Lord Duckhunter

Agreed, The major difference is that Barclays and Norwich Union are commercial lenders, they factor into their rates the chances of being knocked, they take a commercial decision when they lend money. The tax man and charities dont. When charity and HMRC get knocked it has the knock down effect of less money going to local people in need, when the same thing happens to NU or Barclays, it just means less profit for a private company. Completely different.....

There is a Govt run scheme MCOL where small creditors can claim online through the small claims court. I did it once for a car engine, and all the claims go through Northampton court. It maybe a small creditor taking that route. https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome

There was a guy on Sky (terrorist expert) saying that in any other Country he would have been shot dead, even if he did try and surrender. He said that it is typical of the peaceful nature of the Norwegians that he wasn't....................

We do seem to copy others chants/Songs, The Lambert one being a prime example. We also seem to have let Stoke and Spurs take OWTS off of us. A concerted effort is needed to get that back, because it used to boom round The Dell. Forget the politics, but the Swing Lowe was good, original and quite clever bearing in mind the Woodward/rugby link.

Wasn't there a campaign to get the subs a medal, and they were given special ones a couple of years ago? If so, it's a bit of a shame he's selling it, I guess the price wont be too high, so perhaps the club may make an offer. My opinion (which will be unpopular on here) is that the only medal's that really count were ones awarded on the day. Yes, it was wrong that only the 11 players on the day got one, but that was how it was in those days...........

This is one of the most soulful songs I've ever heard [video=youtube;gzIAiyxS-nk] And despite having a nice arse, she goes and completely ruins it. Just compare the 2 vocals, they are a million miles apart......... Another ****ing joke is Sting's version of I Shall Be Released..........Richard Manuel would have turned in his grave after that one.

Joe Cocker-The letter. Willie Nelson-Song for you. Gladys Knight-Heard it through the grapevine. However the best cover in my opinion is Leon Russell's "Jumping Jack flash". Mind you, he's got a pretty decent band to back him up.

I would put her in the Janis Joplin box, good but not great. Jim Morrison was great and Hendrix a genius, you can't really compare her to either, as sad as her passing is. Luckily this is a pretty isolated case nowadays, years ago there were whole bands ruined by drugs, and many many tragic cases. People like Clapton and Elton John not only broke their habit's but are helping others to do so now..............

A Woman Scorned, and all that.........

According to Sky..........

Defo (alledegdly), my mate works in the media, story was going to come out around the time of his "half time walkout" at Arsenal. Story got pulled at the last min on advice of lawyers, at least that's what my mate told me.Dont suppose it'll ever come out in the present climate. I know he's married, but so was Elton John...........

However, without Rupert Murdoch breaking the print unions and Wapping, most Broadsheets would have been bust years ago. Even now the NOTW and The Sun subsidie the loss making Times.The Guardian continues to struggle to make ends meet, despite this enhancing their reputation . Hopefully this mess may lead people towards the broadsheets and therefore easing the financial burden on them.

Sky New's rolling poll has moved 5 points towards Cameron during the proceedings. It's now showing 53% in his favour, whereas at the start of the day it was 48%. It's only a snap shot and a small sample of the public, but I thought Labour misjudged it today. Last night's Newsnight had Carl Bernstein on live from USA, he made a fantastic point that sums the whole thing up. He said Murdoch took the tabloids "into the gutter" and the British public "lapped it up".

Rupert's wife is a game one, stright in with a dig. As for the proceding's, from what I saw the Tory bird hit the nail on the head IMO. It was so widespread and used by all the tabloids that nobody thought that hacking was that big a deal. It was only when it became clear that it was victims of crime as well, that the story grew and grew. She said that Pier's Morgan admitted in his book that he got a Mirror story from hacking. Of course they are not a part of the Murdoch's evil empire, so the BBC will gloss over that one.

So the Mad inventor won. Thye final was a bit of a let down in my opinion. It changed into a "Dragon's den" type of show. The business plans of all of them were pretty stupid really, and I see that Sugar is now going to ditch the chair and concentrate on Tom's nail file............

Where have I said it’s all Labour’s fault. What I don't like is hypocrites, whether they’re Labour or Tory. Brown is a hypocrite, plain and simple. Steve Coogan is a hypocrite, ranting against the Murdoch empire, whilst taking money off them to star in films. Keith Vaz is a hypocrite, fiddling his expenses whilst posturing and preening in the commons. Ed Milliband calling for a “judge led enquiry”. No judge led the enquires into Kelly’s death & sexed up dossiers. Finally Brookes should go because it happened “on her watch”. Well Tory and Labour MP’s fiddled expenses and broke the law under Cameron and Brown’s watch, why didn’t they resign?

According to Nick Clegg and Nick Robinson when Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World the first person to call him and commiserate was Gordon Brown. Rupert Murdoch claims he was a friend of the Brown's "until The Sun withdrew it's support". I have a feeling that the hypocrites on the Labour benches may face some uncomfortable questions once The Murdoch's and Brookes have had their say.

I'm hardly Beau Brummell but I wouldn't be seen dead in brogues.. I bet you wear socks with sandals.....

I believe that Brookes has already said that she will be unable to answer certain questions, as it may be prejudicial with a police enquiry going on. It shows how far NI have fallen when Keith Vav can pose as an honourable and fair man. THis is the bloke who claimed £75,000 in expenses for a second home in Westminister when his family home was only 12 miles away. In another major devolopment Murdoch is meeting the Dowlers..........

"In December 2006, the Information Commissioner - whose job is to protect people's privacy under the Data Protection Act - published a league table of more than 30 national newspapers and magazines which had paid private investigators for personal information. It included details from police records, the DVLA, the Inland Revenue, phone companies and banks. This was the week after the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman pleaded guilty to hacking into the phone messages of royal staff. In a report to Parliament, What Price Privacy Now?, the Commissioner said a raid on one private detective's office in 2002 - called Operation Motorman - had uncovered hundreds of invoices to publications, identifying 305 journalists as recipients of personal information. It did not name the journalists, but did list the newspapers and magazines. The table was headed by the Daily Mail, which paid for 952 pieces of information, ordered by 58 of its staff. Next came the Sunday People, the Daily Mirror, the Mail on Sunday and the News of the World. The BBC published the list at the time, but few newspapers did, perhaps not surprisingly. The Observer and Sunday Times both appeared in the Information Commissioner's league table, not just tabloids." It really does make you wonder why nothing was ever done about it before. Gordon Brown can try and take the moral high ground about rats and sewers, but he knew all about the rats way way back. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-13092573

All the bird's that have been fired have come on that show looking pretty good. It is a great show by the way, Dara O Briain is great on it.

Exactly, but that included Brown. From his speech (which was well delivered) you would have thought he had nothing to do with NI. He tried to make out he wanted an enquiry into NI, but was stopped by everybody else, whereas Bradshaw said in the week that it was a political decision not to have one. ALL govt's have been too close to NI for 35 years, including Brown's, he can not try to claim otherwise now. At least Tony Blair has kept quiet, perhaps Brown would have been advised to do the same. Perhaps this need for revenge is one of the "psychological flaws" that Campbell spoke about.

Doesn't tally with what Ben Bradshaw said on The Daily Politics, he said that they didn't want a enquiry because Brown was already seen as a weak PM and they didn't want to annoy NI. Also why, if things were so bad did he have Brookes to Chequers and attend her wedding. At least Milliband was man enough to adress the past. Brown is in denial...........

No they're complete and utter shysters. If they can get through the expenses scandal with only a few low profile "victims", they will worm their way out of this. They are all such hypocrites. When the public were calling for an election in light of the expenses scandal the line was that "they needed to stay to clear the mess up". When NI say that Brook's needs to stay to clear the mess up, they're all up in arms over it. They all bent over and let Murdoch screw them, but now are all showing us how independent they are (with a few notable exceptions)