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AndrewJB

Best non-fiction books - stuff by John Ralston Saul, Bruce Chatwin, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Antony Beevor. Novels by Robertson Davies, Isabel Allende, Wilkie Collins, Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood. I couldn't choose a favourite.

AndrewJB

Not sure if this has been posted before, but for anyone on 'The Book of Faces' there is an excellent page called 'Burnley Lancashire Now and Then' I'd recommend it to anyone interested in history, reminiscing, and photos of the town and surrounding area. Does anyone know of other sites they'd recomm...

AndrewJB

I cannot envisage an attack on the UK which won't be best responded to by conventional means. As Trident will inevitably siphon money away from our conventional forces, it is a danger in more ways than one.

AndrewJB

This is why my idea has merit. Throw forty-four teams in a hat and divide them into two divisions - then have the winners of each play for the final.

AndrewJB

How about - for argument's sake - a two tier system in which all the teams in the Premiership and Championship are divided into two divisions at random each season, as are those teams in the lower two divisions. The winners of each of the the top two divisions play off for the championship, and the ...

AndrewJB

To go back to the original question of whether the Tories can win Burnley; what have Tory governments done for Burnley in the past? Not just the town of course, but for people like Burnley people all over the country? Since 2010 we've had austerity for most people and tax cuts for the richest. The d...

AndrewJB

In a perfect world we'd have no abuse of either the tax or welfare system, however there comes a point at which the cost of administering a system becomes greater than the returns in decreased fraud. Considering the the government's own figures that showed fraud to make up 1.5% of the total expendit...

AndrewJB

Rowls - your post simply proves you are a complete d1cik-head who will twist reality into any which way to prove your point. It's late, and perhaps you're a little stoned or drunk, but really...

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AndrewJB

Colburn Claret - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34777348" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I don't think food banks are a fashion thing. There have been huge cuts in benefits and not only to those out of work, but to disabled people and people on very low incomes. At the same time...

AndrewJB

DSR - I meant that Tories tend to incentivise poorer people to work (or work harder) by cutting pay or benefits, but they don't apply the same logic to rich people.

AndrewJB

The murals in Chihuahua's governor's palace.

AndrewJB

I agree that we should include what might be called 'home economics' in the school curriculum. But with the savage funding cuts coming the way of education I can't see that happening any time soon. The whole premise of conservatism is to maintain the position of those at the top of society to the di...

AndrewJB

Anger and hatred are easy emotions to arouse, and the parties that serve the establishment have been adept at creating targets for people to feel angry about. Hence the financial crisis which was caused by banks and blamed on the recipients of benefits; and the resulting lack of investment into ever...

AndrewJB

Nobody has mentioned it so I'll say Christiania - if only on the way to or from somewhere. Also, if you can, rent a bicycle to get around. It's very safe there, and will make you more mobile.

AndrewJB

Crass? It's just true.

AndrewJB

We didn't appear to do badly against a Watford side buoyed by an away win against Arsenal days before. We've added to the side. We're at home in the fifth round of the FA Cup against non-league opposition. Eleven points from fourteen games should see us safe. There's a great deal to be happy about i...

AndrewJB

Tiresome, yes. But don't ban the chap. Just don't read his posts if you don't like them. Two things are clear to me. We are likely to stay up this season, and they are not. They have fewer points in the Championship right now having played more games than we do in the Premiership. We won the divisio...

AndrewJB

Turf Moor is the second oldest continuously played on pitch in English professional football (after Deepdale). That is surely by itself enough to not move. There is also something else about match day. The columns of claret-clad humanity all descending on the same place from different directions. Fo...

AndrewJB

The US already had extremely tight security in place for people entering the country, and there's no evidence to say it needed to be increased. Like his wall, this is just a pointless thing that will sink America's standing in the world.

AndrewJB

DSR - what they mean is the information gained through torture is not worth the effort and cost of torturing. Bear in mind that the US government under GW Bush didn't announce to the world that they would use torture in their 'war on terror' It all came out by mistake and through whistleblowing, and...

AndrewJB

Vinrogue - if you liked that piece you might also enjoy a book he wrote called 'The Transformation of War'. The quote you cite from the 'Dark Art' book is an example of the subterfuge I believe is far more effective in extracting information than torture. It will always be possible to find some kind...

AndrewJB

I think a line has been blurred between interrogation and torture in this conversation. And there's too much of an assumption that the only way to get information from a captive is directly - when in the past subterfuge has often yielded better results. I'm sure Vinrogue will agree that a soldier fe...

AndrewJB

My eldest - now seventeen - can brag she was at Millwall in '99 as a six-week-older. My partner breast-fed her in the stands, worrying whether a Burnley fan might brandish a copy of Debretts.

AndrewJB

Rochdale in the 88/89 season. I think we lost 2-1. It came over fourteen years after seeing my first home game, due to my family moving to Canada. I had left in '77 only ever seeing us win (even against Chelsea who were at the top of Div 2 at the time). What I came back to was a little different.

AndrewJB

Quotes taken out of context from the rest of the speeches? You're getting mixed up between membership of the single market and access to it. We will have access, as does the rest of the world, the terms have yet to be negotiated. That's what Corbyn didn't understand. They're not taken out of contex...

AndrewJB

Corbyn has smashed May up the last four or five PMQs, but didn't go in for the kill today. The blog Another Angry Voice made a good point about May's speech on Tuesday: http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/theresa-may-just-told-enormous-lie.html?m=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return...

AndrewJB

I'll use the Guardian now:

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The views of Giles Fraser are interesting, as he highlights what ordinary people might want to keep in mind.

AndrewJB

Hi Paul Waine - you say you wouldn't like to see politics dominated by the very wealthy, but it already is. The Conservative Party get more than half their funding from the City. If you're rich you can set up a 'think tank' that looks to be independent to sell your agenda to the public as though it'...

AndrewJB

Paul Waine - my point about capping wealth in this country is that it would make life better for all of us. Yes there would be questions to be resolved around foreign ownership (the Hinduja brothers are British nationals, by the way) - not least about foreigners who have invested more than the cap i...

AndrewJB

In response to Paul Waine - see the link below regarding the wealth of the richest thousand people in the UK: http://www.luxuo.com/super-rich/top-1000-richest-in-britain-2016.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They are all residents of the UK, though I'm sure they don't spend all th...

AndrewJB

Not for the first time I find myself in disagreement with Corbyn. I entirely agree that inequality is out of control, and something has to be done about it. However I don't think his (or more accurately, the Labour Party's) proposal goes far enough. To really tackle the problem we need to put a cap ...

AndrewJB

Aren't the Packers owned by the local community? And in comparison with the other cities, Green Bay is a tiny unfashionable backwater. That gets them my vote.

AndrewJB

Regardless of which side you were on, one inescapable fact is it has been extremely divisive. Fifty-two percent to forty-eight percent - and I would say this were the result the other way around - is a result that leaves a lot of people unhappy. The parallel Tory campaigns were spiteful and dishones...

AndrewJB

I would vote remain again. Especially when considering how quickly the leave campaign rowed back on their promises. And Dazzler - that article is a lot of nonsense. Any suggestion that Farage, Gove, Johnson, and the rest aren't part of the political establishment is nuts. And in no way does anyone f...

AndrewJB

Thanks for your 'flat-earther' style contribution, Rowls.

AndrewJB

@TomBenderson - the Conservative governments that took power in '78 and '79 (the federal one for only eight months), ended the experiment not out of lack of money, but lack of imagination. Just as the Tories here were against the establishment of the NHS back in '47 - they couldn't get their heads a...

AndrewJB

Capt John - the "menial" tasks would pay more. Enough to attract people into them under market conditions.

AndrewJB

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/mincome-in-dauphin-manitoba_n_6335682.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As the above article shows, poverty was completely eliminated during the experiment, and it was shut down and shelved by a pair of Conservative governments. I'd say that ...

AndrewJB

I've liked this idea for a very long time, but it's only in the last six or or so years I've discovered it was actually trialed (and very close to where I used to live in Canada - such as it has been kept quiet). The original appeal for me was the simplicity, and efficiency - though you'll see by re...

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