London - the beating heart of our great nation

RevolvingDoor

ruggedtoast wrote: »

referred to by the Hindustan Times as a "rockstar politician", and even more inaccurately "The King of England" by a TV news anchor in Delhi;

:rotfl:Hilarious.

Conrad

After a couple of years procrastination I've at last just now agreed to purchase a North London studio flat as I re - enter the UK B2L market.

Targeting shortish lease units (70 yrs or so). I will let them to a charity.

I'm aiming for something like 15 of these time I'm 60.

I've missed this real life Monopoly game since I came out of B2L in 2007.


Wish me luck!

grizzly1911

BertieUK wrote: »

I must say that any time that I have read the Daily Mail it always made me feel so miserable that I just had to stop reading it, maybe it was me having a Senior Moment, I am not sure.

I stopped reading the Mail years ago for the same reason.

My mother who is in her 80s still reads it and I can tell when she has, by the stuff she comes out with. It is so often way of target trying to stir up silver fear and resentment.

Conrad

The DM is a childish rag in the main, but the Guardian and Inde are so utterly neave. I don't know which is worse.

Thrugelmir

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Is there a way to get out of the Country from the North without going on the M25, or via London?

Exeter has a handy airport.

John_Pierpoint

The M25 between 20:00 & 22:00 before the overnight roadworks start and 05:00 and 06:30 after they have hopefully finished, can be almost civilised.

It would be an unusual journey that took you onto the road to Hell for more than an hour and a half at those times of day.
I have driven to Brighton with the only gear change being to flash my pass at the toll barrier at the Dartford crossing.

kabayiri

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

The Grauniad (which recently called the late Patrick Moore an astrologer) was formally the Manchester Guardian. It epitomises the worst of northern, leftist, chip-on-the-shoulder, anti-South, antiquated thinking. It preaches to the converted re it's core readership of public sector workers, Labour MPs, and arrogant wooly minded pesudo-intellectuals. Everyone else can safely ignore it for the sad offering that it is. Posting swathes of its claptrap on a forum like this only serves to demonstrate the mentality of its readership.

Err, it moved to London in 1964.

Isn't it about time we dropped the reference to Manchester? Most Northerners have moved on (or passed on) since then.

Nowadays, the paper is more likely to mimic that Private Eye cartoon "It's Grim Up North (London)". :rotfl:

zagubov

kabayiri wrote: »

Err, it moved to London in 1964.

Isn't it about time we dropped the reference to Manchester? Most Northerners have moved on (or passed on) since then.

Nowadays, the paper is more likely to mimic that Private Eye cartoon "It's Grim Up North (London)". :rotfl:

Actually the fact that paper moved to London's just another example of what's wrong with the place. It could probably have prospered at least as well by staying up north.

A body's not healthy if the heart is swollen and bloated to an almost bursting size but the body's withered and shriveled.:(

kabayiri

zagubov wrote: »

Actually the fact that paper moved to London's just another example of what's wrong with the place. It could probably have prospered at least as well by staying up north.

A body's not healthy if the heart is swollen and bloated to an almost bursting size but the body's withered and shriveled.:(

I think the dispersal of some of the Beeb into regional centres of excellence will prove beneficial in the long run. Media city in Salford is very impressive. I suspect the same can be said of Glasgow. There are definite cost benefits to regionalising.

zagubov

kabayiri wrote: »

I think the dispersal of some of the Beeb into regional centres of excellence will prove beneficial in the long run. Media city in Salford is very impressive. I suspect the same can be said of Glasgow. There are definite cost benefits to regionalising.

And the same goes for Cardiff.

It's been a disgrace for decades that a national resource funded from every corner of the country had all its money spent in one corner of the nation and the predictable overpriced congested one at that.:(