Watching and listening to Alex Salmond on tv today, certainly didn’t impress me, far too many questions which he simply wouldn’t or couldn’t answer, then accuses journalists of an orchestrated campaign against the yes group, simply because they dared to ask the questions.

Looks more and more like a personal power trip than a fully reasoned campaign.

The DVLA website has crashed evidently as they didnt foresee the demand for road tax payments.
Is it me? Something works well for many decades and then some pen pusher wants to change it without telling anyone how to.

I have been taxing my car on line now for a number of years, why in hell the whole thing should just go belly up this time is beyond me, there is a so called new system which looks remarkably like the old system, but get this, “works faster and smoother giving the customer a much improved experience”, adds at the end, “we welcome feedback as to your experience”, bet the feedback makes interesting reading.

It’s easy to point the finger at journalists or papers, but idiot MPs like this guy leave themselves open to blackmail, subversion or “persuasion”, no sympathy whatsoever.

Errrr, that was part of the ‘experiment’ – they sent a mass text to all the phones in the cinema…

I realise that, but it also shows apart from the obvious distraction regarding driving, the lack of consideration for others when supposedly watching a film, in truth the experiment should have failed if phones had been switched off.

This is second reference to him being a member of the government. As far as I am aware he was not.

His “title” was Minister for Civil Society, one of his responsibilities was, wait for it, improving the opportunity and equality of women in politics.

Yet you would agree that if a man tried to convince a young teenager to send them a naked ‘selfie’ then that would be abuse, yes? Why should a man, journalist or not, pretending to be a woman, get away with leading another man on in a sexual fashion, MP or not?
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One major difference, someone attempting to influence a naive teenager, wrong, this guy is a supposedly mature , sensible adult with a responsibility to his constituents and the running of the country, do you really want someone so easily influenced making decisions which affect your life?.

Just the human brain, no abacus, and no slide rule; workings-out had to be legible, and written in the left-hand column of the page.

Correct, anyone caught even with extra paper for use doing “workings out” would be shown the door, arriving at the correct answer without visible signs of how it was achieved was not acceptable.

What science knows and can proves is the equivalent of how much water a gnat crapping in the ocean would displace.
If they would spend more time to see how God might have done what God did, with or without the word God, rather than trying to prove what they think is how it should have been done, there would be no quarrels as they would go about it admitting they know nothing and are onlytrying to learn what might, or might not, have happened.

Not sure what your gripe is here, scientists are generally aware of the depth of their knowledge and what they don’t know, most guesstimates reckon that 99.999% of everything that ever lived has quietly expired and become extinct.

Most are very well aware that the fossil record is far from complete, in reality the fact that there are fossils at all takes a set of circumstances to occur at the right time, unlikely that science will ever have the complete, exact and provable story, but assigning it to some god is just plain lazy, a total cop out. Following your beliefs puts us at no more than samples swimming in a petri dish in a gigantic laboratory.