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Hi pilgrim! I'm not sure what you are saying here. You ask "would it really make all that difference if ALL debts in the Eurozone were wiped out and we started again??" And you go on to say it wouldn't. Then - somehow - that's an argument for a single currency! Greece is fine on a day to day basis. They can pay their way. It's the crippling interest and debt payment they can't afford. They are paying interest on interest on interest... and they are borrowing to pay interest from the very people they owe to. Go try that one on your bank manager. In fact go visit wonga.com (that ultra responsible lender! ) and what will you see on their homepage: You shouldn't use our loans to manage existing debt. Hey, great advice IMF and ECB; contract Wonga to vet your loan book, they sound a lot more responsible people than your astronomically-paid international bankers! Most of the other Southern Eurozone countries are in the same boat, and Italy's relatively giant economy is in an irrecoverable debt spiral, where they will certainly be in the same position as Greece in three or four years, unless they drop out of the Euro before then. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi arrived at this conclusion in late 2011, and the Eurocrats immediately had him replaced with an unelected Brussels puppet! Does all this still sound like "a very good argument to justify the single currency" to you? It sounds like a total surrender of democracy, and subjugation to a foreign power to me. The Greeks aren't going there, and, whether they are nominally communists, or fascists, or Martians, they should have the support of every freedom-loving person on the planet!

Not with this government Malc Varofakis is a smart cookie, I've been reading all his stuff for a while now, and he's into "game theory". If the (b|w)ankers had read it they'd not be allowing themselves to be strung along whilst the ECB pours more billions out. On the other hand it's not "in the manual", which makes it impossible tor the Germans to come up with a counter. The only way for Greece is default. Even the IMF seems to be able to see that they are simply digging a deeper hole, but the Fourth Reich is back to Teutonic bunker mentality. It's easy to see how the whole EU political project will end: tears, hostility, and recriminations all around. Rather than unite Europe it's going to reinforce traditional suspicions and downright hatreds. Other trading areas around the world are doing far better, because they had the good sense to dispense with most of the political baggage. Centralist command driven economies don't work, and essentially that's what the EU is. It's simply not possible to "reform" it; we need to start again with a clean slate, or simply commit ourselves fully to the WTO!

Full article: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-knows-greece-will-be-better-off-exiting-the-eurozone-2015-06-16/ One to recall when the EU propaganda machine goes into full swing for the referendum! And.. we all know it's true because the UK is consistently outperforming the EuroZone; this contrary to all those scare stories about what would happen to us if we didn't abandon the pound. Just think how much better we'd be off if we didn't have all the drag of the EU bureaucracy, and weren't consistently paying out huge sums to prop up the failing EuroZone!

Your ISP (or your own computer or router) is caching the old IP address. This changed a good while back now and most places worldwide will see the updated one. I'm PM'ing you a link, and will send you details on how to locate the camera the next time this happens for you. We now have a fixed IP for the camera, but it isn't currently being used..

How can a white girl spend her life trying to pass off as "African-American"?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11670528/White-woman-posed-as-black-civil-rights-leader-in-years-long-deception.html Some might say that this is because Western society now awards more "brownie" points (oops! pun unintended) to "ethnic" people than natives, but personally I don't think that that's a major factor. What I do think is that this sort of thing - in a milder, less physical sort of way - is not at all uncommon on the extreme political left. Interesting to hear Syms views on this anyway.

A timely piece: http://www.ukip.org/bbc_must_disclose_its_22m_plus_interest_in_britain_s_continued_membership_of_the_eu

With Christopher Lee you can NEVER be sure!

Sorry for not making myself clear. I meant a coincidence between the Latin gula (derived French goulet) and the surname Guillotin. I sort of imagined that the Dr may have had gully or similar manufacture in his family line and was simply expanding the family franchise! OK, not a perfect match, but close enough to wonder. Thanks for eponymous; I was groping for the word, but in the moment it escaped me!

I don't know Willy - haven't researched it, but the BBC would be in pole position to deny it if it were untrue and they don't! There's no doubt that C4 is bought and paid for by the EU though. Prove me wrong someone, but I believe it's the worst kind of subsidy. Not a blanket subsidy but where individual programs are funded - programs that project what Brussels wants to hear, and suppress what they don't want to hear. And - like all EU funding - it's our very own money being turned against British democracy, and toward an entirely undemocratic future European superstate. We have almost an entire generation carefully nurturing the eggs of the EU Cuckoo when only a minority of the population are screaming pitch them out of the nest before it's too late! It's utterly disgraceful that we should even need to pass a law to force the BBC to abandon its EU propaganda campaign, but this seems to be necessary. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11664797/BBC-could-be-forced-by-law-to-cover-EU-referendum-impartially.html If Bill Cash et al don't get their amendment through we can look forward to torrents of EU BS from establishment media trying to swing the referendum. That's in addition to all the off-shore tactics that will be used - all paid for by our own EU contributions, as per usual.

We know a website all about those! http://www.guillotine.dk/pages/history.html Interesting that his name was Dr. Guillotin. Simply a coincidence or a derived moniker?

According to Merriam-webster the first known use as a knife was from 1582, and the first known use as a ditch, or water course, etc. is from 1637. Origin: "probably alteration of Middle English golet ravine, throat".

It seems simply to be too many users at times. We'll address this by inserting a intermediary server that can handle more than a dozen or so simultaneous connections, but that's not possible until late Summer. Meanwhile we'd appreciate if members don't hog it by connecting for extended periods of time.

Looking at the problem - sorry!

Money the Greek government has to find this year: You'll note the small lull after May before many more big bills start to become due. My bet is that Putin is lending a hand by secretly printing a new currency for Greece right now! If they went to the regular sources the cat would be out of the bag in no time. Are the Greeks imaginative enough to call this something slightly more political than the Drachma? That would be the sensible thing to do; but there are alternatives here, and there's no doubt Greece wants to cling to the Euro as long as possible, have banks receive every Euro in ECB liquidly assistance they can, then actually be seen to be ejected from the EuroZone - mainly by Germany. So, if there is such a currency printing arrangement, it would be billed purely as a contingency plan, even if the truth were slightly different. It wouldn't be at all surprising if Greece were to unofficially adopt the Rouble as a temporary measure though, having been given a nod and wink on this score by Putin. Those talks weren't entirely about oil pipelines! Interesting times. BRICS New Development Bank Threatens Hegemony Of U.S. Dollar

It always happens: once the election is over they vote themselves a massive pay increase. Very few oppose this on principle - mainly because most of those elected MPs don't have any principles! Please sign the petition to Cameron to veto this: https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-stop-the-11-pay-rise-for-mps-salaries Note that Ukip has refused the £3.3M "Short money" due to it, but Labour has once again taken its £7M plus in public money, and what's left of the LD's are back at the feeding trough too! That's something intelligent voters would do well to remember next time around. If you elect people who put their own interests before the Country, don't complain when that's exactly what you get!

Which could be the excuse Schauble needs to assume a default. There are several more payments due this month so it makes no sense for the Greeks to pay up this time (even assuming they have any cash left), and then default on a later unaffordable one.

All it would take to clean up world football is for UEFA to pull out of Blatter's web of corruption. But - like the EU itself - it's not prepared to do the obvious and clean up its own act. It's truly ridiculous the the USA has to step in and do what the EU authorities should have done years ago. The FA should pull out regardless, and shame the rest of Europe. Shut up and just do it Dyke, else you are no better than the rest! Set up a fully transparent world football body and let Blatter and his henchman do their worst to prevent other countries joining. The upside is we'd undoubtedly win the very first new world cup!

A pack of lies and half-truths, starting with #1! Notice that there they now say jobs "linked to" and not dependent on (the blatant Nick Clegg lie), and they also say "European Union's single market" and not simply the EU. Norway is already outside the EU but in the European Union's single market. Those jobs would not disappear, in fact there would be more UK jobs as we expanded our global trade. The EU is a contracting market mired in bureaucracy. We'd surely maintain our trading relationships though, because the EU can not afford not to trade with us. We buy far more from Germany than they buy from us, and without the UK economy the EU will sink even faster than it is already doing. Overriding all this are the EU treaties which state that the two year notice period for leaving is to negotiate a trading relationship "on favourable terms". If the worst were to happen, and the EU bit it's own nose off to spite it's face, we'd be faced with a piddling 1.8% tariff barrier against our goods, which we'd recoup several times over by retaliating against German goods - so, that simply ain't going to happen! The EU originated when worldwide trade barriers were far higher, and so this (and the EU) becomes increasingly irrelevant. This is how the bureaucratic EU is performing (dark blue line) against the "Anglo Saxon economics" which those Brussels mandarins so hate. These stats come from the EU and the European Central Bank no less; so if anything would downplay EU under-performance! Happy to tackle the rest of those lies, but just look where they come from. The Brussels Council of the British European Movement, Square de Meeûs 25, 1000, Brussels - EU propaganda bought and paid for by our own money!

John Redwood tells the truth too. Pity that he's simply too honest to be in Dodgy Dave's cabinet! Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/11629210/The-in-out-EU-voting-row-is-just-a-distraction.html

It has started to work well again with Firefox. I think this is a result of a fairly recent FF update fixing the bug.

From a senior source in Berlin, Thursday night: This is why things are painfully drawn out. When the finger pointing starts no one wants to be seen as responsible for what everyone now accepts is an inevitability. June then, as all sides are clearly resolved not to blink.

While you were sleeping? I think it's called continental drift!

No need to watch folks, the Guardian has it all sussed. Seems they haven't actually listened to any of the songs whilst compiling their spreadsheets, which rather says it all! And the winner will be: (and please don't retype this "in the clear" you spoiler people - you types have already totally ruined the Internet Movie Database for many! ) Anyway, I've just bought a new sound bar to replace the pathetic little rattly speakers on my FSTV. So my excuse for watching will be that they must be properly tested before the return to shop period ends.