I don't think that's true. Most of the complaints about this sort of thing come from people with very little power at all, let alone for naval spending. Also, it's Britannia RULE the w… (View Post)

The BBC's weather forecasts have been weirdly shit for about 2 years. Often I have been struck by the difference between the BBC forecast and the Met Office forecast. It is very rare that the fo… (View Post)

Blame autocorrect! I turned mine off - the frequent fat finger errors which result make me cringe far less than autocorrect's more-frequent-than-you-would-expect erroneous 'corrections'… (View Post)

You can tell the Americans are in charge when operations have daftly heroic names. I prefer the British names which mean absolutely nothing e.g. Operation Market Garden. (View Post)

Conversation at primary school door this morning from normally apolitical friend: "we [the school] has gone from less than 5% English as a foreign language to around 25%. You wouldn't think… (View Post)