Measuring effect through the amount of firepower employed? Seems an entirely reasonable approach without any historical precedents suggesting this might not be sensib... Oh. Oh dear.
Don't forget the Hartlepool monkey did win... As I recall, there were voters who *wanted* an anthropomorphised simian mayor and felt let down when the chap decided to take the role seriously - and they then voted him back in. Twice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-e...
Requiring a sort of political Nuno Espirito Santo? Makes some initial mistakes, but after a short while moves supporters from 'disaster! What were the board thinking?' to 'Ah. He does appear to know what he's doing. Y'know, we might just get away with this...'
Seems fair enough
This is *not* what is meant by the term 'brown water navy'....
A Photograph from the Imperial War Museum archive captioned “ Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 2 Squadron SAAF based at Palata, Italy, flying in loose line astern formation over the Adriatic Sea while on a bombing mission to the Sangro River battlefront”
I believe the footage is from the same sortie from which this originates; I suspect that the footage spliced into Mr Lowe’s video was found from a google search alighting on the British Pathé footage ‘Spitfires in flight’ which doesn’t reveal these are SAAF airframes…
They measure time in relation to Mallard Ceremonies, I believe, so I think their timeline is something like 5 Mallard (records pre-1701 about the frequency of what's been done every 100 years since are a bit patchy, it would seem, but grateful for further elucidation).
Complete with obligatory clip of Spitfires not in fact being flown by British pilots, I see...
Was the bookshop linked to the Youth Hostel Association or similar? I have a very, very dim & possibly wildly inaccurate recollection of a YHA sign on the building at some point.
Recall it as both Oddbins & Threshers. Changed over at some point in the mid- to late-90s, I think. Never noticed when, as only interested in buying crates/slabs for the latest Teddy Hall event after we'd cleaned the Oddbins on the High St out of stock (again...) but were still under-provisioned.
Image (possibly AI generated) of a tartigrade playing the world's tiniest violin to provide a sarcastically sorrowful soundtrack to news that President Trump is saddened by the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (the Andrew formerly known as Prince) on suspicion of committing misconduct in public office.
Would that be the story about the councillor beneath a large picture of the PM & headline along the lines that the Mandelson affair probably marks the beginning of the end for the PM, or is he thinking of another one?
In the head-on shot, he does have the look of a man who’s just met an alligator not quite ready to dedicate its life to Jesus Christ just yet….
(‘Keep your hands where I can see them, and step slowwwly away from the alligator, sir’)
Hence Gielgud's line in Morse:
'Proctors could have handled it perfectly well. Much better in the old days, when all crimes on University property were dealt with by the proctors. Knew what they were doing.'
I suspect most viewers had no idea how relatively recently 'the old days' were...
Does this mean he'll be turning up more frequently to his places of work (Clacton & the House of Commons)?
<Mimes and lip-synchs response>
"Who convinced him that this was a remotely good idea?"
Someone who really doesn't like him?
The King’s not obliged to agree & there’s a case for saying he *should* refuse to dissolve parliament given Labour’s majority (unless they can’t find someone they can unite behind as the new PM). Getting turned down & sparking a constitutional crisis would just put the top hat on it all, I suppose…
A modernised Act of Attainder might come in handy (for this and potentially other circumstances)…
He’s misunderstood the concept of using artillery to support penetration deep in enemy‘s rear, hasn’t he?
#doctrinefail
Forgive me, but haven’t you omitted the words ‘titled’ and ‘Melania’ after ‘documentary’ there?
Presumably they believe that the attacks were carried out @ a height that the crew in a Buccaneer would find sporting, with the ship obligingly positioned so that the pilot could aim amidships, drop the torpedo and then home for tea/medals or not home ever again & parents collect VC from George VI?
While it might not last very long, it might not end in quite the way he seems to believe (as a fair few US officers of my acquaintance & who've worked with the French might be muttering at the TV, as well as 'and you're coming with us to see how your bright idea works out, numbskull')
Invented by the Archbishop of Johannesburg & Cape Town and John Sentamu? (in the finest traditions of The Unbelievable Truth...)
Well you wouldn't want him to overlook his decisive contribution to ending its war with Shrewsbury, would you?
[Is it wrong for me to hope someone convinces him that he's brought peace to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and see how he manages that one?]
As I read down the list of 13 Conservatives GB News thought might defect (with some suggesting GBN was hoping this would happen), I could imagine Kemi Badenoch also reading it and saying 'No great loss... Meh....no great loss... Oh! Please, God, please make it happen!' as she went down each name...
The Mexicans and Canadians might have a view on being removed from the tournament hosting...
Think of it as a premium subscription to the Long Running Historical Jokes podcast.
But apart from that....
Once you'd strained the 'beer' out of the water, of course. (Why *would* you want to pollute the river like that? Not even Thames Water would go that far).
