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Absurdity knows no bounds
Irony gives up eats shoots and leaves ;)
Pcar
@golf charlie, Feb 8, 2018 at 7:56 PM
RE:
Mr Soros is no stranger to controversy.
He is widely known as the man who broke the pound, after helping force sterling out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism in 1992
Amusing how the Left reverses their like/hate
1992
Soros was an evil capitalist for profiting from UK's ERM debacle
Russia / Fed. of Russian States / Soviet Union was good
2010 Both reversed: Soros = Good; Russia = Evil
Pcar
Tomo
"an informed and articulate contrarian"
Is there such an animal?
The BBC struggled to find any professional scientists to fit the bill, and so did Parliamentary committees. They usually ended up interviewing politicians like Lord Lawson or accountants like Andrew Montford.
Entropic man
Eiffel Tower iced up.
Coldest Winter Olympics ever.
Al Gore can't be at both venues, without burning a lot of Jet Fuel.
golf charlie
"As investment in China increased, pollution overall decreased.
Source: The Undercover Economist by @TimHarford "
... Hmm some people might want to believe that
..building giant dams leads to times when you might emit less pollution than with coal generation.
But overall more cars, more population increases it
... then later better cleaner system might reduce some.
stewgreen
Mandating official ID to go online to "protect democracy" - in a country where you don't need ID to vote?
London's Russian Embassy nails it two days in a row.
stewgreen
too many insurance brokers/companies are imho as bad as the cash for crash crew. The spread in quotes can be enormous and the coverage T&C game has gotten utterly ludicrous. The insurance market needs to clear out its own fraudsters and since it is a legal requirement to have insurance - the scoring of premium quotes should be more transparent - if you can unequivocally identify yourself - which is why the bleating about ethnic targeting lacks much beyond anecdotal evidence.
The whining about the Mo Premium actually has many of the signs of an activist contrived outrage circus.
tomo
Tonight 8pm R4 Therese Coffey MP (Environment Minister) is on Any questions
stewgreen
@Tomo re the Mo premium
The Radio4 Radio report failed to mention
#1 Sun had a much bigger report last week
#2 Also even tho Male/female discrimination was supposed to have ended in Dec 2012
the current claim is the gap is wider than ever
You can't quote for fake people verses real people...(cos they are on the electoral roll)
The problem is you can't compare real people to imaginary people.. changing a name or gender on a "test quote" mean you loose all the credit history & accident history & DVLA Keeper registrations etc.. Many More consequences that have real affect on price not the name/gender...
stewgreen
I'm sure electric cars will be pushed, especially if expected to fulfil the whole gamut of fossil fuel vehicles' duties.
rhoda
@stewgreen, Feb 9, 2018 at 12:25 PM
Tomo is correct, indicators of higher probability of insurance fraud.
I'd imagine Wayne and Chardonay receive higher quotes than Matthew and Rebecca
Underwriters correctly doing their job.