Which, alongside the then highly secret (and often denied) high level talks, was achieved by recognising that the IRA had the support of many in the nationalist community due to perfectly reasonable … (View Post)

Hot news: https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/24617483.fire-breaks-two-open-skips-isle-wight-tip/ (View Post)

Masters of the Air did a decent job of capturing the experience of the section of the US armed forces with the highest casualty rate (second to the tank regiments), sitting up there in daylight runni… (View Post)

Anyhow the high tide failed to top the pontoon by a couple of inches, so I can still get off the boat and hope VA hasn’t suffered that much by way of flooding. And the water is now on the way down, a… (View Post)

Achieved under a lot of pressure from the Carter administration, one of its relatively few notable achievements — although there was an NPR programme on Friday about how his presidency is more recent… (View Post)