Am reminded that during the course of the V1 flying bomb campaign anti-aircraft fire became much more efficient, and rounds per kill dropped dramatically. But that kind of optimisation is presumably not possible with a missile-based interceptor system.
At 6 seconds he's confident the defenders have got everything under control, at 7 seconds Chernobyl has exploded.
Do you get a lot of council for your money?
It's the Gallipoliest idea since Gallipoli, I think.
Did the goalkeeper have an appointment elsewhere?
Of all the things that won't happen, this won't happen the most.
Roosevelt and/or Truman lost 11 carriers during the Second World War.
The re-election of Donald Trump calls into question Americans' capacity for learning.
The German response to 'Tge Battle of the Somme'. If I recall, there's rather less actuality footage in it than there is in the British film.
Reminded that, late in life, Winston Churchill called the Middle East 'the hardest-hearted' part of the world, where he believed peace had only reigned when an outside power dominated the region. By the time Churchill died in 1965 that power was no longer the UK. Perhaps it's now not the US either.
Brilliant idea. I'll see if Ian Hamilton's free...
World trade currently being grabbed by the penis and bundled into an Iranian police car, protesting all the while about the succulent Chinese meal it was enjoying, just now.
Quite something to see today's US Navy (11 aircraft carriers) equally unable to do to the Strait of Hormuz what the Royal Navy (43 battleships) tried and failed to do to the Dardanelles in 1915.
Christ imagine trying to read Trump's wat memoirs.
Surfacing like a U-boat when a convoy just happens to pass overhead.
This is jogging pleasant memories of playing Super Mario Maker with my younger brother, and cackling with laughter at the increasingly absurd and impossible things we made for each other.
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
If only we had a culture secretary.
'We're going to stick to our guns' I declare, boldly, as I ram cannonballs down the barrel of a really bad idea until it explodes, killing me.
I used to live on this estate. It was always very striking that if you turned left at the top of the stairs on the footbridge at Sydenham Hill station, you were heading for the mansions and villas of College Road, but turning right took you to the old council estate. I only ever turned right.
A patient and diplomatic response to the Guardian’s hurt-seeking rhetorical journalism about museums & human remains. Certain campaigners may disdain respect & decency, museums don’t
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Have never understood the logic for electing judges and prosecutors. Seems to create partisan incentives in roles that should be impartial.
I'd definitely take my chances with the Red Army after that.
I'm thinking about the long term and getting my photo negatives painted in oils on canvas.
Apart from all the Frenchmen in the way, the road to Verdun is wide open.
Reminded that the most successful part of the Gallipoli campaign was the evacuation, so perhaps the US Marine Corps could go one better by not invading in the first place.
The Rhine bridges are open for transit, 21st Army Group Commander Field Marshal Montgomery said. 'The only thing prohibiting transit across the Rhine bridges is the Germans shooting at transport,' he said. 'They are open for transit should the Germans not do that'.
It's not even that they aren't digitised, it's that the originals themselves will disappear unless someone actively works to preserve them.
This is very cool. My primary school in Kent still had its air raid shelter beneath it, reached via a mysterious blocked-up entrance in the playground. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
