Bye bye Gordon

VOTE NO!

You know it makes sense.

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Ingerland

You have to laugh at the sheer fantasy of it:

The Football Association has set England coach Fabio Capello the target of reaching at least the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup or Euro 2012. 

But fear not:

There are also plans to appoint a new performance director, who will work with Capello, not above him, Barwick, Under-21 boss Stuart Pearce and FA chairman Lord Triesman.

UPDATE Fantastic comment below from Ross:

"The Football Association has set England coach Fabio Capello the target of reaching at least the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup or Euro 2012. "

Capello could achieve this easily but they should have added that they want him to do this 'whilst coaching England'.

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Is the BBC out of control? 

Via Centre Right, I've just seen this BBC advert:

Lord above. 
 
I know the BBC thinks of itself as being the ultimate arbiter of pretty much everything, with the divine right to act as it sees fit, but do the people behind this really think it appropriate to put out an ad with the specific purpose of frightening the bejesus out of the population and telling them who's boss? That in today's world, the BBC knows everything about you and will use that information?

Yes, of course databases exist. That's a big issue in its own right. But this is just plain sinister. And deliberately so.

Is the BBC out of control?

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How's Arabella's hunger strike going?

Got the munchies, yet, love?

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Gutting the legal system

Tim Worstall flags up just how ludicrous this story is. 

Here's the story:

A convicted drugs criminal has escaped an order to have up to £4.5 million of his assets confiscated because no legal aid barrister would take on the case.

More than 30 barristers from London, Leeds and Sheffield were approached to represent the offender, but refused because they felt the new fixed-rate legal aid fees of £175.25 per day does not justify the complex workload that would be involved.

[I]n their mad urge to gut the legal system (one of the things that only government can do and therefore must do) to save money to be spent on outreach workers (something that others than government can do and thus government need not do) they entirely screw themselves: for the lack of a few hundred pounds a day they lose the £1.5

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