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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/brogan-driscoll/page-3-the-sun_b_6522938.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Oh, they can dole out the mockery, but they can't take it! The Sun may think its had the last laugh, but its childish behaviour has only... - goodness, sounds just like my former head master, on a bad day in his secret fight against "substance abuse"! Yup, 215,000 signatures from twitterers with a ten second attention span. Whether The Sun actually drops p3 will depend exclusively on sales, and not in any way on endless, completely ignorable, cyber-petitions. I've never bought a single copy since the first freebie intros flopped through the Hartford Road letter box in the mid '60s. But hey - for a laugh...!

Can anyone remember A for Andromeda from way back in the early 1960's? It had a very smart early Julie Christie in it, but that's not why I remember it (honest!). The cultural thugs (or maybe it pre-dated those and it was the accountant thugs) at the Beeb destroyed the original recordings, but it was a real classic. One of the reasons for its status was the writers involved scientists to get the physics right, and to ensure that they didn't patronise the audience with the usual "Hollywood science". That was, of course, the days when UK science hadn't become heavily contaminated with politics, and so was worthy of respect (Doomwatch, anyone?). The early me found it quite gripping, and I bet that wasn't because of early BBC SFX!

Countless columns where written about it; numerous "feminist" commentators were interviewed - all expressing satisfaction that all the years of campaigning had now borne fruit; that good sense and political correctness had finally prevailed. All's fine with the World, until - in the next few moments - the Greek chorus settles on the next wrong to right. Then, yesterday, an article appeared which floated the interesting proposition that The Sun would have abandoned "p3" a decade ago if it hadn't been for all the valuable publicity provided by "feminist" protest. Silence from the chattering classes; they who won't accept any proposition that life is just a little more complicated than their myopic and childishly naive view of the world demands. Then, this morning, the final dagger (but, IS it? ): Well... however you feel about "p3" you have to appreciate the joke. Not to at least fake a chuckle would make you one of those myopic, politically correct, simpletons, who are so so easily led!

The camera distance makes the houses at the top seem far far closer, and the ones at the bottom appear almost in a straight row.

On yet another review I have to agree! BUT: A large upstairs side-window has been added to the house behind Foxy's 'O'.The picture has severe perspective distortion making the houses at the rear look far far nearer than they actually are. This could only be done by it being taken with (what would then be) a telephoto lens from the edge of the central grass parallel with the front door or even south side wall of No. 17.A lot of tree/bush growth on the corner now obscures other vital details.The metal window replacement mentioned earlier was already assumed.Anyone aiming to reproduce the shot for us will need to have a reasonable zoom (probs not a phone), and manoeuvre carefully at the said spot using a copy of the photo. Because of the distance the precise height from the ground won't be terribly critical, but the horizontal angle will be very critical. In fact it should be possible to pinpoint the exact place the camera was E/W within inches. Should be interesting! Minor details in the brickwork also give "DNA standard confirmation" to these conclusions.

Here's what happens when you ask a Labour shadow minister a question which he hasn't cleared with elitist though-control central first. Note that he IS talking about Muslim matters before he insists he's NOT going to talk about Muslim matters because that's not what he came for! Umunna uses the awkward-question avoidance tactic he's been taught, but the Sky reporter recognises this immediately and nullifies it. "You and I can have this debate if you want, but the wider and more bigger issue is..", reporter does want, but no way is he going to go there! LibLabCon is all about spinning a narrative that keeps the ruling elites in power; taking the voters as suckers. But, it's no longer working - the public and independent media isn't as stupid as they've been taught on their Oxford PPE courses!

You many, of course, have bought into the storyline that Tone is simply making unwanted comments from the sidelines, and is no longer any part of the Labour Party machine. After all the LP mouthpiece tells us just so: But, can this be believed? Ed Balls met Tony Blair during US trip 20th Jan 2015 and... But, most of all, money talks: the huge fees Tony can still command from overseas clients aren't simply because he's "very much the past", they're because he has that influence thing politicos are so keen to bamboozle us with. Rather a lot of influence in the present! The Westminster-elitist smoke and mirrors machine that is today's Labour Party wills you to believe quite differently.

So Cast-Iron-Promise Dave tells minions to "cut the green crap" in Tory Party policy, but is he sincere about cutting the green payola? And just who benefits from those "green" surcharges on all our fuel bills? http://order-order.com/2015/01/13/so-much-for-green-crap-cams-cash-from-sam-dads-wind-farm/

A true "public informational" gem! Where do I get blue road paint? For the record, do we get to know who was Bedder's answer to Mason Dixon or is this a state secret?

Having looked twice there are actually many "things that just do not look quite right". There are a tiny few houses of the pattern of the houses in the foreground, but none of them remotely line up like that, and generally Westlea houses have decent sized front gardens. Save for highly unlikely demolitions and rebuilds there's simply no way this can be Westlea. Are we even sure this is was taken somewhere in Bedlingtonshire?

I don't see many marching bands in that picture Tony. Where do you draw authority for that from? I'd make a small bet that I've seen him on the Front Street several times over the years. He had a very long career in politics before he became Labour leader, and I think there are pictures in the gallery which will disprove it. In fact I'd have said he was one of the fairly regulars, not one of the mob who only turned up prior to GEs. I'm wondering if the guy on Bevan's immediate right (off his left shoulder) isn't Wilf Holliday the then local Labour Party agent. That's just a wild guess, but it would lend strength to the guess of other guy being a Holliday too.

As soon as I saw it I said Bevan! He was very concerned with post war housebuilding, so this would be late 1940's or more likely 1950's (when Labour was in opposition). Whilst it's true that post-war Tory governments built substantially more homes than post-war Labour, there's a strong case that the ones built under Labour were higher quality - I think evidenced by the fact that percentage-wise many more are still around. It's just a pity that Labour councils didn't charge that little bit more in rent, going towards paying down the cost, and not simply aim to service the borrowing. It would have still been affordable to the vast majority of tenants. If they'd done that they'd have had the capital to extend the public housing stock, and ultimately would have been able to stabilise, or even reduce, rents instead of constantly raising them. As it was virtually all rent money went into servicing debt, and they became hostages to the markets. The same short-termism plagues all Labour governments, and causes their demise. It's interesting that Bevan himself addressed this in more general terms: Bloke on Bevan's right shoulder looks a tiny bit like Michael Foot - stickey out ears, and I think glasses. Goodness, is that an early donkey jacket? Just found this picture of them together in 1953: Looks like he's sent Nye to zzzzzzzz, which would be par for the course! Could there be one or more Holliday's in there too? I'm thinking maybe the guy on the right with the hat and glasses.

Not really - they were business partners who in real life deliberately avoided any mutual socialising. Their long and profitable partnership stemmed from erecting Chinese walls and respecting them. Countless others in showbiz didn't do that, resulting in the inevitable acrimonious splits. There's a lesson in there for Europe and Europhiles!

Rereading. Mmmm... clever turn of phrase there; have you ever considered politics? Ok, ok, I will concede that one!

This is latest comforting assurance the establishment is promoting, after all the others have been systematically shot down in flames. History says different. If your tribal loyalty to Labour had some logical basis Tony I could understand where you were coming from, but you must see that Labour is now the real class enemy of ordinary British working people. Politics has become a sham; both major parties pretend to heed the needs of ordinary people whilst - each for their own reasons - completely selling them out to overseas interests. Look at what's behind the curtain; people like Mandelson are pulling the Labour Party levers. You THINK your union is pulling his strings, but Miliband was put there by other forces, and your union leader is just a patsy. It's Blairism all over again, they've simply inserted one more misleading screen that says we've turned left. They haven't even bothered to replace Balls for God's sake! All the old Westminster elitists are still there, and they've recruited even more to the gentleman's club. Surely you are brighter than this, or is the promise of more bread and circuses an eternal means to enslavement? The way out isn't the I'm taking this shafting on my own terms of Dennis Skinner, or the lame street protest of Russell Brand. It's to get right in there and sort the b's out by the same democratic process that they've subverted. At the moment that means voting Ukip - not out of any sort of tribalism, but because it's the only way to fix our broken democracy.

Yup, Nige's abject faiure to go on the Oxford - how to screw friends and BS people - PPE course, and get a real job (as a metals trader not a stockbroker) instead, defo disqualifies him from joining the ranks of the uni-to-gravy-train ruling elites. http://www.ppe.ox.ac.uk/index.php/a-future-with-ppe Note that you aren't properly qualified to Express an opinion without a PPE. This explains why Evan Davis won't let anyone he's interviewing get a word in edgewise and constantly answers his own questions, whilst the appalling Yvette Cooper never finds it necessary to connect her brain to her mouth. I will stop here before I get on to our Tariq!

Don't worry about network integrity Maggie, Ive got TOi (The Other internet) just about ready to roll. It's hack, and even electromagnetic pulse proof. Got a few teething problems due to spuggies perching on the waxed string, but I'm training some of the local moggies to patrol the network on quadcopters. We can't promise to match normal ISP speeds any time soon, but we do have a protocol to transmit your old 78's faithfully (including all the needle jumps and scratches). So, please don't turn any more into flowerpots! ------------------------ Seriously: Have a look at a Chromebook (there used to be several models). The great thing is that Google will keep it fully up-to-date and virus free for you, and you won't need to shell out serious money for applications. https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c720_black_wifi_2gb

Oh come on! He (and the Greens) will be trashed by a party with real policies! http://www.loonyparty.com/about/policy-proposals/ I mean who can argue with the Food safety policy - certainly not ED! And watch out LDs:

Horses for courses Maggie. Really depends what you need it to do. Don't assume you even need a laptop these days. Tell me if you have any Windows™ software you absolutely need to run? I mean things like an accountancy package that you've already invested weeks of your time in. There are often cheaper, faster, easier alternatives to battling Windoze(zz)! Ongoing cost of ownership can be as important as the device itself. At the present time I think that many people aren't just running the wrong model for what they are doing, but also the wrong type of device, and the wrong operating system - all because they are follow the herd, or don't bother to ask someone who had no vested interest in selling something! CD's are very 20th century!

The point is - and I'm sure you didn't miss the general drift - that Attlee was a modest man. He was a solicitor, like our Tone, but a totally genuine person. He did what he did because he was motivated to improve general living standards without any thought of personal gain. In short he wasn't a career politician who constantly put his career before his principals. When politicos of the first half of the last century said something you could be absolutely sure that they firmly believed it, and that it wasn't, first and foremost, directed squarely at their next career move. Is there a single person in LibLabCon who you can say the same of these days? Present day politicians don't all take cynicism to the lengths that TB does, but to a greater or lesser degree they all have their fingers in the pie. Our problem is that current generations have forgotten that uncompromisingly public spirited politicians ever existed! When did the last politician ever resign over a point of pure principal? This was something which happened as regular as clockwork.

How Tony Blair Inc spent £57 million in four years Pretty remarkable for someone who tells us his total accumulated wealth is only £10M. Well... I suppose it's just that socialism has come an awful long way since Clement Attlee. Tony probably needed to form a lawn-edging consultancy subsidiary to get his trimmed. But, we must remember that Tone didn't get that lucrative non-job in Brussels he'd set his heart on because the nasty British voters send a whole bunch of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Closet Racists to rock the Euro gravy train. So... really... he does need to earn a few extra bob on the side. And, his office assures us:- Technically true, but how much is he sheltering in this unfathomable web of companies that the UK tax man doesn't even get to know about? And just how much are we paying for this squad of Metropolitan Police close protection officers that jet around the world with him? The arrangement for protecting ex-PMs never envisioned that ex-PMs would be running multiple highly lucrative businesses after office, or exposing themselves to risk here there and everywhere. I do hope that we aren't paying those £5000 a night hotel bills for them too. We really should be told!

There's still bad youth unemployment, so why ignore that and focus on zero hour contracts - people who are at least on the first step of the employment ladder? OK, so it makes a good doctrinaire political point, but back in the real world where compromises are generally required... Is it a coincidence that youth unemployment now just about matches the number of jobs being filled by immigrants from the EU? A high proportion of the EU'ers earnings is spirited out of the country straight away, and completely lost to the economy, whist every quid of UB has to be funded by the UK tax payer. The EU'ers earnings have to be offset by export earnings in ever-more-competitive (and now deflationary) international markets. The immigrant rate is accelerating, and there's nothing Gov-UK can do about it but pray that the EU won't go completely down the plughole. Another politico's social engineering experiment going rapidly TU!

What sort of deal do you think the Tories will offer the broker??? They won't, they'll be in no position to dictate terms because Ukip simply isn't going to keep a Tory government in power unconditionally like the Lib Dems have. There may be a "supply and confidence" deal providing we get a referendum on the EU straight away, and not after Cameron has had time to stack the deck. Getting this country back on its feet implies giving the requisite two years notice to the EU, and the sooner that happens the better. Once our notice is in then whoever is tasked with negotiating will have a much stronger hand - it's quite likely we'll be offered associate membership on very favourable terms. All the trade, without any of the political crap. Where do you think the money has come from for this turnaround in the countries fortunes. Not everything is about handouts or robbing Peter to pay Paul. In fact we are much deeper in debt that when Brown left office. What the politicos are talking about is the rate at which the debt is increasing. They are not very keen to explain this though, so they refer to the rate of increase as the deficit, not the actual debt itself. Yes, none of us could get that past our bank manager for one second, but (with very few exceptions) all governments are heavily borrowed - mainly because they can, and because it's a very easy way to buy votes. There is no additional money, just a bit more confidence in the minds of those we borrow from that somehow we'll be able to repay when the crunch comes. That increase in confidence means we are borrowing at record low rates, and far less than most other countries. Not having to pay so much interest means we can service the debt and less taxpayers money needs to be channelled in that direction. Overseas investors are happier to hold pounds and not swap them for something more risky, so the value of Sterling goes up. The way to blow the whole thing, and to go back into crisis, is to start spending like there is no tomorrow once again. Balls knows all this and with typical duplicity is telling the markets that he's going to be very responsible, and in fact might have to cut back spending more than the Tories. But, he's trying to give the opposite impression to the electorate. If you analyse his LPC speech he's actually proposing bigger NHS cuts than the Tories, but the idiots at conference (those who weren't actually asleep) were applauding this. If you doubt this I can point you at an apolitical analysis of his proposals. Mostly from the welfare cuts & I don't mean the dole,it's come from the selling of our assets this time the royal Mail cutting back on the national health,education the list goes on if they get in next time God knows what will happen more zero hour contracts it could get even worse..everybody tries to blame the last government but it was a worldwide meltdown. Hmm.. as I said there is no new money. Remember that it was Labour who introduced the private sector into the NHS. In principal some of it made sense, but they completely botched PFI and landed the NHS with huge debts that it now has to pay out of current income - money that should have been available for treating patients. Once again I can go into detail if you doubt this. Woah, we are back to Gordo's "it's a global problem"! That's far too simplistic. Yes, there was a global turn-down (there's an argument that it started right here with the stupidity at Northern Rock). But, Gordo brainwashed himself into the idea that the good times were bad times, and that everything would come right in the end. Economists were telling him for years that he'd misread the economic cycle, and that he shouldn't be spending on the assumption that revenues would increase to cover it. We'd settled into a fairly regular 11 year economic cycle, but Gordo kept repeatedly adding a year to the official forecasts. He simply wouldn't accept that he'd completely misread the charts. He lectured in economics at a crappy polytechnic, and arrogantly thought that he knew better than hundreds of top-flight economists who constantly analysed all the figures on banks of computers. It was the classic Nick Leeson story: a guy who'd made the wrong call, and, rather than come clean at an early stage to limit the damage, sailed on with the hope that it would all come right on the next move - and so completely bust the bank! In part he caused that global problem! A decent chancellor should have been comparing notes with others, and counselling caution, not junketing around the world boasting that he'd "ended boom and bust"! An easyway to stop people from the rest of Europe coming here is to make the minimum wage the same in all eu countries,that would stop loads thinking of coming here..some countries pay £2.50 ph we pay £6.55ph but both of these amounts are s***...If we come out of the Eu what sort of prouduct can England of the rest of the world & who could we trade with....Malcolm didn't get that kettle & pot thing.. You going to nip over to Romania or Greece or... and tell the PM that they should hike their minimum wage three or four times Tony? They'll say that's brilliant, please leave your cheque for a squillion of your Breetish pounds on the table as you leave to pay for this. The Euro's too dodgy as we are figuring out how best to hit the Germans in the pocket when we abandon it one Friday night after foreign bankers have left for their luxury villas. No one told us that the Germans would be running our country and telling us what to do, and - as our parents told us - you magnificent Breetish don't do that! Ah, the our economy depends on the EU argument! No it bloomin' doesn't! Our little island didn't get to be the most successful trading nation on the planet by shelling out a significant proportion of our GDP to Europe. The EU accounts for an ever-decreasing portion of our exports, and we buy significantly more from them than they buy from us. Did you notice an increase in trade or in jobs when we joined? But, here's the really interesting bit that LibLabCon won't tell you (or they will once the British people have presented them with a firm Brexit instruction): the EU treaties require the EU to negotiate trade agreements on favourable terms with any member who gives the requisite to years notice of leaving. As they have more to lose from a lousy deal than we have, it's near certain that trade-wise things will continue pretty much as they did before. But, we will be freed from the crippling and continuing demands for more money to prop up the failing EU, and we will be free to negotiate trade agreements outside the EU on any terms that suit us. Economists who have looked at this dispassionately and worst-case (certainly not the EU funded LSE!) calculate that we will take a small hit in the first year; so small that it likely will go unnoticed. But, from the second year onward we'll be boosting our trade worldwide as we get our act together. From then on the sky's the limit for an independent UK, and your union buddies can start demanding more money!