The Premier League (football) will not be holding any sign of respect following Maggie's death, however Saracens and Exeter (rugby union) will. Now how does that adage about what type of person plays which sport go?
Ugh, the mean spirited carping from the left about the cost of Baroness Thatchers funeral and recalling Parliament is doing them no favours at all.
It's easy to forget just how chlidish, vindictive and silly lefties can be until something like this happens and your reminded again why you voted for Cameron in 2010 primarily to ensure Labour went into Opposition...
It was Richard Nabavi who criticised the recall of Parliament here - I agree he's worryingly left-wing, but one must tolerate these Marxist types in the interest of free speech. :-)
Generally speaking people on the left haven't reacted much to MT's death. It's sad when anyone dies, she was a very significant figure in recent British history, and we often disagreed with her but this isn't the moment to dwell on that. It's difficult to go much beyond that and with variations that's what we've nearly all said. There are always a few people who like to stir it, but when it gets down to George Galloway and some guys in Brixton it's obviously fringe stuff.
There is far too much sycophantic gushing from the opposite corner however. It is way way beyond what is sensible.
Mr. Observer, could it be the baby-eating smearing from political opponents?
I see very little difference between the oft-cited myths on the left on those from the right based on Labour hating Britian and its history, Labour importing immigrants so that they will vote Labour, Labour upping benefit spend just to create a client state that votes Labour, Labour increasing public sector employment only because it wanted to increase its votes, and so on.
The Premier League (football) will not be holding any sign of respect following Maggie's death, however Saracens and Exeter (rugby union) will. Now how does that adage about what type of person plays which sport go?
I wonder if there will be silences before rugby games played in Wales this weekend.
Hollande declares war on tax havens. "Look squirrel" or "tilting at windmills"?
Neither, really.
Hmm. Second para of the beeb article: He was speaking after presenting a draft law aimed at "moralising" French public life - a response to the tax scandal that has shaken his presidency.
Seems a bit "look squirrel" to me, and to the BBC.
All governments, including our own, are for international action against tax havens. There are summits but nothing ever happens.
Seems a bit "tilting at windmills" to me. Maybe they just recognise that a sovereign nation has the right to set up a tax regime however it damn well pleases?
BTW I enjoy a slice of a genuine Melton Mowbray pie as much as the next person, but with salad and not chips.
Unlike those grubby northern Morrisons-shopping chip guzzlers, you mean?
Maggie would be proud of you today.
@ carl
No it is better for my waistline - or so I hope.
The point I was trying to make is that if a product mix works in one part of the country (any country) then it is marketing and business folly to assume that the same product mix will work in another part of that country.
I am still amazed that Morrisons did not appear to do the appropriate market research before the Safeway acquisition.
Yes, Morrisons are now trying to catch up with their Market Street, but they are as expensive as my local butcher who has his own abattoir and hangs the meat for the right period of time and can tell me the name of the farm where and how it was bred.
FYI, my politics are the politics of common sense and am not a member of any political party.
The Premier League (football) will not be holding any sign of respect following Maggie's death, however Saracens and Exeter (rugby union) will. Now how does that adage about what type of person plays which sport go?
I wonder if there will be silences before rugby games played in Wales this weekend.
Most probably in memory of three more of their key international players being lost to French and English clubs. The Welsh players are just following the money.
BTW I enjoy a slice of a genuine Melton Mowbray pie as much as the next person, but with salad and not chips.
Unlike those grubby northern Morrisons-shopping chip guzzlers, you mean?
Maggie would be proud of you today.
@ carl
No it is better for my waistline - or so I hope.
The point I was trying to make is that if a product mix works in one part of the country (any country) then it is marketing and business folly to assume that the same product mix will work in another part of that country.
I am still amazed that Morrisons did not appear to do the appropriate market research before the Safeway acquisition.
Yes, Morrisons are now trying to catch up with their Market Street, but they are as expensive as my local butcher who has his own abattoir and hangs the meat for the right period of time and can tell me the name of the farm where and how it was bred.
FYI, my politics are the politics of common sense and am not a member of any political party.
Are you really saying that ASDA , Tesco , M&S etc have different products across the country , apart from a few regional variations.
RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Good Morning, Earth! We use Julian dates onboard, and thus it is the 100th day of 2013. Time sure flies at 8 km/sec!
The Julian Calender is used by astronomers and others to keep track of days, with none of the messy mucking around with months, years and leap years. Technically the tweeter is wrong, as he is referring to a Julian Day Number (an integer) and including a year, rather than a Julian Date (which is the Julian Day Number plus a fraction for the amount of day elapsed). He means Ordinal Date.
For instance, at midnight the current Julian Day Number was 2456392, and the Julian Date was 245639.5. The Ordinal Date is (I think) 2013/100. The Julian Day starts at midday UTC, I think so that astronomers can get a full night using the same number. Although that falls down for astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Although the epoch of the JD is 4,713 BCE, it becomes difficult to convert between JD and calender date due to the various calender changes (e.g. Gregorian to Julian), which occurred at different times in different localities.
And the reason I knew all this: many moons ago I was tasked with creating a calender application that would deal accurately with many different dates. I based it on some astronomical code, but it proved almost impossible to internationalise it accurately for all territories.
The Telegraph blogs cover the full range of opinion, from those held by ordinary members of the public to the mildly obsessive to the eminently sectionable. Given the decline in newspaper sales in recent years, it's very sensible for the Telegraph to cover all bases in this way.
It's good to see the Telegraph blogs strengthened at the barking at the moon end of the spectrum. Congratulations, SeanT. Try to last longer than Kelvin McKenzie.
In sum, Thatcherism was a partial solution to the problems which had led to earlier underperformance, in particular, those that had arisen from weak competition (Crafts 2012). The reforms encouraged the effective diffusion of new technology rather than greater invention and worked more through reducing inefficiency than promoting investment-led growth. They addressed relative economic decline through improving TFP and reducing the NAIRU. At the same time, the short-term implications were seriously adverse for many workers as unemployment rose and manufacturing rapidly shed two million jobs while income inequality surged, to no small extent as a result of benefit reforms.
Indeed, any judgement on Thatcherism turns heavily on value judgements concerning the relative importance of income distribution and economic growth as policy objectives. The 1980s saw a very rapid increase in the Gini coefficient by about nine percentage points, which has turned out to be largely permanent. Ultimately, the Thatcher experiment was about making a liberal market economy work better. There will be those who think a German-style coordinated market economy is preferable. That was not really an option available to Mrs Thatcher but in any event it was hardly a vision of which she approved.
It's good to see the Telegraph blogs strengthened at the barking at the moon end of the spectrum. Congratulations, SeanT. Try to last longer than Kelvin McKenzie.
lol. How long did Kelvin last?
I already had to tone down my first blog because the editor said "this will get me sacked".
I reckon I'll last 3-6 months before I either bore everyone to death, or I am thrown overboard when I blog drunk, with predictable consequences. I'm bad enough sober.
It's good to see the Telegraph blogs strengthened at the barking at the moon end of the spectrum. Congratulations, SeanT. Try to last longer than Kelvin McKenzie.
I already had to tone down my first blog because the editor said "this will get me sacked".
Be a nice chap and post the unexpurgated version here.
@SeanT - Great article, and especially encouraging to see that you've charged the Telegraph for a rehash of an article you wrote a while back for another rag. That's real professionalism.
When Morrisons bought Safeway (mainly southern UK), it changed the Safeway product mix to more of the northern Morrisons product mix - pies and more pies, cakes, biscuits, chocolate and sweets etc. It is still struggling to recognise that the requirements of the southern UK shopper are often different to those of its northern stronghold.
The redundancies mentioned in the Guardian are due to technology and cheaper employment costs outside the UK. Not much can be done about those until we reduce employment costs in the UK to be more competitive globally.
I did not believe you could be any more condescending or write even more horse manure than normal, but that takes the biscuit. Having lived in the south you are obviously either having a laugh or are a sandwich short of a picnic ( no pun intended you can substitute a slice short of a pie if needed ).
Financier is right though. The Leicester Safeway had a good range of products, now it is Morrisons it is definitly more down market. In Leicester it is quite busy, but not doing so well in more prosperous places. Margins are lower on low value products. I rarely shop there now.
Fox, He may be correct in his facts around choice of products, but his pathetic sweeping dig that people in the south are superior to the people in the north who only eat pies and crap was way over the top. The man is an imbecile or not all there.
Morrisons was a northern based chain gone national, but is more down market of Safeway, and plenty of sugar filled hydrogenated fat products in Leicester. Not my cup of tea ty but as I said is busy here. While geography affects diet, social class and income are probably more significant. It is not the balmy climate that means southerners live longer than those in the north or Scotland, it is more to do with diet, obesity and smoking. Grocers have to stock what their customers want.
Fox, you follow Financier by making sweeping statements that all in the North die young. When you take off your southern blinkers you will find that many people in the north live long lives , that there are shops that stock healthy food and there are actually some affluent people. I will state once again having lived in the south , both you and Financier are talking bollocks. The supermarkets there stock mostly the exact same products as they do throughout the country apart from some regional variations. There are as many pies down south as up north and only up themselves tw*ts would state otherwise. I could safely bet that I have at least as good and healthy a diet as you or Financier. You do yourself no favour by quoting stereotypes.
You might want to slow down and actually read what I wrote. I stated that mortality rates had more to do with class and income than geography. I am fully aware that there are wealthy people in the North as I was born in Wigan to parents from Manchester, and live in the East Midlands not the South. All the Financier and I have pointed out is that some marketing works better in North or South. As true of grocers as political parties.
Those who think the security services should not have surveillance powers should read this, and ask themselves how these guys came to be noticed by MI5:
When Morrisons bought Safeway (mainly southern UK), it changed the Safeway product mix to more of the northern Morrisons product mix - pies and more pies, cakes, biscuits, chocolate and sweets etc. It is still struggling to recognise that the requirements of the southern UK shopper are often different to those of its northern stronghold.
The redundancies mentioned in the Guardian are due to technology and cheaper employment costs outside the UK. Not much can be done about those until we reduce employment costs in the UK to be more competitive globally.
I did not believe you could be any more condescending or write even more horse manure than normal, but that takes the biscuit. Having lived in the south you are obviously either having a laugh or are a sandwich short of a picnic ( no pun intended you can substitute a slice short of a pie if needed ).
Financier is right though. The Leicester Safeway had a good range of products, now it is Morrisons it is definitly more down market. In Leicester it is quite busy, but not doing so well in more prosperous places. Margins are lower on low value products. I rarely shop there now.
Fox, He may be correct in his facts around choice of products, but his pathetic sweeping dig that people in the south are superior to the people in the north who only eat pies and crap was way over the top. The man is an imbecile or not all there.
Morrisons was a northern based chain gone national, but is more down market of Safeway, and plenty of sugar filled hydrogenated fat products in Leicester. Not my cup of tea ty but as I said is busy here. While geography affects diet, social class and income are probably more significant. It is not the balmy climate that means southerners live longer than those in the north or Scotland, it is more to do with diet, obesity and smoking. Grocers have to stock what their customers want.
Fox, you follow Financier by making sweeping statements that all in the North die young. When you take off your southern blinkers you will find that many people in the north live long lives , that there are shops that stock healthy food and there are actually some affluent people. I will state once again having lived in the south , both you and Financier are talking bollocks. The supermarkets there stock mostly the exact same products as they do throughout the country apart from some regional variations. There are as many pies down south as up north and only up themselves tw*ts would state otherwise. I could safely bet that I have at least as good and healthy a diet as you or Financier. You do yourself no favour by quoting stereotypes.
You might want to slow down and actually read what I wrote. I stated that mortality rates had more to do with class and income than geography. I am fully aware that there are wealthy people in the North as I was born in Wigan to parents from Manchester, and live in the East Midlands not the South. All the Financier and I have pointed out is that some marketing works better in North or South. As true of grocers as political parties.
Difficult to get hold of either Irn Bru or Tizer in Kensington. And there's not a Tunnocks caramel wafer to be had between Birmingham and Penzance (more's the pity).
The great thing about blogging for the Telegraph, as I did last year on the US election, is the range and ferocity of the comments. Some would make Sean's contribitions here seem timid.
Well done the Telegraph as well for spotting Sean's talents.
The great thing about blogging for the Telegraph, as I did last year on the US election, is the range and ferocity of the comments. Some would make Sean's contribitions here seem timid.
Well done the Telegraph as well for spotting Sean's talents.
Ed's mate and mentor François really has lost the plot:
"French banks will have to publish every year the full list of their subsidiaries in the world, country by country."
They already do.
In any case, the problem which gave rise to this panic wasn't that a bank had a subsidiary abroad. The problem was that one of his ministers lied about a secret bank account.
Ed's mate and mentor François really has lost the plot:
"French banks will have to publish every year the full list of their subsidiaries in the world, country by country."
They already do.
In any case, the problem which gave rise to this panic wasn't that a bank had a subsidiary abroad. The problem was that one of his ministers lied about a secret bank account.
@SeanT - Great article, and especially encouraging to see that you've charged the Telegraph for a rehash of an article you wrote a while back for another rag. That's real professionalism.
Ah, but did you notice the FOUR pop song references I put in, just to please pb-ers? Especially TSE?
@SeanT It's always fun putting pop references in (and I'd picked up on two of them on my first read-through). I managed to get "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" into a very serious letter of advice.
"It's difficult to imagine Conservative activists behaving like the people who celebrated Margaret Thatcher's death in Glasgow and Brixton."
I remember one Conservative activist's behaviour after Edward Heath died very well. (It was shameful that someone used his post here against him but he was still clearly celebrating his death.)
Oooh such painful memories...he surely already had a skinful....some of us pbTories beseeched him to stop, stop, stop and stagger off to bedski, but on and on he ploughed to catastrophe. Funny enough I was thinking about old 'pb' last week and wondered whether he still maintained his blog. He does. Maybe he lurks, like Earl Matlock of Beaconsfield, in which case, Hi, ***!
@SeanT It's always fun putting pop references in (and I'd picked up on two of them on my first read-through). I managed to get "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" into a very serious letter of advice.
I hope the letter was to a Mr Kevin Carter of Australia.
Well, she'll be Chancellor whatever happens, but I know what you mean: she'll be able to carry on with her preferred coalition with the Free Democrats rather than resorting to a difficult grand coalition with the SPD.
Mr. Eagles, it's a general rule that US sci-fi needs a Briton to make it good.
Scotty in TOS, Picard in TNG, Bashir/O'Brien in DS9, Peter Cushing in Star Wars, Amanda Tapping (Canadian/British citizen) in SG1, the lead in The Walking Dead, etc etc etc.
Oh, and let's not forget Magneto *and* Professor X in X-Men.
Incidentally, did you know the chief of the CIA in Homeland is also British?
And he's doing Have I Got News For You this week as well
An amazing fact for you: my uncle was in the first ever episode of Blake's 7 - he was Blake's lawyer. He was also one of the builders in The Builders episode of Fawlty Towers.
How about a blog on why Alistair Darling is to blame for the Khmer Rouge while Thatchers role in arming them was irrelevant and her going on Blue Peter to tell the nations children about the nice wing was an elaborate spoof?
How about a blog without you spouting the same old rubbish, whilst deliberately avoiding the honest truth? That would be a blessing for us all.
Mr. Eagles, it's a general rule that US sci-fi needs a Briton to make it good.
Scotty in TOS, Picard in TNG, Bashir/O'Brien in DS9, Peter Cushing in Star Wars, Amanda Tapping (Canadian/British citizen) in SG1, the lead in The Walking Dead, etc etc etc.
Oh, and let's not forget Magneto *and* Professor X in X-Men.
Incidentally, did you know the chief of the CIA in Homeland is also British?
It would be impossible for a sitting PM to survive this now
MARK THATCHER made millions of pounds from Britain's huge Al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia, signed in 1985 by his mother, Margaret Thatcher, when prime minister, it is alleged today.
It's hard to imagine a US version having the same bite as the original of Blakes Seven. Would a US audience stomach a dissident who is fitted up on charges of child sex abuse, imprisoned and becomes a successful terrorist being shown as a sympathetic character? It seems unlikely.
Comments
The Premier League (football) will not be holding any sign of respect following Maggie's death, however Saracens and Exeter (rugby union) will. Now how does that adage about what type of person plays which sport go?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02531/100413-MATT-web_2531657a.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22086690
"Mr Hague said Lady Thatcher had won a rebate from Europe in 1984 that had brought in £75bn so far."
Of course, it would have been more had not Blair sacrificed some for reform of the CAP.....
He's one of the very few people in the world who after the age of three, has seen his mother's "Gangsta Sporran" usually on TV
Seems a bit "look squirrel" to me, and to the BBC. Seems a bit "tilting at windmills" to me. Maybe they just recognise that a sovereign nation has the right to set up a tax regime however it damn well pleases?
No it is better for my waistline - or so I hope.
The point I was trying to make is that if a product mix works in one part of the country (any country) then it is marketing and business folly to assume that the same product mix will work in another part of that country.
I am still amazed that Morrisons did not appear to do the appropriate market research before the Safeway acquisition.
Yes, Morrisons are now trying to catch up with their Market Street, but they are as expensive as my local butcher who has his own abattoir and hangs the meat for the right period of time and can tell me the name of the farm where and how it was bred.
FYI, my politics are the politics of common sense and am not a member of any political party.
For instance, at midnight the current Julian Day Number was 2456392, and the Julian Date was 245639.5. The Ordinal Date is (I think) 2013/100. The Julian Day starts at midday UTC, I think so that astronomers can get a full night using the same number. Although that falls down for astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Although the epoch of the JD is 4,713 BCE, it becomes difficult to convert between JD and calender date due to the various calender changes (e.g. Gregorian to Julian), which occurred at different times in different localities.
And the reason I knew all this: many moons ago I was tasked with creating a calender application that would deal accurately with many different dates. I based it on some astronomical code, but it proved almost impossible to internationalise it accurately for all territories.
"Give us our eleven days!"
I'll get my coat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
But congratulations. You'll give Toby Young a run for his money.
" TSE, because mostly they are To**ers and usually silly oicks who think they are better than other people whilst in fact being Richard heads."
Out of the mouths of babes and leftards.......
If he had signed up for the Guardian/CiF, that would have been much much more interesting and entertaining.
The entry about the bedroom tax is giving him the horn would have been fun.
(Actually, do you have a low gear?)
http://www.voxeu.org/article/economic-legacy-mrs-thatcher
In sum, Thatcherism was a partial solution to the problems which had led to earlier underperformance, in particular, those that had arisen from weak competition (Crafts 2012). The reforms encouraged the effective diffusion of new technology rather than greater invention and worked more through reducing inefficiency than promoting investment-led growth. They addressed relative economic decline through improving TFP and reducing the NAIRU. At the same time, the short-term implications were seriously adverse for many workers as unemployment rose and manufacturing rapidly shed two million jobs while income inequality surged, to no small extent as a result of benefit reforms.
Indeed, any judgement on Thatcherism turns heavily on value judgements concerning the relative importance of income distribution and economic growth as policy objectives. The 1980s saw a very rapid increase in the Gini coefficient by about nine percentage points, which has turned out to be largely permanent. Ultimately, the Thatcher experiment was about making a liberal market economy work better. There will be those who think a German-style coordinated market economy is preferable. That was not really an option available to Mrs Thatcher but in any event it was hardly a vision of which she approved.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/05/kelvin-mackenzie-dropped-daily-telegraph
'Hague puts Thatcher's funeral cost in contex'
Or maybe the equivalent of the cost of a day's fighting in Iraq for fantasy WMD's.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/axed-from-daily-telegraph-website-after-just-two-days-kelvin-mackenzie-still-cant-handle-the-truth-8562591.html
Out of the mouths of babes and leftards.......</blockquote>
I'm sure Malcolm is flattered that you think he's a babe..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22091107
Well done the Telegraph as well for spotting Sean's talents.
"French banks will have to publish every year the full list of their subsidiaries in the world, country by country."
They already do.
In any case, the problem which gave rise to this panic wasn't that a bank had a subsidiary abroad. The problem was that one of his ministers lied about a secret bank account.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/french-banks-publish-subsidiaries-list-fraud-fight-102839544--business.html#xFipgb2
Enjoy, and good luck with it.
Are you either willing, keen, able or disinterested in responding to comments a la Norman Tebbit?
Europe and Fade(s) to Grey were my favourite.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/uk-eu-imbalnaces-idUKBRE9390BH20130410
Spanish, Slovenian economies at risk from imbalances - EU
http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/jx8g4k4srj/YouGov-Sun-results-Thatcher-legacy-130409.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079232
Or maybe Avon
Forsa:
CDU/CSU: 41%
SPD: 23%
Green: 14%
Linke: 9%
FDP: 6%
Pirates: 3%
Others: 4%
http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/22093181
(The above article is out of date,I think)
Never a fan of Thatcher but this is Just tasteless.
And he's doing Have I Got News For You this week as well
Doesn't really apply to my family. For example my dad just turned 70 and he's still working full time including Saturdays.
Let's just say he isn't very impressed by people who give up on work at 50 or earlier.
But the Americans do like British Actors in their shows.
Hugh Laurie in House.
Damian Lewis in Life and Homeland.
Andrew Lincoln in the Walking Dead.
And the wonderful Alan Cumming in the Good Wife
Who is going to play the evil Servilan? phhhwwwooaarrr....
Well, she'll be Chancellor whatever happens, but I know what you mean: she'll be able to carry on with her preferred coalition with the Free Democrats rather than resorting to a difficult grand coalition with the SPD.
Scotty in TOS, Picard in TNG, Bashir/O'Brien in DS9, Peter Cushing in Star Wars, Amanda Tapping (Canadian/British citizen) in SG1, the lead in The Walking Dead, etc etc etc.
Oh, and let's not forget Magneto *and* Professor X in X-Men.
Incidentally, did you know the chief of the CIA in Homeland is also British?
Simply awesome
Peter Cushing is the best and I've tweeted why
http://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/321964738038882304/photo/1
Smearing is what he does.
Maggie was more left than me.