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Another one for the list if you're in Soho - in my very humble one, at least - is the Crown & Two Chairmen on Dean Street. Extensive range of draught beers if you're into your wanky German/Belgian shit etc., decent atmosphere downstairs and a quieter room upstairs.

Spectacularly specific, but the Old Bridge Inn in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, is lovely - the very epitome of an English country pub in a picturesque location. Cracking beer selection too.

Excellent. Saw a cyclist knock over a girl who was crossing the road on a green man yesterday - didn't even stop to apologise. Fuck 'em.

I reckon the Kermode/Mayo show last week (which Lawson was also on) got it pretty much spot on - Crowe's enough of a pro to know that he failed in nailing any kind of plausible and consistent accent, but vain enough to have nothing in his defence beyond getting pissy about it.

What a fucking prick you are.

I cannot begin to express the extent to which I agree with the above post.

Is Barrichello going to get a reprimand for hoying his steering wheel onto the track like a petulant bairn?

Can't beat a good Kristallweizen. Swine to get over here though.

http://bigbenclocketc.spreadshirt.co.uk/ Fucking hell.

Not pleasant. That's the Newham that went 100% Labour at the council elections, too - having grown up in Newcastle, I'm always amazed by authorities that elect their councillors in one go every four years, as opposed to the rotational system we have. Anyway, not relevant to the point at hand, which is glad he's OK.

They campaigned on electoral fairness though didn't they, and this could hardly be further from that. I am honestly disappointed by their 'cynicism', I had thought they might represent something better than this . Glad the truth is out in the open now though, they'll get little sympathy from me and millions of others at the next election. Oh definitely, I expect a wipeout. But that would have happened whether they'd gone blue, red or non-committal. If all else is lost, you might as well get a few years of sweet, sweet power in the process.

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We'll end up with Moritz Volz.

It's interesting that people are surprised to find the Lib Dems are as careerist and cynical as any other politicians. Apparently they believed the "old politics/new politics" spiel from the leader of the Whigs.

I went to school with a lass who wanted to be Donna Air. I believe she got as far as hosting a show on German MTV. She's on Facebook and is clearly a failed wannabe famous knacker complete with stupid updates that are designed to be off the wall and edgy. Daft question, but it's not Shona Fraser, is it?

Also went to school with Donna Air, which is a crime in itself.

Plus ça change...

It's all the rage these days, Tony Adams just signed up to manage a team in rural Azerbaijan.

If I was so concerned with the DOOM THAT AWAITS ALL OF US, I'd probably have topped myself by now. What's your secret?

I don't have any problem with ID cards or all-purpose payment cards or similar, really. It's more the idea that state-employed buffoons could leave my data wedged down the back of a train seat that's the issue.

No. He normally lets that go. Common practice, German parent company. Shelf toilets?

Fine, fine, I'll be the humourless fucker who points out that Nigeria are NGR. Now if Niger ever got themselves a decent football team... @self

Blairite iirc. His younger brother is more of a lefty. Ed's older. I was about to say "by -4 years", but I should have known Craig would get there first. There's pedantry, there's Rob W's half-arsed equivalent, and then there's Internerd.

This is the official position from the Lib Dem spokesperson on the Labour-Lib Dem talks, for what it's worth: "Key members of Labour's negotiating team gave every impression of wanting the process to fail and Labour made no attempt at all to agree a common approach with the Liberal Democrats on issues such as fairer schools funding for the most deprived pupils and taking those on low incomes out of tax. It became clear to the Liberal Democrats that certain key Labour cabinet ministers were determined to undermine any agreement by holding out on policy issues and suggesting that Labour would not deliver on proportional representation and might not marshal the votes to secure even the most modest form of electoral reform. It is clear that some people in the Labour Party see opposition as a more attractive alternative to the challenges of creating a progressive, reforming government, not least in the context of a Labour leadership election campaign."

For the environments sake? Fuck that shit. It would have produced jobs and income. And more excuses for BA staff to strike.