Ian Kikuchi

Keep buggering on, mate.

I hope he was washing his spreadsheets frequently.

One's a tedious reactionary buffoon devoid of all charisma, and the other's Arnold Rimmer.

There's a joke about the Whigs in here somewhere...

Oh dear I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole marked 'Is Hong Kong part of Southeast Asia?'

Funnily enough the slow motion bit here perfectly captures the feeling when you get caught with a throw like this - a fraction of a second which feels like forever where you realise that you're airborne and there's nothing you can do about it except prepare for landing.

The chap in blue is currently flying economy on Judo Airlines.

YouTube video by International Judo Federation OTP Group ippon of the day, brought to you by Benjamin Levy! ☄️

Had to share this. My Budokwai clubmate Ben Levy, splatting this Belarusian lad with his uchi mata. #ippon #judo #JudoIsTheWay
#一本 #柔道 🥋🇬🇧

youtube.com/shorts/RZUDM...

On the plus side, if you did roll up to Aldi or Lidl in a Tiger, you might be able to negotiate a discount on the milk.

It always amused me that the Combined Cadet Force drill manual was marked 'Restricted', presumably to stop Chinese spies doing foot drill like 13-year-old North London boys with knock-off L98 cadet rifles.

YouTube video by International Judo Federation OTP Group ippon of the day, brought to you by Benjamin Levy! ☄️

Had to share this. My Budokwai clubmate Ben Levy, splatting this Belarusian lad with his uchi mata. #ippon #judo #JudoIsTheWay
#一本 #柔道 🥋🇬🇧

youtube.com/shorts/RZUDM...

The boats weren't coming in 2015 when Cameron promised a referendum on Europe.

Fewer splashes and more swirling down the plughole.

Repeating my demand that people who steal from museums should be sealed in showcases.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch". Photo: Natasha Clark

'Actually last time I checked, Britain was spelled correctly... '

It is curious the way the Second World War gets reduced to this wargame-style or video game-style analysis of weapons. Other eras have their iconic weapons but they don't get as endlessly picked over as Shermans and Panzers.

I wonder how much of the current moment can all be traced back to David Cameron's cowardice and weakness, in hoping that a referendum would see off the Tory right.

Hopefully that also opts you out of a career in science or medicine.

Better late than never.

Keep seeing posts about Jim Gavin and I'm wondering what the 118-year-old commander of the 82nd Airborne Division's been up to now.

The Bolsheviks won't know what's hit them. Eventually.

They're still waiting for their war-winning tank to be delivered.

Ah yes, the 'inferior' technology that can be shipped almost anywhere in the world, sustained through prolonged action, repaired quickly when it can't be patched up in the field, and replaced easily too.

Stubbed my toe on a box set of them earlier, so yes.

I'm assuming this is ultimately the fault of Churchill's war memoirs.

Nothing interrupts a hermeneutical discussion of definitions like tear gas.

Frankensteins. This Time It's War

Ban this filth!

RIP. Also:

The Paddies of Ōno in Suruga Province

The Paddies of Ōno in Suruga Province https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62750/

You'll have that polished off by lunch time.