That's it for today. Tomorrow I'll be blogging the Queen's Speech.Thanks for the comments.Alcohol and other health risks: let's get our story straightA couple of experts have just been on the radio warning against a dangerous growth in addictive behaviour among adults in western societies, much of it including internet gambling, porn and gaming, deliberately designed to be so. At the same time the Daily Beast is reporting excitedly that other experts are telling us not to drink more than three glasses of wine a week.Yes, that's not a misprint. Clever chaps at Oxford University have concluded that the optimum intake of alcohol to dent booze-related deaths should be around 5g a day – that's slightly more than half a "unit" (8g) as currently defined, half of one (125ml) small scotch, half a half pint of beer, half a mean glass of red wine.
.. Globalisation is also generating income inequalities within countries and between countries that we simply can't and shouldn't live with.? He gave an equivocal endorsement of Ed Miliband, saying that the Labour leader was "doing well in the circumstances" but "struggling" with the need to defend Labour's record, oppose the government and remodel centre-left politics for the 21st century all at the same time. What I think that Ed Miliband is doing - he's struggling with two things and they are not easy. One is that he's trying to oppose the government on the economy where, legitimately or not - people will take different views - they think the government is in the wrong place. But in making an argument against what the government is doing in fighting the recession, he's also struggling with his own inherited legacy from the previous Labour government, and they are not doing that easily or finely, but nor it is simple to do.
Q: Andrew Tyrie says the growth strategy is incoherent.Cameron says exports to China are up 40%. The motor industry is expanding.Q: Do you need to re-engineer the growth strategy?Cameron says the government needs to everything it can to fire up growth. It is. For example, the housing plan announced today could create 200,000 jobs. (See 8.55am.)The government is also bringing back the right to buy, he says. (The BBC has more on that here.)Q: But there aren't that many council homes left?There are, says Cameron. Some 2m homes are available.9.41am: Marr is now asking about planning.Cameron says he loves the countryside. He would no sooner harm the countryside than harm his own family.Q: But will the new planning laws allow signs to go up everywhere, as they do in the US?Cameron says that is not quite right.
They've been counted too. That took a long time and, let me level with you, a couple of strong drinks. By 1am last night (or should that be 1am this morning?) I was feeling pretty tired, and very emotional. It was a blurry,
ytcgzx.net, confusing struggle. But I got there - and you don't want to hear about me, anyway, do you? You want to know about the results. So here goes. We have a shortlist:Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End Of The Lane (50 votes)Kate Atkinson - Life After Life (35 votes)Lucy Cruickshanks - The Trader of Saigon (34 votes)Suzie Tullett - Little White Lies and Butterflies (31 votes)Zoe Venditozzi - Anywhere's Better Than Here (31 votes)Meike Ziervogel - Magda (30 votes)All your base are belong to Neil, is the conclusion so far.
[The Government has] given us until 3 o'clock today to essentially sign up to everything that we've been opposing, which was essentially: work eight years longer, pay thousands of pounds more in and get tens of thousands of pounds less over your retirement. And that remains as unacceptable now as it always has.We've said all along that as soon as the government starts treating this as a pension negotiation, we're likely to make progress. And to do that they need to value the schemes - they haven't valued any of the schemes - they have to talk in terms of pensions, i.e. how can they demonstrate it can go into a pension scheme rather than straight into Treasury coffers? And they need to produce evidence that supports their claim that we all have to work 8 years longer.
But it is not enough in health.Miliband notes that Cameron did not answer the question. He lists a series of organisations opposed to the bill. Referring to Nick Clegg,
www.cnnhkids.com, he says it is impossible to know whether he is for or against. The bill will cost the Tories the election, he says.Cameron lists four (fairly obscure) organisations opposed to the bill. Miliband has not asked about policy. Since it's leap year,
marc by marc jacobs bag, he's entitled to ask a question, he says. We know what Miliband is against. But what is he for?12.15pm: PMQs Snap Verdict: One of Miliband's best PMQs, with a great example of a "killer question": Can you name a major health organisation that supports the bill? More later ...12.18pm: Asked about the Len McCluskey comments, Cameron condemns them and says that Unite installed Miliband as Labour leader.
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