@JimTheFish @Phaseshift @puroandson @bluesqueakpip

Dealt with – thanks for the alert.

@Craig or @JimTheFish or @Phaseshift

I seem to have a new little friend (robbins) who is very interested in my profile and wants to share pictures with me.

Sadly, I suspect that they may be two-timing me with other members of this forum. 🙁

@JimTheFish

I’m beginning to wonder if the Brexit campaign doesn’t really need leaders – if it’s tapping into the same kind of anti-multinational, anti-globalisation groundswell that Occupy tapped into on the left. The Indy’s latest poll has 52% ‘Leave’, rising to 54% when you add in how likely the respondents are to vote.

Neck and neck, then.…[Read more]

@jimthefish

(I’d actually like to know who coined it as they deserve a hearty kick to the knackers for it).

Don’t know the who, but I’m pretty sure the why is because neo-whig would sound silly…

(Whig Liberalism was once entirely about unrestrained free trade, in contrast to the patrician and protectionist Tories – a bit like how the Re…[Read more]

@puroandson  @JimTheFish

Related fact of very little importance.  Yaffle is an old name for the  Green Woodpecker, the bird on which Professor Yaffle was based.  The favourite food of the bird is ants, and the name comes from it’s ‘laughing’ call.

@JimTheFish

I dunno if you’ve seen (being a reporter and all) the excitingly titled 2014 BIS Analysis Paper Number 5?

It probably gives a fairly reasonable overview of which bits of the WTD the Westminster govt really wants to get their little claws into. Namely, the 48 hour opt out, and the recent rulings on including overtime as holiday pay…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

A Brexit will almost certainly mean the end of guaranteed holidays, automatic workers rights and will probably usher in uncapped working weeks and zero-hours contracts for all.

Well, technically, it could. If the entire Working Time Directive (which is enacted via UK law, not EU law) got repealed, it could. But that got dropped from…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Yeah, I actually do know what neoliberal means? I always did know. I, like, follow politics and shit?

This is probably one of those ‘jokes don’t travel well on the Internet’ things. Either that, or @pedant‘s sense of humour has gone on holiday, but since no one seems to be getting the pun, probably the former.

@JimTheFish and @pedant

The Manchester Guardian, as Jim clearly knows, was traditionally a Liberal paper. So calling it ‘neo-Liberal’ really isn’t the insult you intend it to be, pedant. But what it should be, and what it used to be, was a place where “The voice of opponents no less than that of friends has a right to be heard”.

And I’m really…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish

Blimey, what Guardian have you two been reading lately? Its drift to being just another neo-liberal talking shop has been utterly depressing. If that’s ‘becoming more political’ then gawd help us.

There’s a map somewhere of the seats “Apathy” would have won in the GE if it was a party. The Grauns utter inability to…[Read more]

@jimthefish       I really liked that one too and look forward to a forum viewing.

@JimTheFish

I think the Graun is about to develop a split personality. They’ve got the problem that they’re very pro-EU – but the pro-EU camp is being led by the Prime Minister. Which is more of a problem for Katherine Viner than it would have been for Alan Rusberger, because she’s apparently decided that the Graun should become much more overtly…[Read more]

@jimthefish
Time Lord

What a gentleman. thanks for posting.

Cheers,

Missy

@jimthefish    Thanks for the link. Peter Capaldi is a class act  and an awesome artist.What can’t he do?

@jimthefish thankyou thats the one!!

Er, @Craig or @Jimthefish…. two posts up. Is it half term already?

@jimthefish

It’s all down to contracts and renewal dates but the chances are that it’ll be pulled from Canada too at the earliest opportunity.

@arbutus

Yes, I imagine that the contract runs out at some future date and then we will lose it as well.

Gah, my hopes hopes dashed. Oh well. If I’m going to do any more Doctor Who binge-watching, I’d bet…[Read more]

@nerys @puroandson @doctordani

new News forum guys http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-4/

@jimthefish – can this be locked?

@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish

At the beginning of Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad stops off at a diner to blag a ride. He doesn’t even go into the diner and yet Steinbeck brings the waitress, who we never meet again, completely to life through the simple device of having her inspect a lump under her ear, while talking to a trucker (who we, again, don’t…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Merely trying to quantify why CC’s writing always leaves me feeling a bit like Gru’s mother.

Because you don’t like it. 🙂

Okay, rather than go through ‘what Jim thinks is wrong with Chris Chibnall’s writing/what Pip thinks is right’, let’s talk about Thomas Hardy.

Because personally, I think life is too short to read Thomas Har…[Read more]