Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo
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Cricket bats are a more accurate as economic indicators for poverty and social mobility than weight at birth and adult employment, further education correlated with free school meals, etc etc. Clegg should have asked me for a steer on this one
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I thought Clegg had achieved the impossible by combining classic liberalism with alleged social democracy.Originally posted by Beef Oven View PostCricket bats are a more accurate as economic indicators for poverty and social mobility than weight at birth and adult employment, further education correlated with free school meals, etc etc. Clegg should have asked me for a steer on this oneComment
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A better guide to the current state of British oligarchy is the Leveson Inquiry. It hasn’t revealed corruption and avarice on anything but a mundane scale; few outright monsters have emerged; there is as yet no smoking gun. What it has revealed is the complacency, passivity and reckless negligence of those who thought that they were doing nothing wrong. The congestion of British public life, its squeezed, banal, thoughtless, easy way with power, its acquiescence in its own straitened quality, its thin conception of the public good, its sense of comfort with its own limited ambitions have all been on daily display. It’s nothing dramatic. Newspapers don’t need to be explicit with their threats or bribes, they simply show which way comfort, and which way discomfort, lie. Ministers don’t do anything nefarious. They simply don’t know what’s being done in their departments, and they don’t have any real incentive to find out. Murdoch doesn’t know what’s going on in his company either, and he too has no incentive to find out. Confusion and inattention are all our kind of oligarchy needs.
In the Kremlin they have, by all accounts, been enjoying the Leveson Inquiry. Putin’s acolytes have let it be known that Britain is in no position to cast aspersions about the fraudulent state of Russian democracy, given what we have seen about the hidden levers of power in Britain. Are we really any different? Well, the difference is that no one in Britain ever says that they’re at it in Russia too, so stop making a fuss. Ours is, as Mount says, not a true oligarchy, but a frightened, complacent liberal democracy in which the inadvertent oligarchs have been given too much room to breathe. It may take more than judicial inquiries, a living wage and local government reforms to squeeze them out.
David Runciman; London Review of Books
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sorry, but you are way off. Cricket bats are a very selective economic indicator, for a self selecting group !Originally posted by Beef Oven View PostFantastic! Shows just how far we've come in 60 years
My dad made me a cricket bat like that!! No wonder I was pants at cricket!!
Happily, under QEII's reign things have got so good that even the poorest children don't have to endure the poverty that we did and everyone can have a nice cricket bat
Hurrah for the Queen
P.S. What's PT harping on about - she looks well-fed and well off, like the rest of the country. I feel sorry for her with her middle-class conscience. Maybe I'll lend her my working-class chip
Football tickets are much better...in the days of your photo it was about half an hours wages to pay to stand on a cinder terrace where you couldn't see. And if you couldn't pay fourpence, you just climbed over the wall. Everyone could go. In fact they had to. it was a rule.
Now to go to arsenal or wherever, you need to have at least a medium sized lottery win to your name.
Statistics are dangerous.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Thankyou for your good wishes, and for that link. Catchy tune, but I think I might need to change the words before it would be suitable for any of my Jubilee celebrations!Originally posted by teamsaint View Postpeester, just because I am like that, I am sending you this for free. its a great tune for your BBQ Playlist, and since I am sure you are an inclusive kind of a guy, it will make anyone there who isn't quite so in love with the monarchy feel just a little more at home. That is the correct way to do things, I feel sure you agree...
(think you will enjoy the semaphore scenes !)
enjoy....and have a good weekend.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain.Comment
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wow, you are well in the running for "most selective quote of the day".........and its tough competition on this board !!Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Originally posted by Panjandrum View PostFour days off for the Great British Public
Hopefully it won't be long before we're a Republic!
But whats a "day off" ?
got a symphony to write (yes really ........... )
and 16 Arbroath smokies to eat
This letter in todays Independent asks a good question IMV
OK, I admit it: I am perplexed. What exactly is it that the Queen does so marvellously? I hear tributes flowing in yet I am lost.
Yes, she's a symbol, and yes, like some museum exhibit, she and her gilded cages are good for tourism; but what does she do that is so great? Waving? Tapping people on their shoulders with a sword? Fifty-six years an Englishman and still none the wiser...Last edited by MrGongGong; 01-06-12, 19:38.Comment
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I can't wait to0 play my own programme of music for this occaision! :)
Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Like to share what that might possibly be with other members, Bbm ... ?Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostI can't wait to0 play my own programme of music for this occaision! :)
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Mostly british music.
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Elgar: P and C no.1; Parry: I was Glad; Jerusalem; Charles Wood: O thou the Central Orb; Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves; thomas Tallis fantaisa; Handel :Zadok the Priest;
Howells: Nunc Dmittis and Magnifdicat; Elgar: Cockaigne Overture; Praise to the Holiest Walton: Coronation Te Deum.
Probably too much singing and maybe too conservative?Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Glad to see everyone's celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee!
Don't forget, play as much Walton and Elgar as you can!!!
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She'd probably prefer some Jimmy Shand ...Originally posted by Beef Oven View PostGlad to see everyone's celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee!
Don't forget, play as much Walton and Elgar as you can!!!
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