Much of the Portsmouth dockyard workforce, ISTR, had had redundancy notices handed to them just before the war began, but came back anyway and slaved for months. Not that it did them much good. (View Post)

I must be the only person who has no idea who Mr Wallace is, never mind what he has done or is supposed to have done. (View Post)

On that, this in the news today - by the *current* Labour (UK) administration. "the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history", Makes the Tories look even more useles… (View Post)

So all the more shameful that the covid legacy of a dedicated vaccine centre was summarily scrapped by the same administration which set it up (but not, IIRC, the same prime minister). (View Post)

And there's always the one that comes out of the grass unexpected. Including in the UK. I've just been reading about the English Sweating Sickness of Tudor times. Maybe a rodent or bat born… (View Post)