The PM Glass Box.
In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Ryan Dilley will read the comments and may well add his own.
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Haven't seen a bus for ages, now six will come at once.
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Isn't it a bit early for a Glass Bus Box? You are opening yourselves up to a squillion comments (including this one from me) before the programme even starts.
However, if you were to bring back 'Recent Comments' we'd be able to keep tabs.
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#2
Amen!
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Never mind Recent Comments - how about dated thread titles? Currently the Topical Posts box has three PM Glass Boxes (99, 100, 101) and three Beaches (132, 133, 134) receiving comments...
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Ah, now I get it!
So all of these proposed bizarre new laws in the Queen's Speech to guarantee 'good' education, an end to child poverty, deficit reduction etc are actually all just a Mandelsonian (the new name for Machiavellian) ruse to introduce Bills which the tories will oppose, thereby allowing Gordo to go into an election campaign saying "See, the tories oppose our moves to guarantee good education, end child poverty, reduce the deficit etc..."
So it appears that the astute move for the tories faced with this is not to oppose the passage of these Bills. Should that happen though, the measures proposed in the Bills will presumably become increasingly ludicrous so as to force opposition. It could be a fun few months in politics...
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Giulio,
Indeed, and, would you believe it? On the other side of the slowing Gulf Stream they're already engaged in Campaign 2012....
Might we consider an end to parties?
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Lord Nathan (6) I wish! I wonder how many "big ideas" put forwward by Independents have been ignored because of the lack of the bureaucracy, or orchestrations of a political party, to take them forward.
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Even the title 'Member of Parliament' creates the wrong impression. Once elected, they become members of an exclusive 'club,' with associated privileges, obeying party orders on how to vote and erasing any notion of being a 'Constituency Representative.'
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Is the choice of Glass Box picture a hint that you're going to cover the next stage in the "Atheist Bus" advertising campaign? In this one, the posters show a child and a tagline of "Please don't label me, let me grow up and choose for myself" with various labels in the background along the lines of "Catholic child", "Marxist child", "Humanist child" etc.
I think it's a great idea coming as I do from mixed religion parents who did let me grow up and decide on my own beliefs.
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4 - the answer probably lies in using the Categories box, where all the Beaches and Glass Boxes are clearly dated. Hope this helps.
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@10 - hovering over the link hints at which Beach / Glass Box is which (albeit by numerical index), but particularly for the boxes, perhaps "Mon PM Glass Box", "Tue AM Glass Box" etc. allows people at a glance to see which boxes are popular...
Just a suggestion, which as with every other suggestion that's ever been suggested here, you are at liberty to completely ignore :)
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Although that doesn't help with the beaches, which is why all the dates are there under categories...it saves adding more clutter to an already cluttered area!
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SSC 9, It's a hint that I, and others who send them, haven't sent a Glass Box in a while.
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GN 5, The Queen's Peach is about Pomp and Circumstance (see Elgar), nothing much else.
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EM 10, Remember, children need to be led by the hand when crossing the street...
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No, it's using a photo relevant to a big topic on the blog. :o)
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SShhhhh! It's started ;-)
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Probably me but I found the old system far easier to navigate through. I also miss the recent comments.
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Imagine suggesting that these people are cynical,Caroline?(SP?) Harriet's struggling a bit here though.No, honestly keep going interrupt her.
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Is there a translation for that Scotsman available?
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j 18, You probably preferred Windows 95 as well.
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Ah, Local Hero.
I wonder if anyone remembers the place where the interiors were shot, in Lochailort.
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Would that be the ship inn Frances?
http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/movies/lhinn.html
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Eddie I think I must be missing something here - the 'Categories Box' I can see (below, third from the left) starts: "These are some of the popular topics this blog covers. advent 2007 advent 2008 autumn blizzard '09 christopher landau cost of alcohol davies week f.a.q. food hilda gibson: land girl (my personal favourite) and so it goes on taking me even further back from pithy 'recent comments' other froggers might, sabre-like, be making.
Topical posts (first on left below) at present reads, "The PM Glass Box (39) The AM Glass Box (69) The PM Glass Box (19) The Beach (308) Thought for the Day (81)" and so on. No idea which PM Glass Box is which and suspect the Beach with 308 comments is last weeks', not this.
Cut me some slack - I'm just a little old lady living in the wilds of Ireland and I need all the help I can get.
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Frances and jonnie: I know Pennan well. Divine little place on 'the Scottish riviera'.
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But the categories box only shows and with a strange jumble of sizes (I can't remember how long ago I pointed this out, she adds clever-cloggily)
advent 2007 advent 2008
autumn blizzard '09
christopher landau cost of
alcohol davies week f.a.q. food
hilda gibson: land girl hugh
sykes ipm michael
buchanan nigel wrench
petrol photos population ray
furlong red rubber band
collection renewables russell
brand and jonathan ross
etc etc
in a right old jumble.
Mouse over (eg) the AM Glass Box and you just get a link which leads to another list.
Too Much Faffing.
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Has David Cameron been inflenced by some hypnotist?
Did YOU hear him?
Verbatim:
'..even this country cannot ignore...' True colours at last.
Ah, yes! So rich from someone like him. The trouble with this country is not the politicians, not the banksters, not the parasitic toffs. It's the people and they need 5 years of Tory punishment for....
...being in favour of getting out of Afghansitan
...opposing the war in Iraq
...wanting far, far more tax on the rich
...wanting idle old Etonians to get proper jobs
and wanting people in Parliament who are of the people and for the people.
Instead this self perpetuating oligarchy, the political class based at Westminster, plans to foist its Tory wing on us for 5 years.
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FO 26, Hey, you want Glass Boxes, you get a list. How difficult is that?
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Can a nine-year old with basic html and an idea of CSS not be brought in over the Xmas hols to sort it out?
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FO 26, C'mon, what herbs/spices do you put in that soup? Not speaking to me? Ignoring me?
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I get the impression that Shamron and little Nicky Clegg have no political memory. Some of us remember the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's and there would be a Queens speech less than a year before the election.
Now lets remind Shamron and Clegg that the system is that the election has not been called and so it is business as usual until the Prime Minister calls the election.
Oh.. of course Shamron and Cleggy haven't been around long enough to have seen this before, have they.
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I read recently that over 30 per cent of MOD personnel are pen-pushers. Could some of these pen-pushers not push boxes the way of our troops?
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Lady Sue (24) It's not as navigable as it once was - especially with all the different font sizes. I doubt our criticisms will be noted though. It seems to be an inherent problem of the BBC 'Our BBC' as they used to tell us, that they listen to the feedback and change nothing. There are plenty of examples:- the Radio 4 theme tune and topically 'Thought for the day' . The one example that contradicts my theory was the Long wave move a few years back.
So.....
by all means keep on telling them but don't expect anything to change.
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I could easily live in Prague. Beautiful city.
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J 33, I've told them that I'm happy with it.
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Persil weekend!
What's the BBC coming to - now with sponsorship :-(
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It's us Celts, temperamental; 50% temper, and 50% mental. [and before anyone too PC thinks of referring that, it is a quote from a Celt, so mind yerownbusiness].
A little known fact is that the Celts were around for 3000 years before the Romans and were the only people the Romans feared. Cleopatra had a personal bodyguard of 300 Celtic warriors, because she was worth it.
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The chap from the MOD telling people not to send parcels to our troops in Afghanistan, was he indirectly saying – look we haven’t the capacity to move this stuff, we just haven’t got the helicopters! . . . or am I putting to many words in his mouth.
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The legislation in the Queen's speach to cut the national debt sounds like a very cynical political move. I suspect the Labour expects to lose the next election and want to have a legally binding target to beat the Tories with, and as such will push through this idiotic bill.
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jonnie@33: I don't give up easily. Ever. Watch this space.
dav@34: this is getting scary. My son lived in Prague last year and I couldn't agree more. Lovely city - rather odd people who seem keen to make tourists as uncomfortable and unwelcome as possible. Was that your experience?
jonnie(again)@36: Persil? what are you on (about)?
DocD: that was very funny!
Oh dear - agreeing with dav, finding DocD amusing... I think I'd better have a little lie down. OR a stiff G&T.
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Madeleine Albright and a story of herself as a child? "They never spoke"? I should hope not. lol
Eddie, one day I must tell you but why do I get the feeling it would be no surprise? The forename of the former Secretary of State made me chuckle - no offence Ms Albright - but one of my memories as a child - smile in cheesy appreciation but I need to chill out. I will sign off for a few days. I will still listen though - so keep the laughter coming. Nils in Malawi. Nice piece. I once ran about three miles to school. Just the once mind. The young lady school attender and school mates have my total admiration. 6 miles - 2 hours? Goodness.
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On the subject of Prague. I must admit all i've ever heard about the place is; Stag do's, Hen Do's and that it's very expensive..!
Not much of a recommendation i thought..?
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37 Drd
The Kings of France had Scots Guards. I do not know if they were Celts or Picts. There are two chateaux and a chateau fort near here. Each were built on behalf of various kings and given as a present to their chief of guards.
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Lady Sue # 40
At the very end of PM Eddie made some comment about Radio 3 taking all the sound effects and then he cued in to a trail/promo for Radio 3 ... noisy atmosphere of printers whirring and phones ringing - then some beautiful singing and then the v/over said something along the lines of a Radio 3 Persil weekend.
I can only presume some BBC sponsorship has been set up with Lever Brothers?
Whatever next eh?
;-)
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jonnie, giggle.
Henry Purcell, but you no doubt know that. Composer of what is often called the first English opera - 'Dido and Aeneas'.
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And that is exactly how it's spelled, froglets, before you get mucky.
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There was the Garde Ecossaise in France, which I think you might be referring to, realjacques, which tended to fight the English.
Then there were the Scots Guards, raised by Argyll in the 1640s to fight in Ireland and later for the Covenanters against Montrose, but still later against Cromwell and then against the Covenanters before settling down to fight France.
The C17th was a confusing time. And I may have got confused, but I think that's the (C17th joke) bare bones of it, as I remember from history at school.
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36. At 5:59pm on 18 Nov 2009, jonnie wrote:
Persil weekend!
What's the BBC coming to - now with sponsorship :-(
Arf! You beat me to it. It's just lucky they weren't trailing "Dido and Aeneas" or there could have been a chorus of dropped teacups shattering across the nation.
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When I am laid in earth?
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I 42, The company we went with (no longer in business) arranged for us to stay with a Czech family. We didn't find it to be that expensive. We also went for a New Years Eve stay of ?five days with another company (also no longer in business) and had a very nice time. It included a meal on a boat and fireworks on the Charles River.
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The Charles river? Did you, perchance mean the Vltava river, over which spans Charles Bridge (Karlov Most in the local tongue)?
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FF 52, Who cares.
Anybody listening to Material World?
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There is, however, a Charles River in Boston. See WCRB FM.
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