david_carnell

Oh for the love of god... We should have a scores on the doors system like environmental health. "The EDF says do not send your children here" I wouldn't want to send my child to somewhere where the staff are this idiotic. And a repeat offence too! Good work Detective FRM

Well on the presumption they join or remain in the Schengen agreement you wouldn't need a passport to cross the border. But I don't know the technicality of it beyond that. Would Scotland have a right of return for instance for the hundreds of thousands of people with Scottish ancestry to return "home"? Like a tartan-Israel.

2 out of 3 ain't bad. ;-)

Different brands are different sizes though. Mini-d_c is a 7.5 in start-rite but an 8.5 in clarks. Apparently that's not unusual.

Orkney Shetland Rest of Scotland London Cornwall Rest of England North Wales South Wales Northern Ireland Any others that fancy a shout at this independence malarky?

Ludlow and Winchester have both been historic capitals.

But the awards are stuffed full of and run by Tories....that was the point. It's a big blue love-in.

That it was a half-decent critique of a horrid little awards show. We were discussing GQ. But of course it was in the Guardian so I'd forgotten that nothing can be linked to without you wading in.

It was by Suzanne Moore for Christ sake - you were expecting what exactly? A N Wilson perhaps?

Hi Ade If you post a link to your survey or some contact details I'm sure many people would be happy to help. Good luck with your project.

Agreed - but you try and come up with a better acronym!

Former Union Celtic Kingdoms Or Failed Fiefdoms

At least they are allowed to do that by their parent, Guardian Media Group (GMG). Editorial independence writ large. Remind me which of the Murdoch press highlighted phone hacking? Oh, hang on....

In the end an election is about choosing a government and a parliament. We are clear where we stand, in spite of our misgivings. We want to see Labour re-elected to government and we want to see more Liberal Democrats returned to parliament, at whichever other party's expense. What we do not want are more Tory MPs, so we therefore urge progressive voters in the overwhelming majority of Labour or Liberal Democrat held seats to rally behind the incumbent party. Only in a tiny handful of seats - see elsewhere in today's paper - is it safe for Labour voters to switch to the Liberal Democrats without the risk of allowing the Tories to win. Elsewhere, think very carefully before you vote. You are voting not just for yourself but for others, frequently less fortunate, whose life chances rest on your good sense. Wow - you're right after all. What a ringing endorsement for the man that is. Vote Labour and hopefully he'll bugger off soon enough. And it certainly doesn't prevent a vast number of writers and columnists having dissenting views - not something you'll see much of at GQ. I'm not really sure what you're trying to do here either - do you actually support or like these awards. Or are you just using any opportunity to try and highlight hypocrisy amongst the press? Something akin to shooting fish in a barrell. Your oft-claimed love of tabloids and their "honest as the day is long, guv" approach would fail miserably if one decided to pick apart their weather-vane approach of who to support come election time. The Guardian may have its failings, but at least it's consistent. Me in 2005? I think I was back at home in Sutton at that point so probably voted Lib-Dem to keep the Tories from winning. D_C in pragmatism shocker!

Err, really? I think you'll find the paper opposed Iraq. Or do you mean in 1997? I think you've admitted to doing the same, no?

Uninterested.

Although the Guardian doesn't pretend it is anything else and nor does it organise a ghastly awards ceremony for war criminals.

More on the awfulness of the GQ awards http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/03/-sp-gqs-meaningless-mens-awards-give-tories-the-chance-to-hang-out-with-the-a-list

GQ jumped the shark when Dylan Jones became editor and it moved from a half decent magazine to a vanity exercise. The man is a first class tool.

Brown should have called an election in 2007 too and misjudged it. He'd have won a majority, got the economy turned around quicker than this shambles and be seen as doubly deft at saving the economy - both world and national. ;-)

Oh, undoubtably he had his faults. But show me a PM that didn't? Churchill? Bombastic war criminal MacMillan? Disloyal Eden? Conceited Douglas-Home? Unelected Wilson? Devious Callaghan? - Weak Heath? - emotionally unstable Thatcher? - blind to pragmatism And so it goes on....I think you have to be slightly bonkers to want the job in the first place.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We have all our music on a Vortexbox - > http://www.vortexbox.co.uk/ - wired to the router, > then squeezeboxes around the house athough I think > the Vortexbox will work with most things through > DLNA. > > Works great. Hmm, looks interesting but will I'm looking at ditching existing AV equipment in this move too and that still requires a load of black boxes scattered around the place. It's essentially working like a NAS drive, no? For the price I could buy a 4tb drive and a Cambridge Audio streaming amp.

For itunes match do you have to still have all the hard copies on a PC hard-disk somewhere?

Not feeling that wealthy.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DC do you find it really annoying when all of a > sudden the hipster is suddenly an expert in > Xinjiang cuisine ....just because they went to a > restaurant in Camberwell. Like those occasional > Thai food know it alls who went to Koh Samui for a > month or two in a long since forgotten gap year. Nah - I do the same about Vietnamese food. "Oh, yeah, the pho (pronounced pha btw) here is ok but they don't make a proper Cau Lau from the central highlands region - that's the real 'Nam."