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[philmophlegm]

"NHS 111 to blame for rise in A&E attendances is a really dreadful explanation for something that did, in fact, not happen". (Thankyou Steer for a good piece of analysis.)

Ed Miliband thinks that an Italian who runs an American company and lives in Monaco should pay "his (British) taxes". This is a Labour policy I can get behind - get foreigners

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[jordan179]

Ed Miliband thinks that an Italian who runs an American company and lives in Monaco should pay "his (British) taxes". This is a Labour policy I can get behind - get foreigners with no connection to the UK to pay all our taxes. Brilliant. I would totally vote for this policy. (When you think about it, it’s pretty much the policy that successive Greek governments have adopted for years…)

The funny (or sad) thing about this that Ed Miliband either does not realize that the man probably owes no British taxes, is so stupid that he assumes everyone owes Britain taxes, or simply assumes that his supporters are so stupid that they imagine that everyone owes Britain taxes. Also, the reporter either failed to grasp or intentionally did not mention the point that the man probably owes no British taxes.

Really, this is flat-out argument ad hominem, and with a nationalistic flavor to it "He's a foreigner! What does he know?"

[steer]

Pleased to have been of service.

[jane_somebody]

Has anyone else read ‘A World of Ice and Fire’? Lovecraft references I can take, but Sesame Street…?

I haven't so I don't know that reference, but honestly, as much as I admire the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, I still haven't recovered from High Lord Kevin. I assume it is a transatlantic thing, that the name doesn't have quite the same resonances over there...

[philmophlegm]

It's brilliant that the sequence of Old High Lords goes:
Berek Halfhand
Damelon Giantfriend
Loric Vilesilencer
Kevin.

I haven't got the final book yet and have decided to listen to the entire series on audiobook before I read it. Currently about halfway through The Illearth War, so a while to go yet.

In the World of Ice and Fire book, there are plenty of Cthulhu Mythos references, but also at the stuff about House Tully, you'll see Ser Kermit Tully, who was the son of Elmo Tully!

[meistergedanken]

Always a big fan of Donaldson. Ironically, he used to live not far from where I do now (central Ohio), and he lives currently in New Mexico, very close to an old friend of mine who is also a "Covenant" fan, so for Christmas last year he got me an autographed copy of the last book, that he picked up at a local bookstore where Donaldson was having a Q & A. And G.R.R. Martin also lives in New Mexico, so I have an autographed copy of "Game of Thrones". (Sadly, only in paperback). They show up on my "shelfie" photos that I recently put up.

[philmophlegm]

Jealous on both counts...