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Here's some press video just shot at Computex (no sound). Many of the devices shown are using the new Haswell architecture CPUs, and the power savings are obvious from the reduced form factors. With the 14nm die shrink next year "real" computers can only continue to get even lighter and more powerful. Notice too the odd Intel powered phone - ARM is going to be sidelined over the next decade. We'll see a lot of this stuff in the shops before year-end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqdBbiYH3Q

http://news.yahoo.co...-112248378.html This is not good for the UK at all! Good for a selected few in Germany, perhaps. Yet another reason to add to the already long list of reasons to leave the EU. Is there a complimentary list of reasons to stay in? Some would claim so; but such lists don't stand close examination, so they are very timid in producing them.

Like many others they learned to play the system. They get invited on Newsnight and are paid a fat fee for sailing as close to the wind as they dare. This is done in the name of getting a balanced view and free speech. Invite a BNP or EDL spokesperson onto the same prog and all the leftie journos at the Beeb would stage another of their regular walkouts - and there'd be a left-wing protest mob screaming outside! Totally agree! All enterprise has to be rewarded fairly, and to discriminate like that would reinforce ghettoisation. It's difficult to justify movement restrictions in a free society, but I think, in the interests of proper integration, immigrants should be told which areas they can and can not settle in for say the first five years based on the number of immigrants already in those areas. So probationary citizenship before full citizenship is granted. Violate the probation conditions and you qualify for a ticket for the first plane out, no endless court hearings or appeals. Could we do this under EU law? Most likely not! And, we need that temporary (half-a-generation) complete hold in order to sort out the current situation.

Came from a theatrical family. His cousin was Jon (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge etc. etc.). Best remembered to '60s radio listeners for his Seamus Android character (a thinly disguised send-up of Eamonn Andrews) in Round The Horne. R.I.P.

Slightly different tune from "We haven't sought nor do we need government support." - this week? "This decision is part of our commercial strategy to play to the traditional strengths of the bank,” said Mr Sutherland. Ah yes, good commercial strategy for a bank not to make loans, very traditional and showing strength too. Still, a new crisis CEO has to say something reassuring, pity it couldn't be more honest like: We screwed up big-time with a huge error of judgement, but things aren't bad enough to threaten our continued existence. And, with the support of our loyal customers, I'm confident we are going to weather this sticky patch in our history. Generally BS says as BS does!

Which Muslin country is this where it's legal to "sleep with 12 year old girls"? In a significant number of Muslim countries sex is illegal unless you are married, and most have more or less the same age of consent as we do! Spain wasn't a Muslim country the last time I was there, and standards in the Mediterranean countries are markedly different to the UK. For instance although the age of consent in Italy is 14, Silvio Berlusconi is being prosecuted for having paid-for sex with an under 18 year-old (he denies this, and she's just told a court she lied about the payment and a fair bit else) - his alleged crime is regarded as a very serious matter. If this is being offered as an excuse for this behaviour then it doesn't wash! By any rational standards Enoch was right. Our 'betters' opened the floodgates to immigration and the consequences are as predicted. Whether this was a deliberate ploy by Labour's champaign socialists to garner votes, or just utter incompetence is the only matter still at issue (I lean to the belief that it was a bit of both). Enoch was a history scholar, and was very aware that in the entire history of mankind an attempted "multicultural society" had never produced other than a bloody result. For any society to function properly everyone must subscribe to the same set of common values. Only in an enlightened society does this set of common values transcend race and religion. But, when you have a significant section of society who won't even accept the law of the land, and seek to subvert or ignore it, then that's where tolerance should firmly end. The problem is seldom the first generation of immigrants - they are grateful that they've been accepted and are able and willing to adapt to their new host culture - it's when subsequent generations become radicalised, well beyond the time horizon (and active political careers) of our "social engineers", that the problems surface. There is plenty in Islam that extremists can latch onto to to justify what we are experiencing, and it's up to followers of this religion to sort this out - it should be their problem not ours! Saying that it's just a small minority really isn't good enough. The entire Muslim community needs to get its act together, not just in condemning this behaviour, but thoroughly isolating the radicals that preach hate, and if necessary, set up their own religious hierarchy which doesn't take its interpretation of the Koran from evil men in foreign lands. For our part we need to put a hold on all further economic migrants for say twenty years, or until it's generally agreed we've properly integrated and de-ghettoised the communities we already have. Pulling out of (or seriously changing our relationship with) the EU has to be part of such a cure, else we are in for another dose of Social Engineering Sickness. The symptoms of SES also include, draconian restrictions on civil liberties, curtailment of traditional free speech, extremist reactionary groups, and loony lefties advocating that the cure is more exposure to the problem!

I suggest you listen to this program, particularly the bit about the 75% of Muslim women who have been conned into believing that they are married and have married women's rights under law! What nation condones a parallel legal system to its national law - basically an opt-out? If you want to live in this country you live by OUR standards, speak OUR language, and you obey OUR law!

Where are the "opinion formers" and the "social engineers" who shouted-down and ridiculed Enoch now? We've always been a tolerant nation to all-comers, and long may that remain so on an easily manageable scale. But - like many others - I strongly suspect that the most recent madness was a cynical ploy by Tony Blair to counter the falling support for his party by introducing people into the UK who had no idea of our history, and no clue as to the blind alleys where Labour has taken us in the past. The medium and long term problems were completely disregarded, in exactly the same was as the medium and long-term problems induced by Brown's economic lunacy. Votes for Labour at any cost to the nation!

Just too much shifty stuff and censorship going on these days at g€€gle. I'm changing my default search engine to https://duckduckgo.com/ I'm sick of doing a search on some product them being bombarded with junk ads for months afterwards, and if you are daft enough to use gmail it's obvious they are scanning everything to see what you had for breakfast! One which promises to respect your privacy, and (after a little bit of testing) seems to have little or no bias! https://duckduckgo.c...?q=bedlington If you are running Firefox the instructions are here: https://addons.mozil...go-for-firefox/

Wouldn't seem appropriate for here. I was thinking about organising a www.ashington. domain + hosting + software for you. We could affiliate it and cross-link though. It's open to democratic forces on an Ashington forum here, but you could hardly expect Ashington folk to come flocking to the opposition!

It could easily be organised if you want to run it! PM me if you are interested.

How many minutes after the publication of the latest opinion poll results was "some time"? Three hitherto silent Tory grandees at the weekend; two cabinet ministers yesterday; now no less than The Pres. of the US of A offers: "you probably want to see if you can fix what's broken in a very important relationship before you break it off". How high can this go? Tomorrow expect God to pronounce that the EU is broken (by divine portent - obviously!). Amazing what can happen when dumb tribalism breaks down and people start forming alliances based on hard logic and mutual interest.

I saw it from the front and all that really mattered at the time was the way the press span the news as an assault; Internet stop-motion was still in its infancy! Anyway, good find! Now go find why UK Coal are losing money. The truth is out there!

It would bug me if we didn't own great chunks of overseas stuff too. Amazing what British firms still own in the States - the late Lords Hanson & White showed them how to do it over and over again. Half the world's aircraft fly on RR; City of London, and we punch well above our weight in many areas. Only reason the French dominate European nuclear and we have to buy their power is that we let them, and having decided on 5 or 6 new (French built) nukes we are still dithering! What sticks in my craw is the slow steady march to a European super state by yesterday's men with last-century ideas - the Fourth Reich by the back door! Think she saw that one coming!

A totally warped view on Mrs T. Adam. She didn't hate anyone but passionately cared about our Country, all the hatred came and still comes from the hard left. I simply couldn't believe how stupid the Ashington lot could be the day they physically attacked MacGregor, who was simply there to explore the possibilities and see what could be done. MacGregor was no puppet, and contrary to popular belief it was actually Jim Callaghan who first persuaded him to return from the States to help sort out the total mess at the nationalised British Leyland. He was a tough no-nonsense Glaswegian who was no stranger to hard manual work himself, and had a deep respect for hard working people. Scargill tried year in year out to provoke a strike and in the end when his membership wouldn't support him he called one anyway - an illegal strike! He had no interest in other than causing even more industrial chaos, and, when his illegal strike dragged on, would not negotiate. Neil Kinnock has recently said as much. "a deep hatred for miners because they helped make the government she was part of in 1974 lose the general election" I can assure you that in no way did Mrs. T. ever blame the miners for losing the 1974 general election. If she blamed anyone it would have been that waste of space Edward Heath. I didn't support Harold Wilson but in retrospect he did a lot better struggling against the odds (the uncontrollable union leaders who actually ran the country) than Heath ever did. He was twice the man Heath was, but the unions thought they owned him and ran the country, so he really didn't have a chance. I really respect some of the old Labour lot as although their ideas were often quite wrong-headed the actually believed in something, and came from hard times that you couldn't imagine today. Anyway Ted Heath had massive help in losing that election from the Arabs; research the 1973 oil price shock. Tell me why your nationalisation will succeed when all other forms of management have failed? You've listed three reasons why UK Coal has a liquidity problem, but you haven't told us why they aren't profitable. If they were reasonably profitable they'd be able to cope with those losses, and would at least be able to raise more capital on the markets.

That vote was in the Commons, at least that's what brought on the general election.

Bloody capitalist lackey! Nationalise the lot I say! Seriously though coal is in a bit of a renaissance at the moment and Lavery should be looking at why UK Coal isn't profitable instead of encouraging state dependence. A commercial loan isn't a commercial loan if it can't be repaid, and easy money will just encourage an appetite for more state handouts - even if the EU will permit one. There's certainly plenty of demand for coal currently - at the right prices!

Cosy for your "career politicians", and mighty costly for us citizens. And it's the world's biggest cartel. Interesting that the definition of cartel has now spawned a second - political - meaning. Maybe "the revolution" has two cartels to bust then? We can probably nail them with one stone though!

Got it! I've just abstracted the bit from the recent More or Less programme which deals with the statistical facts surrounding Cleggies daft claim. Completely damming as it's from Iain Begg - the very guy the LDs got their figures from in the first place! Prof Iain Begg - LSE.mp3 Skip to the very end if you don't want to listen to the whole five minutes. Thanks for that wonky. I too have a couple of large discount 12V panels bought in a clearance a while back, and you've given me the nudge to get them lashed up to a couple of car batteries for standby power. Maggie: the debate is won, it's just that the head-in-the-sand politicos don't want to act! Anything which threatens to derail their gravy train is going to be the subject of a rear-guard action to the bitter end. Support the real class struggle and use your vote intelligently - against the political class and not for! The Miliband Bros are both millionaires, and have never done a real day's work in their lives, they are every bit a part of the system as the Eaton School mob, if not in league with them!

...you should see what I can see when I'm cleaning running windows.

Mainly the second. They bought Britannia in 2009, and it seems the vendors did a great job of offloading their questionable loan book on commercial properties. So, in a fair world the gongs should go to Britannia directors for "services to their shareholders"! Pity Lindsay Anderson wasn't still around, a sequel to Britannia Hospital would be a classic! What is interesting is the way the Beeb are handling this. They haven't gagged Robert Peston but they kept the matter well out of the headlines. Doesn't take too much imagination to work out what may have been going on behind the scenes there, or indeed in government generally.

http://www.dailymail...-boss-quit.html Haven't we been here before with Northern Rock? That's more or less what the silly b***h (lady director) told us a few days before all hell broke lose! "There will be no devaluation" etc. etc. - in finance if you need to say it loudly then likely the reverse is true. We called her bluff then and were right. This time I hope we are very very wrong as it's a far bigger fish and the Co-op Bank directors couldn't possibly be as thick as the local twits that ran Northern Rock! They were on the radio a couple of weeks back implying the the Lloyds Bank branches purchase was a near done deal then we hear it has fallen through. No more surprises, please! The real problem with this bad-news-in-easy-installments sort of thing is that it kills confidence in the entire system as people wonder what other loses aren't being admitted to, and where they might be.

Past Hartford Hall and over the river to Plessey. On the left as I remember. Not sure what the factory is now, assuming it's still there. The factory shop was well used by locals. Brentford Nylons, became Brentfords, became part of Lonhro (who rescued it from bankruptcy), and was ditched by them to become part of Rosebys (who were picky about what bits took for well below cost), who in turn ditched the name as it was too "down-market". Those TV ads featured DJ the late Alan Freeman ('Alright? Stay bright!'). His nickname of Fluff had more to do with his presentations than the what came off the product.

Oh, I think Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso can be taken at his word. All 27 nations?! Goodness, he must know something Dave didn't tell us! Still, it will be all right in the end, we have Dave's "cast-iron promise" - again. I've been researching what the LD's official policy on the EU is these days, in particular where Cleggie gets his shock-horror claim of 3 million lost jobs. The last place to look is the LibDem website though, they seem to have done a search and replace exercise on all the relevant EU keywords! The only stuff I've found are discussion documents on new policy from ... 2008! Their EU policy seems a bit like one of those films where a whole population gets frozen at a point in time by an alien force field, and all that still moves is a wheel slowly rotating on an upturned vehicle. Maybe that's the bit of science fiction JMB has in mind?