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Say hello to the Sunday Sun. Plus ca change.

I don't think there is any evidence that cranial osteopathy has any theraputic value whatsoever.

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Tyson Fury: your country needs you. He just needs a conditioning coach.

Dirty Hari looks kippered. He's always seemed a little unhinged to me. Much worse things have happened in journalism though.

Jobs in the public sector comprise a richer mix of managerial and white collar functions than in the private sector. There is for instance a very large and poorly paid retail sector in the private sector, which has no comparison in the public sector. Counting all these wages in and coming up with a mean average is pointless. What you want for the purposes of your argument is a like for like comparison. Policy Exchange, a right leaning think tank, have sought to do this. Here is a study which, although controversial, makes the case for what you're trying to say more effectively http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/publications/publication.cgi?id=240

"That's true, because if you also factor in pensions benefits then the PS/private sector rewards are even more skewed to the PS." A non sequitur. The data cited is worthless to this argument.

It gets a bit wild when the Bognor Ultras turn up. But the biggest danger to local denizens is when the ball is hoofed out of the ground. It being the Ryman's South, this can happen regularly.

The average weekly wage comparison is junk and worthless for the purposes of this discussion. It doesn't compare like with like.

Are people aware that there is no such thing as a Standard public sector pension? The differences between the pension schemes for teachers, armed forces personnel, civil servants, LG officials are fundamentally different. Some are funded some are not.

Where?

We need a new law for the forum. Given enough time the chances of any thread on the EDF having a pop at Local public schools approaches one. I bring you Flashman's Law.

Nothing that's planned will encroach on the spaces in WG used to play cricket, football etc. I think the intention is to have a proposed location plan available soon so people can see for themselves.

Gussy You're right. Lots of the space is underused. I think some people whose houses back onto the park prefer it that way. But what's proposed here seems to me to be a modest, sympathetic and long overdue augmentation of the park.

I think Haye inside 5. Some interesting views on the fight here, Hopkins in particular! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bendirs/2011/06/haye-klitschko_predictions.html

I likey folky. But I was taken by how pants Mumford and Sons were. Like Lindisfarne on mogadon.

Annette I saw an advert for that on thameslink the other day. It may me wince. All it's missing is Toploader. Camberwell70 You're right they do; in the immediate post-Gabriel period.

Dewey Balfa. Sue - does the Goose ever do Cajun?

Brian Downey. Try playing Massacre on cake tins

Public sector pension reform has long been on the agenda, including with the last Government. It's entirely reasonable for any Government to want reform. But this is sensitive territory affecting the lives of millions of people who have signed contracts and planned for their retirement based on assumptions. Changing these assumptions needs to be done in negotiation and without partisanship. What really grates is the Government's attempts to get political capital from this by pre-empting the negotiations and going public. Alexander has now been slapped down. But what he said a few days ago was a disgraceful piece of posturing designed to appeal to the base who like to see public sector workers get a kicking (read the comments on the Mail's website). It's nasty stuff and divisive- the last thing a government should be.

Looks alright to me. Less White noise than the EDF

I saw Michael Watson about a month ago, in the Blue Legume Stoke Newington. He's often in there. Still disabled, but seemed better than he did when he completed the marathon. Seems to have a good quality of life I think. The terrible thing about that fight is it was a great fight; one of the best i've seen.

I remember him nailing a Kazakh (?) fighter in the last few second of the quarter or semi or something. He had a bit of power too, although i agree it was his jab that won him the gold. Joe Bugner's the one who got away. Gave Frazier problems, but killing someone seemed to inhibit his killer instinct.

Mockney Not Godwin at all. Godwin is about Nazi analogies. Heydrich and Streicher were obsessed by the masons and sought to link them with the Jewish conspiracy (sic). It became an ideological hatred, not power politics. Your petard comment is rather grotesque.

Freemasons were persecuted by the Nazis and around 100,000 were killed in the holocaust.