This is nothing to what has been going on over here! For a start, a contractor to the Governments Benefits Agency lost two discs containing the...
"Palin didn't know Africa was a continent" This is from a blog on the Telegraph website:
By the way, I wish to make it clear that as a self-respecting Englishman, I don't use the Euro symbol if I can possibly avoid it. :>
Hmm... must be a glitch of some kind. I don't know if American keyboards are different to ours, whether £ and $ symbols have similar priorities....
Wow! Not a sight thats been seen very often since 1945!
As the pdf article says, the McCudden family suffered terribly in the war; James' two brothers were also killed with the RFC. John Anthony...
He would have been 72 in 1967; a bit old for much Bond-ish stuff. Clearly his age wasn't respected by the Egyptian secret police. 66 Sqdn was a...
Either Massa or Hamilton would have deserved the championship; if I wasn't British I don't know who I would have supported. But it was a...
I finally got to take some photos of the Croydon Aerodrome War Memorial today. I live not far from Croydon; its not a place you go to unless you...
By 1949 WW2 was old hat and it was considered more important to rebuild Germany and Japan to stand up to the Soviet Union. To be fair, the West also...
Fawlty Towers (including Andrew Sachs) has to be the all-time classic. Trouble is, my wife watches at least an episode a fortnight on DVD, and I...
And now Niue is in danger of being wiped out by rising sea levels - their vulnerability to the politics of the outside world continues.
I guess Sydney's crew were in the position of a Policeman who approaches a suspect who he cannot see properly and may or may not be armed. He could...
So if they can photo a driver's face, albeit on one side of the car, the Germans are even more advanced in surveillance of the public than the...
Fascinating stuff. Just a couple of things I would query: I'm not sure what they mean by this; I thought it was well known that it was scuttled...
Given that our latest two exports to the USA are Ricky Gervais and Little Britain, I think the Americans are going to be disappointed, if not...
As usual I'm a bit slow to catch up, but hope you had a happy birthday! Adrian
I think Messrs Kiyoshi Goto and Tishihiko Suzuki had been at the saki! Do the Japs have an equivalent of April Fool's Day? Can we name one full...
The wikipedia article gives more detail and some of Magee's other poems. John Gillespie Magee, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He went...
AVRO Canada was owned by Hawker Siddeley, as Avro in the UK was by then, but it was a wholely Canadian operation. Zura's darkest hour was...
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