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On no I’ve been moderated! Just because I compared an interviewee on the Today programme to a popular American television programme involving puppets.
Bit harsh I think.
Anyway my point is still a valid one.
Why do we pay more for our gas in the UK than the rest of Europe?
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Friends of mine are having problems with their local council, who failed to give them full advice on a planning issue. It's a long story, but they now have to get planning permission in retrospect, and may have to remove the offending article (fencing, not a building) at their own expense.
Their legal advice has been that they just need to get on with it because councils are never liable for any incomplete or inaccurate information they give out.
If that's the case, I just wondered if any one had had a similar experience?
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What on my mind is the banking industry.
If a bank customer makes a mistake,
the customer suffers.
If a bank makes a mistake,
the customer suffers.
If the Financial Services Authority makes a mistake,
the customer suffers.
If the Finanacial Ombudsman Service makes a mistake,
the customer suffers.
I'm really bothered that we have record domestic reposessions happening and the numbers of small businesses closing down has gone through the roof.
Now call me cynical, but if I were working at a major uk bank and some of the guys had lost huge sums of money gambling on worthless sub prime 'products', I'd be telling everyone to claw back in as much money as possible by being unhelpful to those with domestic mortgages or small businesses with loans and overdrafts and blame it on the 'credit crunch'.
This seems to be happening as we have seen almost nothing of the BoE billions filtering down to the sharp end.
My concern is that while the banks are pulling up the drawbridge, what is going to happen to the thousands of businesses that have had the 'rug pulled from under their feet' and what is going to happen to the people who have lost maybe a lifetime of savings as represented by the equity they have in their home.
This invisible government seem to be looking the wrong way.
Will it lead to revolution?
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MGL: Will it lead to revolution? Forties years after 1968? Why don't we get the froggers to march on the Houses of Parliament and erect baracades to keep the MP's locked in until they come up with a plan or escape by the river.
Put my name down.
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Honorary degrees set me thinking.
There seemed a hint in some Comments that meaning, see http://www.answers.com/topic/honorary?cat=biz-fin , may have shifted a little in their minds.
The value that the degree honours is to be found in the work that the recipients have done in their lives.
Whether on reflection I should count my degree as honorary, since I got a grant etc. and whether it was of worthy of 'honor' given what I wrote in my finals papers, I sometimes wonder.
Anyway, I used to get paid for having it (teaching) so in that sense it was strictly 'pecuniary', a sobriquet I will place after its initials after my name, in future.
My problem was always that the extra income for a degree looked like a middle class tax to me.
Mercifully the contents of my second and third degrees ensured a retributive, redistributive, and (correspondingly elsewhere) restorative cut in my income.
So, as Moncrief's elegant translation has it, the components of my ego were put together by degrees.
PS Well done, Eddie Mair!
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I have a problem. I was present at the Rugby St. Andrew's Parish church 'Any Questions'. The rector's (the first) question was about the tragic violent death by knifing of a young man that had occurred recently outside the church.
Subsequently, he referred, in a sermon, to this event as a 'murder'. I email him, pointing out that this was not the way for him to describe this dreadful killing prior to a conviction of the suspect in court. He spoke to me when next he met me, graciously acknowledging the usefulness of my comments.
Today, I heard, in church, during a sermon at Evensong, another member of the team of clergy refer to the incident as a 'murder'.
Am I being pedantic to object to this?
Surely local clergy should not be referring publicly to the violent knifing to death of a young man as 'murder' before the suspects(s) has been convicted of this offence?
Might not this emotive term being repeatedly and publicly used by respected and influencial local church officials be cited by the defence as reason for acquitting the suspect because a completely fair trial is not possible?
I raise this issue here because, as a blogger, I feel our support for Eddie Mair as AQ chair should endure and not peter out as the programme moves on.
Eddie allowed rather a lot of time for this topic. That gave the local church strong credibility with reference to this event and the impact of such coverage lingers on here.
As PM-Eddie Mair-blogger people, I wonder, do we not have a responsibility to remain vigilant in respect of the continuing effects of the programme?
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What about the continuing price of petrol (gas)?
War in Iran--is it in the cards?
What about the future of Iraq?
What is going to take place in November?
Who is going to the Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate?
Who is going to be the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate?
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I just wondered, now we are rid of the atrocious Bush, will Americans stop using the equally atrocious "dub ya"?
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