Deputy Heads will roll
21.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@paodonnell.bsky.social
History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
Deputy Heads will roll
21.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was a Bottoms Up in the late 90s. Which led to some terrible jokes.
The past is another country.
Again, beats my oven ready pizza from Sainsbury’s. Really good to meet you.
19.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to meet you and the clever people.
But realising that I’ve made a missed an opportunity with the KFC call
That’s a good parallel to draw, HG Wells was busy inventing sci-fi as part of the invasion panic phenomenon of the years before the FWW
17.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think the date, September 1914, is too early for blackouts? It was among papers relating to ‘educated’ ie middle class women, doing clerical work, essentially as volunteers
17.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think this is a card issued early in WW1 to employees of firms essential to the war effort to stop them being branded cowards given white feathers.
But this one appears to have issued to a MISS Wilberforce?
From home, everywhere I’ve ever worked
12.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you ever seen this?
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Old Castle Swifts, immediately below, were one of the precursors of West Ham
09.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It feels like it, doesn’t it? Still, at least we have chairman who wrote a book about organisational culture.
31.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 00-1
So bad. There is something extremely wrong with that team and I don’t think it is confined to the players on the pitch.
#lofc
1-0
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I think this afternoon could be grind
#lofc
For somewhere they probably won’t have been, Zagreb
28.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations
28.01.2026 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You should only need 11 minutes if the ambulance actually has to drive onto the pitch to take a player off
17.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But unless you get much more deeply into the weeds than most people are prepared/able to go you are still using IOS or Android
17.01.2026 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kudos to anyone replying to this thread without using either an Apple or an Alphabet/Google product.
17.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today clearly proof that form is temporary while class is permanent*.
*Lasts till the next lackadaisical defensive shambles.
2-1
Ballard, O’Neil
God knows why I think we’ll win. We were good last week and we don’t build on good performances this season.
There is always the possibility of organising a recall. But in this case the Tories would probably lose so won’t. Interesting counter factual if the mechanism had been in operation in 1981 though
17.01.2026 10:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I agree, but the SNP won’t dare say it
16.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s a shame, I thought he was excellent last week and was looking forward to seeing if he and Ballard could build an old fashioned strike partnership.
16.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0An option of being in the EU without a firm commitment to the Euro might solve a problem for the SNP
16.01.2026 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m in.
13.01.2026 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“It’s only Ray Parlour…”
12.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why go Groves in midfield when Parlour is right there?
12.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Abracadabra
12.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01-1, but a really enjoyable game that #LOFC should have won against the league leaders.
Much better performance, mindless optimism reengaged.
Just listened to the TMS podcast interview with Jacob Bethell’s dad. He didn’t quite say ‘Rugby School turned my Barbadian son English’ but it was close. Tbf, the economic realities of a career as Eng player Vs as a WI one were discussed too.
10.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0