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According to this morning's FT the inflation rate for hard cheese is 19.1 % .................

Here is the full breakdown by commodity (UK consumer price inflation June 2008
percentage change over 12 months with the previous month's figures in brackets):

Fruit 8.2 % [2.4%]
Bread 11.9% [9.1%]
Cheese 19.1% [16.6%]
Meat 11.2% [8.8%]

Fuels 24.0% [19.5%]
Cameras - 21.7% [-25.2]

Source: Financial Times page 3 Wed July 16, 2008

Why does the Newsnight email no longer have the connection to the "comments"

I've had to go around the houses to get here!

I used to get an email "whats on tonights programme" but now I get the newsletter/email but no blog connection.

Is this the new multi-blog open system you were on about?

If so no doubt you will lose a few contributers.

HARD CHEESE (neilrobertson #1 PRICELESS!)

MORE INFLATION RISES:

Pneumatic tyres: up 5 psi

Balloons: 30 000 feet.

Ed Balls self-belief: exponential.

Yvette Cooper: still full of hot air.


DEFLATION NEWS JUST IN:

Jacqui Smith has gone down visibly.

2. At 8:12pm on 16 Jul 2008, Oldunelm wrote:
'If so no doubt you will lose a few contributers.'

If I may quote, well, paraphrase 'the management' when some made similar comments regarding the latest 'upgrade': "Give 'em time... give 'em time".

Maybe no comments is good comments?

an excellent newsnight especially the prisoner exchange in the middle-east, balanced, fair reporting unlike the studio discussion between the trade unionist and the Tory minister 'chaired' by Kirsty Wark. I say chaired but it was a two onto one situation which was so biased against the union leader it was a travesty of Newsnight's reputation of fair unbiased and informed debate. There have been accusations in the past about Kirsty's 'impartiality' and her biased attitude against the trade union leader was so pronounced it was almost hectoring. There was no attempt to redress the charge of financial rewards from industry to the Tory party which Kirsty could have put and Maud did not answer that question. All we heard was the 'power' of the unions, the 'paymasters' of the union barons, beer and sandwiches, the usual guff about the poor finances of Labour 'so' dependent on the goodwill of Unions. If a presenter on Newsnight has business interests or media related companies, whether family or otherwise, it should not be her brief to debate as an impartial presenter a studio discussion of this sort. Not good.

Re #5 leftieoddbod

Yes overall a good one, and I agree that the "debate" wasn't Kirsty's finest hour but even that wasn't totally one-sided.

I was more disappointed with the snippet on Glasgow East. Without doubt Crick was right that the fuel duty issue hadn't had time to filter through to the campaign, so why not go with issues that actually were in play yesterday?

Crick should also have remembered that Glasgow is in Scotland not England (like Crewe) and used better differentiated language. Talking about "Gordon Brown and his government" and implying that the SNP was the opposition was not helpful, especially as the campaigns seem to be focusing on the differentiation of the records of the SNP Scottish government vs the Labour UK government and is most certainly not confined to "Westminster" issues.

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FALLING STANDARDS: A TOPIC FOR THE NN TEAM

ETS (the largest educational testing service in the world) is in the fist year of a five year contract to handle the processing of SATs, but doesn't understand UK culture according to Barry Sheerman, chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Committee.



It was ETS researchers who (along with other researchers across the world who have lloked at trends in IQ at national levels) gave an unprecedented press conference in February 2007, forecasting serious trouble ahead based on three factors amounting to deteriorating 'human capital' in the USA - they called it 'America's Perfect Storm'.

"We must raise our learning levels, increase our reading and math skills and narrow the existing achievement gaps, or these forces will turn the American Dream into an American Tragedy — putting our nation at risk."

The problem is, the only "policies that will change our perilous course" appear to be anathema to our liberal-democratic neo-Lysenkoist PC thinking, so are we doomed to keep making more rods for our own backs?




I suggest that this should be looked at VERY carefully by the NN team (and have said so several times in these arcived pages), as we're in for the same here as a result of high levels of uncontrolled immigration (note the FCHR in the Lisbon Treaty), marked fertility differentials, and rafts of counter-productive equalities legislation which no doubt many think means well, but 'the path to hell is paved with good intentions'. The article below refers to a left-wing think tank - do they also mean well?

re 4. JunkkMale.
I notice that whenever a system is running smoothly "the management" usually have to re-arrange things to improve it and prove their worth.
It rarely does improve things.

ALL THE WORLD'S A SUPERMARKET

Oldunelm #9. This blog has the feel of bad IT. Follow the brown envelopes.