buctootim

No didnt see it - but if even the Daily Mail says its happening you know something is up http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773029/Pay-won-t-really-rise-2017-Workers-face-lost-decade-average-earnings-1-000-inflation-2008.html

Two dead in Belgian anti terror raid http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30840160

4. More than didn't care, they wanted to be martyrs. You cant be a martyr if you don't get caught.

tbf dumbass is someone who isn't able to differentiate between publicly known about government funding of regime changes overseas and a conspiracy to kill your own people with a cast of thousands who all agree to keep silent.

His comment assumes the bullet went through the centre of the policemen's head. It could easily have just struck the edge or through the top of his neck. I wonder why Merabet's family are so upset if he's so clearly still alive.

Five years if he was ****ed.

They're not called the 'Tractor Boys' for nothing.

tanner

Probably looking for someone who fits right in to the existing culture.

It looks like one of the PFI schemes loved by both Labour and Tories so much. What it means in practice is that the hospital gets new equipment for nothing upfront but then is tied into long and very expensive lease and maintenance contracts. It would be far cheaper to buy the things outright but then it would appear as expenditure in the current year, as opposed to kicking the real cost into the long grass of the next 15 years or so. I hate politicians. http://www.siemens.co.uk/en/news_press/index/news_archive/2013/southampton-hospital-imaging-dep-partners-siemens.htm

Footpump

Were you in Paris recently by any chance?

Foreplay

Every time I see Fratton Park I'm still surprised by how, um, you know, sh_it it looks.

Eew

Always been the devils food. Now if they were to use those German sausages with actual meat in....

Its a guarantee to offset any sponsorship losses they incur. I doubt its £2m. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/ched-evans-to-oldham-athletic-family-will-pay-up-to-pave-the-way-for-deal-with-league-one-club-9961432.html

Would be better used covering for Pelle.

To be top scorer in the CL as a defender is pretty remarkable.

I told a cracking gag about Joan of Arc at a party in Fontainebleu full of French people. Charlie Hedbo got a better reception. How was I supposed to know she was burnt by the English?

He can't help it. He thinks he's got an important message to share - a unique insight we all lack. But he's just part of a misfits choir - less Winston Smith or Katniss Everdeen and more Big Brother (unedited tv version) .

Bundy

No not sure, its just something I read in one of the papers a few days ago. Might be wrong.

This is a good article in the Independent "....The emergence of global legions of self-proclaimed “Charlies” – including centre-right politicians in France and right-wing or repressive foreign leaders that the magazine detests – has angered some of Charlie Hebdo’s surviving cartoonists. Willem (real name Bernard Holtrop), a 73-year-old Dutch cartoonist long based in France, said at the weekend that he wanted to “throw up on all those who suddenly say that they are our friends”. He went on to reel off a list of unwanted “Charlies” ranging from the Queen to Vladimir Putin, the Pope and the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. A Charlie Hebdo columnist, Iegor Gran, went further. He said that he hated the idea of the magazine becoming a short-hand term for Western democratic values. “Charlie has become a symbol,” he said. “But Charlie has always been anti-symbol. It has always mocked people who exploited symbols.” Another cartoonist, Luz (Renald Luzier) said: “It is not easy to be supported by idiots such as Angela Merkel.” The surviving members of the Charlie team were especially angry that politicians not usually known for their defence of “freedom” – from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – joined the march “against hatred” in Paris on Sunday. They considered making large, unflattering caricatures of visiting dignitaries that they disliked and carrying them on the march. Only pressure of time prevented it, Luz said. The scurrilous honour, and irreverent spirit, of Charlie Hebdo was saved by a pigeon. Just as President François Hollande came over to salute the magazine’s survivors and the relatives of those who had died, a small, discreet, white bird dropping fell on the shoulder of his blue suit. “It did us the world of good,” said the cartoonist, Jul (Julien Berjeaut). “We all paid homage to the President, saying ‘He’s unbeatable this Hollande. He even made us sick with laughter on a day like this.”