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Absolutely.Always best to be decisive and decide you wont agree to something before you know what it says.

Que? That would make London more attractive than Frankfurt, not less.

The UK is a major financial centre largely because we speak English (the language of international business) and are on GMT so at some point in the day both the US and Far east are at work at the same time as us. Frankfurt has less of those advantages than London does. If anything the biggest threat is many of Hedge Funds (lightly staffed but huge earners) moving to Geneva.

Dont worry. Window Cleaner has given us a categoric assurance there will be no war in Iran.

I dont think thats true - history is littered with groups which grow quickly and disappear just as quickly once the idelogy becomes stale or the money runs out. Where are the Khmer Rouge, Tonton Macoute and Mau Mau now? As to the point about Afghanistan being used for terrorist training, sure some has taken place there but the majority of convicted terrosrists in the UK report being trained in Pakistan.

It is a ****hole and it is a centre of herion production - but neither of those two facts were ever going to be solved by putting troops in. People still grow cannabis in the UK despite a blanket police presence. Stopping opium production in a country where NATO troops notionally control perhaps 30% of the territory at any one time is a practical impossibility. You'd be better off spraying the fields from the air with some kind of defoliant.

Trouble with Baddies is that you have to act against all or none. If you just pick out the odd one to invade and displace, ignoring the others you tend to look like self serving foreigners starting an unjustified war and killing innocent people. We heroically 'dealt' with Saddam who had oil but no WMDs - but ignored the Arab Spring countries except for Libya (who weirdly enough also had oil). Meanwhile Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe over 30 years, as has the junta in Burma, Somalia has slid down the toilet and there are a dozen other examples with no tangible western action. Afghanistan jars as making no sense for me. I understand the Al Queda rationale, but dont buy it. Al Queda have been destroyed by forensic accountants grabbing their assets, not by troops on the ground in Afghanistan.

Agriculture makes up 0.1% of UK GDP, fisheries 0.05%. Im all for going up against the EU if it makes sense for the UK, but not for eyecatching but destructive Charges of the Light Brigade.

Ethanol and methanol have totally different boiling points. If you use a modicum of care it is no more likely to make you go blind than masturbation. I once went to party in small town Sweden and was the only person there to have actually gone to a shop to buy their alcohol. You can use all kinds of things to flavour it. Parma Violets is a favourite.

Going by that logic there is a 20% chance one of the teams promoted will be Norwich or QPR.

No bad thing imo. When I was 14 three flower estate meatheads who were about 18 chased and lobbed half bricks at me and and a school friend for wearing King Edwards uniform as we walked through the estate on the way to his house. "Snobby spud ******s" IIRC (I was living in the giddy height of luxury in Weston).

Watched scared as Chelsea skinheads tried and invade the Milton road when I was about 8 - we were there on a dockies 'outing' and watched my dad and burly mates literally picking them up above their heads and throwing them back over the low wall on to the pitch.

You should go here if you are ever in Sussex. Dozens of ciders and perrys. You pick up a little tasting glass on the way in and can try as many as you like before buying (dont even have to ask, just open the tap). http://www.middlefarm.com/cider-and-perry.html

Grenade and gun attack on shoppers in Liege, Belgium. Whilst I dont condone terrorism under any circumstances youn can at least understand political assassinations and attacks on military or government installaltions. Killing and injuring people waiting at a bus stop just drags your cause and organisation down into the depths. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16161746

Quite. And thats after the story has been buffed and put in the best light by Sky.

Didnt know that. Must be some other explanation for the price of the £8.40 medium mocha I had at Copenhagen airport Costa recently.

I once flew back from New York to Heathrow in 5 hours 45mins when the jet stream was expecially strong - about 1.5 hours quicker than usual.

One of the papers said Cameron played a bad hand poorly. I'd agree with that.

Its one of the ugly sisters in a big family of pugs. People have to put their money somewhere and the dollar / pound etc dont look any more attractive. Denmark and Switzerland are stable - and lo their currencies are well up against the euro (and almost everything else) in the past two or three years.

Panama is the most credit worthy country?? Shurely shome mishtake.

I only shop at Fortnums, Harrods is for the middle class.

Ireland will vote yes because they would be totally and utterly screwed without support from the other none PIIG nations, nothing to do with spiting Britain.

Get rid is too harsh, but it is true to say Bart hasn't developed in the way most thought he would. By this stage in Kelvin's career we should have an established reserve keeper pushing him all the way for the No1 spot. We dont.

Yes but which jokes do you find funnier and which is better German lager or French wine?