And that is wrong :(

Free the files!

At least Brown was elected. There's no reason that Mandleson, or indeed anyone the party appoints, couldn't be PM.

Are you mad? The staff with the seniority to sign out that amount of data all live south of the river. It'll be found on the 0815 to Waterloo. Or, more likely, the 507...

Bzzt. Wrong. The only people who call NICE 'nasty' are the same ones who refer to it as a DEATH PANEL OF DEATH, RUN BY NAZIS. Specifically, Americans.

Quick, without looking it up, tell me what the stopping distances are, including reaction time, at 40, 50, 60, and 70 mph. How many school kids are being taught that sort of stuff?

And by the time you've recalled the appropriate stopping distance for the speed, you've just ploughed straight into the car in front without slowing. The only reason it's taught is to show the differences. All that needs to be taught and tested is 'keep your distance and maintain it at all costs'.

But then I live in a country with bends, and shit.

Everyone seems to forget that Mandy's batting for the other side. The butts will be firm, yes, but the boobies will not be what you were after...

Pretty sure you mean ducts. Duct tape being the tape commonnly mis-heard as duck tape. Until someone capitalised on this and started branding crap gaffer tape as 'duck tape'

The Telegraph may not buy it either, but by redacting the addresses they can continue to use the 'in the public interest' argument. If they start printing addresses, then it becomes a whole different kettle of fish as that was the one thing the Information Commisioner was allowing to be blacked out, with the exception of the first 3 chars of the postcode.

Personally, I think they should have been published intact by the Commons, but that's just my opinion!

I'd be interested if you could show me how it's incorrect to say 'BT buy their ' vs 'BT buys its '. Until you do, you're a crap grammar nazi. Impolite disagreement would be me finishing off the sentence by calling you a cunt, btw. That's how you can tell the difference.

BT is not a single entity. BT Internet is one, BT Wholesale another, BT Openreach is another again.
If, however, your concern is that I talk about the entities as if they were people (very much like Soylent Green. Om nom nom) then I will, politely, have to disagree with your attitude. The impolite disagreement is that you've obviously got far too much time to worry about trivialities and, really, ought to get over it.

BT Internet are a separate division to the organisation that owns the physical backbone. In theory, BT internet buy their wholesale access in exactly the same way as any other ADSL provider.
So if BT internet play silly buggers with iPlayer you can migrate and you will see a difference, provided that the problem lies with the isp and the amount of money they're prepared to spend on their backhaul and pipe. If the problem is that if the BT Wholesale network can't cope, then that's a different kettle of fish!

I think you'll find that the DV (developed vetting) process doesn't expect people to be angels. And that is how it should be. It expects the applicant to be honest with the people who need to know and allows them to build a bigger picture of anyrisk you may pose.

An affair doesn't make an officer inherently disloyal to everyone, that's far to simplistic a view to take. If there's a pattern of behaviour, then that is a different matter. Same with finances. If your forever dipping into an overdraft or are mortgaged up the wazoo, then you pose a different risk to someone who's had bad credit in the past but is now exemplary.

The problem is that this system relies on people being able to hand over this information in confidence. If people realise that this is no longer secure, then that vetting scheme is fundamentally broken.

I think it's about the time you start asking that question. Still, carpet slippers *are* comfy.

Because a Sinclair C5 with machine guns lends a new dimension of terror to a pursuit :p

Amusingly, the application forms used by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency in the UK still have a space for people to make their mark as well as a signature box.