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The Cancellation of Kenny Everett (Channel 5)

A fairly routine mix of clips, voice over and celebrity fans stretched out over an hour and a half. It featured one event in Everett's career that has ...

I'm in need of a bit of help over a project I've got going. It involves British education policy, about which I know everything except one vital point

What makes one school better than another.
N ...

What do you do about people who have got one of these new algorithms that lets emails through that it predicts the recipient will want to see and 'loses' without trace those they don't? It's happened ...

You have probably heard that India has a vast array of 'news channels'. I put it in quotes because they are all propaganda organs (more than ordinarily, that is), overwhelmingly favourable to Narendra ...

I thought this brief extract from An Unreliable History of the Second World War might be topical

Stalin began Operation Iran by encouraging Azerbaijani separatists in northern Iran to rise up and d ...

To be honest if the Shia have the bomb, the Sunnis simply must have one too. Saudi Arabia will be the first.
To be honest, they will be the second after Pakistan.

The Iranians after years of suces ...

Man Utd 0 Wolves 1

Who knew: (a) Glazer/Ineos United would saddle themselves with a new manager and a new striker who look as if they're on their first school trip abroad and (b) you can buy old go ...

Expected Goals (xG)
Match of the Day's weird statistic has now been running for several seasons. I accept they won't ever explain what it actually means (Wiley did once, I seem to remember, though I ...

Chelsea are an infuriating side, lashings of talent in all areas (especially on the bench and out on loan) but always scratching about for wins because of a lack of goals. Despite having lashings of t ...

An Exercise in Transfigurative Geometry

1. Chelsea have a free kick, on the left, just outside the box.
2. Fulham put up a two-man wall.
3. Chelsea forward strikes free kick towards goal.
4. I ...

Its not just a case of say mass hysteria, (millenium bug), bed wetting without statistical evidence.
The one thing we did have in spades was statistical evidence. It didn't seem to help though. You s ...

An altogether different shopping experience when I got home. It was time for a new suffusion of coffee pods so I went on the Nessun Dorma website where Nescaff had an Easter Offer. I seized it gratefu ...

Leicester 0 Liverpool 1

The bloke on the telly announced that the Liverpool manager, Arne Slot, would be the first Dutch manager to win the Premier title. The camera then panned onto Dutch manager, ...

You might all take part in a quick Old Hat experiment by completing this questionnaire

Were you already aware of this theory?
If yes, give whatever details you can recall of when you first heard i ...

I kept getting the same impression. It's difficult to recall all these years later but I do remember thinking quite often that the MSM were giving the Chinese totally irrelevant stick for doing things ...

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Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2556 Views: 1241823	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:15 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2556 Views: 1241823	The Cancellation of Kenny Everett (Channel 5) A fairly routine mix of clips, voice over and celebrity fans stretched out over an hour and a half. It featured one event in Everett's career that has ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:13 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	I'm in need of a bit of help over a project I've got going. It involves British education policy, about which I know everything except one vital point What makes one school better than another. N ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:55 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	What do you do about people who have got one of these new algorithms that lets emails through that it predicts the recipient will want to see and 'loses' without trace those they don't? It's happened ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:49 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	You have probably heard that India has a vast array of 'news channels'. I put it in quotes because they are all propaganda organs (more than ordinarily, that is), overwhelmingly favourable to Narendra ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:47 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	I thought this brief extract from An Unreliable History of the Second World War might be topical Stalin began Operation Iran by encouraging Azerbaijani separatists in northern Iran to rise up and d ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:42 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 2037 Views: 710107	To be honest if the Shia have the bomb, the Sunnis simply must have one too. Saudi Arabia will be the first. To be honest, they will be the second after Pakistan. The Iranians after years of suces ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:32 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Man Utd 0 Wolves 1 Who knew: (a) Glazer/Ineos United would saddle themselves with a new manager and a new striker who look as if they're on their first school trip abroad and (b) you can buy old go ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:50 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Expected Goals (xG) Match of the Day's weird statistic has now been running for several seasons. I accept they won't ever explain what it actually means (Wiley did once, I seem to remember, though I ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:37 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Chelsea are an infuriating side, lashings of talent in all areas (especially on the bench and out on loan) but always scratching about for wins because of a lack of goals. Despite having lashings of t ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:19 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	An Exercise in Transfigurative Geometry 1. Chelsea have a free kick, on the left, just outside the box. 2. Fulham put up a two-man wall. 3. Chelsea forward strikes free kick towards goal. 4. I ...
Topic: What I did in the epidemic
Mick Harper Replies: 79 Views: 3368	Forum: Health Posted: 6:53 am Subject: What I did in the epidemic
Mick Harper Replies: 79 Views: 3368	Its not just a case of say mass hysteria, (millenium bug), bed wetting without statistical evidence. The one thing we did have in spades was statistical evidence. It didn't seem to help though. You s ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:44 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 3144 Views: 1934553	An altogether different shopping experience when I got home. It was time for a new suffusion of coffee pods so I went on the Nessun Dorma website where Nescaff had an Easter Offer. I seized it gratefu ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:20 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4339 Views: 3879669	Leicester 0 Liverpool 1 The bloke on the telly announced that the Liverpool manager, Arne Slot, would be the first Dutch manager to win the Premier title. The camera then panned onto Dutch manager, ...
Topic: Medium Stories of AE Relevance
Mick Harper Replies: 21 Views: 1348	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 5:24 am Subject: Medium Stories of AE Relevance
Mick Harper Replies: 21 Views: 1348	You might all take part in a quick Old Hat experiment by completing this questionnaire Were you already aware of this theory? If yes, give whatever details you can recall of when you first heard i ...
Topic: What I did in the epidemic
Mick Harper Replies: 79 Views: 3368	Forum: Health Posted: 4:57 am Subject: What I did in the epidemic
Mick Harper Replies: 79 Views: 3368	I kept getting the same impression. It's difficult to recall all these years later but I do remember thinking quite often that the MSM were giving the Chinese totally irrelevant stick for doing things ...