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Don Pearson

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Is the Queen's english the same as the Queen's English?

@neil Interesting. The silence of the Conservatives and its media hounds is not surprising, given that the party is only ever electable if it convinces people that it represents their aspirations. In fact,  it represents and serves the elite. @Paul In answer to your original question in the first post, you obviously can not "take it that everyone is in agreement."

@Andysport , Apologies. My post was off-topic as far as providing you with useful information.

14 Oct 2013

@neilh naughty. However, it has always been obvious to me that any American company will have been subject to pressure to ensure NSA access. For instance, if you were seriously dodgy, would you trust the integrity of any system or any encryption provided by Microsoft?

@neilh Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Clearly nobody who believes that people are the property of the state in which they happen to be born, bound to obey its laws, even if the state itself does not.

Will come on a broom
11 Oct 2013

Such harrassment could be a criminal offence and it may be worth contacting the police. From Protection from Harassment Act 1997. Prohibition of harassment. (1) A person must not pursue a course of conduct— (a) which amounts to harassment of another, and (b) which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other. (2) For the purposes of this ...

@Paul An idea for you to consider from a pompous old git: Absorb what people say on the merits of their case, rather than who they are. I am an atheist but do not dismiss what a religious person says simply because they are religious. As another example, I do not assume that I know better than younger people just because I am older. Don

..and you can always put people up on a settee in the living room. Perhaps they will reclassify those as bedrooms too.

Dawlish Wants
10 Mar 2013

@jools88 fairly clear, I think.

9 Mar 2013

Elect politicians (or appoint a town manager) for one year only and call them the King or Queen. Crowning to be a major celebration. Let them live in style. At the end of the year have a vote as to whether or not they have been successful. If so, they must retire. If not, they are sacrificed on the Lawn to the Black Swans, with much merry-making. Major tourist attraction for the Summer. ...