http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:25:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96427 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:16:02 +0000 Perks 96427@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agreed, lovely piece. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96426 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:14:44 +0000 dvo4fun 96426@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>FP lovely job Runes </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96425 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:38:37 +0000 sarika123 96425@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hi .<br /> I like that.. "If the public don't know how thick an MP is, at what point does Question Time become bullying?", asked George Clarke, a journalist who never over-sharpens his pencil before meeting a politician, just in case. "If we want answers but don’t want to face difficult questions about how we obtained them, the European human rights act stops us doing our job.”</p> <p>regards.</p> <p>sarika</p> <p><a href="http://www.silkuneed.com">Silk Fabric in USA</a> | <a href="http://www.silkuneed.com">Wholesale Silk Fabric USA</a> |<a href="http://www.silkuneed.com">Affordable Silk</a> | <a href="http://www.panditgopalsharma.com/tarot/predictions.php">Tarot Predictions</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96396 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:00:29 +0000 Runestone Cowboy 96396@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Saturday isn't a school day. Unless you're French. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96353 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:43:25 +0000 dvo4fun 96353@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Runes - an absolute spluttering beauty. For me it's a tough call between VCG's choice cut and:</p> <p>"George Clarke, a journalist who never over-sharpens his pencil before meeting a politician, just in case." or</p> <p>the punch line</p> <p>stars of course </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96349 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:00:37 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 96349@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Every day's a school day. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96343 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:48 +0000 Runestone Cowboy 96343@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'Extraordinary Rendition' is the practice of flying terror suspects overseas, so you can use cheaper labour to beat them to a pulp during questioning. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96342 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:35:11 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 96342@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't understand the punchline, which might be because I'm not very bright, or because I don't watch the news, or take any real interest in politics, or anything else much, but the rest of it made me laugh so much that I've got tears in my eyes.</p> <p>Especially “I paid Hague’s carer to shrink his sweater more than usual, and as soon as he’d got it stuck on his head, I bundled him on to a flight to Uzbekistan.” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34025#post-96330 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:41:50 +0000 Runestone Cowboy 96330@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>William Hague has backed plans to prevent intelligence being discussed in open conversation, particularly when it makes MPs look stupid.</p> <p>"As Secretary of Two Big, Important Things, I am ideally placed to reassure the public that I'm quite bright, really", explained Hague to a crowd of journalists. "This new rule means you can't ask me how I got this bucket stuck on my foot, or why I spent the first twenty minutes of this meeting in the broom cupboard."</p> <p>Hague defended the idea that discussions about intelligence should take place behind closed doors, although he did admit that shouting through the keyhole had made his throat sore. "I'm sure you can see now why it isn't sensible to bring everything out in the open, especially that ironing board, I’m never going to be able to fold that back up", declared Hague. "I find a lot of your objections hard to understand, particularly since I tried listening really closely to my clip-on microphone, to see if it’s working. Can someone help me dig my tie back out of my ear?"</p> <p>The policy of being kept in the dark and not looking directly at the brightness of ministers has raised a number of ethical questions. "If the public don't know how thick an MP is, at what point does Question Time become bullying?", asked George Clarke, a journalist who never over-sharpens his pencil before meeting a politician, just in case. "If we want answers but don’t want to face difficult questions about how we obtained them, the European human rights act stops us doing our job.”</p> <p>Clarke thinks the issue of intelligence is so important, he’s prepared to go to great lengths to get answers. “When it’s in the national interest, I think the public expects us to get answers, I decided to trick Hague into coming on holiday with me”, confided Clarke. “I paid Hague’s carer to shrink his sweater more than usual, and as soon as he’d got it stuck on his head, I bundled him on to a flight to Uzbekistan.” </p> <p>Clarke kept Hague in a darkened room and forced him to join in with singing ‘London’s Burning’, over and over again. “Hague said he didn’t mind being locked in a room with another man, but complained that singing ‘in the round’ was too much for him. I have to agree, he didn't seem to be able to get his head round it at all. In many ways it was an extraordinary rendition.” </p>