I didn’t think the Doctor was remiss re Courtney. He sends her to the TARDIS where he knows she will be safe. Then he turns his attention to the moral dilemma. (And yes @Melloyello I liked when she pushes buttons on the control panel. I presume the Doctor has put the safeties back on 😉 )

@Arbutus @JimtheFish I think the Doctor is trying to…[Read more]

@JimTheFish    Yes. A lot of people seem to be of the opinion that the Doctor is somehow “crossing the line” in this episode. Interestingly, the part of his behaviour that I found dismaying was his treatment of Courtney, and while I could see that Clara was upset by that, I don’t think she brought it up in the confrontation scene. She was upset…[Read more]

@JimtheFish!!!!

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@JimTheFish

An awful lot of the reaction to the entire referendum has been nothing more than petulance and bruised ego and resentment that the Scots would have the temerity to even ask to leave, probably exacerbated by the outright lies and disinformation that’s been peddled — with the BBC being the worst offender. But there’s no reason we should…

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Wow! Loads to catch up on.

Great discussion around the Faust themes. Fascinating that both Marlowe and Goethe had a change of heart about who to give redemption to (thanks @idiotsavon ).

I also liked the comment (sorry, can’t find the post to credit) about how 11 was the first Doctor to actually experience old age. Capaldi’s Doctor is now approx…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

An awful lot of the reaction to the entire referendum has been nothing more than petulance and bruised ego and resentment that the Scots would have the temerity to even ask to leave,

Gee, thanks. 😉

Who are ‘the English’?

Seriously, who are ‘the English’ that you’re accusing of bruised ego and resentment, because you’re talking…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – Salmond was right to go; he was about to become a liability. Because you do need someone to fight your corner – and he’s now seen in England as anti-English. It’s a sign of how good he is at politics that he recognised he’s actually the last person you need right now.

Nicola Sturgeon, who I’d guess is probably going to take the…[Read more]

@nick1235 – it should have gone in the trailers section. Some people don’t like trailers or coming soons, so we have a separate area for them.

@PhaseShift, @Craig, @JimTheFish, @FatManInABox – if any of you can tear yourselves away from the telly (or are you at results parties?), could you move it?
Ta.

@Whisht @JimtheFish @Craig

Dangit! Now you’ve got me all excited again!!

Never mind once in a generational stuff – this is once in a lifetime. Cross-party, looking to the future, with a chance to actually effect change… and our elected representatives are actually listening for once. Well maybe not exactly listening, but they have noticed…[Read more]

doh!

@jimthefish does this mean I can’t mod @craig ?

darnit!

I thought he’d clearly gone one step beyond.

Ah well, if you’re reading this on Wednesday then just remember everyone, tomorrow is just another day. As is the day after.

(what do you mean this isn’t being helpful?)

@Pedant Will concede that it was, as you say, “a politician’s answer” but it was an answer, even if somewhat oblique. And implied that he should be trusted cos he knew his stuff about corporation tax and was consistent.  But Robinson’s way of reporting it implied that he said nothing at all, which is not the same thing.  And it’s not an isolated i…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

No, I sorry Jim – that’s disgraceful. If you call a man a liar for saying that the question was not answered when it wasn’t – and also whip up a mob to boot! –  it should be trivial to find him answering the question when it was asked.

@ScaryB described the answer as detailed and reasoned – it was neither of those, and nor was it an…[Read more]

@Aurealis

No idea on your post. I wasn’t around earlier.

Also, for the life of me, I cannot find anywhere where you can start your own thread?

We don’t do that. We’re not that eager for troll startups, not being driven by commercial interests and all. If you have an idea for a thread, or want to write a long blog post as a point of view,…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

No, don’t agree.

Well, of course not. You’re a Scottish Nationalist. Don’t get me wrong; the White Paper proposal has very effectively blindsided the BBC – it’s a very neat bit of political maneuvering.

And I’ve no doubt they could have had an input into the White Paper itself if they’d been remotely inclined.

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@JimTheFish – it’s that or simple a string of ad hominems on the journalist (one for whom I have very little respect, btw) to mask the fact that Salmond didn’t answer the question he was asked.

Now, about that time stamp…

@JimTheFish

. But it’s all by the by anyway. It doesn’t really matter how and why the union came into being. (And for people to bang on about Darien still is a bit like a husband facing divorce after 30 years of marriage complaining about having paid for the couple’s first holiday together before they got hitched. It just sounds a bit peevi…

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@JimTheFish

But I’d also say that you pretty comprehensively reinforce the argument I was making above — that the Beeb have a lot to lose by an independent Scotland and that they very much have a vested interest in the debate and therefore cannot be trusted in terms of journalistic impartiality.

Go back to the beginning: who gave the BBC a lot…[Read more]

@Craig

. England has never really got on with Europe….Our Scottish princesses spoke french and married French princes.

And England’s spoke German and Flemish and married Dutch and Bavarian – while the entire English Royal line is descended from the Angevins (which is why the true symbol of England is the three lions, not the cross of Geo…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

 Darling is being a wee bit historically inaccurate when he says Scotland voluntarily chose to enter the union. Rather it was a cadre of skint noblemen who sold their country down the river in order to line their own pockets.

And also, this is pure nationalist historical revisionism.

Almost everybody in Scotland with any sort of d…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – hang onto your hat; I’m about to get anoraky.

I have a sneaking feeling that the Beeb spends rather more on Scotland than £160 million and that the figure quoted is for programming, not maintaining infrastructure. The figure I think the Scottish government has quoted is £175 million, which sounds about right. But anyway, let’s go w…[Read more]