History, Politics And Current Affairs

Ahh the good old Two Party State and it's partial Civil Service. Betraying the nation once again! When the LibDem is actually talking sense....isn't that one of signs of the end of the world? Well at least this time we're swapping the US for China. Land of mobile euthanasia and cremation vans, that ...

Well Happy New Year folks.

Yesterday even I celebrated the end of the first day with a good whisky.

"You must think in Received Pronunciation." So "Fiah reah missail" ;) Side note: I had an teacher in English for a couple of years (lovely lady) who was from Edinburgh. She’d insist that she spoke ”the Queen’s English”, which seemingly to her meant that she just didn’t use any S...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 3:26 pm

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 2:55 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 8:44 am Concorde?

That’s FIREFOX!!!

But this time the telepathic commands are in the Queens English rather then Russian....

"You must think in Received Pronunciation."

So "Fiah reah missail"

I would have thought CAMM not CAMM-ER as then there is compatibility with Visby class upgrade. The French may....I must stress may....be playing with fire here. CAMM and it's technologies is primarily under UK control and MBDA is part owned by BAE Systems who in turn is in it's UK side still with UK...

O.3 scale Olympus 593?
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So 9,390lb dry thrust?

So 18,780lb dry to power a 57,000lb aircraft?

And for good measure tje Thegns of Mercia have a well researched piece on Yuletide generally

https://www.thegns.org/blog/yule?fbclid ... ydjQQZ61yA

A nice exploration of the origin in Heathen Yuletide. https://ingwine.org/no-the-anglo-saxons-didnt-celebrate-yuletide-in-late-january/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOo361jbGNrA6jfLGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHt2P38fk0NoX5rCFz2tDpEWL_pUuxBjLgC2eQFl86aBCd1_29JFO8bL0yltL_aem_uzOUXoO6uX84sxFvKL...

Smells of strategic partnership and actual arguments for and against systems be more the window dressing than the substance. France can offer assistance with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Swedens uranium supply and potential restart of nuclear weapons program is the obvious big issue no on...

If you have enough submarines, having one turn up at home for repair is obviously countered by another deploying.

Ideally you send out the next submarine before the first returns just to give the enemy's spies that little extra heartburn. Knowing two submarines be somewhere out there.

intriguing piece here "The results presented here substantially alter our perception of northern England in the immediate post-Roman period. Roman practices of metal production, comprising ore selection and use of coal are shown to have continued. Production/working of iron only declined sligh...

Hope it went well.

I've loved my drives over to Poland, even if it's sometimes been a fraught experience.

Were they trying to get the US to join the party? They read US support for themselves across from anti-communist to support for Argentina's claims against the British. Enough voices inside the US government were being raised along such lines. It's plausible they felt they had a free hand to remove ...

Recently saw this on Facebook. Gave me a laugh.
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GPT-5 just refactored my entire codebase in one call.
25 tool invocations. 3000+ new lines.
12 brand new files.
It modularised everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti.

None of it worked.
But damn it was beautiful.

Even on Wikipedia we can see the etymology as reconstructed currently.

Proto-germanic *kurną

Proto-indo-european *ǵr̥h₂nóm
From *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”)

Might an explanation be a use/borrowing of the Scandinavian word for modern barley, which is "korn"? If the proto-west-germanic is "korn"......then it's remained a stable word for over 2,000 years. A brief dip suggests only east-germanic languages pronounced it differently as &q...

Just a link to a site going into this. But I thought it might interest some here. https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2019/08/11/corn-dollies-from-the-old-crone-to-the-maiden/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMIHG5jbGNrAwgb6mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeJHqonc3b412YUmDgnpVE2-uPo2MS3leQA3nzXgbycpiseeMr945i-c9QdiY_aem_oZSSFOlW7dXkPcOi2...

Kunkmiester wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 3:28 am

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:39 pm Maybe its one that pops into existence and pops out again.....

Quantum planet, name it after the cat...

You mean Tiddles or Mr Fluffy?

I'll throw an alternative here. Hoc leader of Hocingas. Supposedly seized control at Uppsala. A key religious site. His sons Danish in both Anglo-Saxon and Danish sources. Crucially related to the legendary takeover of Juteland and the tragedy of Hamlet (Ānlaf a.k.a Olaf). However this legend along ...

Posted elsewhere (in pieces), but I think it needs more development. So I'll ask here as we have people here who might assist. Good title needed in lew I'll use "benefits of SSNs" It's a first stab at trying to define what the SSN delivers for a state. ‐-----------------------------------...