History, Politics And Current Affairs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq2gdlnygo There has been a huge screwup by the organisers of the Great North Run in the UK. That's a large, mass participation half marathon that takes place each year around Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The 2025 version was last weekend. Unfortunately the medals given...

Oh there are a LOT more active volcanoes in Italy than people realise. Of the Campanian Arc people have mostly only heard of Vesuvius, with some having heard of Campi Flegri and very few knowing about Ischia. Etna is Etna! Of the Lipari Islands people have likely heard of Stromboli, some have heard ...

But the vast caldera which *had* to underlay area could not be confirmed beyond a short arc. Wrong. The geometry of the caldera has been well known for decades. Onshore it's patently obvious and offshore the location of the ring fault has been fairly well known. This work appears to have made thing...

This is a wonderful example of hilariously bad auto-subtitles.

What it doesn't deal with is both sides possessing nuclear weapons. That fundamentally alters the strategic and indeed even the grand strategic calculus yet again.

Now it's Hulk Hogan's turn to smash his last.

Grew up in the 80s, never liked his music, I was a Weird Al fan (no I've never been married, why do you ask?) But my Brother was a fan, I got exposed to his music a lot. Shame to see him go, but we all gotta go sometime. RIP. Thing is that Weird Al could likely do a creditable job of spoofing Black...

Well of course he can legitimately claim to have been stone cold sober when out of his tree.

Depends on what you want to do with things? There are certain things that free alternatives do very, very well and certain things they don't. So what're the uses you need to put the software to?

Everything, from munitions to uniforms, trucks, and artillery, was manufactured with fantastic efficiency. This wasn't just hyperbole; it was real production. The American Expeditionary Forces were fed, armed, and clothed by an industrial base without precedent in history. Erm nope. They were NOT e...

The brightest and best are clearly at work on the Vanguard class submarines. :roll: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/14/royal-navy-sailor-arrested-over-bomb-hoax-nuclear-sub/ A Royal Navy sailor was reportedly arrested over a bomb hoax on a Trident submarine. The Petty Officer on HMS Vanguar...

This was seen at an Armed Forces Day event today. Clearly someone in 30 Regiment Royal Signals likes dad jokes!

Wonderful story in the Daily Telegraph about those horrifying errors which occasionally occur at work and are so memorable they make you cringe years later. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/16/most-embarrassing-office-stories/ It was the summer of 2010 and I was the new boy on the news desk ...

Oh Toobin's mentioned in the article.

City worker sacked after accidentally flashing genitals on video call Tribunal rejects employee’s case that his firing amounted to an unfair dismissal https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/16/city-worker-sacked-after-flash-genitals-video-call-accident/ Many people have nightmares about going...

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 12:41 pm

Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:15 am Huh ? Not 'Top Trump' ??
Oh, he's just gotta find, un-cap his EO pen...

HA!!!! That would be great! Although there is a card game out there called "Top Trumps" so there might be a copyright issue.

Belushi TD

Not copyright. Trademark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLOZ15VvI0 Words fail me. :( :x :evil: :evil: :evil: And it looks like they're doing the right thing. Treating the ship correctly. Too big and expensive and complicated to even contemplate as a museum. Stop promoting any delusions about that. Thus it needs disposing...

You've forgotten Victor and Valiant and Vulcan in the bomber calculations. Plus whatever the French had.

Not convinced the 4.5" or the AS-12s would be very effective - the 4.5" shells are exactly what Belgrano 's armour scheme was designed to protect against, and AS-12s have a penetration of 20mm coupled to a very short effective range which puts the helicopters in AA range. The RN would try...

It's also incorrect to do a direct comparison since the UK is hundreds of miles from Russia. So Russian land-launched ballistic missiles could not play the same part they did in Ukraine. Only Russian aircraft, Russian aircraft-launched missiles and Russian ship-launched missiles and Russian submarin...