No, but it means you've missed a fantastic week and a half of sport.

GM: 7 out of 10 cars are manufactured overseas Terrible thing this globalisation... GM also happen to have completely separate entities such as GM Europe, who surprise surprise, manufacture in Europe. Add in the fact that countries like China have massive import duties, you're pricing yourself out ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19072677

Sounds a bit odd, create rules that mean you gain an advantage by playing badly, then disqualify the teams who try to take advantage.

Following judo (which I went to watch in person), cycling and track athletics in great detail, though keeping an eye on about half a dozen other sports, particularly kayaking and rowing.

Economic Left/Right: 2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.23



I've jumped quite a bit to the left since I last took this a couple of years ago.

I'll give Hollande a chance, but I really can't see how significantly increasing public spending (and thus borrowing more, increasing the country's debt), along with lowering the retirement age back to 60 is going to help in the long run.

SexxAtraxxion wrote:The Falklands War 30th Anniversary

Well at least you got the name of the islands correct.

Having seen Valentino Rossi at his best, that was just embarrassing to watch.

Rebekah Brooks, having resigned on Friday, has now been arrested.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

coatsy wrote:hardly tory, he backed blair in the 90's, his scottish edition of the sun was backing the scottish nationailst party.

Murdoch just backs whoever he thinks is going to win.

BTW, are there any posters who can explain to me certain things about the laws of physics? For example, how is gravity overcome in this situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgLVhrkUsw And, can someone tell me how inertia is combated in this clip(again in this clip the puzzling gravity makes a...

ijwthstd wrote:Probably more government inertia and the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.

Exactly. Cock-up before conspiracy.

LSDisease wrote:I wish him all the best. At least he's not a hypocrite like Obama.

So you're suggesting that murdering your own citizens is better than hypocrisy?

Walking (the one sport everyone is glad they are NOT good at)

I would like to nominate myself for actually attempting to argue with narrow minded prejudiced idiots.

Yes, I have. Christians follow the New Testament which preaches forgiveness and turning the other cheek, and if you could cite some recent examples of Jews following the letter of the Old Testament whereby they rape, torture or kill masses of innocent people because the Bible commands them to (like...

I admit to being a Tory, but at the same time, great idea to make this speech today Dave, what with the right wing lunatics protesting in Luton... "The point is this: the ideology of extremism is the problem. Islam, emphatically, is not." You seem to have trouble understanding this, don't ...

These are just more examples of the rebellions against the oppressive government. No different from any of the other recent 'colour revolutions'. The fact that these are taking place in Arab states rather than former Soviet states makes no difference. As long as stable governments can be formed quic...

It's an interesting read, but the leaks haven't really released anything that wasn't previously known or at least suspected.

A survey of 600 Muslim students at 30 universities throughout Britain found that 32 per cent of Muslim respondents believed killing in the name of religion is justified. Wow, what a thorough survey, I'm sure those 600 students from 30 of Britain's 120 universities completely accurately represents a...

I was initially all for the leaks as it's interesting to see what really goes on behind the scenes, but this one has me worried: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11923766

has this guy even broken any laws?? besides the rape thing..... I don't think so. Whoever passed the information has broken secrecy laws, but I don't think that you break any laws by hosting them. The US government are considering whether they can charge him with espionage however. Fritz Lang did t...

As said above, the same thing would have happened if she had burned a Bible. And the reason for the section on the significance of the Koran is due to the large amount of ignorance over the beliefs of Islam in the UK. If the item burnt was a Hindu text, they would similarly have commented on how tha...

Iraq's Tariq Aziz, who was recently sentenced to death, was also a 'Christian'. Look him up, do you honestly think anyone who calls themselves a Christian is one? Sure, why not? You believe that anyone who commits acts of terror and claims it's in the name of Islam represents the entire faith, so w...

Nobody is innocent in this Mideast conflict, but those who put the blame on Israel and ignore the other side of this long story are plain wrong to demonize a people who have been persecuted throughout history by the entire rest of the planet. I don't think anybody that should be taken seriously doe...

The BBC has massive influence all over the world. It is one of the major news outlets, and it was once a trustworthy, non-biased source of information. That was before the leftists took over. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23371706-yes-we-are-biased-on-religion-and-politics-admit-bbc-ex...

20th place yesterday. what a fantastic driver.

She's been deeply mediocre in everything she's ever competed in, going right back to Formula Ford in the 1990s. The race at Motegi a couple of years ago was the first car race she had ever won. Her time will be up soon though, one of her major marketing points was that she was a lone woman taking on...

SkyDog112046 wrote:Wimbleton starting, etc...

I'm sorry, where?

NASCAR road course race

Now that is big news, cars that can turn left and right. Even more amazingly, something that managed to make Jacques Villeneuve look not rubbish.

Obviously it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt coming from the Torygraph, but thanks Europe and in turn, thanks for signing the Lisbon Treaty Gordon.