Detournement

She wasn't paid. They just happened to invite an actor who is self ordained in Prosperity Theology to come on Newsnight and give the impression she is a vicar.....

Good point

Obviously! Today the government's figures reported that in the past year 74,000 more EU migrants came to the UK than left. The number of EU citizens living in the UK has increased every single year without fail since 1991.

See if you can find someone in the pub who passed O level maths.

How can there can possibly be a drop in the number of EU citizens in the UK when the net figure is still +74,000? You have been spending too much time in those Burnley boozers.

I read the Guardian article. If you have read an article with more detail please share.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier#Cultivation,_conspiracy,_and_cooperation Every single thing that is a concrete allegation rather than a generalisation has NOT been proven. Cohen didn't go to Prague. Aleksej Gubarev didn't hack the DNC and is suing Buzzfeed. The Chairman of Rosfnet didn't offer Carter Page an 11 Billion dollar stake in the company.

It usually takes years for cases to get to the Supreme Court. Not going to happen.

If you read the full article the things Cohen lied about are listed 1. He said he didn't get an email reply from a Russian minister and he actually did receive a single undeclared email from him. 2. There was a single telephone call to a Russian Minister's PA in January 2016. 3. He was in contact with an American businessman who wanted to be a middle man on a potential deal until June 2016. It's hard to see how any of it implicates Trump.

Presumably he can't change his statements now in return for the plea deal now anyway.

It's already happened. They want NATO ships in the Sea of Azoz.

He's right if spending transfer from imports to domestic products or if Chinese firms eat the tariffs in order to keep their production going. Tariffs are much worse for China than the USA.

The worrying thing is that Merkel, Macron and Trump are in the same boat.

It's been a great week for Fake News.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/the-macroeconomics-of-brexit-motivated-reasoning/ Paul Krugman on Brexit economic forecasting.

vs Mike Haley; Andrew Conway, Chris Farrell, Rory Scannell, Keith Earls; JJ Hanrahan, Conor Murray; Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell, John Ryan; Tadhg Beirne, Billy Holland; Peter O’Mahony (C), Chris Cloete, Arno Botha. Hopefully Cockerhill has packed plenty lube!

ITV have offered to put the debate on before The I'm A Celeb final. The BBC originally offered a weeknight and changed to going up against the I'm A Celeb final. Clearly the Tories in No.10/BBC don't want the IAC demographic seeing Corbyn unfiltered.

As ever the lesson is actually read the articles rather than just the headlines

That's a nom de plume.

Politico have a story written by an anonymous CIA agent saying if the Manafort/Assange story is false then it's Russia's fault. You are now entering the Twilight Zone.

There is definitely something sinister in the way he uses "we". On the whole the Yes movement is positive and inclusive but there are clearly some mentalists in there.

It's obviously not difficult to measure 2014 wage growth in 2014 Q4. The fact that they keep overestimating their longer range predictions wage allows the Bank and Treasury to set policy and make announcements which are dishonest about household finances and the nation's general economic outlook. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that's down to incompetence or malice. The claims of full employment are totally absurd. The government obviously get to define the official rate of employment but the BoE aren't bound by that definition and are wilfully ignoring observable facts to paint a false picture of the UK economy.

Obviously i'm not going (nor am i able) to do that but here's a taster They impressively managed to overestimate wage growth in 19 (this table only shows 17) consecutive quarterly predictions. This indicates they are either idiots or not playing a straight hand. They also continually say we are near full employment when the statistics- and the eyes of anyone who ventures out during the day outside London - clearly say otherwise. There is good reason to ignore BoE predictions.

As I said before I don't think we should be subservient to predictions on top line GDP regardless of their reliability. The outrage over this has been largely down to stupid 'clever' people thinking that this one simplistic indicator vindicates their position. It's not unreasonable for some sections of society to wonder if increases in GDP will feed through to them and if they might be better sacrificing top line GDP for structural changes that result in personal wage rises.

Tough decisions indeed.