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Correct. The joys of being a private company...

Calm down.

The sad thing is that you are so far off the mark (which is putting it as kindly as I can) that you are being a kind of accidental anti-semite. 'All Israel sees is the greater Jewish family being attacked by Arabs' assumes a level of stupidity among Jews that would defy description. Firstly, Iranians are not Arabs. Secondly, if Israel really were that stupid, they'd bomb Jordan, or Egypt, or Saudi Arabia, or any Arab state that proclaims an official pro-Palestinian stance. Thirdly, Merah was not Palestinian. (You really don't even seem to read the newspapers from your characterisation of him). The only evidence of someone in 'the rampant throes of paranoia', as you put it, is the rather foolish individual who thinks he's Wall-E.

Corruption is a two-way street, though. A vast amount of business-to-government dealing is handled in essentially corrupt ways: ex-civil servants mysteriously turning up on the boards of companies that have just won a huge contract from his/her department; politicians being paid 'consultancies' or put on company boards where those politicians have a 'special interest'; companies making large donations to political parties and coincidentally winning large multi-milliuon pound contracts; companies threatening the wellbeing of politicians, police and civil servants who don't toe the line (eg News Corp); criminal enterprises bribing police to look the other way; etc., ad nauseum. The point about public funding is that it comes with a proviso that all these corrupt practices must end, and that there is a very tight cap (of just a few hundred pounds) on donations to political parties, all of which are publicly registered.

Nope - I have this down as an easy WHU win unfortunately.

Union leaderships, following conference resolutions, decide where the money goes, and some goes on Parliamentary lobbying for workers' rights rather than to the Labour Party. I can't quite see Cameron's (tax the poor/give to the rich) Tories being a particularly attractive proposition right now.

Could we have one with a bearskin strung out and turned into a rug? That would be useful, especially for the Film Studies School of TSW.

It's presumably news to you that (a) the murdered Jewish family were in France; and (b) Merah is or claims to be Al Qaeda - the sworn enemies of Iran. Honestly, your dumbness could suck the air out of a vacuum.

Correct, BTF.

Certainly corrupt. He's already been caught out over the expenses scandal, although in a relatively small way. The larger issue at the moment is that it is simply not remotely credible that Cruddas's corrupt behaviour occurred without Cameron's knowledge or consent.

So you're appalled by Cameron, et al's corruption, right?

Trousers, you do this often - deflect a serious Tory transgression and subversion of democratic principles with a Labour one. It gives the strong impression that you actually approve of corruption, so long as the 'other side' also do it. Is that the case?

And so the evidence mounts that News Corp is a colossal venture in organised crime. This has implications for football, of course, since the collapse of OnDigital also meant the collapse of a lucrative rights package with non-Premiership clubs, and threw many into financial turmoil (or even more than they'd normally be in). If I were them, it would probably be worth considering a class action damages suit against Murdoch's mafia.

So far this season, SEVEN West Ham strikers combined have scored eight goals less than Rickie. If Sam is setting targets, getting one of his forwards into double figures is probably a step too far. http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=126116

Or maybe Jupiter, rather than Mercury - definitely Venus. I think.

Venus, Mercury

So why is Pogrebnyak at Fulham on 0 yellow cards instead of 5? I just wonder what the rule actually says.

Are you sure? Living next door to Craven Cottage, I can't help notice that their new striker Pogrebnyak is fond of a cuddle with Fulham fans when he scores. Not been booked once.

I'd suggest that with a poll that puts Tories 8 points behind a barely functioning opposition, Osborne is also a specularly useless undertaker.

The fall out from the granny tax gaff rolls on. Opinion polls indicate that Gormless George, all by his clever self, has caused an eight point gap to open up between Tories and Labour. And after today's revelation that the super-rich can buy access to Cameron and Osborne for a cool quarter of a million, followed quickly by the - no doubt connected - news that BAA have got the third runway at Heathrow back on the agenda, we can safely assume that corruption at the highest level in British politics is back with a vengeance.

Clearly your pride and joy.

Looks like no one from the club contributed to that, which may be their attempt to keep a lid on things and concentrate... (Good to see SRV pop up by the way.)

The cardiologist was interesting on this, suggesting that the fact that a very fit man was pushing the physical limits meant that he was in a kind of liminal state, with a physiology able to run on empty for much longer than would be possible normally. The drugs he was administered in the ambulance helped sustain this. And the hospital also cooled his core body temperature as soon as he arrived in ITU. I once met the head of trauma surgery at LA County Hospital, who pioneered this kind of approach, and had an amazing track record for saving lives beyond what many thought was possible. He was fascinating on how the American medics in the Vietnam War unintentionally but routinely killed their patients by intubating fluids and warming the bodies. The Falklands War was, he thought, something of a turning point, because soldiers with appalling injuries were surviving in much higher numbers - because of the cold. I don't pretend to understand the physiology of all this, and I do wonder whether there is any lasting brain or other damage as a result of the 78 minutes. It's part of what makes Muamba's case publicly fascinating.

You mean in the sense that Angelina Jolie looks better than Kathy Burke?

Yep, from my experience you'd need to be Saints fit to ride one of those damn bikes for more than a mile. Ergo Lee is ready for Donny.