Out of nothing more than idle curiosity, I looked up which the MPs for all of those clubs grounds. Every single one is Labour, except Leicester City, who are represented by the Your Party MP, Shockat Adam. Dunno what that proves, if anything.
Ireland: 'We're OK with the devastating radioactive tsunami, but being referred to as part of the 'British Isles'???? This shall not stand!!!'.
Aka - people who have moved further right as they have got older. A generation ago, they would have become Tories in middle age.
Really want to see the version of the play that Mark Ftancois has seen now.
'Hi lads, I'm Godot! Anyone fancy a pint?'
Or in the 'real' parts of the public sector, either, IME. There seems to be a blanket 'oh, it's politics' excuse, wheeled out for this stuff at this level.
Although much of what the public sector does is indispensible for the private sector to be able to create shareholder value, of course, and that's just fine.
The only people I have ever heard use that phrase IRL, unironically thought that it was a good thing, and that they were trying to do it.
Previous attempts to address this problem seem to have only succeeded in setting up some perverse incentives, so it would be interestin to know how, eg, France deal with this better (more diverse supplier base?)
A lot of attempts to explain this focus on requirements creep in new projects, but the greater part of the equipment budget goes on in-service support, and is effectively single-sourced to a few very large contractors, who can effectively name their own prices.
I think the argument is less 'this shapes the global security environment', more 'this persuades Qatar to buy Typhoon, not, I dunno, F18s, thus reducing unit costs of maintaining Typhoon in-service support to the RAF'.
I mean the Pope *is* weak on crime though, if he won't even crack down on the low-level anti-social behaviour and petty theft by the likes of Fr Damo Lennon.
Getting strong Jed Maxwell vibes...
Nursing, the police, the armed forces, doctors...
Strange that a Flemish city should give me an immediate 'Raglan Road' earworm, but there we are.
That article conflates actual British military bases with temporary presences for (eg) exercises with allies, and locations where there are Defence attachés or exchange officers.
It would have been one amongst 20 or 30 she would have had that evening. Most people, even Reform voters, are civil.
Typical Lib Dem.
Yeah, sorry about that. Still, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
'You want the UK and France to help you open up a narrow waterway in the Middle East? Take a ticket, Antony Eden will see you when he's ready.'
Llongyfarchiadau! Mwynhewch eich gwyliau!
Indeed, parts of the contiguous built-up area of Chester, including the football club, are *in* Wales.
Anyway, although Liverpool finished 2nd that year, they were actually 5th at the time the League Cup Final was played. So, I was wrong about that one.
Gallingly, yes.
In common with others of his generation, he seems motivated by the belief that if the civilian society that had sent him to WWI were to experience a fraction of the horrors of industrialised warfare, war itself would become unthinkable.
Douhet is cited more often than he is actually read. If you read CotA, it's pretty clear that what he thinks he's 'invented' is what we would now call MAD.
Keir Starmer
Screencap of tweet by Colin Parry, father of one of the boys killed by the IRA bomb in Warrington: "Brexit Party candidate for North West England in the EU elections, Claire Fox, defended the IRA bombing of Warrington in 1993 because the IRA was 'defending itself'! Voters should reflect on her suitability to represent them when they cast their vote".
Lest we forget...
Claire Fox defended the IRA murdering two young boys in Warrington ("The right of the Irish people to take whatever measures necessary in their struggle for freedom") and has never apologised.
Below is a tweet from one of the fathers.
#politicslive
