The COME-ON ANDY Wimbledon 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 editor Amanda Lewis will read your comments and may well add her own.
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Ah, the Blue Knight.
John, Bjorn, Arthur, Jimmy.
Now, that WAS Tennis...
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Do I live in a nation of idiots?
I can't believe that they still believe that we still swallow this hog wash.
Brown, Cameron, Osbourne et al...get lives...No bashing the voiceless while doing it either. There is an election on the way. Can't you tell.
Does anybody Know how anyone on 50 grand and over a year can get tax credits? Please explain. shamlessly, no mention of family allowance being cut form those who don't need it!
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Mr Mair may be exceedingly well paid but he should hang his head in shame for his arrogant, hectoring interview of George Osborne.
To earn his substantial salary, Mr Mair needs to do more than try and bully sound bites out of politicians. It never works. It just shows an unrealistic expectation that complicated national policies and systems can be reduced to a few short sentences. It just ain't so.
Very poor. Even for a magazine programme.
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It's a great pleasure to be here, Eddie, (and let's be clear about this). What I am going to to is; I am going to contribute a blog, around which, I am sure, your listeners will draw their own conclusions, namely that it is a very good blog indeed. People have had enough of the sleazy and frankly dishonest blogs blogged by other bloggers and that is why I am delighted to be able to present an entirely new concept in blogs that is more in tune with the aspirations of the modern, decent blog-reader. I will not hide it from you, tough decisions have had to be made in order to do this, though I am not able to say what they were, but they were certainly tough and, indeed, challenging - the kind of choices from which other bloggers cravenly shrink. And that is what blog readers want. This new kind of blog is going to contain all kinds of exciting new ideas, whereas other blogs leave your shirts grey-looking. Unfortunately I am not able at the moment to disclose the nature of these ideas, otherwise other bloggers will steal them because they are so good. Sorry.
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Do People really eat Thistles at their Wimbledon picnics? Or have they just left them out for the Wombles?
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Who was that person 'readin' out the precautions for hot weather? I swear I heard Eddie say he was clinical director of something or other.
Are you sure it wasn't the cleaner havin' you on as the rest of staff had gone home because of the weather?
I feel sultry already. Anyone else?
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3. invincibleoldandwise
Arrogant? Hectoring? Osborne was flannelling and dissembling. How else should he have been treated? Given a good kicking?
Eddie was firm but fair, patient but insistent. Nothing more, nothing less.
You're not one of those who believe in subservience towards politicians are you?
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please let me know if i am the only one who thinks that the ausies are pushing it abit with the antics they are displaying the noise is getting very frustrating.
if anyone in england was that noisy through drink and high spirits there would be one or two options shut up or sleep it off in the nearest rest room a cell. so come on will someone bring this comment up on the bbc forum and lets have a slice of dignity.
i have friends in the hewitt match where the noise is ngetting on peoples nerves.
they have waited all year for a class 1 match and things aregetting tense.cheers bloggers
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ioaw @ 3
I'm with ia @ 7 on this one ... at George Osborne's salary (current and hoped for) he should be able to give a straight answer to a straight question. As it was, all he was offering was soundbites. If he can't say where he'd cut, and how much, he's not really in a position to criticise Darling, is he? Not much use for a shadow chancellor.
Doesn't it say something about how appalling Labour are when they can make Cameron and Osborne look good? Well, all right, not good - but not as appalling as we thought ...
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Your NHS Direct expert gave out mostly sound advice but re-iterated the old chestnut about tea and coffee being dehydrating. This was disproved several years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5281046.stm
I'm also fairly sure that warm drinks are better at cooling you than very cold ones, since cold drinks have to be warmed up by the body, drawing more heat into the body core and using up energy before the fluid can be useful in promoting perspiration.
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10. Anne P.
"I'm also fairly sure that warm drinks are better at cooling you than very cold ones, since cold drinks have to be warmed up by the body, drawing more heat into the body core and using up energy before the fluid can be useful in promoting perspiration."
I think you are quite right about the drinks: in Asian countries, the drink that the groups of old men sit around sipping is hot green or black tea (without milk).
I can add that I have read similar advice concerning showers/baths. A warm one lifts your body temperature higher that that of the air around you, so the body works to COOL itself to match its environment. While a cold immersion refreshes you temporarily, but then the body works to match the surrounding heat. I am not that good on thermodynamics, but it made sense to me, so that's what I do (a nice hot bath tonight, then!)...
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ia @ 7
I'm tired of the arrogance and cynicism of journos like Mr Mair who try to reduce national government down to Janet and John stories.
I'm willing to give my support to people who are trying to do a difficult job while unelected news media bullies, who have no responsibilities themselves for organising anything bigger than their own holidays, are constantly trying to pull them down.
I spent a working lifetime in regular contact with the news media. Too many of the people I used to meet would have to reach up to scratch the belly of a worm.
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The Mandelson plan:
Don't announce cuts before the election (cut the Spending Revue)
The Tories will be slayed for the ones they announce and the ones they don't announce.
What will happen after the election, we ask.
Tories and Labour aren't really saying. So choosing between them will be on reputation, one a spender, the other a cutter, at a time when cuts seem anathema.
As for the Lib Dems
1. Who takes them seriously (remember this is Mandelson's analysis in my view), as the Euro elections showed.
2. Them shouting the truth will make peopel choose the 'least cutting' party by reputation.
Can we get back to over payment, in one way and another, for MPs and Beeb peeps. please.
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12. ioaw Right there with politicians then.
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