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Clearly this is an excuse for Mrs May to ensure the U.K remains within the single market and customs union.
* Wilbur Ross is well known investor in financial services companies
* He urged Cyprus to liberalize their financial services regime
* He claimed this was in Cyprus's interest because they could win business from London
This is just bollocks. Wilbur Ross was advocating the same policies - designed to make him richer - for over a decade. He's just hooked it onto Brexit to make it seem more relevant.*
The Times seems to have learnt the wrong lesdons from the Grey Lady's "news theme fitting" scandal. It *wasn't* a good idea
* @RobD is not wrong although I think he's over thinking it on the occasion
The EU-Boat menace!!
But, willy nilly (No spell checker! Not silly, billy or dilly.) modern digital technology is driving us together. The tension is exquisite.
God's human experiment may be short lived.
And it would be a bit rich for the woman who put Davis and IDS where they are today to start claiming that she was unhappy with appointing people to high office if they were complete twats.
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/813128242639077377
There was a comment on here some months ago which said if the City needed protection it would not be the City and I think that was right. The City will face new challenges and competition but for a very long time it has been taking on such challenges and winning. I am not sure why it would not do that again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/813157601361985536
Just imagine what a credible opposition could do with this.
I wondered what was worth reporting in the arrest of 4 men over a fight ... so I bothered to look, and it involved some 100 people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-38430669
His bf died of AIDS in 1995 I think? The inspiration for much of 'Older'
His first appearance on Top of the Pops was shown just a few days ago on the BBC 4 repeats:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086824r/top-of-the-pops-18111982
Perhaps the saddest loss in a year of immense losses.
My best mate is his biggest fan, thinks he had 'a moment' with him at a Paris concert when their eyes met!
We were discussing the middle class obsessions with the "done" things the other day...
My mother-in-law - a wonderful lady - will only drink sweet wine. With anything.
There is, in the family, a person who is an awful wine snob/bore.
So, at Christma lunch - beef - I served by MiL with a rather rare vintage of Tokaji. The snob/bore was forced to watch. Unable to say anything, since he wanted some when desert came...
Somehow, I think it is very much in the Christmas spirit to torment a fool using generosity & kindness.
Actually one of my favs was a song he didn't write, 'I can't make you love me'
Today though, I was the designated driver to take grandma fox home after dinner, so just enough for a taste...
https://youtu.be/QbWJO8RMg1A
Perhaps the best part was that my mother-in-law has no knowledge of wine. There is a particular pleasure in giving someone a fine wine, who has no knowledge or interest in wine, but simply enjoys it... Just smiles, and asks for more. Give me that over the plaudits of the The Angry Men any day.
Many years ago I shared a bottle of ancient brandy with a Nepalese guide who, unlike the other fools on the trip, just enjoyed the taste. That was a very fine sunrise.
In 1985, European finance was multi-polar. British merchant banks served British savers and British business from London. The same was true of Paris and France, Stockholm and Sweden, Frankfurt and Germany.
Two things happened: one, the Eurobond market (and we were the guys to spoke English); two, everywhere deregulated, and our firms were much easier to snap up by the Americans as they were small.
Result, London became the European financial capital. It's all too easy to think there is something in our DNA that made us successful, rather than a lucky accident of history.
True. And the German motor industry is busy trying to prove that "this too shall pass"...
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/813175471198400517
From the sample of successful people I know in flesh and blood, there doesn't seem much evidence for the proposition. If money or recognition can't buy happiness directly, they at least give a strong base to pursue those things that do.
But the case of Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael has been one I've pondered in the past. Couldn't help but wonder whether Michael would have had a happier, fuller and more peaceful life if he'd entered the realm of obscurity by the turn of the 90s - by what little accounts we hear of him these days, Ridgeley seems to have had a good one - or whether feelings of frustration, rejection and failure would simply have fed his demons more.
I had a suspicion that George Michael would, once he'd got tired of touring, just settle down in a big house with a nice lad and have a quiet retirement, perhaps punctuated by the odd controversial outburst to keep things lively. Sadly not to be. And not an age either, the poor sod.
http://thephilosophersmail.com/hierarchy/why-andrew-ridgeley-is-the-winner-and-george-michael-the-loser/
I take a little interest as in 1983 I did rather look and dress like the less talented half of Wham!
Andrew Ridgely couldn't sing, play an instrument or write. Wham! was George Michael solo with his best mate as a cool wingman as backup who gave him confidence. He even credited Ridgely as a writer on Careless Whisper even though he had nothing to do with it.
So, although I wanted to be Ridgely in 84, I don't think his withdrawal from poplife was entirely voluntary
Successfully adapting to reality is not the same as always getting your way. I know this is a hard concept for you, as you have not adapted to the reality of Brexit and have convinced yourself it will not happen so you will get your way.
Very sad news about George Michael - although if he has been ill for a while he handled it with commendable discretion.
Also tragic news yesterday about (what was) the Red Army Choir - and jolly suspicious rush to rule out terrorism - tough old birds like the Tu-154 don't come apart in mid-air easily....
http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/25/george-michael-dead-at-53/
From what I know of heart failure (lost a parent to a slow progressive illness) the two statements don't seem compatible....
Very sad news regarding George Michael’s death, the grim reaper has certainly been working overtime in 2016. - I’ll break it to her gently, but her indoors will be gutted by this news.
Anyhow the big picture here is that it's a really, really shitty time to be ripping up your existing trade deals and expecting to make new ones.
The Tu-154 has an appalling safety record. They have a an accident involving fatalities about once every 1 million flight hours - roughly 20 times worse than Western types.
The TU154 was a workhorse for the furthest corners of the Soviet Union to areas where airport facilities were poor. Its very strange for a relatively young (in terms of flying hours) disintegrate in mid-air shortly after take off.
Difficult for the Russians - which is more embarrassing - terrorism or technical failure of a Russian Airforce operated Russian designed and built plane.....
Whilst discussing this after dinner yesterday. my brother said he'd flown on a Russian airliner (I'm unsure whether it was a TU-154) a few years earlier. It had been his worst ever flight: noisy, cramped, a rough ride, and his ears kept on popping. The door seals were rotten, and the plane had trouble keeping pressurised.
That is the level of maintenance we are talking about. Lack of money meaning lack of spares, things being used past their lifetimes, and a make-do-and-mend approach that would be admirable in fields other than aerospace.
Be very careful about the investigation: as the manufacturer and owner of the aircraft, and as the country who had the majority of the deaths, Russia will be in total charge of the investigation. As we saw with the ludicrous and sick 'investigation' into the MH17 shootdown, what we'll get - either way - is what they want the outside world to hear, rather than the truth.
Remember, they are trying to maintain much larger forces than ours, on not much more money. For instance, they have five times the number of active personnel, six times the number of submarines and over three times the number of aircraft. Whilst they get more bang for their buck, they don't get *that* much more.
In fact, such aircraft are often disregarded in many military forces. The people at the top of the forces are all serving officers who like the exciting weapons systems and not the mundane, whilst they should be remembering that logistics is the key to all armies.
ISTR the same thing happened in Iran during their sanctions: several military transport planes fell from the sky due to maintenance issues. It's one reason they're probably so keen to sign the deal for new Boeings.
http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.asp?form=form&country1=united-kingdom&country2=russia&Submit=COMPARE