Unless one is in the modernised internationalised style RN, in which case it's pennant. PBpennantry? (View Post)

The British army on the Western Front seems to have had a remarkably regular life by comparison. Though I was looking again the other day at the War Office letter *after* Armistice Day to a relative … (View Post)

Reading about the mountain war in the Alps is also terrifying. Even - especially - today, with glacier recession, bodies are emerging from the ice up there. (View Post)

Also see the points made passim about staffing recruitment and retention. Doesn't matter if some of your tax has to be dealt with by sending out a paper form as (a) the computers do that all any… (View Post)

Quite so, full of lawyers doing well for themselves. 'We stood aside, watching for any countenance we knew; and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out—bundles in bags, bundles … (View Post)