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It is 81 years since a party led by a grad of a university other than Oxford led his/her party to a general election victory. This table shows what happened in the intervening period
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As did many of their ministers and civil servants.
There's an unarguable case that Alan Turing did more to win the war than say Clement Attlee.
Blair read Jurisprudence.
How many Labour Prime Ministers have there been with the first name James?
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/816906880043941892
The trick is not to include the only one who people think of as a James, his first name in Leonard.
1) James Ramsay MacDonald
2) James Harold Wilson
3) James Gordon Brown
Leonard James Callaghan isn't eligible.
'In competitive situations other than boxing, rope-a-dope is used to describe strategies in which one party purposely puts itself in what appears to be a losing position, attempting thereby to become the eventual victor.'
The history thing sounds like King John revisionism, where some praise his bean-counting and ignore smaller things like sexually molesting his nobles' female relatives, or losing English territory in France, or trying to usurp his brother, or losing half of England to the French before he did the decent thing and died.
Talking of form and class.... I see Spurs breaking in to the top 4 for the first time since Oct coincides with another rare event in the PB fantasy footie... and please also note the correlation with the lack of any English cricket going on!!
Now, why do you think the fans would boo their own team?
An own goal, if I may say, metaphor-wise.
Stock up on Manchester United players for the next round of matches because
1) It's Manchester United v Liverpool
2) I'm going to Old Trafford
3) England play India that day in the first one dayer.
My favourite shadow cabinet appointment is currently Education.
"Born Angela Bowen, she attended Avondale School, Stockport, leaving school pregnant and with no qualifications."
Wonderful.
We're such salt of the earth East End rough diamonds !
I can, however, remember that a Luftkissenboot is a hovercraft. Ich habe die besten Worte.
On a vaguely related topic, I've almost finished reading Marc Elsberg's Blackout, an absolutely cracking science thriller based on the premise of cyber-terrorists shutting down the electricity supply of most of Europe for an extended period. It's very plausibly written and obviously well researched. The English translation is due out next month, and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good disaster novel.
The closely watched Markit/CIPS services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) reached 56.2 in December, up from 55.2 in November and above economists’ forecasts of 54.7.
The current arrangements amount to a huge generational f*ck-over.
Would we be wishing we could be devaluing the currency? Would we be glad for the stabilising effect of a broad currency umbrella?
Previous to that it seems the most important non royal position was the Lord High Treasurer, which seems to have been related to the church in the early days - (Various Bishops seemed to get the position, the first of which was Nigel of Ely...).
Before that position was created the key figure I suppose was the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that gets you back to St Augustine in ~ 600.
It's another thing that makes me think we're heading for trouble. The more graduates have to pay back in fees, the less they'll have to spend on other things including housing. At some point something will have to give.
We could go the whole hog and simply nationalise all housing. Then we could turn people out of big houses that are surplus to their needs & use them for larger families - or build over their gardens/fields.
One for Mr Corbyn's government, perhaps.
Good morning, everyone.
(Edited to add: this is supposed to be a joke.)
Three were Old Etonians: Eden, Macmillan and Cameron.
https://thewptformula.com/2017/01/05/tech-highlights-mercedesred-bull-energy-recovery-suspension/
Given Ferrari complained and Red Bull/Mercedes have been making particular use of it, this should see a relative advantage for Ferrari. That said, I still think they'd be relieved if they're third fastest in the forthcoming season.
Good morning, Mr. M and Miss JGP.
Slightly bathetically, on the anti-intellectualism/anti-authoritarianism front I watched Rick Stein's Long Weekends last night which was set in Berlin (very enjoyable it was too). One strand which reflected my idea of the place was its anti-authoritarian, bolshy attitude compared to the rest of Germany.
The Englishman said What could be more attractive than 'butterfly'"?
"Mariposa" said the Spaniard
"Borboleta'" said the Portuguese
"Papillon" said the Frenchman
....and what's wrong with "Schmetterling"? said the German
Nottingham University is dominated by Engineers and Scientists who are practical people rather than dreamers.