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Maybe you would, but that has never happened in the UK. A 50% tax bracket doesn't mean 50% of your total earnings, it means 50% of what you earn over a certain amount.

So the Argentine Olympic Committee are distancing themselves from it and have dropped the athlete, the advertising agency themselves have said they hadn't authorised it and the staff member responsible for it has been sacked. So who DID authorise and pay for it? Someone must have.

I had both Subbutteo AND Scaletrix. (Word for the Geeks: Subbutteo was named after a bird called a hobby, which is a small falcon. It's latin name is Falco subbutteo. Subbutteo - hobby.)

Yes, the "political reason" is that as far as tax is concerned the important thing is how better off or worse off someone is in total, taking all taxes into account, not just one. Yes, the starting point WAS raised, but this is way offset by increases in other taxes. The upper bracket tax rate...

No, you've actually made it LESS accurate. Once all taxes are put together, the low to middle earners pay MORE tax.

Whatever it was it was some, and everyone else is paying more tax and/or having benefits cut because, apparently, the money has run out. You don't give tax breaks to the rich if the money has genuinely run out. You only do that if you don't give a f*** about the man in the street, just about...

We do, but we are still a NET importer, meaning we import more than we export. So the amount we export wouldn't be enough for us on its own.

Norway and Switzerland are unique examples. Norway has a far greater share of the North Sea oil than we have with a much much smaller population. That's the only reason for their financial position. Switzerland is the World's banker, a huge proportion of the World's cash (legal, illegal and...

We'd lose sufficient to cripple our economy. It not just simple buying/selling trade, it's massive co-operation in manufacture as well. Airbus being the most obvious example I can think of off the top of my head. Biggest single country maybe, but not as big as the countries in Europe...

Because, despite all the problems, the European market is the richest in the World. We can't afford to be out of it.

FAIR, being the operative word. They now have small children being admitted to hospital in Athens with malnutrition because their parents can't afford to feed them. In one Greek city, 11% of the population are reduced to relying on soup kitchens. In the UK we have mass reduncies in the public...

Omonia fans mattacked the APOEL clubhouse and daubed it in paint saying "f*** Your Nation" in Greek. There have been some very disturbing incidents outside grounds, and inside from some, but it's still a minority of fans that do these things. I'll give some of the worst examples aside from the...

Orange is now the colour of their main Ultras group, founded in 1979. Their current away kit is orange as well. According to wikipedia the first time they wore orange was in 1992 in a game against AEL. I have no idea why, it certainly doesn't fit their political history, APOEL was founded by...

Yes they did. Limassol-Omonia in the final at Larnaka. I'm going to that as welll. God knows how the fans will react if we do the double.

Ture. Although they'd hardly be celebrating! Considering they lost to the team they hate most in the league, which helped us (their second most hated team in the league) to win. At AEL we do a lot of stuff like the Seagulls north stand/soth stand (now of course north/west/east stand) between...

If they were in yellow, they would have been. A lot of Cypriots go to Uni in England, and Manchester Uni is very popular with them.

Awesome stuff, the crashing noises you can hear staring at about 1:20 was the way we got onto the pitch. There's a big dry moat between the stands and the pitch, then the "emergency" exit you can see in my picture, which has spikes on the top and padlocked door made with metal and clear perpex...

So, we won and APOEL lost meaning we are now champions of Cyprus and have a Champions League place as a result. It's only 43 years since we last won it! How's THIS for a pitch invasion at the end of a game: The fans are going mental round town, big processions of cars and other vehicles, all...

Oh yes, there's likely to be a LOT of trouble in Nicosia after trhe game as well. APOEL are very nationalist and last time Omonia played them they turned up with Turkish flags to wind them up. It worked as well. APOEL ended up playing their last three home games behind closed doors.

5pm here, which means 3pm your time.