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21 July 2016 at 00:57 #53368
@puroandson
Yeah, somewhere I thought it was “run you clever boy and remember ME”
Yes – she used that as well (in Snowmen).
19 July 2016 at 19:06 #53336@ichabod @stitchintime
“Hell Bent” follows this by leaving the true identity of the hybrid even murkier
Really? To me it was very clear that the Hybrid was the gestalt entity of the Doctor plus Clara – in itself a powerful meta-statement about those who inhabit the Tardis.
Heck, why didn’t he do that and make a break for the TARDIS and get to prying that bracelet off
It has been well established that the Doctor is more than willing to play a very long game. He wanted to know who was behind things, and was willing to do whatever was needed to find that out and save Clara.
(And, as others have said, Clara’s words were not in the vicinity of a pep talk. They were a warning in exactly the same way that Amy warned him not to travel alone – she knows him and thinks she know what he can do. Off course, she had no concept just how long he was willing to spend doing it)
@puroandson
*cough* Run you clever boy, and remember *cough* 😉
9 July 2016 at 00:16 #53199True enough. Of course, inside the EU we have power of veto so can ensure no onerous terms are there. Outside the EU were are just a damp island waiting permission to board the train and paying hefty tariffs until we do.
8 July 2016 at 17:38 #53195@mudlark @puroandson
PS
A friend of mine does a fair bit of estates consultancy for NHS Trusts. Nearly all the problems are caused by doctors not knowing one end of a lease or rental/ purchase agreement/ employment contract from another.
PS It turns out being a a shit hot oncologist doesn’t, in anyway, prepare you for the realities of management in the 5th largest employer in the world.
8 July 2016 at 17:32 #53194@mudlark @puroandson
The Govt explicitly excluded the NHS from the scope of TTIP (for once, the opposition doing its job).
7 July 2016 at 16:37 #53162@puroandson
what does the UK export?
Net importer of goods, net exporter of services.
You will note that the stats obsess over goods, despite services being massively more important. Old data habits die hard.
5 July 2016 at 02:38 #53098I reckon there is a chance they will bring someone else in (or do what Have I Got News For You did when they dumped Angus Deayton – move to a rotation of hosts). Pretty well everyone one else did fine (and I actually think Evans was OK on air, but he is not used to not being top dog on a show and, I gather, that showed behind the scenes).
5 July 2016 at 02:32 #53097For those that want a reasoned look at the impacts with actual evidence, rather than Debby Form Derby’s fact-free nonsense the Financial Times has put together a good primer. (You may need to sign in but can register for free).
4 July 2016 at 15:30 #53089And, according to The Twitter, Evans is stepping down.
4 July 2016 at 02:55 #53072Oh Dear God, you’re citing brietbart. Do you even know who that is?
4 July 2016 at 02:54 #53071Your friend Debby is an idiot who can’t be bothered to do research.
Here is a proper analysis of the floods, with particular reference to the role of dredging.
The immediate causes of which were:
- A month’s rain in about three days (which accumulated, since such incidents are getting more common thanks to climate change);
- The failure of landowners to properly maintain the sluices. Farmers generally don’t spend money if they can avoid it (it is a very low margin business in the UK, kept afloat entirely by EU largesse).
This left the authorities in the position of having to choose between protecting farmers fields or protecting the town of Bridgewater.
Treasury rules specify that every £1 of Environmental Agency spending must generate £8 of benefit. Thats UK TREASURY. Nothing to do with the EU in any way shape or form. They are not involved. At all.
Given the choice between protecting Bridgwater, a town of 41,000 people and of historical importance, or protecting some fields, under those rules, where do you think the best return will be?
Write out 100 times : “UK Treasury, not EU.”
And then do the same for “Must stop cherry-picking unverified assertions.”
Also, tell Debby to learn how to fact check.
There is also a Baltimore (or any other East Coast port) effect, since nearly all UK exports to Canada go via the US – significantly inflating the apparent importance of the US market. All of our oil, for instance, goes via Portland, Maine up a pipe to Canada. Recorded in the UK as an export to the US, in Canada as an import from the UK and not recorded at all in the US because it goes straight into the pipe (the pipe operator’s fees might get recorded as foreign earnings, but probably charged to the ship operator, most likely registered in Belize).
The Rotterdam effect probably exists, but it is impossible to measure and impossible to isolate from all of the many variants.
3 July 2016 at 23:40 #53063It the back end of the 80s/ early 90s, Evans did the GLR (now Radio London) Saturday morning show, which was followed by Danny Baker doing the lunchtime slot. It was, quite simply, the best 4 hours a week of radio I have ever heard. No formula, a lot of ad libbing and quite a bit of boundary pushing. Two broadcasters who understood completely the transaction between the radio presenter and the listener. So many imitators think it is just shouting and banter, but it was so much more. I nearly pranged my car I was laughing so hard once.
It couldn’t last as the BBC became scared of what GLR was becoming, hence the rebrand.
It is no real surprise that neither Evans not Baker have ever quite found their niche outside radio. Occasional moments of brilliance, but much that was felt like they were wearing straitjackets. I get a little of that with Evans on Top Gear, whereas LeBlanc seems to have taken to it like a duck to water.
2 July 2016 at 15:20 #53045@puroandson
we’re still better off than the UK which is not designed for large scale farming -hence owner farmers voting Remain in large majority (because the EU protected them)
Not quite. *Tenant* farmers voted Leave – they object to all those environmental regulations but have no stake in the underlying value of the business. Owner-farmers mainly went Remain. And it is owner famers who will be screwed when the subsidies vanish and their lack of economies of scale slaughter them on the winds of trade.
The EU has been a shrinking market for the UK and in r
Nope. You’ve been using percentages again, haven’t you?
1 July 2016 at 00:04 #53024Yeah – Evans is one of the best radio people around (although too shouty for breakfast radio for me), but he has never quite made the full transition to TV.
But, to be clear, he is a true petrolhead.
Have you seen Episodes? That might give you a different take on LeBlanc (who has been a bit of a revelation on Top Gear)
If I have caught up on some of the lost sleep, I have already been nagged by @sirclockface to take him.
30 June 2016 at 17:51 #53014That would be the Mediterranean countries, not one of which wants to leave the EU?
You (manifestly) know nothing about the UK economy.
30 June 2016 at 17:04 #53013On a slightly smaller scale, this is near me organised by one of the BG Who FX guys whose name escapes me:
30 June 2016 at 14:20 #53010I’m afraid your last post made absolutely no sense.
30 June 2016 at 01:03 #52995@lisa @puroandson
Well, given that one of them is Germany they clearly aren’t (for every Germany there is a France). And anybody who does not realise that Germany is very keen to grab its share of London’s capital markets and all of our insurance trade (ie Lloyd’s of London) is tragically ill-informed. Or, as is the case with Murdoch-owned Dow Jones (owner of the site you link to) has a massive agenda and a long track record of lying.
And the Obama may well try to keep the peace, but the ‘special relationship’ is a myth that not even politicians believe. And Paul Ryan has no control over foreign policy.
Iceland. We have about 20 cities the same size as Iceland and many more much bigger. Also, look up the Cod Wars.
India. By far the most bureaucratic democracy on the planet. It will take years.
New Zealand and Australia: Commonwealth pals -bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahaha. Although Oz’s farmers could finally kill off our farming industry. Also NZ First has less than 9% of the vote and 11 seats in a 121 seat parliament. It has no authority. And none of the links texts are supported by the article they link to.
Canada – With Trudeau, maybe a chance. But they will not risk souring relations with Europe.
Mexico – and when we have a few trade negotiators we may get round to reading it.
Switzerland – bound by EU law (see also Norway)
South Korea – See India. Not that different and has major corporate governance issues.
Ghana – if you think UK farmers will accept less protection from places such as Ghana, then you have never met a UK farmer. Once they realise they have shot themselves in the head, they will want to screw it down tight.
And, seriously. Check the sources for these stories. The Sun…
the are more than 200 counties in the world. We have about 12 negotiators.
So
These are real trade deals!
No. They are not.
I don’t think you ever signed the Schengen Agreement. So please tell me why the UK has been made to feel compelled to accept that policy?
It hasn’t. We are not, and have never been part of Schengen. Free movement of labour is nothing to do with Schengen.
Given the fact that having greater access to US and other markets because the EU cant do anything to block this anymore is to your advantage.
What?!?!?! Eh?!?!?!!? The EU dos nothing to block our access to the US and has also very effectively stopped the US imposing onerous terms on Europe (the US could, of course, screw us to the wall alone).
Seriously.
Do some source-checking.
You are right, of course. And Poland is currently the fasted growing economy in Europe. One of my (London-based) clients uses Polish programmers (in Poland) to do his coding. They are very good.
29 June 2016 at 18:38 #52988I’m just saying you shouldn’t let the EU
We have no cards to play(1).
Also,the EU has/is syphoning huge sums of money out of the UK and then giving it almost all away in the form of grants to multi national companies to move out of the UK for cheaper labor.
This is complete nonsense.
The EU rebuilt Manchester after the devastation of an IRA bomb. The EU provides the entire profit margin for UK agriculture (which will get crucified without the subsidies), the EU helped rebuild areas destroyed by Thatcher’s evisceration of our manufacturing base; The EU helped move Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby and Honda to Swindon and has provided more funding than any other body to try to bring life back to the UK’s coal fields; the EU provided the passporting that has permitted London to become the most important financial centre in the World.
The EU underwrites, and provides the legal framework for, the Northern Ireland Peace Accord.
The EU ensures that, throughout its area, the playing field is more or less level and (whether Greece likes it or not) tries to ensure fiscal credibility. I’d still like to see the Goldman Sachs people who cooked Greece’s books so it could join the Euro go to jail, but in the end the Greek people paid the price for its own government’s vanity.
The EU is like an insurance policy – sure it costs a bit fro day to day, but when you need it is really delivers, but it will act to protect the whole body.
fluid situation that the UK can take advantage of.
We have no pieces. None.
And even if we did, we have no experienced trade negotiators.
Our economy is 80% services based. There is nothing that can’t be moved offshore, virtually at the push of a button.
But here is the latest that I have heard from people who know their shit:
The EU might let us slide on free movement if we give up passporting. That would be the suckers deal that scared Tories might take, that would prompt a huge exodus of banks to Paris (and dig Hollande out of a hole with France’s far right, which is why the EU might try it). It would fuck London up the wrong ‘un with an Arizona cactus.
And in an economy that is 80% services, that would be Armageddon.
1. Correction: as in War Games, the only winning move is not to play. It is on the UK to issue the Article 50 notice.
29 June 2016 at 12:40 #52984I think the UK wants to just control the free movement more. Why shouldn’t that happen?
Free movement of labour is a condition of access to the Single Market (AS IS acceptence to competition law AND paying for access). If we end up in either the European Economic Area or The European Free Trade Association we will have to abide by these rules. So all that will happened is that we have sacrificed influence – not just in Europe, but globally – for zero net gain. Norway (EEA) and Switzerland (EFTF) both abide by free movement. The quotas do not relate to this.
If we don’t join either (and they may not have us) then we are stuck with WTO rules with onerous tariffs and a nation that has no experienced trade negotiators will have to try to thrash out new 200 treaties.
And @jimthefish is right. There is zero goodwill towards the UK within the EU. Do not underestimate how gratuitously offensive it was to Germans it was to compare the EU to Hitler (Juncker’s father was conscripted by the Nazis). The will be quite happy to pick over our economic corpse.
And we will have lost Scotland and possibly destroyed the Northern Ireland peace process.
For nothing.
27 June 2016 at 16:35 #5295727 June 2016 at 12:10 #52955And if you want a view from Ireland (and you should):
https://storify.com/iancundell/n-ireland
(Tweets not by me, obv)
27 June 2016 at 11:34 #52954@puroandson
a) “if house prices go down then everyone’s go down, so what’s the problem?”
Are these people, in ay way, retarded? In short, mortgages are the problem. A house worth less than the mortgage on it is unsellable because the seller won’t be able to clear the debt.
b) If everyone finds it hard to get work then that can only help the situation -in the end. It’ll be bumpy but it will better in the end.
Do these people realise that they are sociopaths?
c) Britain won’t be the ‘resting’ place for ‘just about anybody’ that it has been for the last 30 odd years.
This is racist horseshit. The area with most immigrants nearly all voted Remain.
27 June 2016 at 02:27 #52942As somebody on Twitter said, re this, Boris is trying to put the shit back in the horse.
But this is the reality, and somebody needs to step up and un-fuck this dog.
We are talking about 50-70,000 job losses in London’s financial sector (plus consequential losses in the professional sector, and that’s not even including the myriad service personnel, from cleaners on up). And the entire nascent fintech sector will be wiped out. Insurance will move wholesale, probably to Hamburg. Capital markets will go to Frankfurt or Paris (probable the former) . Anything that needs passporting, basically, will go – and they already are leaving.
London will move from being the most important financial centre on the planet to a regional backwater servicing an economy that has had its manufacturing base eviscerated.
Try funding the NHS with that.
Then there is Nissan, in the home of the Turkey’s For Christmas Faction, Sunderland – 5,000 jobs that Spain will bend over backwards to poach. Then Toyota in Derby and Honda in Swindon, all of whom voted leave. Swansea may not get its new university campus.
SMEs are already reporting sackings and lost contracts and removal from European tender lists.
London house prices will probably drop 20%, which sounds good until you realise that that will leave pretty well everybody in negative equity, unable to get out and with horrific debts. And the country follows where London leads.
Edinburgh house prices, on the other hand…..
And if you think for a second that London tax payers will fancy bailing out farmers who have just pissed away their EU money (which is the entire profit of UK agriculture), then think again. Farming will go bust – it is simply not big enough to compete on world markets. (Tenant farmers were massive Leave; owner farmers massively Remain).
The in-fighting will be horrific. It is called Balkanisation for a reason.
I have already advised a couple of young recent graduate friends to emigrate and I’m seriously wondering if I can parlay my Irish granddad into anything.
So I really hope Nicola Sturgeon is as good as everyone thinks she is – because this is way beyond an simple nationalism question now.
26 June 2016 at 13:14 #52923@puroandson
Check your Dropbox.
24 June 2016 at 20:19 #52876And I live and work in an area that is by some measures one of the top five deprived areas in the country. I don’t commute into it for work, I live here
Where I lived for many years (as well as its south London counterpart).
Please tell me whether you would?
I did all sorts of lowly work when I was that age (engineering companies with the most basic H&S attitudes (eh safety equipment turned off), stuffing envelopes and stupid o’clock, bar work, shop work, standing out the sub-sero doing traffic surveys). Whatever I could get some cash, I did. You are not the only person to have put in a hard shift. I know this is a shock to you.
The point with the fenland youth is that they were not doing other jobs. Of any sort. Nor were they in education. They. Wouldn’t. Do. The. Work (nice to see you supporting the exploitation of immigrant labour though).
Because if you’re not, then don’t you dare call yourself a socialist
It is probably just as well I’ve never done that then. Perhaps you were confused by the fact that I have read a few books as well as worked for living (for the past 15 years with no company or public sector back-up and entirely on a “Don’t work, don’t eat” basis. Four years ago I was budgeting day-to-day, since I was also dealing with clinical depression).
@puroandson
The word you are looking for is total and utter catastrophe. OK, that was four words. We are playing Russian roulette with the economy as fascists across Europe congratulate us. All brought about by the meeting of Cameron’s hubris and Johnson’s vanity.
Top question on UK Google today: “What does it mean to leave the EU?”
Well, what it means for all of the area that voted most heavily for Leave, is that the regional development programmes, which were funded entirely with EU money and that underwrite their economies are stuffed. Foot, meet gun. Swansea voted leave despite having just taken a shit load of EU money to build a new university campus and you really don’t want to get me started on the dickhead from Cornwall.
Might have been handy to ask first, don’t you think?
Mostly I think @sirclockface and his sister have had their futures utterly, utterly betrayed (the youth vote was 75% Remain).
That’s kind of the slightly-Socialist sensibility
The left of the Labour Party (and to the left) of that regard the EU as a capitalist club.
23 June 2016 at 01:51 #52846(to the pub since it is more appropriate than Music).
And there is no group as adept as the English middle and upper classes at displaying contempt towards the working class.
This council estate-raised son of a truck driver agrees with you wholeheartedly. I really really don’t need the manners and mores of the petit-bourgoise explained. I grew up dealing with it every day as a poor person in a wealthy town. So: your point?
If it was a new story you might have one.
But the navvies came over because the Englishmen wouldn’t do the work; the crops are gathered in East Anglia by Portuguese transient workers (who were nearly burned out of a pub during Euro 2008 for having the brass-bound nerve to cheer for their team) because the native youth won’t do the work; pretty well every corner shop is open after dark because East African Asians who had to abandon every single thing they had came here and worked every hour god sends.
And the irony of that last one? Out in the ‘burbs, the third generation of Asians are starting to show the same indolence as the natives. It will only be a matter of time before they start blaming others for their woes too. They’ve caught English, and its driving teachers nuts.
It was my great good fortune to go to a Uni with more the 50% overseas students (couldn’t do it now because of the debt – no sugar daddy for me. Mum and Dad couldn’t even afford their statutory contribution of £200 a year).
But I haven’t seen a single voice on the Remain camp threaten rape or murder on those disagreeing with them. And I’ve lost count of the accusations of treason and the sheer hatred of “foreign” from people who would never think to say “hello” to the person serving their coffee.
So spare me the moral relativism.
23 June 2016 at 00:19 #52844The worst thing about this damnable campaign is the way both sides have started spitting sheer hatred at the other side.
This is a claim I keep seeing.
Can you show me some examples of the Remain camp “spitting hatred” (other than the internecine Tory war, which only incidentally to do with the EU and every thing to do with Gove and BoJo’s ambition)?
My hope (and suspicion) is that a goodly number of Remainers have been cowed into silence by the sheer bile and hatred exhibited by Leave (and I do not excuse the left wing leavers (leavists?) in any way here), and that the ballot box will be where they speak.
22 June 2016 at 23:44 #52842Absolutely. This white son of a truck driver is heartily sick of the keening, whining hatred from the wailing white boys.
There is no group as adept as the English working classes at finding someone else to blame for their indolence, and no group better at exploiting that than the English elite.
We are on the verge of kicking the door open for fascism.
22 June 2016 at 23:39 #52841Here we go…
22 June 2016 at 20:50 #52839Not sure if this is region-locked or not, but Jenna Coleman’s new gig preview:
Fairly sure this IS region-lock: http://www.itv.com/firstlook/preview-victoria
19 June 2016 at 17:31 #52765If a show is working and has been working perfectly and is popular as it is for decades, why change it?
This argument is simply facile. The show has gone through many periods when it manifestly wasn’t working and wasn’t popular for all sorts of reasons and, indeed, spent 16 years off air because of that.
But none of those reason were anything to do with the gender of the Doctor. If Chibnall can pull off the introduction of a female Doctor that I am more than happy to let him give it a lash. It will be fun to try. The most catastrophic blunder any show can make is to pander to the most reactionary part of its fanbase.
14 June 2016 at 12:35 #52699Matt Lucas to join the cast.
I like Lucas. Much more subtle than he is generally given credit for.
Also, Stephanie Hyam – don’t – don’t know anything about her.
12 June 2016 at 01:15 #52687This, via the Radio Times, is rather nice.
9 June 2016 at 11:34 #52664From November via @sirclockface, who was implausibly excited.
There is still story going on and evidently some of it is not some much a case of “not letting go” but of planning ahead.
6 June 2016 at 11:22 #52652Judging by the profile I don’t think Lesa Thomas is going to last long…
4 June 2016 at 14:30 #52650No further words needed:
31 May 2016 at 20:40 #52620@juniperfish @puroandson @craig
Just watched, having recorded. That was thoroughly enjoyable – all the joie de vivre of his pre-Who Casanova, ramped up to the max. Thoroughly camp, without a hint of kitsch, and that’s a neat trick.
I imagine Private Eye will hate it.
31 May 2016 at 18:32 #52619Fandom Is Broken (or A Bunch of Arse as we call it)
30 May 2016 at 17:19 #52606That looks rather fun.
30 May 2016 at 12:29 #52603Yup -absolutely. Nothing great in publishing was ever achieved without the input of an editor.
28 May 2016 at 23:42 #52589Well played, Doctor Who Magazine, well played:
Definitely @DWMtweets finest hour. pic.twitter.com/KWDH5PH81W
— Seb Patrick (@sebpatrick) May 28, 2016
27 May 2016 at 11:03 #52574Indeed. If you knew how many unsolicited MSs were sat in publishers offices you would weep. And agent and a huge amount to networking are essential these days.
Worth noting that self-publishing is becoming increasingly respectable these days.
26 May 2016 at 23:35 #52568@stitchintime
Oh, and if you have finished work you need an agent (who may also edit, or will know an editor). Agents are the principal gatekeepers in publishing.
26 May 2016 at 23:34 #52567@stitchintime
they can fail or be incompatible with your replacement O/S and replacement software.
That’s just a management problem.
And as for Macs, well, if you can afford one, and if you are able to convert all your documents to the new format, when your software, by necessity, is as old as mine.
a) 1995 called and wants its argument back, and b) Microsoft Office uses different file formats on different platforms? (No). JPEGS are different from one platform to the nest? (No). etc etc
data I have similarly so; thus I can actually make do with CDs,
Just about the worst backup medium out there.
And what actually is, is that failures and data loss happen no matter what you do. The fact it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it won’t.
As I said, it is possible a giant flaming meteorite might hit Earth. Or simply for something to happen to raise the store cupboard to 451F, the temperature at which paper ignites. Or it could just be a run-of-the-mill household fire. Do you keep you paper in a fire vault? If you don’t your entire argument falls.
Your entire understanding of computing appears to be 15 years out of date and of risk, and its management, appears not of this or any recent century.
26 May 2016 at 02:08 #52553PS @puroandson
Have just had to install Windows 10 onto a virtual machine on my Mac. Oh, Microsoft. What were you thinking?
26 May 2016 at 02:07 #52552@stitchintime
And sometimes the planet is hit by giant flaming meteorites – it is about managing that which can be managed. To not take proper backups because they might fail is as silly as chucking a burning cigarette butt into a library waste paper bin. The key is redundancy.
@puroandson
Yup – CCC is very good and highly regarded, but Time Machine’s ease is that it is built in to the OS. It has saved my arse on two occasions (including HD failure) and a friend has just completed his third back-from-the-dead-with-zero-loss Time Machine recovery (his machines tend to take a trashing). One should assume that an external HD will become liable to fail after 4 years and replace it as back up device.
As ever, there are theories of what might be lost and there is evidence of what actually is.
25 May 2016 at 17:15 #5254625 May 2016 at 11:38 #52544@stitchintime
Having had a number of hard drive crashes and software incompatibility issues,
My a Mac. Buy a LaCie Rugged 1tb hard drive. Plug HD into Mac. Launch Time Machine, follow instructions. Never lose data again. Not sure of Windows machines have similar, but will be surprised if they don’t. Ditto Linux.
The loss of data is always the consequence of inadequate back ups, whether on a computer or through failing to use carbon paper (and keeping the CC off-site).
24 May 2016 at 23:23 #52526Not only that, but has also written two books designed to get girls to engage with maths (or math, to use its American diminutive).
Just watched the episode when Kevin’s sister runs away from home. Unspooled a little. I doubt Donovan’s Catch The Wind has ever been deployed to greater impact. In fact the last 5 episodes of the second season are an extraordinary essay on the pain of childhood loss – of the brother killed in Vietnam, of childhood starting to slip away and for society showing the first signs of fragmenting.
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