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Listed below are comments made by Air-Hair-Lair between Wednesday, 26th November 2008 and Friday, 21st August 2009.

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Weekly Bonus Question 1:45pm on 21 Aug 2009 What did the Met Office predict was the total wet gear requirement needed to supply the whole of Britain this Summer
Pubs aren't dying - they are evolving 10:59am on 05 Aug 2009 The analysis is incorrect, based on an erroneous premise. A pub is not about an alcohol or entertainment licence, it is about a community facility. And "the great British pub (GBP)" in the past has always been the centre of community life (viz: Rover's Return, Woolpack, Queen Vic, et al), that is why they feature in books, films and soap operas.

The GBP has not evolved. A comparison might be that the red squirrels have not "evolved" into grey squirrels, they are being wiped out by the grey interloper. The GBP has been driven out of existence by the hardy predator which takes over its feeding ground, and then changes it irrevocably.

The new licences are not for GBP's - they are to create an environment hostile to the GBP, hostile to communities. Where once a suburban pub was a centre for the residents, creating commuity contact for all adult age groups, it is now a disco/club for the wider surrounding area, and for a single demographic group, often bringing in party-goers who would never behave in the "modern" way on their own doorsteps - thus the locals are first driven out, and then flagrantly confronted with something over which they have no say or choice.

Thus, the community serving GBP is gone - the nasty, community busting "club" has wiped it out.

And who is to blame?

A Government for making an obtuse controlling law, and Local Authorities for implementing the Licensing Law in a way that took no account of community needs.

Thus lies Communism.
Caption Competition 2:39pm on 18 Jun 2009 "Three fat ladies"

"House!"
Weekly Bonus Question 2:20pm on 08 May 2009 Who connects Eddie the Eagle with Queen Victoria?
Write your limericks here! 5:41pm on 28 Apr 2009 'Tis the season for Morris dancing
Round the May Pole we will be dancing
We will wear May blossom
Our hankies, we'll toss 'em
To make sure the girls at us are glancing

Paul Woking
Further VAT rise was considered 10:57am on 26 Nov 2008 What is wrong with Robinson's memory? Or is it that all BBC political reporters have a Labour chip implanted into their brain?

VAT was brought in by the Wilson Government of 1974 - with a "luxury" tax of 25% - Thatcher, in 1979, nerely ironed that out - and then weighted to the lower end - 15 and 25% became 17.5% - and that was mostly because Europe said we must have it there.

By all means continue the anti-Thatcher rant, but get the facts right, and, perhaps also, remind all New Labourites that it was 18 years of Tory rule (following Thatcher's pattern) that gave them, the benign economy that it took them 10 years to destroy.

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