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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161867-ancient-dark-skinned-briton-cheddar-man-find-may-not-be-true/

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/finland-universal-basic-income.amp.html

Same. Let's leave it at that. It'll never happen anyway.

Not in the slightest bit surprising. Labour collusion with the Soviets has a long history.

Because you're wasting billions of £s on people who don't need it. Only the needy should be helped by society.

The homeless guy needs the £200 more than you do doesn't he? .

Correct, so why do you need it again?

Why wouldn't you give it to the homeless guy down the street?

If the government gave you £200 a day what would you do with it? .

You haven't thought about it much beyond hero worshipping Varoufakis have you? It encourages mediocrity in the individual which adversely affects the economy because people stop believing in the transformational nature of work and high achievement, their goals are diminished by a universal state handout. It's interesting it's an idea also being pushed by the likes of Zuckerberg. They want people sitting at home doing nothing while the robots do the work. Ever heard the saying the devil makes work for idle hands. It'd cause massive civil unrest. You should read J.G. Ballard's Cocaine Nights: "A billion balconies facing the sun; still, it means a final goodbye to wars and ideologies. But how do you energize people, give them some sense of community? A world lying on it's back is vulnerable to any cunning predator."

Universal basic income might work in an economic basketcase like India but it'd never work in the modern economies of Western Europe or the States.

Anyone tell me the full name of this cultivar of Thuja plicata? (Western Red Cedar) It's slow growing and maintains that narrow, fastigiate, acute conical top form for years before becoming wider.

You haven't read her book so you're displaying a lack of openness to evidence. You're copy/pasting second hand criticism of her. Then posting links by your atheist guru Sam Harris. Well done.

Dambisa Moyo the Zambian economist wrote a book about that subject a few years ago.

In the interests of objectivity I'll leave this here for people to draw their own conclusions. "He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese, and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now." Diane Abbot Source at 0.40 .

By recent I was commenting on the fact it wasn't in the 70s and she wasn't a miltant Marxist student activist at the time she said it where you could simply excuse it as youthful ignorance of the atrocities of communism. Who are these, 'some people' anyway? people who's views should be respected? the hard left? neo Marxists/Maoists? Momentum? It's a moronic thing thing for her to say no matter how you look at it. It's not a reasonable thing to say under any circumstances given Mao's barbaric treatment of his people. These cretinous sporadic utterences from her are largely why people dislike her. The mere fact she tried to defend the idea of wearing a Mao T-Shirt tells you everything you need to know about her. .

Diane Abbot recently said, 'on balance Chairman Mao did more good than harm'. Mao was responsible for the murder of over 60 million of his own people. .

Douglas Murray gives a good breakdown here in The Spectator..... https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/watch-cathy-newmans-catastrophic-interview-with-jordan-peterson/ .

Anyone see Jordan Peterson being interviewed by Ch4's Cathy Newman? Some great common sense stuff from Peterson as usual...... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54 .

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Excellent Reg. Couldn't have been much fun pulling a 372 with 30" bar up 150ft. Good job on the leaner, can see there was a lot of movement up there. .

To be fair the Scottish Branch has run many interesting courses, seminars, workshops and meetings over the last 20 years or so. This year for example: Chris Simpson of Informed Trees ran a seminar on hazard tree assessment. Slater presented his theories on branch forks. There was a recent climbing workshop in Cumbernauld. The free to attend AGM in Dundee had Kevin Frediani of Inverewe Gardens and Keith Sacre of Barchams Trees giving interesting talks. Seen many people come and go at the Scottish Branch events over the last 20 years. All associations or club type organisations are cyclical by nature, you get a few core enthusiastic folk for 5-6 years then they move on for various reasons: have a family, move away, leave arb altogether etc. In the meantime things get quiet for a while then more enthusiastic folk appear and things start happening again. As an example in the late 90s to mid 2000s the Scottish Branch ran well attended treeclimbing comps in conjunction with the ISA at various venues around Scotland. These events stopped completely but the Scottish Branch continued putting on relevant climbing related workshops. If you want more AA representation and events in Scotland join the Scottish Branch and help put on events and suggest ideas. Alternatively start a new organisation call it Arb Scotland or whatever you want and organise events yourself with a few like minded people. You don't need the AA to do anything. Even a Facebook group could organise a couple of events/speakers/workshops every year.

Whatever your views are on mass immigration, the Ch4 ident is promoting illegal immigration which is not only irresponsible but indefensible unless of course you are saying it's ok to the break the law? If you are one of the people on this thread defending the Ch4 ident then by your logic you'll also agree it's fine for thieves to break the law and steal £1000s worth of equipment from tree surgeons across the UK on a weekly basis. In short, defending the Ch4 ident shows you are either wilfully blind or intellectually ignorant about UK immigration law. .

That's it Steve, easier to grip, especially on SRT ascent, was surprised to find an 13.5mm climbing rope but someone out there must've been thinking the same as me recently and made a rope for old climbers or folk with big hands. Worth a try anyway. .

If any UK dealer could get 45m of this climbing rope with spliced eye pm please, will buy it. Cheers. https://www.drayer-shop.com/en/ropes-und-slings/climbing/working-ropes/1121/climbing-rope-tango-ergo-13.5-brasil?c=171 .