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'Injuncted'? I don't think so.
You can have an injunction served against you.
Bizarrely, you can even be 'injunctioned' ... which is the word I'm sure you meant, Eddie.
But, as elegant as it sounds, there ain't no 'injuncted' in the language yet!
However, thank you for repeating the giggly part of the previous interview ... I had missed it first time around.
* BONG! *
... a thought: froggers to record our own BONGS on the Listener Line? You could credit the senders in the introduction....?
Fifi ;o)
Perhaps PM could replace Big Ben with NEWS.
It would make a change from the stream of comment, scientifically inept theorising and trailers that masquerade as news in a significant part of the programme.
We are learning that the old format of 15 minute news bulletins was chosen because there is only about that amount to report.
Retrain the surplus person-power (and redirect the money) to produce more of the high-class radio drama that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ excels at.
The word is "enjoin". The judge enjoined plane speak not to d o something and they were enjoined not to do it. NOT "injuncted" please!!!
the 60% people detained at Campsfield House because they're criminal and due for deportation are not there for Home Office incompetance but because they can't go home until they get a passport and their embassy is slow at giving it, either because they don't want their criminals back or because they're just plain incompetant.
At least one embassy is so incompetant that it's Nationals, legally in this country, cannot get replacement passports without bribing its staff, and the Home Office accepts these passports even though they were obtained illegally. What else can it do?
How about replacing Big Ben with the sound of laughter?
Eddie,
People should be asking whether it is right to fly, not whether it is right to take direct action against BAA.
If the floods were the vector for foot and mouth contamination, then plotting the neighbouring sites of outbreaks will show a path that should be parallel to the flow of drainage.
Hi there,
I just wanted to say something about the injunction case brought to the High Court by BAA:
I live in Selby, close by Drax powerstation, where the climate camp took place last year. I visited the camp for a couple of hours. The camp was very welcoming and well organised. Although there might be direct action taking place, like it did last year, I don't think it would get violent in any way. These are very peaceful people who rightly believe direct action is needed to avert the worst effects of climate change, yet to come.
Just like last year, the Climate Camp has already received a warm welcome in the local community around Heathrow, which by now is pretty fed up with BAA's lies over an ever expanding airport.
the 60% people detained at Campsfield House because they're criminal and due for deportation are not there for Home Office incompetance but because they can't go home until they get a passport and their embassy is slow at giving it, either because they don't want their criminals back or because they're just plain incompetant.
At least one embassy is so incompetant that it's Nationals, legally in this country, cannot get replacement passports without bribing its staff, and the Home Office accepts these passports even though they were obtained illegally. What else can it do?
The story of the young Protestant man who has been intimidated into quitting Gaelic sport actually demonstrates the best about Northern Ireland as well as the worst. His father and (I think) two uncles were part-time soldiers and were murdered by the IRA. If someone whose family has suffered so terribly feels that they can participate in a sport which is traditionally almost exclusively played by "the other side", then perhaps there is hope for us. He must be a remarkable young man. Lets hope his courage in speaking out is a catalyst for removing bigotry from all sport.
I had understood that the Brown government was going to be more open and yet we regularly hear on "pm" and "today" that "a government minister was not available to comment". This evening's "pm" illustration of non-availability was about the escaped detainees. Is it possible for your programme to announce at the end of each month the total number of occasions that you have asked ministers to comment and have been given the non-availability excuse? A cumulative log would be most interesting for your listeners and might shame ministers into making themselves properly available to the public.
Tonight's Editor writes:
Thx for the comments. Difficult today - on F&M - a new theory, but not too many new facts. Otherwise, Heathrow as a story doesn't seem to show any sign of going away and Campsfield would have undoubtably recieved more attention ( in my view ) if it were not for the F&M outbreak.
Harold ( 11 ) we did ask to speak to a Minister, the Home Office offered Agency Chief Lynn Homer who spoke to our colleagues on Today. But the current set up I think requiried a political response - not least how recent changes in the Home Office makes Campsfield answerable to two government departments not one.
Bob ( 2 ) you are not alone, though ( and this is a wild punt ) I am sure drama costs a load more to produce than news.
If I am being brutually honest I thought the very top sequence about Foot and Mouth was average at best - perhaps it would have sounded fresher to have opted for another, slightly newer, story. As ever with the benefit of hindsight....
Thanks for the bong ideas, please keep them coming.
Rupert (12), Anything but the blooming birds again. PLEASE. Thank you.
In my 1965 Oxford Concise dictionary I am enjoined to recognise injunct as 'colloq., v.t.', pedants.
The Dow was up 70 points when London closed this afternoo.
When NY closed it was 270 points up.
So London will open 60 to 100 points ahead tomorrow morning.
And we admire George Soros! Its not rocket science making money from numbers like that. But why do we allow it to acrue to the already over rich, Paul?
PS I thought the Lee - Nancy dialogue tasteless.
I was amused by your reporter's description of campsfield. '20 foot fence topped with razor wire, low grey buildings, and looming over the whole site an incinerator chimney.'
Perfect liberal paranoia, implying that the place is a concentration camp akin to Auschwitz.
And it was clear from the interview with the chap from Uganda that it really is a terrible place: two toilets, hardly any showers and warders who use force to maintain order. But on the other hand it doesn't have the Lord's Resistance Army.
btw, is it just me? or is ´óÏó´«Ã½ news becoming proportionately more satyrical in direct relation to Radio 4 comedy getting less humourous.
Re: Eeore (16):
Rupert, Eddie, is it true? Is the PM office getting more "satyrical"? We already know there's a Bacchanalian consumption of strong coffee, but what other mischief goes on?
I think we should be told!
Jonathan Morse (9)
It is ridiculous that these people should have to have a passport to get back into their own country. Bearing in mind the imminent rise in the cost of a passport (ID Card saga) it is time the governments invented a certificate that lasts just a few days to enable the one-way transit.