The effect of the raid was to destroy the dock so that Tirpitz was effectively confined to a Norweigan fjord but from there it had a huge psychological effect on Arctic convoys, especially the ill-fa… (View Post)

Did anyone give a damn about U-turns before *that* speech by Mrs Thatcher? (View Post)

Getting your back to relax was the basis for a colleague's recommendation – take a bunch of painkillers then go to bed with your electric blanket on. The heat encourages muscles to relax and the pain… (View Post)

From Inverness. The ball was about a hundred miles away in Kirriemuir. (View Post)

Or because Iran does not want a proper war with Israel that it would surely lose (not least because if it looked for a second like winning, the United States would step in). Most likely both are true. (View Post)