Not sure exactly where this belongs, but Bruce has popped up in this thread a few times.

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He's most notable for running a successful computer games company into the ground. This apparently qualifies him to tell everyone else about every fucking thing.

He's most notable for running a successful computer games company into the ground. This apparently qualifies him to tell everyone else about every fucking thing.

He sets himself up as an infallible authority on everything under the sun, and he's hilariously insane.

Who are we talking about now?

Um, wasn't the problem that you pissed away fortunes on sports cars and motorbikes

Bruce Everiss

He sets himself up as an infallible authority on everything under the sun, and he's hilariously insane. On the day after the election he got temporarily banned from Twitter for tweeting "LOSER" at every single MP that lost their seat.

If I were your employer, I'd make you work nights so I would not have to look at you.

Yeah. I will.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzsfyxACV7M

You fucking coward.

"Imagine a king who fights his own battles"

"Is there no one else?"

Do you imagine that I'm some Conan the Barbarian type figure to be vanquished by your posts on some internet forum?

That's totally how I imagine you. If that's not the case I'm going to be well upset.

Ugh. I'd really rather Greece didn't leave.

Mainly because I made a scenario about it for our business planning, and I don't want it to be shown as the work of spectacular fiction that it was.

As for the Euro, any monetary union without fully centralised fiscal policy ain't gonna last.

There is the advantage that a weakened Euro would be handy for trips to the continent in the upcoming months

As of today the Euro->Pound rate is at its highest for a year.

I am sure most of us have played Civilisation. Would anyone be surprised if Greece announced themselves a vassal state of Germany, with full fiscal control by the Germans?

Sheesh, these people wouldn't last 5 minutes in business, yet they're entrusted to run institutions controlling tens and hundreds of billions of pounds (that they piss away). Gnnngh. ...Greece is flat, flat broke, deal with it already.... Banker's Rocket Science Lesson of the Day: don't lend to people or governments who have no means to repay. Fuck me, you'd have thought the twats would've worked that one out by now.

But how can they ever hope to pay it back?

Ideology over evidence - the ghost of Gove continues at DfE.

But thn, has there ever been a year where politicians haven't felt the need to fiddle with school children

Meanwhile, austerity has deepened the recession in Greece beyond anything seen elsewhere in Europe. Wages have declined to levels not seen since the '90s, unemployment is 25% (and youth unemployment as high as 55%), a 40% increase in the suicide rate (11,000 suicides so far), tens of thousands made homeless, soup kitchens in the streets of Athens serving as many as 400,000 people a day. Many of these metrics are remarkably close to the Great Depression in the '20s, or Germany's economic woes in the late '30s.

Turning failing schools into academies was a New Labour idea, mostly the work of Lord Adonis (the best named peer, ever). Gove and co. just massively expanded it them.

But yes, whilst some schools might benefit from a change of leadership in some situations, it doesn't proceed directly to the view that the academy model is best, or local government oversight/control is always wrong.

But then, has there ever been a year where politicians haven't felt the need to fiddle with schooling?

Uhh, the bankers who lent to Greece and started this merry-go-round *were* the people in business you seem to venerate. They're a more fundamental source of the problem than any current Greek or German politicians. The massive ECB and IMF loans propping up Greece's economy are essentially a bailout of German, French and (to a lesser extent) UK banks who lent money to the Greeks on dodgy loans they couldn't hope to repay. They're underwriting Greek loan repayments; loans on which the bankers have not (yet) accepted any sort of partial losses, I might add.

I don't see how you can shoehorn your reflexive narrative of "public sector bad, private sector good" into that one.

Also, the Greek economy has run at an honest-to-God surplus for most of the last eight quarters, which is much more than the Conservatives have managed in the UK. By your usual metric, the Greek economy is being more competently managed.

Turning failing schools into academies was a New Labour idea, mostly the work of Lord Adonis (the best named peer, ever). Gove and co. just massively expanded it them.

But yes, whilst some schools might benefit from a change of leadership in some situations, it doesn't proceed directly to the view that the academy model is best, or local government oversight/control is always wrong.

But then, has there ever been a year where politicians haven't felt the need to fiddle with schooling?