I think you will find we had plenty of clout. Now we don't.







Post-factual democracy is the term. It would be interesting if it wasn't so scary. People are easily manipulated and are so because IMO many are just too lazy to bother to find out of there is any basis in what politicians are saying. Far too ready to accept the first thing they read and given the immediacy of the Internet and on-line propaganda from the likes of the Mail far too ready to accept the written word as gospel.



What ever happened to the adage "That just because it is written on a web page doesn't mean it is true?"

I'm just so excited about the [iKing[/i and [iCronus[/i having such friends in high places.

I can't be the only one on here envious of the pair of them, can I?

I once said "Hello Gordon", to Gordon Strachan when Manchester United played Hull City sometime in the eighties and I was playing in the Boy's Brigade Band. He replied; "Hello".



Does that count?

I once went for a pee and was at a urinal between the late Sir Harry Secombe and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Does that count!?

Still laughing about Lebron James' friend is training in a single engine crop sprayer. IF his friend exists then it's not an airline I'd use. A guy who worked as a barman where I stayed for quite a while was saving £30k to start his simulator and classroom based course, unless his "friend" is doing his personal/private licence, not commercial.

I once went for a pee and was at a urinal between the late Sir Harry Secombe and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Does that count!?