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He's made Balls look like a young Ken Clarke...

That has to one of the finest, "WON'T *SOMEBODY* THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!" posts I've seen in along while.

LM: If you are going to Google MILF, do *not* do it at work. And stay out of Google Images. And definitely don't go near Google Videos.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Milfwall? Really, really quite brilliant. >:D<

Another vote for the screens. If I know the info, I'd know whether to swipe in or not, so the need for a reader at the top is less of a n issue.

Woof, Try putting ECI on your phone, then.

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pull the other One cabaret got fined too. But > Gerry Cottle didnt. I'm guessing that one of them knew the correct answer to the "did you stick these posters up" question.

Dr Johnson is terrific. The rest I won't comment upon.

If you are going to vote with your feet, make sure you don't end up at Melbourne Grove.

I was given the old 'I've just got out of hospital and I'm trying to get home' story by a male, half way up the slope on the LB side of ED station today. I just said, "sorry. no" and moved on. What really annoys me is that someday. someone will actually need my help and I won't be able to tell them from the shysters. Who knows? Maybe the guy today was genuine. But I doubt it.

Old people with purpose...

To be a good leader of a party/the country you need to be tactical and diplomatic (which is why Berlusconi is such an appalling head of state). I just can't see that Abbott has these qualities. She is a capable and enthusiastic MP - I'd vote for her - but she just doesn't have the whole cv to lead the party.

I reckon Diane Abbott is great - she speaks he mind and her and Portillo on This Week are so good they make the programme watchable in spite of Andrew Neill. But she's no leader.

It'll be interesting to see if this flagship policy survives the spending review. Hopefully not.

They probably do also install software on your PC, though of the nasty variety.

Not from the poor bloke who happened to be in the Cotswolds on that fateful day. And they said golf is a good walk spoilt.

We could go silver fox hunting!

Diane Abbott's nomination: fabulous step forward for black women or patronising tokenism? Discuss...

As usual, the Mash got there first...

It's a stupid idea, anyway. Question: What areas of public services should be cut? Everybody's Answer: The bits that affect me the least. It turns into a who shouts loudest competition. Cameron is right to make cuts - we have no money left - but he/the government has the have the cojones to make the decisions, not hive it off to some ask-the-people rubbish.

Barry, Others have said it before me, but it is well worth saying again: you are an absolute star. And a damn efficient one at that.

cate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I see Woof as the kind of guy who sits on tube > seats with his legs spread really far apart and > taking up both arm rests. I'm not sure I could get my legs so far apart so that they take up both armrests. :-S

Trolling is never pretty.

Ah, found it. I still say it won't happen. It's all very well sending a warship as an escort, but what if it's mere presence does not do the job? Turkey is in no position to go into a war with Israel. The US would back Israel politically and NATO would stay out. Here's a pretty good analysis of where this might go. Though it does miss the scenario of Israel waiting until the ship is inside territorial waters.

Israel considers Gaza occupied territory. If the Turkish warship enters it's territorial waters and the Israelis intercept the cargo boat then this would quickly escalate, probably into one or the other committing an act of war. The Turks have been doing a lot of diplomatic and political talking and posturing, but little in the way of actual sabre rattling. It's not long ago Turkey and Israel were allies - this would be a massive, massive reversal of that and a huge risk for them. As far as I can tell (as the real story is not clear and more than a little confused), the Turkish government made the flotilla organisers change the flag of the Mavi Marmara to another country (Comoros) at the last minute to avoid just this sort of situation developing. I think the best they would do is escort the vessel through international waters. Turkey enjoys the automatic protection of NATO if they were attacked, but not if they were considered in any way the aggressor, which would quickly be used by the NATO allies as a get out clause.