StraferJack

Anyone going to this tomorrow night? http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/danny-baker-danny-kelly/

Even if one objectively agreed with all of the changes currently underway, it would be foolish to trust the current precarious government to implement them properly It's almost as if they know they are doomed so are pushing as fast as possible (see also major and rail privatisation) Now THAT is ideology in action

The new Beady Eye album is all kinds of awesome kidding

Ignoring which system is best (and invalidating your accusations that I am along the present system inviolable) we can judge on outcomes can't we?

My comments about Indian Mischief shouldn't be read as criticism btw - people speak very well and I like the people behind it a lot. I just wish it was busier

re: demand being there. Someone posted the fact that Indian Mischief is doing well as proof. But to me that's a sign of the demand not being there. Observationally, it's a small restaurant that is more often empty than busy Pubwise, I think the Capital pubs are pretty good at avoiding the "one veggie dish, and that's goats cheese" syndrome - the Bishop for example has several dishes http://www.thebishopeastdulwich.com/media/1105/food_menu_bishop.pdf

Well Dave, what I think is that my telegraph link was reporting and your telegraph piece was opinion As for efficient models, what is the target level of efficiency? If we accept we don't want to be where we are, where do we want to be? % of GDP? Some other measure? http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS It irks me when defenders of the nhs concept are dismissed as ideologues while reformers see themselves as above such na?vet?

So to summarise, the lengthening a and e queues are not a result of cutbacks or reorganisation, but complacency and culture? I know we aren't going to agree in this. Not now not ever. But with the usual caveat that I in no way suggest things were ever perfect but your sweeping statements reflects neither my own experiences as a patient or the various doctors, nurses or staff I know within the nhs But as I say, many people are telling me I have nothing to worry about and things are going to be better and cheaper. So what's to worry about

Lots of people (both on here an nationwide) protesting about nhs cuts and a and closures Lots of other people saying "you're worrying over nothing. The changes are not only necessary but will bring a better service". I just wonder how bad a service would have to deteriorate for the end user before anyone else admitted things hadn't improved

and to think people were worried http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10094041/Record-number-of-operations-cancelled.html

Shame Frank's isn't open for another few weeks - forecast is good for Sat night as well too (a prerequisite for Franks) I'd be inclined to go begging bowl. Peckham Refreshment sounds like a definite but given size and popularity I'm waiting a few weeks (that said as you can't book Begging Bowl, you might not want to wait if there is a queue, killing any buzz)

So if more liberal lefties denounced Islam, all this other stuff would be better? Sounds cool

Is psychiatry a nailed down science now? I thought it was still largely a doing best we can field? Wasn't breivik found sane? There may well be good political and legal reasons to so declare but no way am I buying breivik as "sane"

I haven't said anything about his article on woolwich Insightful? Not in this case (to my mind). Prone to gilding a verbal lily? For sure But articulating an opinion held by many in a way most of us can't? Sure But he isn't really doing any more than that and isn't some leftie standing up for choudary either so I don't quite get the hate (much as some don't get the love) But in a world full of stultifying prose, yeah I like his peacocking

Those 3 links aren't meant to be definitive or anything. Just first three i picked up on phone. I'm not trying to be argumentative but was surprised when I saw that ES article presented as good

I kind of have up when I got to "We were quick to denounce the appearance of the BNP?s Nick Griffin on Question Time in 2009 but where were the objectors to rising media starlet Anjem Choudary?" You have to be wilfully deaf and blind to be unaware of the left complaining about choudary. Who is the "we" in his sentence? Where were the objectors? Everywhere. And the left have been banging on about him for years http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/24/bbc-channel-4-anjem-choudary http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/01/choudary-muslim-islamic http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jan/04/anjum-choudary-wootton-bassett

This one from the huff ? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/2013/05/27/sageman-interview_n_3342206.html

You got a link to a better piece?

"And no-one in the pub business locally thinks an expected revenue of ?3k per week from food is realistic. " is this true? I can think of half a dozen pubs locally that I expect take more than that a week

No doubt it is, as people say, ?coming? ? but pointing out that it?s pilotless for most of the time already isn?t that relevant Pilots are there for when the instruments go wrong ? and that is something I can?t see changing too quickly All those news stories about a pilot crash landing a plane into a field ? are they going to be replaced by ?the amazing Oric 1 automated pilot froze completely so the automated copilot Dragon 32 patched in, took one look at things and said ?logically, we?re screwed here people?, and gave up? That first crash on a pilotless flight, and the follow up investigation is going to be intense

Here http://www.londonisfunny.com/venues/Tenants_Hall

Tenants hall isn't a bar in the sense of how most people view bars/pubs tho is it DJKQ? I've been there, had a good time and I mean no disrespect when I say it isn't where I would take the family and papers for a Sunday lunch, or even stop off for a swift half on way home for work I imagine the prognosis for the Wishing Well in peckham was similarly negative. But say what you will about capital pubs, they created a busy busy pub from nowhere. The Ivy House has its challenges ahead. But it's certainly possible Edited to zap most of the typos

"Because I believe too many of the people backing it are worried about naked breasts and have little concern with fighting sexism. " Speculation obviously - but I'd be amazed if that wasn't the case. However, just because you have some people with that mindset doesn't detract from the overall objective I don't think I can think of a single campaign anywhere that hasn't had to tolerate fringe beliefs in order to garner enough support. If there are some prudes in the campain it's a side issue really Murdoch suggesting he will put bikini tops on is mild trolling on his part I think But if that becomes the solution then I disagree it's nothing - yes it would still be pointless but it wouldn't last too long before it gets stopped completely And just because you (and I ) find large parts of the sun objectionable isn't the point either. When it comes to news and objectivity and sales and all the rest of it as a news organisation they should be free to pursie that angle. But page 3, in a newspaper is just... well it's bloody weird

@otta you can play the Hitman games as shooty shooty but id pretty much discourages that - it's all about the stealth

It would be better if the feature didn't exist at all in a newspaper Tops or no