bridge too far

This - and the excuse that the hot weather depressed sales. Funny that, because the usual excuse is that bad weather keeps the shoppers away but that fine weather brings them out.

Is up for auction, according to this: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/9160016.Saints_legend_to_sell_medals/?ref=rss

I have been very moved and impressed by the quiet dignity of the Norwegian people during this dreadful time. And by their determination to refuse to let these events change their basic tenets of openess and freedom of expression.

He's got air time on Newsnight in a moment

Hmmm - let me think....... Jim Davidson, right wing, funny NOT Mark Thomas is very funny.

My aunt has always claimed Benny Hill was her milkman - she used to live in the prefabs near the hospital. Don't know if that was true. Mr TF reckons the Hills had a farm near Bishop's Waltham - don't know if that's true either.

I thought Melanie Phillips was Jewish, not Christian?

Put myself first

A thought-provoking article in today's Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/24/amy-winehouse-alcoholism-addiction?intcmp=239

Wow - great info there! The Matrix chambers count Cherie Booth amongst the illuminaries. (Lord) Ken MacDonald was mentioned recently in connection with the News International malarky (he was DPP at the time)

Judging by this table, I guess it depends on when you were in Paris. Look at the difference between yesterday and today! http://www.airqualitynow.eu/comparing_home.php

I won't hold my breath......

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/s-environment/pollution/airquality/default.aspx http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8191123.Text_warnings_on_pollution_for_asthma_sufferers/ Don't know if these will be of any use / information. I live near Oxford which has a very high level of pollution too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/23/news-international-liberal-democrats-bskyb and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8657058/Tories-did-deal-with-Murdoch-over-BBC-licence-fee.html

I'd never heard of this until just now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

This

What's the latest on Storrie-teller and Mandaric's court case? I've been out of the loop for a few days.

It won't do her career a whole lot of good either, and she's quite a high-flyer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Pryce

Gin Ouzo Pernod Malibu

Expanding the debate to show that the criteria apply to males as well as females?

Marrow Cucumber Gherkins and pickled onions Tripe Liver Brains Hearts

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/John-McTernan-Loyalty-to-Coulson.6804185.jp?articlepage=1

However, the 1922 Committee is on the right of the Tory party. And they don't like Cameron very much as it is. And then, of course, there was his challenge last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/19/david-cameron-backbench-committee-reform

The 1922 Committee has an 18-member executive committee, the chairman of which must oversee any election of a new party leader, or any vote of confidence in respect of the current one; such a vote can be triggered by 15 percent of Conservative MPs writing a letter to the chairman asking for such a vote. This process was invoked most recently on 28 October 2003, when 25 MPs requested a vote of confidence in party leader Iain Duncan Smith by writing to the chairman, Sir Michael Spicer. Duncan Smith lost the vote the next day from dear old Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Committee