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A question Steveo shadowfax? In 1980! That's a horse in LOT?R and surely belongs to about 1972? shadowfax...FFS

That's a bit painful tonight, the normally reliable Balding not very good!

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I'm now permanently worried about Steveo...if he's not on the Forum for a day or two I'll think the Shadowfax curse has got him.

..obviously a big 'footie' fan

..er...Friendly?

Bowie That hot summer('76) Dub Reggae The Clash Pistols The Jam The Specials The Football Specials Anti-Nazi League Bank Holiday tear up with Skinhaeds Propa youth culture ...ooooh yes

Anyone doing international predictions? I have one. San manriono 8 Spurs 0

OF course the irony being that the scots always go on about how we overhype England's chances and in 1978, when they did have a half decent team, no hyperbole at all, oh no :)

Completley unnecessary

As a connected aside I liked good old establishment Hampstead lefty, Tariq Ali's - "well of course if Marx had lived another ten years he'd have given us the answer"...or maybe if he'd (Marx) stopped swanning around in Hampstead Cafes sorting out his daughters' piano lessons :)

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Yup, but EP that's where the pragamatism of Keynes (or, I guess if you're a bit more freemarket inclined, which I 'probably' am ,Freedman - sadly missing from this series) makes more sense to me. I was really struck by the utopian vision of both Marx and (unconciously) Hayak kind of ignoring or brushing over the huge, horrible, unpleasantness, misery and servitude for millions over a long period that giving complete control to the state or to the market gives, even if in the end they theoretically lead to Nivarna (of which I very much doubt). SF - of course but unless we keep economics in a ghetto I thought this was entirely fit for purpose - getting people interested in the big economic theories.

BAH HUMBUG

PS much to Mr Carnell's shock no doubt, I think I am broadly with Keynes of the three. All intellectually impressive though.

What kind of watch does Mickey Mouse wear? Etc :)

just finished the final one of these this week (oh I love the new download function on the BBC iplayer). Absolutely brilliant series and should be compulsory viewing for our economic illiterate population. I've never been that keen on Stephanie's reporting style but she is brilliant in this. Watch it! Er, yes, confirmed minx too our Steph.

Is that Wiggy who was in Billy Bragg's early band Riff Raff?

This all feels a bit anecdotal and not much else to me. what I remember from the 70s is 15 year old girls going out with the 17 year old blokes not the ageing30 something lotharios she goes on about. When I hit my 17th birthday my then girlfriend was fifteen and a half and that was reasonably avearage. I can't remember many (any?) of my mates in my mid20s (in the mid 80s) going out with girls below 16 or even 18 let alone 14 year olds. I dunno, not saying it didn't happen but the 'norm'? Come on girls let's hear it from you.

Poetic licence

If You're looking a bit nearer Oxleas wood is ok

has GM Hopkins been informed?

for all those being a bit righteous.... 2 candidates of equal qualification, both interviewed as well, both initially impressive, one male one female, which ONE would you honestly choose. Easy to theorise on equality IMO.

A few top of my head thoughts - most companies and the entires public sector don't have shares to give away - those companies that complain that hiring is risky 'cos of the difficulty of firing are more likely to be SMEs who on the whole are less likely to have shares to give away. - just the numbers of employees and their sheer size means that the big companies the most likely to have shares to give away are least likely to be scared or affected by not being able to get rid of employees pay redundancy etc All strikes me that this is one of them ideas from people without much business experience, er, ie Politicians.