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Actually, Lagos taxi drivers tend to be pretty good. They have to drive safely as anything but a minor scrape will leave them without an income. Employed drivers ferrying you about in a company vehicle (or worse still, your own) are an entirely different kettle of fish. For ten years, all my comings and goings in Lagos have been by taxi. Cheap and safe.

Yes, though I wasn't necessarily limiting the discussion to just acting skills. Some degree of stage presence is quite enough for, say, the 'Fast & Furious' franchise. Agree with Bowie (obviously) and Jennifer Lopez. Just not familiar with Lady Gaga and Mandy Patinkin. Quite like Beyonce in... actually I just quite like Beyonce 😏 Rap Music isn't really my thing so I'd quite overlooked Idris Elba - that man definitely has serious acting chops. Guess that means the likes of Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur deserve consideration. Aretha Franklin too. I thought she was superb in the Blues Brothers. Blew everyone else off stage.

Saw these guys at the Manchester Opera House in 1977. Still sends tingles through my spine. A couple of years later, I saw Frank at the Ardwick Apollo Just wow! While I'm on with American music - Love were something special But all pale into insignificance when we get to King Crimsom Quite possibly one of my favourite tracks in 13 time.

Bowie, Jagger, Whitney Houston, the cast of the Blues Brothers?, Few can hold a candle to Elton John and Roger Daltrey Except maybe Keith Moon and Tina Turner

A conservative (small 'c') critique of Thatcher vs Farage Obviously. I'm no fan of Thatcher, so for those uncomfortable with my social democratic leanings, this is where another POV thinks we are at.

Not a problem. Have all the sub-committees chaired by the engineers. Experts in limited tolerance and strict deadlines.

E.g. A RAF nod at Ayr war awry a tad on Farage

That IS the purpose of a routine safety check. To that extent, it did its job. This is curious, since I cannot think of an engineering design consultancy in the world that has a better reputation for quality and excellence than the Arup Group. They're really one of a kind, and do not do shortcuts. It will be interesting to see the root cause analysis. Shouldn't prejudge, but this tells a story.

Good point!

This guy always makes me titter.

Use it or lose it?

I'm already weeping into my sour grape curry for them.

I see this sort of thing as a kind of Darwinian intelligence test. We could quite reasonably view every occurrence of the words "edible", "inedible", "poisonous" etc. in non-fiction literature as a little gravestone commemorating the nameless and countless thousands who gave their lives in long past trial and error experiments to establish this knowledge. Those cultures with an inbuilt distrust of "book larnin" may be doomed to repeat those experiments and have themselves removed from the gene pool in true Darwinian fashion.

Burgum eats a pasta emu grub? I've wondered a while whether our House of Lords should be replaced by a House of Nerds appointed not by birth, church, or the ruling polital group in the House of Commons, but by the senates of the 24 Russell group universities in the UK with comprehensive expertise covering all the major academic disciplines. Their major role would be a constitutional power of veto on acts of utter stupidity emanating from the lower house, free (in principal) of the toxic corrupting influences of privilege, ideology, and plutocratic manipulation. Let the climate deniers try and get past that one.

Glad to see that, at least, we can both agree that privatisation of the water industry (another US inspired move) was an unmitigated disaster for the nation. Though I don't quite see how this connects to our discussion of UK immigration. However, since we appear to be allowing the topic to slide into alternative areas, perhaps I can take this opportunity to reassure you that in addition to following Phil Moorhouses centre left oriented channel, I like to balance this with a daily look at the centre-right perspective of Professor Tim Wilson. Hidden amongst the deluge of coverage of today's Clacton election is this hilarious little gem.