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. If you want to let it all out in this virtual glass box, be my guest. Tonight's editor Jeremy "itunes" Rawlins will read your comments and may well add his own.
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University Challenge contestants go on to great success and do not remain unemployed for a year after they've graduated. Discuss.
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Oooh! oooh! it's nearly PM o'clock!
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What about the poor who can't afford to go to dignitas land?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/william-shatner-reads-pal_n_247598.html
Just a bit of Shatner to keep us going...
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Why would anyone want to spend a lot of money [to most] to travel to Switzerland? Is it just the middle-class who don't know they can buy heroin on the street in any town in the UK, and for very little buy enough to do the job. No one else has to be involved, personal choice. There's also prescription drugs which contain instructions on safe dosage... since many commit suicide every year, it seems strange to want to do it the Dignitas way, rather than at home.
Another way would be to point a vaguely gun shaped object at armed police...
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The National ID card has been revealed...
"The card is very similar in look to a UK driving licence but holds more data, including two fingerprints and a photograph encoded on a chip.
This chip and its unique number in turn links the card to a national identity register...A spokeswoman said the card was based on the British passport, which did not have a flag on it."
Even if a future government abandons the ID card itself, what's the betting we'll see "feature creep" on driving licenses and passports?
Or possibly (and more cynically) a future government decides to create a giant database to hold all information on everyone - merging the ID database, DVLA database, TV License database, ContactPoint database, PNC database, HMRC database and any others I've forgotten...
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6. mittfh, Not cynical at all, they're probably already exploring the possibility. Whether it would ever work is another thing. Our best protection is the ineptness of government to get anything IT to work.
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We could practically see Switzerland from Lake Annecy on our rather cheap holiday.
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Invisible
Assisted suicide has been ruled illegal by parliament in this country.
If you want to do it legally here you have to do it yourself.
These people are asking for someone else to help them travel when they are too disabled to travel alone. And not just that but for support, comfort and approval and for family to be there at the end.
The question still remains...what about the ill poor who cannot afford Digny-land.
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9. funnyJoedunn
Already said; they see the man. The poor usually know where and who, and obviously the best time is when you can still manage it unassisted. There are easier ways than cliffs, trucks and trains.
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Good item on the hotelworkers, Eddie. I hope the team will follow up later on. Will also watch Newsnight.
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That isn't legal and to Even suggest this might be dodgy ground?
This is no answer for the poor....or 'da man'.
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Ref 8. David_McNickle
"We could practically see Switzerland from...." What does that mean? You couldn't see it?
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David, (8) Did you mean literally that you could practically see...
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RSM 14, We were facing west.
fJd 3, Plenty of money up above.
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Richard (13):
To you, "Die with dignity" just sounds like Charles' ex-wife listening to a Deacon Blue song, doesn't it?
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Cycling Helmets
I never wear a cycle helmet when I go cycling. I don't wear a crash helmet either when I go out in the car, where the chances of an accident are much greater.
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The Iraq enquiry:
As Big Sister asks elsewhere, will witnesses be 'forced' to testify, wrt to
1. Attending as witnesses
2. Answering questions
3. Telling the truth
4. Telling only the truth.
5. Telling all the truth.
And, will the right people be called?
Can you let me know here? I'm forced into 'Listen Again' 'cos there's a Test Match to listen to.
Which is
1. less of a farce
2. more real
3. more likely to produce a result
4. uses less whitewash and spin
than the Inquiry
The FAQs at their web site don't include any of the BS inspired quesssies here. F by whom?
PS Why isn't there a Moslem on the Inquiry committee and what will the committee's expenses be, and if they cover up san they be summoned to the War Crimes courts for complicity?
PPS Is Chilcot, yet another Oxbridge graduate in irrelevant subjects, English and languages, retired already, as International lawyer Philippe Sands is reported as saying "Having some familiarity with Sir John's questioning ... it is not immediately apparent that he will have the backbone to take on former government ministers."?
All in all
He's just another brick in The Wall
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Can they?, a quessie.
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Listening to the 6.00pm R4 News, and they're reporting on a demonstration in Iran of a couple of hundred people. Big deal.
BBC don't report on most demonstrations in this country, even when they're attended by thousands of people. Old age pensioners went on march in Blackpool or Southport a few years ago. There were in excess of 12,000 people. Not a mention.
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Thought the item on hotel cleaners was excellent - given the huge amount you pay for a room, especially in London, it does make you wonder where the massive profit is going. Cleanliness in bathrooms is, unfortunately, often a problem in my experience.
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The hotel workers revolutionary dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eENWTA0bs4
No sympathy from hereditary intellectual aristocracy thank you. Do the job instead, please.
These women are work owed through the bitter years under Stalinism, just as others are via slavery and British imperial occupation.
They've done all the hotel cleaning they should ever have to do.
It's the turn of those walking on that Glass Floor above their heads, like Rantzen and Widdicombe
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re the dignitas debate,apparentley there have been around 120 people gone through this procedure-- how many convictions for the folks who accompianed said people? it is quite obvious that the dpp have been keeping a very low profile on this which seems to be answer enough. we all know what the law says and if you disagree then lobby to get the law changed. the dpp administers the law he does not make it
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