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Sounds like you've just come back from Doncaster Malc! I don't see India on your list, the nation that is currently celebrating a successful Mars mission. You know, the one WE recently paid for (and about five others!). http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/441263/India-sends-a-spaceship-to-Mars-after-UK-gives-280million-in-aid And if you think that's a scandal then it is dwarfed by what we throw at the EU so's they can waste it to buy votes in other countries and ensure the grand European junket goes on regardless of and austerity measures. What yesterday's Tory MP defecting to UKIP says: So now we know that together both Cameron & Miliband have an Oxford degree in "sincerity", or what passes for sincerity in current Westminster circles. http://bedlington.co.uk/community/uploads/David%20Cameron%20-Together.mp4

And here come the election bribes - buying our votes with our own money! If you are stuggling to pay utility bills Miliband's bribes sound good, if you are desperate to get on the housing ladder then you simply have to go with Dave. Either way you'll be feeding the system which keeps them all in clover. Where did they learn their manipulative skills, and how to bullshit the public so effectively? Well, The Spectator elucidates: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9322492/the-politics-of-ppe/ Let me check out that list again. David Cameron, William Hague, Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt, Ed Davey, Danny Alexander. Matthew Hancock, Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Angela Eagle, Maria Eagle, Rachel Reeves and Stuart Wood. Ah yes, Mrs Balls too - the mouth without a connected brain - that explains a lot. Shouldn't Mandelson be in there too? There you are youngsters, there's how to really get on in life: aspire to an Oxford PPE, move to London, and you are guaranteed a ticket on the lefty-liberal-elitist gravy train that will ultimately take you to Brussels. Just leave any principals you might have at home, you won't be needing them on the journey.

Good find! I'd heard about that be not seen it. The short answer is that Nigel is a good European, not one of the ones that seek to enslave it. Ask Kirsten Mehr (n.k.a. Mrs Kirsten Farage). Ask Italian Bepe Grillo, and the leaders of other European political parties working with UKIP to liberate their own countries and establish an efficient European free trade area. That's "Team Europe" - what the British people voted for, but not what they got! Europe and federalism only go together in the minds of the the ex-Nazi types who currently control the EU.

Outrage as Apple users complain new iPhone 6 BENDS in their pocket Had my Note 3 for coming up to a year and have accidentally sat on it in the back pocket a few times. I'd have killed myself if I'd smashed it in just the first couple of days, if at all. BTW if you compare the current Note 4 specs with the iPhone 6 Plus it's absolutely no contest. The only thing which is arguably better on the Apple is the fingerprint sensor. Otherwise, It's on par with a Note 2 but without the convenience of expandable flash memory, a swappable battery, and the smartpen. What's a near new Note 2 currently worth? Maybe £250? It's still a secret how much RAM both models have, and they won't even reveal the battery capacity - unlike every other manufacturer on the planet. This is treating customers with contempt. Update Umm... about that excellent fingerprint reader: seems it has stopped working! http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-releases-ios-8-0-1-a-week-after-ios-8-launch/

LOL! Presumably, these days, there's an app for this? Apart from being self-contradictory, and illustrating a likely general laziness, there are no dates of the employment history. Why should I, as a prospective employer, have to extract this information when it should have been clearly presented? I like to tie this to the references to locate the skeletons in the cupboard - there should have also been a list of available references. Pretty basic really! Having carried out hundreds of job interviews the one which sticks in my mind is the guy who sloped in and before he'd even sat down asked "What's the money like then?" Needless to say... If you really have to reduce "job seeking" to a box ticking exercise then you need to hit the boxes! I'm old school that much prefers someone to come up to me and ask politely for a job. There was a time - before all the "job protection" crap - when I made a point of always saying "OK, we'll give you a chance. When can you start?". In a growing enterprise there really is no such thing as "Vacancies"- either you can earn more for the organisation than your keep, or you can't and are more trouble than you are worth. And, who wants to work for an organisation that is "unfair" to them, or where they are "being carried", anyway?

Amazing! Some really useful work there. It took me a few seconds to get orientated, but we are looking in a North Westerly direction from above the Jubilee Terrace / Palace Road area. All we need now is for someone with a decent drone to take a contemporary shot to superimpose.

Fiddling the accounts never goes down too well in the City! Shares going on for 9% down today so far. Something must have been suspected a lot earlier as there was quite a sharp drop around 27th August with some huge sales, and steady falls leading up to that. The stock exchange needs to look closely into all those large trades. http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=36

Oh dear, oh dear! Normally, at this point, the iCrowd are in seventh heaven. http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2014/09/19/iphone-6-plus-gets-really-hot-when-charging/ The comments at the bottom are more telling than the report itself. If this is general Apple shares are in for a real hammering when the markets open on Monday. The iPhone accounts for almost two thirds of Apple profit, and the stock is at pretty much an all-time high.

If you've ever been a member of the BNP or EDL etc. you are barred from UKIP membership - fact! Not true of the other parties though: http://liveraf.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/conservatives-select-former-bnp-activist-for-safe-seat/ etc. etc. Or vice versa: http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.it/2008/11/former-labour-tory-and-lib-dem-members.html

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It will have been carefully explained to Cameron the Confused that his latest blunder has some likely upside. In his current "the people have spoken, we must have more real democracy" mode Teflon Tony's cunning plan to allow Scottish MPs to vote on English matters is going to come under a lot of pressure. Actually it's getting so close to the GE now that Cameron - if he had any guts - could produce an all-embracing electoral reform plan solo, and then challenge the rest of them to vote it down. He hasn't, so he wont! It will all be down to the highly democratic deals that can be done in those smoke-filled rooms, and Labour will be put under max pressure to give up some of the the electoral advantages it has cooked up for itself. Also, all the politicos have now got troubles with their own constituents - the party leaders having been seen to have been promising the earth to Scotland. With a general election coming up, they may be emboldened to stand up to party whips, and actually vote against their own party before the more-goodies-for-Scotland train leaves the station. This will be particularly true for those who've fully woken up to the UKIP threat to their lifestyle. Two by-elections coming up real soon. We live in interesting times!

Looking like the worst possible outcome for the NE. Even more of our resources to placate the UK loyalists north of the border, and the moaning Mcs will moan even more about their "subjugation". Hoping the polls are wrong. Fairness says we should now have a poll on whether we want to be associated with a nation that is in a perpetual state of having its hand out for more! Not much hope of that though. Barnett has just said that his formula is grossly unfair to the rest of the UK, was only intended as temporary, and should have been scrapped long long ago. Instead our politicos have committed to heaping further pain onto the UK taxpayer. Come UK polling day I hope that people have longer memories than the main political parties give them credit for. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11100400/My-funding-formula-for-Scotland-is-a-terrible-mistake-Lord-Barnett-admits.html Remember that £4.500,000,000 (and yet more again) when we are being told that we can't afford a few tens of thousands to keep this or that public service going locally!

I'd like to see a comparative review, but just at the moment the new Pana seems to be about double the price of the Sammy. No Xenon flash would likely be a deal breaker too, unless the Pana's LED one is way better than anything else so far.

LOL! Does he force people to buy those shirts? Anyway, it seems likely that he must have got that $5BN by doing more than just selling overpriced shirts. Will look into it and get back to you. Really?! And I honestly though UKIP was about quiting the EU so that we could give British workers first crack at the 800,000 jobs we currently advertise to EU workers. That would mean a lot less of those "evil" zero hours contracts as native unemployment falls and employers are much more willing to commit to guaranteed hours in order to retain their workers. The EU drives UK wages down, that's a hard fact that none of the three political parties will tell you. That's why Miliband won't even discuss the EU, and dodges all questions. The other two stooges simply lie about it! http://www.wageindicator.org/main/labour-laws/collective-bargaining/2013/news-items-2013/eu-sources-zero-hours-contracts-on-the-rise-october-21-2013 Got the connection?

Oh THAT Mike Ashley! Why don't you like him? What has he done to you? I think ever-increasing cohort of UKIP supporters would say that they are the least gullible section of the populace. That they've finally woken up as to how they've been manipulated all these years. They see people who vote for the three main parties (for no reason other than dumb and blind tribalism, and against their own interests) as the gullible ones. You see when the establishment is threatened they stick together to protect their own interests not ours: UKIP says let's break that mould; let's stop being gullible; lets make politicians truly represent us once again. It's our country and should be run in our interests, not that of the Westminster ruling elites. Anyway, I'm genuinely interested to know about Mike Ashley. And not just because (according to Forbes) he's currently worth $5.5 billion dollars.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/#zte_openc The Alcatel One Touch Fire is being sold by national network TIM in Italy for less than sixty euros just at the moment, though they seem to have run out them for now. Out of the entire bunch the Alcatel One Touch Fire E seems to be the best proposition: Apparently they are being made available in: Czech RepublicGermanyPolandRAM is still limited to 512MB but it has a more usable 4.5" screen and a tad faster dual core CPU. qHD means quarter HD i.e. 960x540 which isn't at all bad for general use. The only price indicator I can find for the Fire E is 6000 Indian rupees (just over £60), which is pretty hard to believe for such a specification. I'm trying to get hold of one and will report here if/when I do. The models with 128MB RAM (or even 256MB) are avoids, and likely only made for sale other than in "the first world". One of the models is being sold on UK eBay I'm told, not sure which at the moment. I've no information that any UK retailers are stocking any just yet. The Android One devices look interesting too but it's still very early days here too. Microsoft now has real problems if it's intending to peddle Nokia devices with Windows Phone into the developing world.

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone] In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy.

The heartbroken Phones4u Team Didn't work then? A faint suspicion here that the networks spied an easy way to remove a competitor. Collusion? Unthinkable!

I don't think you need to worry too much about that Sym. There are enough (ex-?)Nazis in Brussels to keep them occupied for a good while, and fascism is low on their priorities list these days. Our ruling elites have thoughtfully provided them with loads of work by allowing unlimited immigration (caution against it and you are a "racist"), and their further romps into other people's countries (a.k.a. new-age imperialism). All "in the public interest", of course!

You'll get the answer to that from the good citizens of Clacton on the 9th October Vic! And, not all of them will be old Tory buffers mourning the fact that their world is long gone, desperately hoping to wind the clock back. I think perhaps a majority will be ex-Labour voters who realise that things only got "better" for the political elites; that they were thoroughly conned by Teflon Tony and his spin doctors, and that Miliband is just another new Labour con artist. That Labour hasn't even bothered to sideline Ed Balls - the guy who as chancellor broke our economy - shows how much contempt they have for voters. Now Clegg is trying to buy votes from youngsters by promising to rob pensioners of their rights in order to fund third-price bus passes for them. He's betting on them having shorter memories (remember his tuition fees promises?) than most, and that there's a new crop of of wet behind the ears voters there. And Duplicitous Dave? Well, it all depends on what his focus groups tell him he has to say this week. But, what he actually does will be to pursue his own agenda regardless. All "in the public interest", of course!

If you really want to understand why things are going so badly wrong, and why things will only get worse, then read this short article by the brilliantly analytical Janet Daley: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11092499/This-isnt-what-democracy-is-supposed-to-be.html It sums up what I've being trying to communicate for a long time. In fact if there is only one political article you can be arsed to read this year then read that article! What she doesn't add is that there's nowhere that this elitism is more prevalent than in "post-democratic" Brussels. No solutions are offered to this thorny problem. But - at least as far as the EU is concerned - there's a very simple one, already arrived at by a majority of our electorate. How long can those elitists duck and dodge the democratic will? They are betting on indefinitely, and have been remarkably successful so far. My money is still on the old adage that you can't fool all of the people all of the time!

Might be a good site to add to the new directory Adam? He will surely appreciate the extra traffic for his efforts. I can spin-off a new category for historical interest later. Thanks Tony.

https://www.google.it/maps/@55.1407265,-1.5684749,3a,75y,247.54h,68.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCx_kW8LWAxMB5SeyDcC__w!2e0?hl=en February 2009

This is very true, Cameron's crying won't help a mickle! In his Westminster cocoon, surrounded by spin doctors, he gets the public opinion stuff very wrong most of the time. That's fatal for a politico who has no real principals and trades on public opinion. I'm all for leaving UK and the UJ just the way it is. It wasn't us who left! On the other hand if we were to change it just to make the point that we've been released from a whinging and dependant marriage partner, who always thought that they could have done better, then, I'm open to persuasion. This could sit nicely with a new self-reliant start outside the EU, and say the UK is open for business again. Without the fiscal drain of Scotland, and pointless EU membership fees, and without the dependency mentality that comes with this and "Scotland's oil", we can afford to invest in infrastructure and outlying areas like the NE. We don't want to kill the cash cow that is London, but we do need to wean the country away from the London centricity of our entire economy. Unfortunately what looks likely is that just enough Scots are savvy enough to know that the UK benefits them greatly, and that Salmond is a false prophet (or profit?). That, his one-party-state and command economy will tax and spend the ever diminishing oil revenues, whilst enterprise will get out of his control by hitting the road to England. He won't honour his undertaking that the referendum will be the end of the matter, and will continue to whine whatever powers he gets. The best we'll be able to make of a bad job is to decouple the Scottish economy as much as is possible. The inevitable result of the ScotNats is that Scotland will become ever more dependant on the rest of the UK as they stew in their own greed, jealousy and stupidity, and their best talents continue to leave. One can only hope the opinion polls are wrong, and they get what the ScotNats wish for! No, that would be to adopt a ScotNat mentality and be entirely wrong! Let's face it: we are stuck with a less-than-ideal partner who has a few redeeming features (though just at the moment these escape me )!

I don't think any of the Westminster mob ever considered this; so - like many other matters - there is a complete lack of planning. Isn't it 40 Labour seats plus a handful of LD ones (4?) from the borders etc.? It might mean that a Miliband government would be very short lived. Perhaps not a bad thing for up and coming parties who do surprisingly well, but not well enough, next time around, and are still building credibility for the final breakthrough. Particularly those that plan for the medium term, and have a little more vision and purpose than the present gi's-a-cushy-job lot! But, the lack of UK planning is going to be nothing to the lack of plans on Salmond's behalf. There are many essentially loyal and nationalistic (with a small 'n') Scots who will simply go through with their threat to move to England. There is no way that we can avoid border posts; having to show documents there, and the free flow of goods will cease. There'll be mony a solid English pound to be made by nipping back and forth. The Scot Nats are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land if they think they can cherry pick benefits without suffering a financial disaster, or that the UK will accept their demands meekly. And, when it all goes TU for them, they'll do what they always do - blame the English! Scotland has produced cohorts of the most brilliant and industrious people on the planet, but, for the most part, these people do what they've always done: take the high-road that leads him to England (and beyond) as quickly as they are able. You could easily be forgiven for thinking that this must apply a self-fulfilling filter to the gene-pool north of the border! The living proof of this interesting theory could well be Alex Salmond!