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are we rehashing this again? uk gov statistics for crime, jan 2003 the trend overall trend shows violent crime down 2% from previous year. homicides increased 1% from 2000/01, and use of firearms [excluding air weapons] in homicides leapt an incredible 32% to 12% of all homicides. to a...

hirpy birfdy nix :) i don't suppose we could get a birthday strip...? *hubba hubba* ;)

ta everbode, and remember - you are only as old as the woman you feel :D it's my office christmas party tonight in london, i am sure i can find a few beers there somewhere :drink:

mine is an adjusted photograph i took through a half-finished birmingham bullring shopping centre. originally it also had the selfridges reflected in it but it looked better without. my fav avs have to be the 'mulletman' jr pic, or my ris roadsign from oslo :D

take it easy squiggs matey, it's not worth that much blood pressure :) as far as i recall [and i could wrong, its happened before] the early contracts in iraq were appointed rather than tendered for. halliburton did get some choice morsels in that arrangment. who they sub to is their affair i...

bugger, and there goes my useful array of bad spelling gags about john cretin :(

i suppose it depends if going into iraq was as business opportunity or an act of joyous freedom in the interests of the iraqi people in freeing them from a wretched dictatorship. i know which one i was being told about in march

my argument is that seeing as my country has been instrumental in the coalition throughout the process i would like to have hoped my government would be consulted in how the bidding process would be arranged. then again, why should i care - my country got to bid? :headbang: don't get me...

the quoted bit does say 'overcharging in contracts worth 15billion', i don't see an attempt to mislead or hide owt.

seeing as my tax-quids are going to this and my troops too why shouldn't my government at least have a say?

i sort of hoped the reconstruction of iraq would be done with iraq's interests first, not some political point scoring. maybe i should stop being so naiive ;)

my understanding of it is that it is the adoption and reinvention of existing pagan festivals by the early christians to engage those they were trying to convert. the winter solstice falls around the 21st/22nd december and would have been celebrated by many cultures (roman included). in ancient...

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i hate to let factual information get in the way of a good debate but the taleban were the rulers of the country and as far as i know osama bin laden, while sheltered by the taleban, was not a member of its ruling council or the dictator at its head. the reason why international forces entered...

Re: The terrorists missed their big chance.... as much as i'd like to believe that a the us president is a thoughtful, generous and selfless soul, handing out random acts of kindness from airforce one like a pie-free santa, he is a politician. and politicians don't do anyhting without...