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True story. In the Guild of Students at Liverpool university, there is, in the old part of the building a Masonic Temple. It's no ordinary level temple, it's a couple of rungs up the ladder. When I was a student there and very active in student politics, someone (someone from the Women's Group possibly) moved a motion to Guild Council... "To ban the Masons from the Guild". The university were outraged and sent messages to the student union threatening funding cuts etc.... Motion comes to council and is defeated (due to the threats from Senate) I quickly drew up a new motion, presented it as an emergency motion that simply said that "The Guild of Students welcomes outside hires of it's facilities wherever possible but all external organisations hiring any of the Guilds facilities must prove that their organisation does not discriminate against anyone on the grounds of sex, race, Religion (or lack thereof) etc... and that all external hirers would be required to sign a declaration that this is the case." To bring them into line with all internal societies and groupings. Council instructs the President to make all current hirers aware of this policy change within one week and to add the declaration to all future external hires. The Masons f***ed off the very next day. We we didn't ban them, they left of their own accord. There is now a very underused mid level masonic temple in the Guild of Students (they can't do much with it, I think it's listed), it's been that way for nearly 4 decades.

Yes, quite

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Yes possibly. At least if we do get an infestation from France it's likely top be Surrey thats one of the first hit places. Should cheer @tonyh29up no end

No, completely unlike Uber. Uber's model is to undercut the opposition and rely on their workers to take the financial hit or give freebies away from within their platform that has no intrinsic cost to themselves. Microsoft is giving away gift vouchers for other companies. They will have a cost. A huge cost

How much are Microsoft spunking up a wall to take on Google with Bing and Edge over other Browsers Use Bing search on Edge, 5 days running... Amazon voucher. Points on every Bing search daily for more vouchers. They even have polls and quizzes that give you more points again. It must be costing them an absolute fortune

Unless you have a newish mattress, you already have bedbugs

I reckon I'm going to have to go Botman to Burn today before their prices both change

Yes.

Same post as well

Yeah, I also think most of them are over sizing Greens and possibly reform plus under sizing LibDems. People are answering their preferred party right now with no reference to their own constituency and how they'll actually vote

It certainly has the feel of an outlier All fieldwork done in these in the same period (inc the Yougov one which I missed the date off) Pollster Con Lab LD Grn RUK Con lead Fieldwork WeThink 27% (-1) 47% (+2) 10% (+1) 5% (-1) 7% (+1) -20% 28-29/9 Opinium 29% (+3) 39% (-2) 12% (+1) 7% (nc) 7% (-1) -10% 27-29/9 Techne 27% (+1) 45% (nc) 10% (-1) 6% (-1) 6% (+1) -18% 27-28/9 YouGov 24% (-3) 45% (+2) 11% (+1) 7% (nc) 8% (nc) -21% Mark Pack

Because most companies get you to review their product online before you've actually received them. Order something... rate us appears before you've managed to leave the webpage.

Nope, the whole point is to remove fast services from the WCML altogether, which in turn frees up capacity, enabling much more local traffic onto the rails. Fast services require huge intervals between trains, those huge intervals will still be required unless of course the Manchester trains divert to New Street and then you have to get yourself over to Curzon St to catch another train... And that's one huge degradation of service

The tangible benefits of HS2 were never really sold to the public in the right way, they were massive. It wasn't a waste of money but it is now they've scrapped it. It's pointless now

You won't find me disagreeing with that. I completely lost interest once Hooky was booted out. Hence why I also said that he's a better person than Barney because Barney is generally a bit of a Grade A asswipe

Yeah but Hooky is less of twunt than Barney imo I have no interest in seeing either these days tbh NO play venues that are too big and I'm no fan of their recent output since reformation. PHatL are a tribute band that contains one member of the original band

All that has changed is the Student Unions have got tamer and the students get pissed at student nights in town now I feel partly responsible for this shifting emphasis as I was one of the ones that started the trend in the 80s. I don't feel remotely guilty

I think I read somewhere that it was a two person band saw which is just stranger still

She's nowhere near what I'd call an old guard. Only been an MP for 13 years. She's something else to blame Cameron for

I wildcarded last week due to the amount of flags on my players, most of whom played but I did manage to get a team that contained Haaland, Alvarez, Salah, Son, Maddison, Trippier I really didn't want to let go of Andersen from Palace but was kind of forced to to get the others in. Typical he gets another 15 pointer when I get rid, Might have to bring him back at some point

Meh and there were still others Wordle 835 5/6 Oh and new work machine means I've lost all my stats..... GRRRRR

Grant Shapps is announcing troop movements at Tory Conference? Firstly, they are bog standard NATO troop rotations and secondly Party Conference really isn’t the place for that

Fairy nuff I guess but it does give Labour an advantage too

I'd completely forgotten Reckless.