chrisp65

absolute record First question on QT was about tax cut vs disability benefit cut. First answer was tory woman who blamed it on the last Labour government. I didn't have the stop watch going, but I made that less than 5 seconds.

As my missus sometimes reads VT for the lolz it's important to point out I have never done this. Never.

and that's the nub of everything We need to consume less, yet we are trying to buy and sell our way out of an economic crisis. We need to educate people against over consumption of everything, but our schools are soon to be privatised purveyors of tat. What we really need is the accelerated arrival of the Chrisp65 People's Jamahiriya Benign Dictatorship. It's coming, don't despair, it's coming. Touch the screen, pledge ten dollars.

that's a **** storming barrow load of tunes there, Prince Fatty is on my list for the weekend... Do you think that overdosing on 6 or 7 albums in one hit will have you satisfied and higher for longer? Or will you find yourself casually picking up something dirty for £3.99 in a couple of days time when you're coming down?

You promise not to do the design layouts, I'll promise not to sit in the dark talking in binary or Linus or whatever it is.

Somewhere deep in the midlands Nicky Keyes just pulled the data plug out of the office phone.

he can ~@2%4!+'~' {]1%£$& 0(`## right off, that's what's going to happen paper and folders now encroaching by up to 15mm on to my desk my lovely, pristine, end of the office, away from monkey island, not overlooked by anyone, double windows, desk

Bloody hell, similar but wrong model in a similar but different advert. Glad this was marketing research and not a professional hit as per my day job, that'd be an invoice I couldn't send out.

We've just had a little re shuffle in the one office I work from and I've got a new 'buddy' in my corner. He doesn't appear to understand the concept of a telephone. He can pick up the handset ok, he dials the number ok, but when the other person answers he appears to be under the impression you then have to SHOUT AS LOUD AS YOU CAN BECAUSE THE OTHER PERSON IS VERY VERY FAR AWAY. First time I was in and he made a call, everyone else turned, stared and smiled. My paranoia suggests I've been stitched up. He also has piles upon piles of paper on his desk. He prints off e-mails.

is it Emma Leth ? whatever you do, don't scroll down slightly NSFW in a tasteful way

teachers creeping ever closer to a 25 hour day

U.S. President not to get involved in politics, but U.S. business man Ruper Murdoch is entitled to relentlessly push his opinion? Bizarre.

Hive Window or Door Sensor Use the self adhesive pad enclosed with your pack and attach the larger wireless sensor to your window or door and the smaller sensor to the frame. If your window or door is open or closed, Hive will send an alert to your mobile, tablet or laptop. Hive Motion Sensor Our wireless Motion Sensor uses infra-red technology to detect motion in your home. You can choose to receive alerts to your mobile, tablet or laptop. Easy to install, just place on a surface or use the self adhesive tape to attach to the corner of a wall. well, I've managed to make a horlicks of the cut n paste - but you get the idea, pretty basic tech really, nothing that didn't already exist - plugs fire up the lamps (plug cost more than the lamps!) there are now bulbs you can control and even dial in different colours on your phone. Trusted Reviews have done a comparison, it's not a great review, but it does make the point that the Hive hub is battery operated so you can stick it anywhere and there are no cables. Trusted Reviews

....which is sugar free

The Very Best of Neil Diamond

If Richard Desmond, the channel islander Barclay brothers, U.S. national Ruper Murdoch and the non-domicile 4th Viscount Rothermere all tell me he's interfering and is a wrong 'un, that's good enough for me.

there you go folks, we've taken enough off the disabled to give to the high earners Robert PestonVerified account‏@Peston Cutting benefits to disabled raises £1.2bn, which is same as cost of cutting capital gains tax & raising 40% tax threshold. #Budget2016

All steady as she goes, inherited a national debt of 900 million in 2010, cut public services, cut taxes for the rich, UK national debt now 1.5 trillion and forecast to rise another 100 or 200 million this year. The time was ripe for a tax cut for people earning 45k a year.

Jam, Precious absolutely storming 12" single, currently on the third play and it is very loud which I guess means it's in the wrong thread...

I kind of based my admittedly arbitrary thinking on that 1860's thing, the Civil War, Lincoln, abolition of slavery, emancipation proclamation, the 13th amendment, the 14th amendment. All that malarkey. Surely it was a profoundly different country after the 1860's? In law, if not in day to day life. I do appreciate there was an 'america' before the civil war, but I really don't know enough to get in too deep.

Hmmm, not too sure. But then I'm new to the whole American history thing. I think if you take the 1860's as the starting point of the United States, from that point onward the rights of blacks, indigenous and Mexicans were written in to the law. They may not have been enforced well, they may have been ignored locally over great swathes of land and doubtless there have been 150 years of terrible abuses. But I don't think the U.S. was founded as a white supremacist state. What it was, was a classic example like every state, of those in power writing the rules to protect themselves and preserve their advantage. As always, happy to be educated on this one....

I was amazed the Sun went so early with that Queen cover. I'd have thought that would be ripe for use the day before the referendum. But yes, we'll see some corking good stuff in the Mail and Sun these next few months. Be sure, if a brown person or a Frenchy, or a brown Frenchy rapes a goat, gets a council flat, bumps his car or drops litter anywhere in Hampshire, Berkshire or Surrey in the next 3 months, you are going to get a pull out special all about it. I believe The Express has already suggested the paint on Diana's forehead was from a stolen camel.

solved, next problem....