BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)

Subject: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:42 AM

So, according to James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt was feeding info to the Murdochs throughout the Sky attempted buyout - while Hunt had replaced Cable as the regulator responsible for adjudicating in a quasi-judicial role over the permissibility of the buyout.

Surely Hunt must resign. Even if Murdoch is lying the suspicion is too great.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 05:35 AM

I knew this was a Richard Bridge thread, before I opened it.
Stop reading about government misdeeds Richard, it's bad for your BP mate.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 05:43 AM

John,

It's very difficult to read about anything else these days. Come to think of it it always was.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: akenaton
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 05:46 AM

Yes, why do we have to look surprised?
We saw it with Blair and Campbell...we know we are being shafted, it's just that some of us seem to like it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: TheSnail
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 05:47 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5mVoqJpUk

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 06:44 AM

He seems to know Hunt fairly well.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:47 PM

Having gone to Charterhouse School, and read PPE (getting a first) at Magdalen College, Oxford, Jeremy Hunt ought to know what "Quasi-judicial" means.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:56 PM

But still can't spell "ethics".

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Penny S.
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 01:34 PM

I asked my sister, teaching at Oxford (in a sensible field), what the expected outcome of a PPE degree was, fantasising that it might have something to do with understanding something about politics and economics. Apparently, it doesn't, it is simply a way of being able to say one has a degree from Oxford.

I suggested that such a degree might include an element of studying life down the Cowley Road. She said that she knew a restaurateur on that road who had had to deal with the aftermath of a field trip by the Bullingdon hooligans.

I would have thought the philosophy element might have included something about ethics. Apparently it omits that as well.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 03:30 AM

Gaining a degree of any kind is learning to be good at a very narrow range of skills.

How intrinsically valuable are degrees? Is it worth remembering that a degree in English is in fact a degree in reading stories and then writing about them.


Best wishes

L in C#

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 05:04 AM

I believe that any degree should encourage the abilities to learn and think. It's why I'm not so keen on say Sport Science, Leisure Management, Media Studies or that sort of stuff. But some long standing degrees seem more about skill than thought, for example Music and Fine Art.

I don't question Hunt's degree - but I do question, as the evidence piles up of bent association with Rupert Murdoch, whether he cares about the difference between right and wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 05:36 AM

Media Studies - reading and writing about stories, TV, movies, ........

English - reading stories and then writing about them.

The difference - snobbery.

MBA - a degree in managing business

Ba in Leisure Management

The difference - snobbery

Sports Science v Chmeistry??????????????

Most people with degrees don't go on to build a career in that narrow area of expertise. Does the nature of the degree matter? Clearly not - in most cases anyway.


"I believe that any degree should encourage the abilities to learn and think."

Me too -and solve problems? Understand masses of complex info?

Cheers

L in C#

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 06:50 AM

I see all the usual inverted snobbery here.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 06:54 AM

Oh, I don't call MBA a real degree at all. It's for teaching Scrooge how to be meaner.

Sports science seems to be about training basketball players to jump higher.

Leisure management calls to mind nothing so much as the Brittas Empire

Media studies = watching telly. You don't even have to be able to read.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 07:26 AM

Yeah bonzo, inverted snobbery, is your's the real thing then ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 08:57 AM

No, it's social climbing like Hyacinth Bucket.

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 07:58 PM

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hunt-on-borrowed-time-as-whitehall-digs-in-7682536.html

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: GUEST,Ian Mather sans cookie
Date: 27 Apr 12 - 12:49 AM

Thank you Bridge, oh joy.

Never thought my MBA would be useful till I heard that you don't rate them. I now wave it loud and proud. Also proud that I wrote a dissertation based on how I made money for that matter...   I would suggest a subject, should one wish to study for an MBA would be how to run your business profitably by advertising how using computers keeps staff overheads down. Mind you, I would resist the temptation to spoil it by waffling Marxist tripe and denying the Adam Smith principles help keep my practice in profit.

These threads are sometimes worth it just for the giggle factor.

And yet the original point is a well made one, is a minister's position untenable?

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 27 Apr 12 - 05:02 AM

Richard, is this supposed to be funny?

"Oh, I don't call MBA a real degree at all. It's for teaching Scrooge how to be meaner.

Sports science seems to be about training basketball players to jump higher.

Leisure management calls to mind nothing so much as the Brittas Empire

Media studies = watching telly. You don't even have to be able to read."

Because you well know it simply isnt true.

However people go to university and read stories, then write about them and gain degrees in English - Did you know That Richard?

Best wishes

L in C#

Subject: RE: BS: Shunt the Hunt NOW (UK politics)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Apr 12 - 07:04 PM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/9232895/David-Cameron-cornered-over-Jeremy-Hunt.html