There are at least hundreds, if not thousands of places to eat in that area, so you might have to be a bit more specific.

Two I like:

Pitt Cue Co., Newburgh Street – American Barbecue, often a big queue.
Hare & Tortoise, Brunswick Centre – Japanese/Malay, generally a smaller queue.

Coalition is sticking to wasteful PFI funding

I hope something has changed since then, but I imagine nothing has. I guess they’re perfect for modern politics, you deliver new projects without any spending, and leave the next guy to pick up the pieces.

I bumped into Kate Moss in a nightclub in Soho once.

Do we have a consensus? The one thing about PFI is that I can’t recall a single person outside the Blair/Brown axis of twatdom that thought it was a good idea.

Apart from the Major government that introduced them, and the coalition government that is continuing to agree to them. I really have no idea why successive governments are so keen on them. They always seem to be far more expensive than if the government were to just borrow the money through the normal channels and complete the project themselves, so why do we keep signing up to them? Do they not count as central government borrowing or something this way? Allows the politicians to massage the figures and pretend they aren’t spending the money?

Minions/High Rollers/Nobby Nics/Rubber Queens – all popular all-round UK choices. I tend to run the same tyres all year round, but would imagine that at most you’d need 4 types:

Mud – Medusa/Black Shark Mud/Mud King
General Winter – Minion/Nobby Nic/Rubber Queen
General Summer – Advantage/Racing Ralph/Race King
Hardpack – High Roller Semi Slick/Sammy Slick/Twister Supersonic

Its also worth pointing out that the line “If we allow for inflation, there will be a modest reduction” is very much dependent upon predicted inflation levels, actual rates of inflation may well differ, leading to a potential situation where there have been no real terms cuts at all…

So if government spending is not going down, despite reducing funding to the NHS, increasing tuition fees, cutting benefits and making thousands redundant, then what was the point of all that, and where is the money going?

200 in 24 hours is very doable, if you can keep going for 24 hours.

Ashford International Station?

The Conservatives supported the Iraq war, I think the problem most people have with Labour is over the so called “dodgy dossier” that justified the war. However, even without that we’d almost certainly have ended up in Iraq sooner or later, whoever was in power.

It would make no major difference. Maybe slight growth driven by government spending. Whether that spending would be in the right areas to eventually produce sustainable growth is anyone’s guess.

Ultimately this whole crisis has its roots in the 1980s with the deregulation of financial services, privatisation of much of our public sector, and focus on the service industries over maintaining a diversity in our economy. The boom it produced looked good throughout the 1990s so Labour carried on with most of it, but it’s only now that we realise the real problems that it has left us with.

There’s a market and demand for infinite energy.
I take it the only reason no one has started a business that sells this infinite energy is that they don’t want to pay tax?

If this theoretical exodus of the 1% did occur, you’d really only be loosing the CEOs, directors and executives, not the research scientists, who are almost exclusively employed by our universities, whose funding has just been cut.

So we could sack everyone who works in the public sector, and then if they apply for unemployment benefit we could force them to do their old job for £50 a week as “community service”. Imagine how much money we could save if we didn’t have to pay all those pesky teachers/nurses/doctors/firemen/policemen/civil servants. We could even do it to the people who work at the jobcentres!

The French have tried similar adverts to those suggested earlier, except comparing cigarette smoking to abuse/sex slavery. They were pretty controversial:

Could someone email me a copy of the diet too?
pleaderwilliams AT gmail DOT com
thanks.

No-one?

Could someone email me a copy of the diet too?

pleaderwilliams AT gmail DOT com

thanks.

You can’t offshore public sector jobs because the public sector is part of the government, run for the benefit of this country. Offshoring any job is of no benefit whatsoever to this country.

So essentially both Jimmy Carr and Vodaphone used overseas companies based in tax havens to reduce their tax bill. Jimmy Carr’s scheme was apparently totally legal, and may have cost the country around £1.5 million. Vodafone schemes may have been totally legal, but was never proven either way, one would think that Vodafone wouldn’t have settled if they were totally sure of its legality. That scheme may have cost the country around £3 billion. Yet Jimmy Carr is morally wrong and Vodafone don’t deserve a mention?

SportsPursuit are legit, I have bought from them before.

Sounds like you want a Sektor Dual Position Coil, which have 30mm of travel adjust, so 140mm-110mm. The RL version has lockout, whereas the TK version doesn’t, but is a bit cheaper.

But mostly it’s differences of opinion – which I suspect the OP is confusing with right/wrong – unless he knows EVERYTHING?

Any amount of observation would surely make it obvious to you that everyone who has ever posted on STW knows EVERYTHING?

Only subjects I can think of that would be better/as good as medicine in terms of jobs prospects/pay would be:

Dentistry
Vets
Law – Russell Group Uni then London Law Firm
Economics/Maths/Engineering – Top 5 university then job in the city.

There seems to be the same argument here today, but backwards about doctors. -ie “its not fair they get paid so much compared to an architect”. Well, same except no one has mentioned the “struck off or prosecuted” bit yet.

Arguably getting prosecuted or struck off is your own fault for not doing your job properly, although I can understand there are sometimes complicating circumstances. However, you can be struck off or prosecuted as an architect as well, and you’re much more likely to be made redundant as huge numbers of practices go bust every recession, and you’re much worse rewarded when you are in work. I think comparing any highly-trained profession to architecture is a bad idea, because architecture is not looking like a profession with a great future at the moment.

FunkyDunc – Member
Peterfile – I’d be very surprised if the senior partner in a law firm or architect practice earns the same or less than a hospital consultant, or will receive less income in retirement.
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I can tell you, working in Architecture, that salaries are nowhere near those of doctors. Architects need a minimum of 7 years training and would be very lucky to start on 27k after that. A typical project architect after 7 years of training and 10 years experience might be around 40-45k. To be getting to the 120k mark people are talking about for doctors would mean being very senior in a major practice, or owning a smaller practice. Average salary for an architect in the uk is around 50k, and that is mainly because a lot of architects take the financial risks involved in owning and running their own business. Salaried architects very rarely get over 50k.

http://www.99designs.co.uk/

So what you’re saying is that your LBS charges such a high margin that it can give away ‘free’ seatposts and wheels?

Shopping around and shopping online has easily saved me enough money over the years that I could go out and buy several wheels and seatposts with the savings. Isn’t that essentially the same as paying higher LBS prices and eventually getting some stuff for free?

If you want a properly waterproof jacket then just stick to Gore-Tex or eVent and you should be ok. Gore-Tex test all jacket designs to make sure the quality of design/manufacture matches their fabrics, so if Tog24 do still make gore-tex jackets, they should be decent quality. Just avoid own-brand fabrics, particularly from the cheaper manufacturers.

And as I understand it Laffer doesn’t just refer to movement of people but also the motivation for higher productivity. If “I” am earning £100k a year (I’m definitely not), and can work harder/smarter/more efficiently/take a bit of a risk with my career to earn £200k then my motivation for doing that is different if I actually get 70k to spend (as per proposed) or 50k to spend (as per status quo – assuming no ‘loopholes excercised’). Apply that logic across whole companies and you start to see the effect on the ecconomy. Then companies say “British people are lazy / too conservative etc – lets move out operation elsewhere…”

However TJ, if Laffer is nonsense – why does the SNP want the ability to control corporate taxation? Why has no scottish government implemented tartan tax… …i’ll accept its an oversimplification but nonsense?

Laffer isn’t nonsense, however, all the theory really says is that at 0% tax and 100% tax, tax income is £0, and that somewhere in between there is a point at which tax income is maximised. I think everyone can agree that that much is true. Unfortunately no-one agrees what rate of tax is optimal, as it depends on a huge number of variables, including motivation of the work force, and attracting/putting off workers/businesses. Studies have found that anything from 24% to 70% might be optimal, depending on the particular situation they are studying, and of course on the bias of those doing the studies.

You are welcome to say that tax increases will actually decrease tax income, and others are can say that they wont. You will both be able to point to evidence (albeit flawed) to back up your point of view, but the reality is that no-one really knows until a long time afterwards.

Boardman, all the way either race bike, hardtail or full suss. They are all class at that price.

Agreed, unfortunately they aren’t available through “Cycle Scheme”, only through Halford’s “Cycle 2 Work” scheme.

Rather what I thought about offers, there don’t seem to be many 2011 bikes left around anyway.

Is no-one doing a decent full suspension bike for under £1000 this year? Otherwise, whats the hive mind’s opinion on the best value hardtails for 2012?

CRC do:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=14490

As far as I know these are common to all Avid Brakes, not just the Juicy’s.

http://www.viceroyswood.co.uk/
http://www.coedllandegla.com/

The Earth?

http://phys.org/news176582720.html

GT Distortion? http://www.southerndownhill.com/reviews/bikes/gt-distortion-20-first-look.html

GT Distortion 2011 first ride

It does work, it’s where Gary_C got his info from.

Not much mountain biking in that..

http://www.clarionhouse.org.uk/ (first result from Googling “Clarion Teahouse”.)

Nukeproof Warhead, wider and lighter than either the Havoc or the V1.

Then they start posting pictures and videos of cats bicycles on forums and facebook. Then they realise they aren’t getting real love talent from the cat bicycle, its they are just pretending for food other people’s respect, so they get another, and another and another, desperately in search of something that just isn’t there.

FTFY

I don’t think it’s cat owners, just certain people. You only need to look through a few threads on here to see that some people will take any excuse to post pictures of their dog/bike/child. Pets do seem to be the worst though, and dogs and cats are the most common of those.

Since its for a good cause I feel a bit bad getting it so cheaply, these are going for £80-£120 on eBay. Since I cant get onto paypal at work I’m happy to leave the bidding open for the rest of the day, and if no one else comes along I’ll make the donation tonight.

To be fair I don’t think you can blame selective breeding for aggressive behaviour, you have to remember that domestic dogs are all bred from wolves, and I’m not sure there are many breeds that you’d say are more dangerous than a wolf.

£60.