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Local Authority On The Job

I received a letter from Kensington & Chelsea dated 5th June today, 15th June, asking for my bank details for a Low Income Support Payment. I sent them and received t ...

The next day this
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2nd Great British Museum Heist
The first one is here https://medium.com/p/53008f59ffbd

A total of around 2,000 items were either stolen or damaged. They com ...

I have posted up a couple of pieces about this on Medium with some interesting results. The first one was this
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Wanna Buy A Museum?
The British Museum is available. Only one carele ...

Who will monitor the monitors? As they said when I was made nature table monitor. Briefly.

Won't the same thing happen as when we 'cleared out' the old Victorian loonie bins and replaced them with 'Care in the Community'? Ex-cons wandering round town centres making nuisances of themselves? ...

It may be easier for the 'Caring Party' to act tough than the 'Nasty Party'. [And be supported in their measures by 'caring' judges.] As people keep pointing out, a large majority means more trouble f ...

He's obviously a complete git, football-wise, but what I want to know is what the Glazers are getting out of it all. Man Utd can't be a money-machine at the moment and they don't even get the fun of r ...

That was my point. I'd have no grave objections if we go out to Italy. Countries that are multiple pot-holders have it in their blood. They have an expectation of winning, or for some inexplicable rea ...

The Netherlands are the only team I'd rather not come up against. Belgium might beat us but they're ranked above us so that would be no disgrace. France (above), Germany, Spain and Italy (below) would ...

As a self-employed pensioner suffering from fly-tipping, I shall be voting Conservative. (Will they really come round and clear up my living room?)

How to account then for

'material that had been enormously fashionable in the eighteenth century so people collected gems to what may seem now a crazy extent'
in the words of the person who is n ...

The Black Hole is too good for the likes of them.

It will be interesting to see, in both cases, whether they follow their own rules:
1. Nobody is above the law
2. Everybody should be punished for what they did not for who they are.

Football Cops (Channel 4)

Watching this mildly diverting series I was suddenly reminded of what policing was like in the fifties, when I and thirty or forty thousand others watched Charlton at the ...

His father-in-law is going to buy up a bankrupt Britain and asset-strip it, is that the idea? He needs to concentrate on buying up India, he does, what with Modi 'doing a Rishi' as we psephologists ca ...

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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2691 Views: 682664	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:46 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2691 Views: 682664	Local Authority On The Job I received a letter from Kensington & Chelsea dated 5th June today, 15th June, asking for my bank details for a Low Income Support Payment. I sent them and received t ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	Forum: British History Posted: 9:41 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	The next day this ----------------- 2nd Great British Museum Heist The first one is here https://medium.com/p/53008f59ffbd A total of around 2,000 items were either stolen or damaged. They com ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	Forum: British History Posted: 9:17 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	I have posted up a couple of pieces about this on Medium with some interesting results. The first one was this --------------- Wanna Buy A Museum? The British Museum is available. Only one carele ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 12:21 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Who will monitor the monitors? As they said when I was made nature table monitor. Briefly.
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 7:13 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Won't the same thing happen as when we 'cleared out' the old Victorian loonie bins and replaced them with 'Care in the Community'? Ex-cons wandering round town centres making nuisances of themselves? ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 6:49 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	It may be easier for the 'Caring Party' to act tough than the 'Nasty Party'. [And be supported in their measures by 'caring' judges.] As people keep pointing out, a large majority means more trouble f ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:01 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	He's obviously a complete git, football-wise, but what I want to know is what the Glazers are getting out of it all. Man Utd can't be a money-machine at the moment and they don't even get the fun of r ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:26 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	That was my point. I'd have no grave objections if we go out to Italy. Countries that are multiple pot-holders have it in their blood. They have an expectation of winning, or for some inexplicable rea ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:50 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	The Netherlands are the only team I'd rather not come up against. Belgium might beat us but they're ranked above us so that would be no disgrace. France (above), Germany, Spain and Italy (below) would ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 10:19 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	As a self-employed pensioner suffering from fly-tipping, I shall be voting Conservative. (Will they really come round and clear up my living room?)
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	Forum: British History Posted: 9:53 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2723 Views: 733865	How to account then for 'material that had been enormously fashionable in the eighteenth century so people collected gems to what may seem now a crazy extent' in the words of the person who is n ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:35 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	The Black Hole is too good for the likes of them.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2691 Views: 682664	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:32 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2691 Views: 682664	It will be interesting to see, in both cases, whether they follow their own rules: 1. Nobody is above the law 2. Everybody should be punished for what they did not for who they are.
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:48 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3953 Views: 776986	Football Cops (Channel 4) Watching this mildly diverting series I was suddenly reminded of what policing was like in the fifties, when I and thirty or forty thousand others watched Charlton at the ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:46 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4577 Views: 845081	His father-in-law is going to buy up a bankrupt Britain and asset-strip it, is that the idea? He needs to concentrate on buying up India, he does, what with Modi 'doing a Rishi' as we psephologists ca ...