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You can maaaaaaybe make a case for doing it with Churchill (problematic image aside) - but only because he’s associated with national image and not exclusively the Conservative Party as Thatcher was.

Absolutely crazy.

Lol this is legit insane.

Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher at Conservative Party Conference in 1983 asking for cardboard cutouts of Stanley Baldwin to be displayed alongside glass cabinets filled with his old clothes.

You can’t connect with voters by using someone who is dust.

Decided once I get my new place, instead of fitted wardrobes I’m going to invest more in the sofabed (probably below)…

Which means nobody shall be allowed to sit on it… Ever. It shall be a viewing sofabed only that people can admire from afar.

a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper . ALT: a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper .

Have you contacted this guy? I’m told he’s useful

Whilst the unwanted deployment of a RAT inflight is not an emergency as such, they usually only deploy due to an emergency (electrical/hydraulic failure due to loss of engines).

… So wtf is going on in the Screamliner’s brain for it do that 😬

Dreamt I was a snail and my little shell had a nice bed, a tv inside, roaring fire.

Pretty awesome being a snail tbh.

Nanight Bluesky friends ☺️

Yeah you could make a decent go at it now due to the rise of grifter culture.

Micky Pearce starting a knock off version of OnlyFans with Peckham in the name 😂

Haha agreed, they should have ended it fully when they became millionaires

Loved Uncle Albert!

Also… another mention!

I made the point in my Masters thesis that you have the most popular British sitcom of the time mentioning it as something exotic and exciting over and over, when usually planes are considered dull and just a means to an end.

😝

1. Trying to pull in a club

2. Trying to find location in the North Sea by looking at planes

3. Trying to clean up radioactive waste that may be “Concorde fuel”

4. Flying to Monte Carlo

5. Flying to the Caribbean

Then again, the popular culture evidence base is extremely strong.

It was mentioned in Only Fools and Horses across the series over four times!

Unfortunately a lot of my evidence base for my idea would rely on me doing interviews with former workers, crew etc… And they have an expiry date, especially since it is now 22 years since it was retired and 56 years since built 😞

Petition for British Airways to broadcast adverts that go hard again

Haha everyone who worked on the project was extremely proud of the design overall - even though it failed to sell.

Lots of links to themes of British/French identity following the loss of superpower status etc.

My backup idea was looking at a principle I established in my Masters thesis that fans, passengers, crew see Concorde as more than a machine - a living thing. Then moving that concept into its wider applications for our relationship with technology and machines

Oh there’s lots of potential areas to focus on. Mine was going to look at what people working on the design and build thought Concorde’s role would be in developing Britain’s role on the world stage

The evidence base is also spectacularly large too and has a huge integration in our popular culture, but only specialists/Concorde nerds know that

My main reason for doing it is to show a history of an aircraft is possible. During my Masters most the department, apart from my supervisor, warned against it thinking there would not be enough evidence to produce something on it.

But I knew there was something to be written

There is only really one clear funding area at York and they have the exact specialist I’d want to as a guide - a historian of modern technology. She loved my idea too 😭

Though I’m very clear about my idea, would not want changes to please people

Yessss, York approved me but I didn’t get the separate scholarship for it 😭

Was happy with my Masters on it though, but it’ll always be a regret that I wasn’t able to give it the justification it deserves but lacks in historiography.

Yep, they used to place a bottle of champagne in his 9A seat waiting for him!

Concorde’s most frequent flyer was a businessman called Fred Finn.

Between 1976 and 2003 he flew on Concorde 718 times.

In one day he once managed to fly between London and New York three times within 12 hours.

Here he is pictured in front of Concorde, not showing off, with his Rolls-Royce.

Concorde fact of the day:

Taxiing from gate to runway, Concorde would burn four times more fuel than the average petrol car uses in a year.

Over one entire flight, it would burn through more fuel than one single car if running for 154 years.

I mean, based… But still fundamentally silly.

Serious political party strikes again

Wow! Now time for Israel to abide by the terms.