SeanMacGabhann

I am pro-PR and pro compulosry voting (allowing for a "none of the above" option)

I was there last night too LP so may have seen you at some point (if I knew what you looked like!) It's not as different as I had imagined - basically a smarter version of what was before and for me that's a Good Thing

Does the sheer number of concerts concern anyone else? That many shows in one place for any artist has to be challenging but is his health up to it? And has anyone seen the "leaked" setlists online?

blimey citizen - yuo thought BN5's retort was positive re: homeopathy??

Even by ardent fans definition the first few episodes are loose and hard to follow. Stick with is pgc. You will see glimpses when d uses chess as am analogy. . Around episode 2 And shame mp. . Why so trenchant?

ooohgood spot Huggers Wire with no ads - come on you resistors - now is your chance

What a plan Mockney - it couldn't fail surely! If only there was somewhere in the world where this was already in place we c... oh wait

whoah there - disqualification! That IS the lyric surely... that's not misheard

Tony feel free to comment away, but given that London has always, and will always change before all of our very eyes it still begs the question... and??

not rreeeeeaaly Tony You keep asking my how Irish people in GENERAL would feel. And then I tell you that most Irish people I know/observe are happy with the influx and changes And you say you love the Irish - but as you point out that is YOUR view. It is clearly not a view shared by many of your compatriots not that long ago was it? Why would that be? Is it possible that for some people change is inherently a bad thing and if that intolerance of change manifests itself in a dislike of "other" nationalities, should it be tolerated? If you like the Irish so much, how many arguments did you have with London friends who prohibited them from staying in boarding houses? As neighbours? And what traits of the irish do you ascribe ? "Gregarious, Generous, Fun, Friendly, Love a Drink and a Gamble" Well blow me over if that doesn't sound like most people from most countries I know. I lived in East Ham for several years on a street where (despite the breakdown of the borough's population above) it so happend I was one of the only white faces on the block. What did I find? I found most of the Asian and African natives to be sociable, friendly and tolerant. We got on juuuust fine. I didn't see any problems. It was safe. What is the problem exactly? So "straigt enough for you Seanster?" - nope. What appears to be the case is you have a problem with some nationalities. Tell me again what you said to people in the 70s who denigrated irish people and tell me why you aren't doing the same for other nationalities?

spot on Jeremy

How do I think they would feel or would I agree with them? As a community that itself has effectively colonised large swathes of London (the 33rd county up in NW2 and beyond) I would have nothing but malice in my heart for any Irish person living in Ireland who had a problem with immigrants. And I know several irish people who fit that description. But equally I know many more who recognise the world as it is and that where your parents had sex and squatted out another mewling pup has got little bearing on what kind of human being you are or where you deserve to live Large parts of Ireland are now populated by non-Irish people Tony. And the pathetic, narrow-mind, bitter little country that it used to be is gone, thank the sweet stars. Are there people still there who can't accept this? Absolutely.. there are (clearly) people like this everywhere Did you have a problem with the Kilburn/Cricklewood area when it was largely Irish Tony? How did true Londoners feel about this invasion? Apart from the ones who had "no Black no Irish" in their windows? Give it to me straight Tony

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Dreadful game and performance by Arsenal indeed However... I wouldn't read too much into that. In previous competitions those games where we have been oustatnding (5-1 in Milan for example) we often crash back to earth. And where we scrape through, we lift our game. I'm just glad we are through for now. I belive we will play Barcelona in this competition.. whether it is in next weeks draw or in the final I don't know but I have a feeling On another note - it was quite sad to see Viera as a shadow of himself at Old Trafford last night

Under the general air of bon-homie that TLS tries to carry off, are waves of darkness I don't much care for

The two books i would recommend Bio : strange fascination by david buckley Review: complete david bowie by nick pegg

by bes do you mean fastest or least changes? I have gotten the 37 bus from ED to Putney and just walked across the bridge before. Might take a while during the day mind..

What, NorthLondoner, everyone gets a reply but me??? You are of course correct that public transport is not the best option for everyone. But you would be wrong to say that congestion is caused by people who need to travel because they have a toddler, a stroller and bags of shopping (or equivalent). Nor is their choice in anyway diminished - they chose the stroller/car/children/shopping combo - they can afford the couple of quid extra. their choice WILL be diminished when every other person makes the same choice and gridlocks the road. Explain that concept to the kids now snarling in the back of the car Nor do you need studies - hop on a bus before 7am in the moning and check out the exonomic wealth

oh I can see where Keef is coming from - it's like Tories who say they would never vote Labour and even in the dog days ofthe Major government after everything that had happened wouldn't vote non-Tory. I think you have to keep an open mind and if the current Tories had anything positive about them at all I would be tempted They just haven't

Busted Fair point Brendan - I should have been more specific about some motorist's groups. ..........But you know what I mean...

Oh but I know they believe that Tony - the question is, given the evidence of mounting congestion around them, WHY do they believe that?

sorry Tone - I'll try and reign in my "tone" ;-) Surely by that token, no democratic change can ever take place tha affects some people? When are notice and the chance to vote against something unsufficient? Would this also not affect the poor? And more importantly, how would it affect congestion. But also if I recall, when the government has previously increased petrol charges what happened? Oh yeah.. the innocent and responsible motorists blockaded the roads, brought the country to a standstill and endangered essential services. As a group, motorists are very much of the adolescent, aggressive teenager mentality

ok so you went back and edited your post - but what is with this "overnight" business? It was discussed for years, in his manifesto and voted in And come on, let's have the TLS solution to congestion

Tony, you have just ignored my point to reiterate your own Is there another way to remove cars from the road other than financial means? A fiver a day (at the time) is roughly similar to a day travelcard in London. Most poor people are already doing the latter but I don't hear the motorist lobby bleat about the poor from that perpective. But you get a fat, well paid middle-manager to give up his car and take a tube and you hear PLENTY about the cost of public transport then, oh yes indeedy

A common criticism but one that doesn't stand up. The genuinely poor never drove into central London anyway - they took transport and live a fair bit away so are already paying for transport and spending a few quid a day just to get in to central London. As someone who takes the bus I can validate absolutely that the congestion charge benefited those poor directly as bus journeys improved significantly.