Alex

Don't be a cant

Think it's canny nice but the cheap stuff is ropey. The sugar cube ritual stuff is pretty preposterous though iyam. Just have it with equal parts absinthe and ice cold water with sugar syrup (to taste). It's a bit 'Bovril', as CT would say, though

RIP. Think everyone of a certain age would've seen a load of his programmes whilst growing up

You don't have to try, it comes naturally

That's probably more than the first installment on Pickford too.

Nice pic of the best punch of the contest

Does he do the Jamaican version of University Challenge?

Let us be clear, he had no beard.

The scum who write for them and the editors playing to the scum who reads it.

May gets called a coward with plenty justification but the only reason she's still leading her party is because none of her fellow Tory MPs have the balls to take over for the EU talks

Bad stoppage but Ward deservedly won. Again

Fairly self-evident I'd have thought

Bet RTG was awash with rumours he was a MLF until they found out he wasn't interested

Not really. I've only ever really heard it used in regard to spirit measures or camera lenses. I'm sure that Argos bloke on youtube uses it a lot though

Cream of Sum Yung Gi

Not if you have to explain it anyone who isn't a nerd

Erm.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(Yurick_novel)

Aye, it's a good film. I quite liked the 'new' director's cut or whatever with the added comic strip style bits too. It's a bit dated but still worth a watch I reckon.

Once we leave the EU we can go back to 1/5 or 1/6 of a Gill?

Probably not the right place or time for the debate but it's not much in terms of basic salary relative to the importance and responsibilty of the role. The expenses issue still hasn't properly been addressed and by paying them more that could probably be stopped altogether. I appreciate your post is sarcastic but, to me, they should receive more in terms of salary but not get the expenses which would lead to more transparency. The conflict of interests could be partially addressed be not allowing other business interests as previously mentioned. Your attitude is actually beneficial to the status quo though and representative of the way it would be portrayed in the media. Of course MPs themselves are largely to blame for attitudes towards them thanks to things like the expenses scandal. I think we need to ask ourselves if the current system is provided the best people possible to do what are extremely important jobs. One look at Cabinet and politicians in general answers that. Where I work we've got several contractors on our books working for a government agency who earn more than MPs. Now they're good software developers but they're also '10 a penny' in terms of what is available in London (for example) where a lot of them work. It's not really difficult to see why there's a dearth of talented politicians.

If only there was some resource you had access to at the moment which could furnish you with that data

Yep.

The conflict of interest issue she raises is a one that applies to pretty much everything and highlights again the need for MPs to be properly renumerated but also unable to have other business interests, directorships etc. It won't prevent corruption altogether but it would be a bloody good start.