“Such intelligent presenting”…..may I second this? I do.

I would very much like to have copies of these films – all of them. How may I arrange to buy them from you ?
Carole

The box set was exactly what I was just hoping for. I’ve only just discovered Malone. Are there any DVDs?

I’ve just seen the programme too and was entranced. I had to find out who this David Malone is. Found him!

Stevie

I’ve been saying this for a while.

The more you have the more you’re going to lose.

I didn’t have a lot to start with (well certainly for the first 16 years) and not a lot now so I’m not too fussed. I’ve got used to not having the heating on again, only this time I won’t be burning my furniture.

Those were the days :-).

Brian

http://www.theautomaticearth.com/Finance/bank-run-in-cyprus-whos-next.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-risks-europe-bank-runs-2013-3

& this from Zerohedge which includes a report made in 2011 from the Boston consulting group which predicted similar events:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-16/everyone-shocked-what-just-happened-and-why-just-beginning

There is it seems some advantage to being skint..

Inequality, Crime and the Banks: a talk with former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad Officer Rowan Bosworth-Davies

Thursday 4th April, 7pm @ Friends Meeting House

Rowan will focus on:

– the changes in the financial sector’s culture following the era of the 1986 Big Bang deregulation
– the dangerous disconnect between those who invest money and those who handle it
– how greed has become a badge of honour for City financiers
– how bankers have significantly increased their take of the wealth created in the UK, and how these developments have led to a significant increase in the gap between the obscenely rich and the ordinary citizen
– how the regime of extreme inequality being created will lead to greater social unrest, public disorder and civic disobedience

and most importantly how simply enforcing the law can stop it

Book tickets here:

http://robbingbanks.eventbrite.co.uk/#

Although not mentioned in the film, it made me reflect on the changes humans experience as they go through adolescence and develop from child to adult – the unsettling and daunting experience everyone faces as they negotiate rapid physical and emotional change. People of course, unlike tadpoles I assume, can reflect on the childhood they are leaving behind, and on the challenges ahead in adulthood. One view of anorexia, the eating disorder that often occurs in adolescence, is that it is a way of avoiding this change: starvation into low weight maintains the body chemistry in a prepubescent state and even alters the way people think (an ironic twist to the ‘food for thought’ phrase). So this could be one way in which individuals exercise a grim sort of control over their world.