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You can't miss the real world. Just turn left at dune and carry on till you reach it.

We elect people to do the deciding for us. If the people had to decide everything then would end up in the same state as California where they do let people vote on major decisions regularly and they have ended up with a state that votes money for various projects and votes for lower taxes to the point that the state is just about bankrupt but they can't sort it out because they are bound by the decisions of the people.

Its been 11 years and I suspect that most those claiming it would not work were referring to its immediate future not 20 years down the line.

Because politicians know people have a tendency to put sentimentality (i.e. liking their own currency) over reason (i.e. advantages of a single currency). I don't know if anyone can find any research on this but I would be surprised if the majority of people in countries that now have the euro wanted to return to their original currency.

If they want to come here on Holiday yes. Obviously not good news for anyone in the UK wanting to go to euroland for a holiday. My point is you numbers do not lie and as far as the Euro is concerned it has become a very strong (possibly too string) currency that has survived the doomsayers at its inception that said it could not work.

As european union is such a failure I am sure their currency must be weak against the strength of mighty sterling.... Oh....

Must say well played to the ref who got just about all the big decisions right and managed to let the game flow more that other fussier ones might have done.

Definitely interesting to watch and coming to the boil nicely..

Sure we can have a whip round to pay for 'chairleg' Hussain to do a Gower on him.

Corrected..

I always worry about games being described as 'Should be a classic' before kickoff. Invariably they never live up to the hype.

Not a good year... Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. Jane: Goodyear? Frank: No, the worst.

thinking of getting one. Interested in the 3G version as the kindle includes a basic browser and appears to have effectively free world wide roaming once you have purchased upfront. Main problem on the book front is the sillyness that books don't have VAT added but ebooks do so the price of the ebooks on amazon are generally only a few pence below the hardback price. You can however get a large number of free books that are out of copyright for free.

I see the only stat there are ahead in is fouls. (oh and bookings).

dated today... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/26/peter-ridsdale-plymouth-argyle Sounds like it was not thrown out then? or possibly their appeal to have it thrown out has been delayed till January?

My wife works Tuesday to Friday but because most bank holidays are on Mondays they have some complex calculation that results in her having a few extra days holiday a year added to her allowance. However that's all written into her part time contract so I would guess that for other folks the situation is probably different depending on whether these details are covered in their contract. However this public holiday next year is specifically for a special occasion so it may be hard to argue you are taking the day before off instead.

Having read that I decided to see what the headlines were on breakfast TV this morning. At the time I watched they were: The situation in North/South Korea The situation in Ireland The proposed Migration cap The plight of the NZ miners A story on the Burmese pro democracy leader Oh and if you want constant news with special sections dedicated to different area's around the world can I suggest the very good BBC News channel.

Apparently not. I believe not all of the people who work at the mail are rightwing homophobes with an irrational fear of migrants but some how they do manage to not let that slip through into the paper. I guess it must be different on TV.

It's only people like you who think they are making the news. Yes they make some shoddy TV but to balance that they make some brilliant TV. If you don't want wall to wall reality tv they don't try and get the BBC privatised. Every media company in the world tends to put events in their own country ahead of what may if you take the country of origin out the equation be a more important story elsewhere. That is the nature of all news reporting, that is not bias. Can you prove, with evidence, not opinion, that they are selective on who they choose to comment on topical news? Sorry but most of your comments appear to be 'you know this' and 'you know that' when in fact we don't know that we only know that you think that but you provide no proof. You can believe the BBC is a rabid left wing operation and I can believe it is trying to be unbias. Are we both right, are we both wrong? So much of this is people seeing what they want to see. If breakfast TV was just news people would not watch. Yes they have other things on because they have learnt that that is what people want to watch in the morning. You might want 3 hours of solid news reporting every murder and assault from around the world but most normal people do not. I am sure somewhere they have reported the 13 year olds plight, you may have missed it you, but it fits your assumptions to assume it has not been reported.

You can question the BBC's impartiality yes but making assumption that they people they employ are not professional enough to report without bias is just that an assumption with NO proof. All the articles you quoted contain no proof that the BBC is bias.

First one. Paranoid rightwing blog thinks BBC bias because one journo said something anti tory on their personal twitter account. Second quote is: Have highlighted the sections noting it was the personal politics of the staff he was commenting on and that this was an issue in the past. Third one, same right wing blog. Complaining that someone who deals with complaints admits to being bored and that on his personal facebook page he campaigned for labour. Sorry if that the best you can do on whole scale left wing bias in the BBC then I would give up on it if I were you.

The left wing union run Trotskyite pseudo Marxist BBC say it will probably not have an effect: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11811238 But then that's trendy left wing thinking so who knows.

Umm, I think we are talking American billions these days so its 1000 per head.

The problem is they get (got) a very large proportion of their tax income from property taxes. These collapsed with the recession so even with their cuts there was still a large difference between income and outgoings. Plus a lot of their growth has been in property where the market collapsed a lot more than here leaving the banks there with a proportionally larger amount of bad debt. On top of that they encouraged foreign companies to set up european offices in ireland with the low level or corporation tax and they run the risk of driving these companies away if they raise this (though they may be forced to as part of any deal as its an issue that the rest of europe are not happy about so would expect something in return for the bailout).

How many people do you know who have a TV but refuse to watch a single BBC program?