I was at Sixth form at the time of the Falklands War but have very fond memories of the remarkable surgeon Commander Rick Jolly. He was the recruiting officer for the RN Medics, and I spent a few nig… (View Post)

Clearly you are unaware of Operation Journeyman, when Callaghan deployed a naval force in 1978 to prevent a threatened Argentinian attack. It had its intended effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op… (View Post)

It's the plastic patriots here who keep talking of migrating. (View Post)

It's fairly simple. Blood and tissue products have to be matched between donors and recipients, so the donor pool has to match the population needing them. The donor pool contained enough white … (View Post)

It's a bit hard to have a Chagossian plebescite after we deported every one of them to Mauritius, and denied them citizenship. (View Post)