Simple Test

[Ratrod]

whatever film is in the camera. There isn't much time to swap the film. You can always modify the pictures later.

[Roobubba]

That's a leap, we've not been told how much time there is, nor how long it takes us to swap the film. Although surely this should be a digital camera in this day and age?

I'm with the colour idea - at least you can modify it later in potatoshop.

Or better, record a movie, preferably with sound :)

Roo

[Ratrod]

If you got sound you might do a little interview with questions like: "What's going through you right now? How do you feel? Is there anything you would like to say to your loved ones?"

[MrBump]

Unfortunately these days it's the media that actually has the bulk of the power.

There's nothing wrong with Brown particuarly - but then there was nothing much wrong with Blair either.  They made some bad decisions, but that's what politics is about.  It's pretty short sighted to believe that there's a "right" answer to most of the political problems that we face; there isn't, it's mostly about mitigating disaster!

The simple fact is that political/economic/cultural uncertainty sells papers.  The papers (tabloids particularly, but also the broadsheets to some degree) can get away with printing the most incredible stories, and justifying it as freedom of the press.  But the reality is that Murdoch and lord knows who else try to control what we see and have access to.  And that includes politics.

I'm very cynical when it comes to the press.  I think that we're in a nasty, cyclical trap, where we can't trust politicians, because they're so guarded against the press, and we can't trust the press because they have a circulation agenda.  Not sure I can see a way out of that one.

Stop me before I break out the guitar and start singing Billy Bragg songs.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Mark.

[38thBeatle]

Is it Christmas already, damn, I'd better get shopping.

[maverickf1jockey]

I'm going to say several things about G.B.

He has had to follow the most overtly corrupt and litigious Labour government which has disillusioned the voting public.

I believe he has been bullied by the press into furthering the litigious horror of the Blair government, further alienating the youth of the nation and weakening his position in cabinet.

With regard to these two statements what sense in the world would possess someone to accept the job of G.B.'s replacement as leader of the labour party before a full on general election, as the press is pressurizing the labour party to do?

G.B. is the right man at the wrong time IMO. If he had risen to power sometime before Blair/Thatcher things might just have been more sensible.

G.B. is not a performing animal and so should not be forced to smile for the media, he should not be made to make pointless decisions demonizing the youth of the country on the assumption that the act of carrying a knife leads directly to the intention of using it as an offensive weapon and he is definitely a lesser evil than David Cameron (I hate that contemptible bar-steward.).

That does not mean I support the man in anything he does as socialism has died with the birth of Thatcherism and with its loss the labour and conservative parties have become a putrid, homogenized political slime; the two being the equivalent of the other.

I'd rather vote Lib-Dem on the grounds that they are different to the other two major parties.