therealpm

The coalition government's "enterprise zones" seem to be as nebulous and ineffective a concept as their "big society". It is disappointing that the Tories should run back to one of the great failures of the Thatcher years, but with an economic policy so lacking in strategy, it is possible that they see no option for the future but to repeat the mistakes of the past. Perhaps a "natural pause" to "reflect" and "reconsider" is in order?

Interesting suggestion from the meetup:

A post for anonymous (or non-anonymous) con crit and suggestions for the rp-ing of this character; both in terms of tone (e.g. whether speech patterns are right, whether it's getting OOC) and basic fact checking ('What do you mean by writing his favourite colour as being mauve?! In this 1986 interview he clearly says it's maroon.').

A change of politicians does not appear to necessitate a change in policy.

I find it interesting that the coalition government accuses Labour of lacking policies whilst simultaneously adopting them.

Progress of The Machine: Optical bench cleaned and recalibrated for optimum identification and quantification of venom components, with the objective of eventual a-diabolical synthesis from common thaumaturlogical precursors.

This might take a while, I may have to consider adding this to my voicemail.

All in all an excellent and informative week with some significant labour victories and the prospect of more to come.

Progress on The Machine: sucessfully uninstalled previous system.  Considering switch to germanic rune set; elder futhark rather unwieldy.

Now where's everybody got to....?

Machines can evolve.

Fascinating.

It appears statistics may be useful for world domination.


...Vince?

For those interested in international trade, I have written a small article in the FT.

Hydration update: in progress. John and Alastair have much to answer for.

A most amusing New Year's party last night, somewhat marred by certain disagreements and Cameron's escape refusal to visit The Machine.

Status of The Machine: saved the world from Toryism again, but had to erase everyone's memory, so no credit for it as usual. Hopefully will be able to feed in Cameron new data soon for a procssing test run. Set the throb of John's hangover to the tune of 'Build me up Buttercup'. Seems to make him somewhat nauseous. Interesting.