badgerx16

From the OED "The standard spelling of the noun and verb in British English is programme, except when referring to computer programs". From the Cambridge Dictionary : program - noun a series of instructions which can be put into a computer in order to make it perform an operation.

Your ignorance of the IT industry is shocking. After 28 years of writing computer PROGRAMS, this is, unfortunately, one Americanism that has crept into my vernacular.

Maiden

Yet more narrow minded, short sighted, ill thought out, or just plain dogmatic, political interference in the educational system by somebody whose personal experience of the school environment stopped at sixth form. No wonder our kids are dropping down the international 'league tables', what with all the programs, initiatives, and rewriting of curricular content by each new incumbent of an educational portfolio. ( And yes, I include all the previous Govt's playing around as well - for once, why can't they leave it alone. They just HAVE to be seen to be doing something ).

How 'electable' will they need to be after the BrokeBack coalition collapses ?

Every morning when I turn on the BBC Breakfast news, I listen to the headlines and try to guess which ones will be used as the basis of yet another thread of Dunce's tedious, childish, political jibes.

...sits

John Redwood, the right honourable member for Vulcan.

epistles

october

Never was a name more appropriate.

I think the staff numbers differ because the 'total' employed by HCC includes people such as school teachers and other such employees, who are ring fenced from the cuts, so HCC will only report the %age of those who might actually be affected.

toad

"Jesus Christ Superstar" - the original concept recording with Ian Gillan, Murray Head, and Yvonne Elliman

Stick a cornishman and a geordie in a room and let them try to converse in English.

Why is the 'i' in Rotten Ronnie's slogan "i'm lovin' it" not a capital ?

Or as it was known, "Surrey with the lunatic fringe on top".

Not WASP ?

+1 "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee Superior, they say, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early"

Ultravox - "Vienna" ( the album ), to be followed by "Quartet".

I would wait to see the list of 'promises to be broken' in the manifestos, listen to what the parties had to say, and cast my vote according to my conscience. There was a bit on Mark Thomas's 'Peoples Manifesto' on R4 that suggested that when a Government had reached 50 broken manifesto pledges then a new election was automatically triggered.

flash

rescue

Why not go one step further and include long range reconnaissance, and then get the winning bidder to keep the Nimrods flying, thus also preserving private sector jobs in BAe.

This is, of course, nothing to do with your postings on the 'Shares' thread, where you are salivating over the opportunities that might arise in the event of an Ivorean civil war ?