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...and no-one attacked her shopkeeper father because they disliked her.

Exactly. And if he had really loathed this country he would have returned to Belgium after the war.

Quite. There's something wrong somewhere when simply being obnoxious enough to have people bothering to tell you that puts money into your pocket.

I think its more a case of maintaining and painting a house you want to sell and putting it in the Estate agents window on a Saturday afternoon - but I do agree he has talent and its possible he could still turn things around.

Whatever you think of Miliband, Labour or the Daily Mail - criticising a dead man to get at his son seems to be a new low in journalism. The Mail's piece is based on a diary Miliband's father wrote when was 17 having just fled the Nazis and was in a strange country. Papers have always been sensationalist in order to attract attention and readers, but there was always a line because if too many people were offended they stopped buying the paper and advertising revenues were hit. Now as mainly web based publications, even people visiting to say how disgusting the article is count as hits, traffic goes up and advertisers pay more. Controversy is king. Its hard to see a future for objective reporting anywhere other than as niche publications on subscription. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435751/Red-Eds-pledge-bring-socialism-homage-Marxist-father-Ralph-Miliband-says-GEOFFREY-LEVY.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2439593/Why-father-loved-Britain-Ed-Miliband.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24343074

Escargot in Soho used to be great for that (maybe still is, haven't been there for ages) even when they had Michelin stars. They had about 300 wines ranging from about £12.50 to over £1,000 side by side on the list, with a similar approach for the food. You could pay little or a fortune for a meal in the same restaurant and everything was presented to an equally high standard. Some of the slightly pretentious restaurants could learn from that.

Isnt this more to do with trying to salvage the situation? Tim Vickery who Lord DH mentioned was prescient about Ramirez last year before he signed (starts 5m:30s) http://talksport.com/radio/hawksbee-and-jacobs/120607/vickery-why-ramirez-would-not-be-good-signing-spurs-173873

He's too modest. Obama's career is intertwined with his.

That would be a mad price for an 18 year old if true.

Go on then do tell. We all know why players might be cheap (old, dodgy medical history, very high wages etc) but if they are really expensive shouldn't they be really good?

Never used this but seen it advertised. http://www.southamptontaxis.org/blog/136/Luggage-Hold-Facility-in-Central-Southampton. Alternatively I've used hotels before, they just assume you have stayed there and are checking out, they rarely ask. The Novotel is close to the station.

But why shouldn't Gaston be outperforming Lallana in training and forcing his way into the team? We paid £12m for him, its not unreasonable to expect him to be better than a player worth perhaps half that.

Er it doesn't work like that. The reason for signing young players is that you get back what you paid when you sell, not that you take a £12m hit. I doubt we'd get the purchase price back atm.

Had a nightmare there this summer towing a long heavy caravan in sidewinds.

One of the first projects Mechanical Engineering students at Sussex University have to do is design a model bridge. They are then tested to destruction. The one with the best strength to weight ratio wins.

Mines only an impression too. I think NC had started to cut him out of contract renewal decisions and approaching other managers about taking over - making his position nearly untenable.

I too am glad he is doing well at Reading. I'm not sure scouting around for replacements for your manager without telling him counts as "being straight".

The Balcombe Viaduct on the Brighton to London railway line. I commuted that for five years and its the only part of the journey where regular commuters look up from their paper and taken in the view. Also the 1,000 year old Puente di Diavolo (Devil's Bridge) in Bagni di Lucca Italy

Lets be honest JM, you're a formulating chemist - non reactive mixing together of powders produced by others. People do it with an HND, or maybe a third from Hull. Then you try and flog them as novel. Re the bathymetry they're basically saying you cant apply the same correction equations to the whole data timeline.

That graph in and of itself doesnt prove very much because the series is too short - but its just a tiny fragment of the whole. Yes there are many many variables which will affect rate of increase and make predictions hard. Solar activity, the fact that when more co2 is in the air plants grow faster, ice reflects heat melted ice doesnt, warming permafrost releasing methane, el nino / la nina etc etc. The fundamental fact is though that more co2 traps more heat - whether in double glazing or in the atmosphere. As co2 ppm continues to go up then man made climate change will continue - regardless of what the natural cycles do independently.

I know. I work for a marine conservation agency. You work as a pesticide salesman. The bias was inherent in the technique used then, but since the same equipment had been used for decades the bias in the data could be accounted for and corrected retrospectively. It also had zero effect on the trends. Incidentally the words you used in your post are almost identical to a wiki entry. How odd.

Its because Stonewall don't think there are any gays in Chester.

Individual ****s exist everywhere in the world.

What happens to water temperature when you melt a lot of ice into it GM? Up or down? If it goes up, even by a little bit what does that tell you? That's rhetorical btw,(I already know it wont tell you anything).

No its not. Ordinarily the lack of hockey stick shape to the graph would give that away quite quickly.