I struggle to get to sleep early in the summer, I think I need a couple of hours of darkness to wind down. I have by now learned to sleep through the dawn chorus and sunrise though. (View Post)

Strangely enough, the current First Sea Lord is a general. (View Post)

No, I want Russian soldiers to die. I could want all sorts of other things more, like a Russian withdrawal, but Ukrainian victory turns on them being able to kill Russians. I just see it as being hon… (View Post)

According to the BBC report I have just googled, he simply says he regrets the phrase used, because he didn't realise it would be compared with Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. So he's… (View Post)

He also said "you should hate a Frenchman as you would the Devil" (although a good number actually served in the British fleet) (View Post)