Politics & Current Affairs board

[Russ]

Thanks, ff.

The sidebar link would partially cover that for regulars. There is no password, so only the url is necessary. I imagine people could 'subscribe' in the usual way and get updates.

Ok, that's seems a pragmatic way forward.

how does one refresh it so that one can see new posts ?

On arriving at the P&CA forum page, presumably just press F5 refresh.

Russ

[Richard Tarleton]

ff, for what it's worth you have my wholehearted support in this. I feel much as Petrushka and doversoul do.

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed the recent discussion about the Testament issue of Mahler symphony no 7 with BPO/Gielen was a most successful sales campaign.

That might have been the effect but twas not the intention!

Purest altruism, sharing the love, a general desire to benefit my fellows - that was the campaigning element

[MrGongGong]

On arriving at the P&CA forum page, presumably just press F5 refresh.

Russ

Nope
F5 adjusts the brightness on OSX

[eighthobstruction]

I usually click on refresh circular arrow in browser....but it appears that nobody has contributed since ahinton at 0754....

[Russ]

Nope
F5 adjusts the brightness on OSX

For Maccers, just press the browser twiddly thing that refreshes your browser page.

Russ

[Beef Oven!]

That might have been the effect but twas not the intention!

Purest altruism, sharing the love, a general desire to benefit my fellows - that was the campaigning element

It's a strict liability offence, your protest will fall on deaf ears

[amateur51]

That might have been the effect but twas not the intention!

Purest altruism, sharing the love, a general desire to benefit my fellows - that was the campaigning element

Unintended consequences, I agree

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Agreed, and it's an infinitely better forum than the old BBC one in its dying days.

I'm sure a lot of the problems re the politics board (and elsewhere) would go away if people followed two precepts:
1) Don't insult or use ad hominem remarks about any other MBer. There is never, ever, a good reason for doing so (and it is a breach of house rules).
2) Recognise where a discussion is only being pursued by people taking irreconcilable positions which have been made clear. At that point an 'agree to disagree' ought to terminate the discussion.

[I admit that this second precept is very rarely followed on any forums, which is why some threads can go on to the crack of doom]

hear hear!

[FFAdminMKS]

A link has been added to the left-hand sidebar, so the P & CA board is one click away, just as it would be if it appeared on the main homepage.

Under 'Useful links, Other links' top item.

[Richard Barrett]

I'm sorry, but what does 'till things calm down" actually mean?

I think that would be just after world peace and international socialism were established.

Oops, I guess I'm not allowed to say that here.

[ahinton]

I think that would be just after world peace and international socialism were established.

Oops, I guess I'm not allowed to say that here.

You mean that they won't calm down before then? Shucks! Surely things would need to "calm down" before the at least first of these were to be established?(!)...

But I'm sure that you can say what you have here; after all, it's not as though, in so doing, you are overtly "campaigning" for either, is it?(!)...

[french frank]

I think that would be just after world peace and international socialism were established.

Absolutely correct, in the sense that the consensus has been (and seems to be echoed by those who haven't been posting on the Politics board) that the topic should not have a place on the main forum. It isn't as if that doesn't leave a huge breadth of subject matter to discuss here, as well as a range of other forums where politics is a central concern.

'Politics' in this context refers to the politics, policies and actions of current politicians and governments from round the world. I can't see how that can't be detached almost entirely from the politics of composers, artists, writers, film-makers (especially if they're no longer alive) vis-à-vis their own creativity, rather than current affairs. If those are the 'politics' that interest people there is still Talking About Music, Hear and Now, Radio 3 Arts, the General Arts where such aspects can be raised.

[eighthobstruction]

Patten v Thompson....http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Pl...eetingId=13785

[Flosshilde]

the politics of composers, artists, writers, film-makers (especially if they're no longer alive) vis-à-vis their own creativity,

So it would be OK to discuss the Russian government, or agents of the Russian state, influencing, or putting pressure on the writer/director, the production of a film about Tchaikovsky so that it ignored his homosexuality?