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I wondered who would be the first to see GDPR action. It would be good to see a substantial fine levied against some of the GDPR miscreants - and there is plenty of competition as to which one will be the first... Vote Leave data firm hit with first ever GDPR notice A Canadian analytics firm...

Chris Grayling refuses to take blame for rail timetable chaos Transport secretary says he should have been more sceptical about industry assurances after critical report by regulator Chris Grayling has declined to take personal responsibility for this summer’s rail chaos after a...

Even some Welsh-language programs have had modest success in English-spekaing (or at least, understanding) audiences - though definitely easier for me if produced in both Welsh and English versions.

Ask Howard Brenton about the Romans in Britain... ::D

I can't be bothered to follow those stories - they might well identify the specific agent. Good to chortle on the fact that health food shops and pharmacies sell rat poison for human consumption - in the form of vitamin D. Perhaps Putin was concerned about the prevalence of rickets... :)

gove verb Irish English, English Regional, West Midlands, Scottish, Northern no object To stare idly or vacantly; to gaze, gape, gawp. Nominative determinism?

Police chiefs: no-deal Brexit would mean loss of crime-fighting tools Senior officers say any planned replacements would be less effective than EU mechanisms

As per #35635 oyster, Yesterday at 6:36 PM

People in high office need to be very careful about what they say. The precise words are important. I believe what he said is wide open to th interpretation that we (UK) can agree anything because we will get rid of the bits we don't like in future, regardless. I say, anyone making agreements...

Was rather thinking of them coming en masse from Romantia.. :)

Aren't Romantics foreigners and immigrants?

Perhaps not much of a surprise - nonetheless quite interesting to see specific breakdowns by newspaper. Only a quarter of Mail readers think UK will get good Brexit deal Major survey finds newspaper readers sceptical of Brexiters’ ability to deliver on promises...

Anti-Brexit campaigners have claimed that, even if everyone who voted in the 2016 EU referendum were to vote the same way again, demographic changes mean that the UK population will have a remain majority by 29 March 2019, when the UK leaves. Peter Kellner, the former YouGov president, has done...

Typo there, no "c" in harm.

Are you absolutely sure of that statistic? Would it not be applicable only to the ones that actually survive? Are businesses in total better off than before 2008? Are individual business better off than before 2008?

Had she said: This course of action will bankrupt my company. Let's get on with it anyway. Would she still have deserved your praise? Yet some of us are concerned that could be the result for all too many.

Prince of Arragon in the Merchant of Venice might suit?

Nick Robinson in Chesterfield on BBC1 10 p.m. news. Quite well done trying to answer why brexit is taking so long. BJ and the rest, no they didn't have a plan either because that might have put people off voting for brexit. What madness!

If you want to walk around with earphones making you functionally deaf, put a bloomin' great QR code on your back encoding your phone number. Then we can ring up and shout "Get out of the way!" - adding whatever other juicy phrases are required.

Going a bit off-topic (is that possible on this thread?), an interesting example of what goes around, comes around, possibly. Katie Hopkins applies for insolvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy Jack Monroe, who won a libel action against columnist, says ‘it’s sad two tweets cost Hopkins...