Carnyx

First he has to be chosen as the candidate by the constituency. Do they need to be approved by CCHQ these days? I forget. And after being elected he has to win the Party leadership election. Tories b… (View Post)

Apart from whether one holds a membership card or not: is Mr Johnson a Tory? Is anyone a Tory? What's a Tory these days that one should vote for that candidate? The party has been pounded and pummell… (View Post)

But hydra is the LAtin word for watersnake. Though in this case, Algar4kirk is right in calling it a given name because the English idiom comes from the Lernean Hydra that Heracles slew. And in some … (View Post)

... oh, you meant Cassius *Marcellus* Clay. Not the other one. Makes a lot more sense now. (View Post)

THat's very fresh by Army standards. They were feeding their squaddies 20 year old Mars Bars in the 1990s, bought cheap by MoD from a failed contract for Iran thanks to the revolution there. (View Post)