any public sector body seems to be just as interested in promoting, or acting as an advocate for, government policy as yet another arm of the civil service.
The Left came out in much bigger numbers than the polling showed (basically doubled). Perhaps these are late-deciders who went for Fillon as he was gaining in the polls.
If you have bets on anyone other than Murray being SPOTY, I rather suspect that you have lost your money.
Some of us went large on muzza at better than evens...
I'm still counting the BBC going all PC and doing all they can to get Laura over the line.
I'm on team Laura.
Trouble with Murray is he's won twice already. Really, despite the Davis Cup win, I thought he shouldn't have won last year, when he'd actually had a disappointing season. Jess ennis deserved to win a Spoty for career achievement and all round good eggness and coming back from childbirth to win the Worlds was a great achievement. Still I think she's a knocking ew bet this time although she won't win.
If Lil Laura is in contention, I'm not sure why Jason Kenny isn't. He doesn't pursue it maybe.
Still think Brownlee could win - career achievement and good sportsmanship - and he's approaching value now.
Belatedly, I see Merkel is running again after being Chancellor for 11 years and CDU leader for 16 years.
Bit like Maggie saying in 1990 she wants to go on until 1994/1995, and being applauded for it.
She wants to break Kohl's record of 16 years, the only one who could have stopped her, due to the collapse of social democracy, was the CSU.
In theory as long as the CDU/CSU/SPD/FDP get 50%+ she can remain Chancellor for life, a bit like the Presidents of the Stans (Kazakstan, Uzbekistan ect).
His Brexit position is for a quick and amicable divorce and to remain friends with Britain.
But he has French domestic politics to contend with.
It's a small positive, but not a decisive one.
In France the President is King (because since the reform of 2002 they always win a majority in Parliament too).
What happened in 2002?
They changed it from a 7 year term to a 5 year term to coincide with the French Parliamentary elections, so effectively the person who wins the Presidency also wins Parliament and has absolute power.
Before that you had the strong possibility the post of President and PM go to different parties because the elections were held at different years.
I've worked with some BBC technical bods in the past on projects. They're excellent, and have developed great tech. If they get the managerial backing they can do amazing stuff (or if they skunkworks it).
Like the £100 million digital media project that they had to abandon after trying to reinvent the wheel when they could have just brought a solution of the shelf?
I didn't say they were perfect.
Didn't ?Siemens? (or ?Fujitsu?) also have trouble with the same project? It'd be interesting to read up on exactly went wrong - I'm presuming mismanagement rather than hard technical issues.
But seriously: the BBC tech bods I've worked with have been excellent.
His Brexit position is for a quick and amicable divorce and to remain friends with Britain.
But he has French domestic politics to contend with.
It's a small positive, but not a decisive one.
In France the President is King (because since the reform of 2002 they always win a majority in Parliament too).
What happened in 2002?
They changed it from a 7 year term to a 5 year term to coincide with the French Parliamentary elections, so effectively the person who wins the Presidency also wins Parliament and has absolute power.
Oh, like in the US? I wonder if they have done any studies into split voting.
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Brexit negotiations might become even easier.
These past 2 weeks with Trump and Fillon have been very good for the british international position.
AFP - Sarkozy out.
£200 on Filon at 1.66 to try and rescue the position
A good chunk of any public sector body seems to be just as interested in promoting, or acting as an advocate for, government policy as yet another arm of the civil service.
He's probably a marginal lay right now, anyway.
I wish I'd learnt french!
Maybe it means France won't be a complete dick to the UK next year after the election, but I'm not holding my breath.
Not until I see some new polling.
It remains to be seen if Fillon has a plan for France
If Lil Laura is in contention, I'm not sure why Jason Kenny isn't. He doesn't pursue it maybe.
Still think Brownlee could win - career achievement and good sportsmanship - and he's approaching value now.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/20/john-mcdonnell-hilary-benn-deselection-leeds-central-labour-party
His Brexit position is for a quick and amicable divorce and to remain friends with Britain.
Bit like Maggie saying in 1990 she wants to go on until 1994/1995, and being applauded for it.
Bottom candidate gets eliminated, until there are but, and the one that gets over 50% wins.
France will what it's told
It's a small positive, but not a decisive one.
In theory as long as the CDU/CSU/SPD/FDP get 50%+ she can remain Chancellor for life, a bit like the Presidents of the Stans (Kazakstan, Uzbekistan ect).
Oh, my coat?
Only one vote cast per round, NOT like AV!
I couldn't imagine a worse outcome than a Brown-Osborne coalition government.
Before that you had the strong possibility the post of President and PM go to different parties because the elections were held at different years.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/800454504646934528
NEW THREAD
Which also means an early election will probably be off because of Hammond messing things up.