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Sounds like Eamon Holmes has had an awful interview with JC. Lots of questions that referenced Man Utd and the colour of ties and FA Cup analogies. I'd have to confess, I hadn't even realised Holmes was still on the telly? Indie This just 24 hours after Corbyn complained that much of the media was a banal shitfest.

what?

I'm guessing Snarky Puppy is a Snoop Doggy tribute band?.

I'm afraid there's a bit more to it than that. His party are yet to have a policy discussion on Trident, in making this comment today he has undermined that discussion and said even if his party votes to retain trident he wont use it. I think even his Shadow Defence Secretary realises that as she said his comments were "unhelpful" No, that's exactly the same point. IF the whole party discusses it and decides their policy is not ever to press the button and to decommission, that's a different thing at that point and will probably lose them the next election - so it then remains a purely academic talking point anyway. But Corbyn reiterating that he himself would be against it and wouldn't press the button, but is happy to have a chat is what we all already knew. Corbyn personally not pressing the button in a fantasy future scenario does not automatically equate with us not fighting back in the 2023 nuclear holocaust. I think everything about Corbyn suggests that in a properly shitty massive war scenario with our cities and tens of millions of lives at stake he would declare his utter unsuitability as a war leader and step down. But its all just fantastical guessing of the future with a string of IF words in it. Meanwhile, on planet earth, er, bedroom tax! bastards! has come in whilst the rich are told they can keep more of their money. We've given £3,000,000 to China to promote amateur chinese football and a steel plant in Redcar with 1,700 jobs is closing.

Ghandi?

the proposed smoking ban in prisons - yeah, best of luck with that one

If we were in imminent threat of nuclear attack, genuinely at risk of atomic war, from a known force we could retaliate to, how long do you think Corbyn would be in charge? I'd worry more about real day to day life and leave future nuclear armageddon for the speculative after dinner conversation. Making it law for striking workers to have to wear a special coloured armband to identify themselves is, for me, quite a sinister development proposed by Cameron. I'd work on that one before getting too worried about unspecified future nuclear winter coinciding with Corbyn's possible time in high office.

Agreed, it's all a bit 'aspirational' at the moment. But then, he's been in the job for less than 3 weeks and it's the best part of 5 years before the next election. Shadow Chancellor speech about getting Starbucks and Google and Amazon to pay tax is a great idea and the right thing to do and should be pursued. But implementation might be slightly trickier. Similarly, they've stated they want to slash the benefits culture which must be a good thing. There are too many benefits cheats and we need to start strangling off their supply of lifestyle subsidy and money for free. I'm a big fan of that idea.

My non-scientific anecdotal 'belief' is that wealthy well educated black americans from nice places rarely get involved in gang shoot outs.

There's was a fleeting moment back in the, when?, mid 80's? I'd met my missus and I had my own money, so it must have been later than 1983/4 when Fiorucci jeans became 'the thing'. From memory, back then they were about £100 for one particular cut and colour of these jeans. I bought a pair - and as was the other fashion of the time, I cut all the labels off so that nobody but about 6 other idiots in South Wales would recognise and know what I was wearing. That, briefly, was the height of cool around my manor.

look at that kid (Baxter Dury) - has anyone ever struck a cooler pose than that (obligatory paedo alert! - I was looking at the flares / braces / hair quiff combo - honest!) Dury insisted on buying second hand clothes, with the exception of shoes and underwear - hence the album title!

I've now gone 100% old school, I've ordered a copy of New Order's album, on clear vinyl, it'll be in the shop for collection from lunchtime on Monday. Shove that up your 79p instant download.

If that baby had been given the gun it has a god given legal right to as an AMERICAN! (**** yeah!) citizen, it could have defended itself. Low tax, low state intervention, poverty and lack of prospects, readily available guns, a culture where guns are cool, 'everyone else' has a gun. Not sure there's much can be done as a short term fix ( i.e. next 50 years), with that current scenario. Best of luck.

yep, agree with Bicks on the '77 vibe still bloody good though I just want both

need it

Really? Jobs, housing, health, tax and education not high up on the list? That would honestly surprise me, doubtless there are surveys that give lists of priorities if I could be arsed to research. What would you say average Joe is interested in? Please don't tell me it's the economic and democratic pro's and con's of various tiers of EU membership and zombies from Talibanistan! That's just the bigots and the gutter press, shirley?

Telegraph much of the press appear unimpressed that the speech was cut n paste of old speeches, jottings and partly lifted from a blog hadn't realised the other leaders wrote their own Apparently the list above has been largely dismissed as lacking anything that addresses what the public want to hear. Railways, steel, health, housing, jobs, education, tax and the lying tories. Yep, utterly missed the big issues of the day there Jeremy you plumb.

like all your wildest imaginings the beards, the ridiculous hair, rolled up denim and no socks, a couple of Japan / NHS style face masks, lots of black feather capes, hats of every description and a juggler

It was a Shoreditch / Hoxton work day today. You don't half see some sights.

commentariat will love hate it

Meeting about it tomorrow morning - but they'd have to pull something spectacular out of the bag for it to be a viable project. When we said it wasn't an automatic no, that we were thinking about it and asked for more clarity on fees, they suggested we worked first and then get paid. That was when we said no. They've asked for a meet up tomorrow, so whatever, nothing to lose. Work on the job remotely and get a local to walk around with a camera!

How sophisticated is this football messageboard! A page of chicken chat and still nobody has asked if he'll be getting a big cock in.

If it is going to end, I'd prefer it to be this morning rather than this evening. I've got a stupid deadline to do some tricky work and I'm at the mercy of others for loads of the deadline points through the day. So stress will be a 'thing' today. So yeah, don't make me stress all day then game over at 7:00pm, that would not be ideal. I guess the threat is pretty much over now, so I can't use it as an excuse to just not do the work either. Worst of both worlds.

I guess as well as looking for the stats, we need to peel one more layer. It's fairly easy to find stats that say 10 of the 50 richest on earth are Jewish, but a quick look in to that and it's apparent we have to define what is meant by Jewish. I've looked up two of those people so far, the first two names listed in one of many Times of Israel articles. First, Larry Ellison, born in the USA mother jewish, father american italian. Father wasn't present, mum gave Larry up aged 9 months and they didn't meet again for another 47 years. Ellison himself is quoted as saying: wiki Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg is named as a rich jew. Again, according to bio's including the usual wikipedia, he was born in the USA and and has stated that he is an atheist, and has married a non-jew. So, by what measure is he a jew? Z's wife, Priscilla Chan was born in the USA of Chinese-Vietnamese parents that fled Saigon as refugees. She is currently reported pregnant. I would imagine there is every chance The Times of Israel will claim this child for the jewish diaspora. That's only 2 of the 10, but they are the only 2 I very quickly looked up. I guess in that respect, like all good stats, they can say whatever you want them to. I don't know, it's that whole race / religion / roots / politics / parenting thing and frankly it's a problem we appear to have, needing to know what labels people have. Once you start claiming bragging rights for your diaspora, all manner of facts and figures are possible. 17 of the 56 signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were 'welsh' if you want to interpret 'facts' in a particular way. Interesting though.