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Who would ever have picked Leverkusen's Xabi Alonso as the world's greatest manager? Well, Bayern could have, he played for them for three years. When someone has worked out why all the best managers ...

Given the number of maternity units that are under investigation for abnormally large numbers of fatalities (a hundred and thirty, I think it was, in the case of the Royal Sussex) we can only thank th ...

I too have finished reading it and am now in the process of posting up the result of doing so on medium.

So they've finally got round to the Carer's Allowance. For those of you who don't care this is eighty pounds a week payable to anyone who is a full time carer of, normally, a family member. But don't ...

I find it all too heartbreaking to get involved further. Newsnight ran a piece the other evening on a new report detailing the shocking (and presumably sometimes fatal) failings in NHS neonatal units, ...

I beat my record for views'n'claps for a response of mine to this story https://medium.com/picture-palace/why-you-should-never-date-a-filmmaker-b456445a38db

The glamour of it all though means that ...

Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy.

He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...

Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338

Win a trip to the Paralympic Games
thanks to Visa
This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...

Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...

Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2

Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.

A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.

This state religion evolves into Christianity.
True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...

According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water.
Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...

You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'.

So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East,
They were adopting ...

I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music.
I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.

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Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 745686	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:38 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 745686	Who would ever have picked Leverkusen's Xabi Alonso as the world's greatest manager? Well, Bayern could have, he played for them for three years. When someone has worked out why all the best managers ...
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 10:56 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	Given the number of maternity units that are under investigation for abnormally large numbers of fatalities (a hundred and thirty, I think it was, in the case of the Royal Sussex) we can only thank th ...
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 5:46 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	I too have finished reading it and am now in the process of posting up the result of doing so on medium.
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 686 Views: 183043	Forum: Politics Posted: 12:14 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 686 Views: 183043	So they've finally got round to the Carer's Allowance. For those of you who don't care this is eighty pounds a week payable to anyone who is a full time carer of, normally, a family member. But don't ...
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 10:24 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 133 Views: 86512	I find it all too heartbreaking to get involved further. Newsnight ran a piece the other evening on a new report detailing the shocking (and presumably sometimes fatal) failings in NHS neonatal units, ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:12 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	I beat my record for views'n'claps for a response of mine to this story https://medium.com/picture-palace/why-you-should-never-date-a-filmmaker-b456445a38db The glamour of it all though means that ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:35 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy. He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:06 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338 Win a trip to the Paralympic Games thanks to Visa This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 555679	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:49 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 555679	Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 745686	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:11 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3928 Views: 745686	Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2 Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:48 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	Forum: History Posted: 6:45 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	This state religion evolves into Christianity. True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	Forum: History Posted: 8:55 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water. Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	Forum: History Posted: 8:44 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209909	You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'. So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East, They were adopting ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 648054	I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music. I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.