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Euro 2016 - 10th June to 10th July.

Just saw a rather inept performance from Liz Truss (Environment Minister) on the Daily Politics. She was boasting that, last year, the government presided over a record number of house building starts. Andrew Neil asked her how many but she didn't know. So he asked her how did she know it was a record. She replied "Eric Pickles told me". Neil then informed her that, last year there were around 110000 starts whereas in 2006 under Labour, there were 170000 and the average under Labour was greater than their "record". She'd originally said that the record was house completions but when Neil proved her wrong she switched to house starts. She looked extremely uncomfortable and then tried again and said she meant council houses. She'd obviously had no idea of the figures and just expected everyone to believe her fiction.

Where's Guardiola, Ancelotti or Benitez? Surely they would jump at the chance to manage the biggest club with the bestest fans in the world.

One of his pearls of wisdom: "If you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up." Some of todays commentators (especially in football) could learn from that.

Agree Redknapp was crocked but he gave it a good go when he did play. I remember him him being interviewed after the Man U game when we were relegated and he said "The fans applauded us off but we didn't deserve it. We let them down". It may have been professional pride but it seemed like he really cared. Also remember being at the Clock End at Highbury when Howells scored to cancel out Bergkamps goal to earn us our second point of the season (in October).

Interesting article on what would have been reported if it hadn't been captured on video. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/walter-scott-shooting-without-video_n_7024404.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK

Hope Burnley stay up. I was quite impressed by them at St Marys a few weeks ago. They gave it a real go and there was no diving or rolling around on the floor and no moaning to the Ref. A good honest team with a good manager.

Maybe not..... http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-transfer-news-spurs-will-revert-to-policy-of-signing-1015million-players-says-daniel-levy-10151564.html

I remember when Blair was entering Downing St after winning in '97 he said "People will be surprised at how radical we'll be". Great, I thought. He'll start to repair all the damage that Thatcher had done. Instead he carried on where the Tories left off. The fact that Thatcher later expressed her admiration for him and that Cameron admired him says everything about how radical he was, but not quite how a lot of people expected.

France leading 1-0

Lifted from a legal advice website (It's Scottish but the law is the same in England): "If private landlords do not respond to complaints of antisocial behaviour in relation to their tenants, occupiers or visitors to the property they own, the local authority can serve an antisocial behaviour notice (ASBN) on the landlord. An ASBN will set out steps that the landlord must take in order to tackle the antisocial behaviour. If the private landlord does not take these steps, the local authority can do a number of things, including obtaining a rent penalty order or a management control order. A rent penalty order means that no rent is payable on the property until the landlord addresses the problem of antisocial behaviour. A management control order means that the local authority takes over the landlord’s functions in relation to the property. In extreme cases, the local authority can refer the landlord to the Procurator Fiscal for prosecution as it is a criminal offence to fail to comply with an antisocial behaviour notice."

Runs fine on Ubuntu Linux.

Lets assume that the barrel is cylindrical. If you stand it on its end then the relationship between volume and surface area is linear (if you plotted one against the other you would get a straight line). Therefore half the volume will cover half the surface area and so on. If you lay it on its side the graph would be a sort of "S" shape. Again, half the volume would cover half of the surface area but if it was less or more than half then the relationship would not be linear. So the answer depends on how much you put in the barrel. The maths are pretty straightforward for a true cylinder, the barrel is a bit more complicated. Useful calculator here: http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-in-a-horizontal-cylinder

So if they broadcast "The Merchant of Venice", would you accuse them of anti_semitism?

What laws are those?

"The Channel 4 programme makers have said that they have not misrepresented Mr Farage's views. "He was asked a direct question on whether there would be a law against discrimination on the grounds of race or colour and he replied no," he said." I would have thought that most employers want the best person for the job regardless of where they come from.

UKIP announced this morning that, in the unlikely event of them running the country, they would remove racial discrimination laws regarding employment, so that you could be refused a job on racial grounds. Back to the 1950's eh?

Exactly. The opposite also applies. I quite liked John Major. He seemed quite an affable bloke and so does Cameron when he's not being Prime Minister and also Farage (but I think it's an act with him trying to play down his privately educated, City trader background), but I wouldn't vote for any of them.

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Maybe not for much longer. From the New York Times: "Recently, the geneticist J. Craig Venter showed that the entire genetic material of an organism can be synthesized by a machine and then put into what he called an “artificial cell.” This was actually a bit of press-release hyperbole: Mr. Venter started with a fully functional cell, then swapped out its DNA. In doing so, he unwittingly demonstrated that the female component of sexual reproduction, the egg cell, cannot be manufactured, but the male can."

Worse than serial killers, peadophiles, P*mpey fans??

Have you considered refurbishment? Mine are getting on a bit and the rubber seals around the panes have shrunk therefore removing the insulating effect of the gap. The frames are still in good nick and I believe that there are firms that will replace the seals, which is a lot cheaper than outright replacement.

His head may be already in Manchester.

No one seems to know who this person was. The Police and the local paper have no knowledge of him (or her). You would have thought that this person would have been interviewed. Love Productions repeatedly refused to talk to the Police about any of their "difficulties".

Along with this, we have ex Tory and Labour Foreign Secretaries selling their services and the hilarious Ukippers programme last Sunday, one is tempted to dismiss the lot of them. Unfortunately, some of them will end up running the country.