The PM Glass Box.
The Glass Box is where the PM team meets in at 18.00 every weeknight to discuss the content of the programme.
We try to be honest with each other, but not hurtful, as we talk about what worked and what didn't...what met our expectations and what fell short.
This virtual glass box is where you're encouraged to take part in the same spirit. Tonight's PM editor Amanda Lewis will read your comments and may well add her own.
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OK, Cossackgirl, i'm back, I'm shy one tooth but still vertical (mostly because the anaesthetic hasn't worn off yet) and you can tell us the rest of that joke now. See you back on 28th!
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C_G 1, I've been shy three teeth for years. I even went out and pitched a softball game the day I had one removed, you wimp.
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A much better response by PM to the story of the missing French airliner. Your sister programme, WATO, was very slow to react to what was by late morning a major story. It was only the third item in their headlines, after trails for reports on General Motors and Alistair Darling, and the sixth item in the news bulletin. There was no other mention of the story until 1327...and only then after a piece about Susan Boyle, as if we needed any more on that subject. Responding to a breaking story is a challenge for any news programme; WATO's running order was clearly set in concrete.
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Wow, Darling is repaying 700 pounds. The enonomy is saved!!
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Oh good, let's discuss rubbish TV shows again. If Britain has talent, we wouldn't need programs like Britain Has Talent.
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700 hundred quid isn't the sort of money I could forget about. Another sign of the 'different world'.
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DMcN @ 2, yeah, i know. Just a big girl's blouse, me.
How many bits did they have to take your tooth out in on that occasion? And did they have to make an incision into the gum to get at any of the pieces of root that refused to shift from above in an ordinary way?
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"...the aircraft may have suffered a series of catastrophic events..." Editor of Flight International Interviewed on PM earlier.
I'll say! But it did we need an expert to tell us this?
Why get people on the radio to comment on events like this when they have no more to contribute than my mum?
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C_G 7, It was so long ago that I don't remember. The other two were removed by a really old dentist who used a foot operated drill (a bit like a Singer sewing machine). I played two softball games and ate pizza after that. Didn't take painkillers after either experience.
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C_G 7, Now that I think about it, I believe my dentist removed my tooth by trepanning my skull and removing it through the hole in the top of my head. I can still feel the healed hole. Photos available.
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Ennio Morricone? Quant Easewood?
I sigh. Brucie Forsythe "I am in the kitchen"? I laugh out loud!
Did I not mention poor Ms Boyle last Friday and all her well wishers are lining up to say she is " a trouper"?
A young photo of one man on my TV but - allegedly - unfortunately the same old "Max C" voice and same old excuses about Susan Boyle.
And PM piles in and lets everyone know exactly how tenderly the Media handle certain innocents who happen to attract their vicious attention?
Whether the poor victims granny shoplifted? Dah!
Fortunately Edward there is no chance I will ever attract the Media's attention - because if my shop lifting granny ever makes it to the Daily Splurge - just to get a new slant on uninteresting me - especially after 3 years of set pieces dodged - the news item better not have a named byline on it - because I will take it amiss - oh of course allegedly.
"I am in the kitchen"?
Does this country take responsiblity for anything anymore?
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GM is a decreasing costs firm. That is, the greater the scale of production, the cheaper the output per unit.
That means (please read Will Hutton's The State We're In) that to run efficiently, (yes, to run efficiently) that the firm must operate at a loss (yes, again)
(In brief its marginal cost = marginal revenue efficiency condition puts its average cost below its price.)
So that such firms require constant government subsidy. Otherwise they run inefficiently. On realising this most question why the owners should get any dividend at all on their shares (ownership claims). Indeed most think such firms should be taken into public ownership and run efficiently using government funds.
Only financiers looking for a free lunch and those among us completely deceived by market ideology could think otherwise.
Poor Angela Merkel seems to realise this. Those old commies had evil politics (disavowing majority decision making), but excellent economic theory.
('Course the only people saying majority voting doesn't work or isn't right these days, are some American academics (including Nobel winners) who prefer unfettered market decision making and people believing in STV (When everyone's second choice gets the smallest number of first preferences))
Anyway, markets have gone haywire with false optimism today. (Check out the MPC member warning of false dawns). Its a speculative bubble folks, here and in NY. Remember them?
Have you heard an MP of any sort talking about the recession in the last fortnight? They are out of it, gone, yesterday's men and women.
Do any of them have a thing to say about the rising unemployment and the need for equality? No. They should quit out now.
Please.
False dawn or not its a lousy system. Equalitarian socialism is better. As are MPs who are honest, not over privileged and are calling on the PM to dissolve Parliament.
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sp 11, That 'kitchen' thing of Brucie was quite funny. I can picture him in his underpants and string vest sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of Cabernet.
I used to shoplift and my granny spent time in prison for it for not watching me carefully enough. OK, she did eat some of the Snickers bars I stole. Peanuts got under her false teeth. Served her right!
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Alister Darling,
I tried to reflect my circumstances in my claims...mmm...try that one down the social!
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Who's that at number 12 jumping up and down on my ceiling? Go away!
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Well, 5 minutes to go and still no mention of how British Parliamentary Democracy urgently needs to be reformed.
Must have been pushed out by Mrs. Boyle and Mr. LaRue.
Maybe tomorrow...
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15 - That really made me laugh! Good one, David! :o)
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Sorry folks I have to say something about the psychologist interviewed who had an obvious vested interest in that she had gained from employment on these reality shows.
1) She seemed to imply that the responsibility of the producers of such things need only gain informed consent from participants. In effect, a signature on a contract absolving the company from any ethical and reasonable pre/post responsibility.
2) She then went on to imply that informed consent was virtually impossible as, participants can't know how they are going to react/behave in and particular situations. She went on to imply that this might be unreasonable to expect.
3) nowhere in the interview did she question the ethics of the concept of such productions where people are deliberately put under stress. In fact, she put the implied onus on the participating individual rather that the production concept and company along with advisers such as herself. Weakness of personality traits, some people being able to cope better than others, etc. She certainly knew which side her bread was buttered me thinks.
Why wasn't an independent psychologist interviewed? Why wasn't the ethics of producing such things in the first place put her? Why wasn't she asked about the personal ethics of those such as herself being involved in such capers where participants do not understand what they sign away? Could it be because of BBC industry interest Eddie? All this manufactured falsity and its down to the personality traits of the individuals involved? when they are driven crackers. make me an appointment with my doctor please?
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I do wish the BBC would make up their minds whether that place is Swat to rhyme with "not" (which is what Edward Lear did) or to rhyme with "cart", which I had never heard before this month.
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Sid I read your reply on another thread. Very clever!
But, did the accounts the Dems vote get signed off by the auditors?
Don't worry, I think I know the answer.
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According to a punter on the J Vine show BBC Radio 2 at 12:58 pm, today David Cameron may be worth 30 million pounds - but apparently still claims expenses on his homes...this week because I am on holiday I got paid two weeks pay on Thursday and paid 176 pounds too the British state in Tax and Insurance...in essence how much longer will the majority of us put up with this sort of surreal experiences, in such an unjust society?
Noting that although most of us on the Left of the Political spectrum are all disappointed with New Labour...at long last Gordon Brown did look very relaxed, highly intelligent (which he is) and very rational on the Andrew Marr show yesterday morning and about time....come on Gordon lets get Progressive!!!!
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So, even the "re-incarnated" go on walk-abouts...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/31/dalai-lama-osel-hita-torres
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1. Chris!
All's well that ends well. And I knew you must be on top form again because I've just been reading AM GB comments; actually you were so robust that for a moment I thought, "Oh, no, they put him off again and he is really angry now"...
I am shy about commenting on AM thread 'cause Eddie keeps saying "all in by 11 am, please" and I just can't do mornings on the blog in RL. Yet there is such an interesting discussion there and most points I would have made about SB have been excellently well covered, both pros and cons.
I shall now try to "finish that joke" on GB 28th, as you said. What joke? I didn't want to frighten you before your own op!
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Brown is sounding sillier by the moment.
Capping some but not all salaries is daft.
Cameron is sounding even shiftier than Darling (catch the Krishnan Guru-Murthy Cameron wobble from yesterday)
Clegg is busy destroying majority voting (by recommending the anti-majoritarian STV) and trying to shift attention away from his Party's love of the EU and its hideous policy of cuts for after the General Election.
As for the Front Benches, over privileged toffs, self seekers and Oxbridge elitists.
The backbenchers dishonest, greedy and cowardly (the whistle-blowers-whistle pea somehow stuck in their throats)
This lot should resign. Everyone outside the Westminster village and hte BBC says so.
The poll evidence is that we want a General Election now. How can PM NOt report that feeling?
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SentIntheClowns
OK - so, as I've said before, if you don't understand that STV is better than FPTP, how much else of what you write is untrustworthy?
Or do you think it's good that Brown has 55% of the seats based on 35% of the vote?
I don't think that's good - so, if that's anti-majoritarian, I'm all for anti-majoritarianism.
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Paxman may not remember what H. Harmon said on his prog. but I can.
Or rather what she didn't say.
She absolutely refused to answer why we should have to put up with a CABINET some of whom according to the PRIME MINISTER have engaged in unacceptable behaviour.
Then she denied being involved in keeping information under cover. Because where MPs paid Council Tax would have been published. Its paid on both places of course, in fact, with a discount as little possibly as 10 percent on one (?). So we just would need the MPs bandings and the rate of council tax charged, for everything to become clear, in some (?) cases. Transparency, my foot.
She also didn't tell us this ('cos Paxman didn't ask her):
Why should an MP who already has a home in London be able to charge for it, when s/he has another home in the Constituency outside London?
Aren't the expenses for people who can't afford two homes?
Otherwise it is to give to them that have, already.
She also didn't explain how an untrustworthy set of MPs are trustworthy enough to recommend reforms. (Paxo asked her about that)
She also failed to explain why we shouldn't have an election right now. Which we should.
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General Motors, famous for making the biggest gas-guzzling cars in history, is bankrupt. But GM had a fully functional ELECTRIC CAR for sale in California way back in the early 1990's.
If they'd developed the car, GM could have been the world leader in sustainable vehicles today. Instead they crushed every car, pressurised by their own bosses, the oil industry and US Govt, who were scared of the threat it posed to big-money business.
Dramatically illustrated in Chris Paine's documentary; www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/ the film now needs to be shown in every cinema, and GM bosses hang you heads in shame.
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B_S 17, I really must stop drinking so much coffee and tea. I mean, after looking at the things I posted yesterday.
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Thank you for covering the Britain's Got Talent story. I was dismayed to hear that Ofcom appear relaxed about the issues highlighted. Personally, I feel that greater care is necessary not only for vulnerable adults but also for children. I hope the show's producers take heed and raise the minimum age for contestants. I also think, if they want to avoid other criticism, they rethink the audition phase. Ritual humiliation of individual acts is unnecessary and does little to improve the moral standards of the country.
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28: Don't worry, David - that particular post was very funny!
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Hello, Monday's Duty Editor here
Thank you for your comments on this and the other threads connected to yesterday's show. We were shuffling items around the running order quite a bit as, although we knew there would be an interview with Alistair Darling, we weren't sure when it was going to be available to broadcast. There was also uncertainty as to when Barak Obama was going to make his announcement on General Motors and we were trying to get more information on the Air France plane crash.
Joseph Walker (8) I felt our guest from Flight International did have some interesting insight on the safety systems of commercial airliners. We were also grateful for the help from a number of airline pilots on Radio 4's audience panel, who gave us useful pointers as to the possible reasons for the Air France plane crash.
Like some contributors to this thread, my favourite part of the show was our interview with Bruce Forsyth, especially the interruption from Mrs Forsyth.
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