Huguenot

I'm not sure you read what I was saying - I no longer live in ED, I live in Singapore and work with clients in media internationally. The coverage of the royal wedding is possibly heavier outside the UK than it is in the UK. Whatever cynicism you may have about the Royal Family as a Briton, it's not reflected in the sense of glamour, sophistication and culture that they project overseas. I think Fergie is a rather witless Hooray Henry. The US think she's a princess; I think Prince Andrew is a drunken prat but the Saudis like to buy warplanes from Princes. The wedding raises the profile and positive perceptions of the UK. It makes overseas customers more inclined to work with UK companies, buy UK products, invest in UK industry and visit the UK. The revenue is generated by the increased UK-related transactions made by overseas individuals and companies.

Main, primary, whatever - they're still all incorrect. That section is entitled 'ED Issues' not 'London Issues That Might Also Be Interesting To poeple Living in ED' The whole forum is 'Issues That Might Be Interesting To poeple Living in ED', and it's subdivided into sections for ease of use and to ensure that user expectations are met. The survey isn't an ED survey, it's about policing across the capital. That goes in the Lounge. If it was a survey specifically about the provision of policing services in ED it would be in the ED Issues section, along with the SNT. I sympathise - you're not the only one who want to change the rules to reflect their own interests. For you it's policing, for others it education policy, for others it's No Frills airlines. It's not possible to compromise for one person without compromising for everyone. Then the forum's broken. Either way, it's not my choice. That'll be Admin.

There's three main cornerstones to commercial success: profile, perception and revenue. The best returns are when all three of these are contributing as a single unit. A wedding like this one, that fills televisions across the world, massively increases the profile of 'Brand Britain' whilst dominating coverage with positive messages. The advertising value of this coverage is trillions. You just couldn't buy it. When 2/3 of the job is done for you, it makes converting revenue so much the easier. Put it another way, when was the last time that your telly had a month sepcial how great Lithuania was?

The television over here is swamped with it, and I'm told the US is even worse. Four or five channels are doing specials for the whole month!! It's a massive shot in the arm for UK's global trade.

It's a pretty tenuous case for an 'ED Issues' thread. It's a generic police questionnaire. On the same basis you could include 'climate change' in ED Issues because we get weather in ED too... I do wish people would stop referring to it as the 'main section'. It's not. It's an ED Issues section, and the rules are completely explicit. Everyone seems to think their thread is a special case. If you start depositing any old stuff into it then the users will find it unsatisfying. You won't get more people looking at your thread, you'll just have two messy lounges, and half the users will leave.

Tarot, the original 'Defender of the Faith' title was conferred by the Pope on Henry VIII. The Faith it referred to was Catholicism, and it recognised the supremacy of the Pope. The title was withdrawn from Henry VIII through excommunication. The title was then arbitrarily reapplied by Uk parliament, but this time in favour of Anglicanism and against Catholicism. Hence technically the title didn't need to apply to any particular religion. In fact, in 1953, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent staid this: "In our countries there are people who have faith in the direction of human affairs by an all-wise providence, and we felt that it was a good thing that the civil authorities would proclaim that their organisation is such that it is a defence of the continued beliefs in a supreme power that orders the affairs of mere men, and that there could be no reasonable objection from anyone who believed in the Supreme Being in having the sovereign, the head of the civil authority, described as a believer in and a defender of the faith in a supreme ruler." This essentially meant that the formal government position on 'Defender of the Faith' is that it doesn't apply to any particular religion at all. Prince Charles has demonstrated an intent to change the title in English to 'Defender of Faith', effectively formalising a decision made by government when he was still a boy. Hence it's nothing to do with Charles, and everything to do with a national belief in a multicultural society. Long may it continue.

Is this a bit of pro-Church of England jingoism?

Wrong about what John? Do you feel ED isn't distinct, or that North Cross Road market is a figment of our collective imagination? Perhaps you could be a little more helpful? I was trying to have a little fun, but you're quite within your rights to get pissy about it.

I think it's somewhat missing the point to get bogged down in the lighting report. The point is that it's only up to 6.30pm at night. There should be absolutely zero concerns about 'light pollution' at this time of day. It's ridiculous. Sure if they want to extend it into later in the evening it may become an issue - but I suspect noise pollution will be more of an issue at that time. However, this request is only about a 6.30pm cut off, and really shouldn't be blown out of all proportion.

I think ED would qualify as a town. The original word meant a fenced settlement, but more recently it referred to the charter to hold a market. You could say that ED is fairly demarcated from adjacent areas by the Rye, Goose Green and Townley Road. It certainly has a market. It doesn't have a town council, but it is an economic hub.

Lol! Auntie Mimi it is from now on ;-)

Or in rumpenproletariat?

Per se. For itself, or in itself. Perfectly valid to argue that it wasn't a post per se. You'd need to redefine what a 'post' was and introduce a degree of relevancy. You could then argue that its lack of relevance meant that a post it was not. etc.

H?

I prefer rump. Always happy to be a rump.

*chuckle* Silverfox's best mate is a bloke who deletes all his posts when he gets caught with his pants down. *Puts it in the box marked 'things not to be proud of'*

So much love x

A misunderstanding Pearson, there's a special place in hell for lorry drivers who pull that manoeuvre. I was referring to the cyclists who roll up the inside of stationary traffic at red lights, and then squeeze (often with one foot on the kerb) down the inside of lorries trying to get an advantage. It's lethal, and I've seeen it so often, from grown adults, that I'm incredulous.

Those bastard wading birds have been after my wallet. Kill 'em all.

'Outriders for Alleyns'? Don't be an idiot. That's like calling me a sockpuppet for a nuclear company because I think the anti-nuclear campaign is poorly informed and largely superstitious. As an outsider, I've merely seen a completely disproportionate and misinformed attack on a school. I agree with "over to our good councillors who must balance the many needs of the community" , but I've also seen councillors make poor decisions because of the misplaced antagonism of witch-burners.

Most lorry drivers I've come across are incredibly sensitised to cyclists alongside. I enjoy cycling, although not as a regular commute. I do have a rule though - NEVER RIDE UP THE INSIDE OF A LORRY. Do halfwits not look at this situation and go 'Oh my God, Danger danger danger.'???

Just to add.... "I would suggest that as a worker, rather than management, your sympathies should lie with them..." What century are you in Carnell ;-) ? I teach people (for their sins) management theory. The only place you'd find this kind of dividing line between contemporary management and the workers would be a chinese building site. Industry batters this idiocy out of the minds of companies from an early stage. We're not in an environment where grammar school boys are management and 'the rest' are shop stewards. Only 6% of the workforce are in manufacturing (where you could plausibly make a distinction between operations and administration). The rest are in some degree of service industry where 'upward' migration is a hazy analogue process. Bloody hell.

Equity was stupid in New Zealand. It was behaving like an imperial power dealing with the witless natives. They should all have been shot. (geddit ;-)) That aside, I think that if you join a 'union' the clue is in the name. You give up the right to self determination. If you want to think for yourself then don't call up your gang to back it. Apart from that, I back Marmora Man completely. He seems to have presented a very clear and non-ideological view of recent industrial actions. "If you agree with the protest - strike. If you don't agree - don't strike."

Every comment is ridiculous. It's dispiriting. If a five year old child told you they hate you because you haven't given them enough biscuits, you'd tip them the wink right? Likewise if two right wing newspapers that favour prejudice and bigotry tell you that democracy is rubbish you giggle right? You don't hold them up as beacons of common-sense? Unless you're a dickhead?