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Just reading article on Beardall in the London Evening Standard tonight... "Barry Beardall, 65, nicknamed 'Barry the Briefcase'...." Hey...didn't this forum come up with that nickname?! Fame at last?!

What is Barnard at risk from that the others aren't?

He is. He'll just buy the remaining shares by stealth..... Maybe....

No idea. All The Sun says about the charity side of things in relation to this story is: Nothing gives him that right. It was wrong. Perhaps having a very ill son affected his state of mind? We'll probably never know enough to make a wholely informed judgement of his actions.

Done

Breaking News: Murdoch has just withdrawn bid for BSkyB (An exclusive for Mr Peston...surprise, surprise...) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14142307

Apart from when we nearly bought an oil rig.....now that was boring.... Coat. Fetch.

Ok. I'll let him know :-)

See above. I'm just quoting a City 'expert'....

Not according to Anthony Hilton from the Evening Standard (see article above). He could be wrong, of course....

"A favourite gripe of my father's generation back in the Fifties was that their taxes were being used to pay for the Napoleonic wars. In truth, it was not a very serious gripe, and certainly not the biggest thing to worry about in those times, but it has a certain resonance. Politicians today talk about the burden of public debt being passed on to our children and grandchildren. In truth, every generation of taxpayers has had to pay the bills of its predecessors. Even today, though Napoleon has been taken care of, the Kaiser hasn't. Today's taxpayers may neither know nor care but a small slice of what they hand over to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs every year goes to pay the interest on a couple of billion pounds of debt run up to pay for the First World War and still outstanding. Have a look some time at the Government securities section on a stock market prices page and locate War Loan. Launched in 1916 it is still going strong. And it is you who is paying the interest. We did rather better with the Second World War. The last of the millions lent by the US was paid off in 2006." More: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23955926-debt-isnt-always-bad-we-may-even-learn-to-love-it.do

Current generations have always paid for previous generations for....well....generations. For example, we're still paying for the 1st World War today. Doesn't make it right of course. Just an observation.

What was dodgy about Rupert the Bear? I can't condone such slander on here.

Fair point. But I still get the feeling this will come back to haunt Cameron in the future.

Until the Coulson question.....

I don't recall anyone "demanding perfect performance" before...?

Do Baj, Steve or anyone know what percentage of people "posting and refreshing simultaneously" are £5 members versus registered users? i.e. would making it a 'members only' forum on matchdays help alleviate the "overload"?

You thinking of HelpMeRhonda - aka American Dan Williams - who was supposedly interested in Blackburn too?

From all the 'clues' thus far, I would venture the one on the bottom left is the closest

So, he did (albeit inadvertantly) out-price the likes of SISU....?

Agree. That's what a man of rational mind would do.... We don't know this man's state of mind at the time.

According to The Sun....the father of the other boy "has links with the Brown family", so would have known as a matter of normal inter-family discussions I would venture. And, his justification for passing the information to The Sun was because he wanted to raise the profile of the terrible condition that his son had been struck down by. Now, with a rational mind we can all see that is not the most moral of methods to go about raising the profile, but if my son had been struck down with such a dreadful condition, I doubt whether I would be acting 100% rationally either. I'm not saying what he did was right but I can see how a distraught father might make a mis-judgement like this.