If you're going to strike there's no point in doing it when nobody will notice. You strike when it has maximum impact. (View Post)

Back in the day many English cricketers would play club cricket in Australia in the winter, if there wasn't a spot for them in the Sheffield Shield, but these days there's almost always a f… (View Post)

Not the Black Sea, but the Caspian Sea. The Ukrainians hit a Russian Navy patrol boat in the Caspian Sea. (View Post)

I thought Holyrood did that themselves because they wanted to avoid having the Holyrood elections at the same time as the Westminster election. Didn't they switch to five-year terms at the same … (View Post)

I'm halfway through returning from a week away visiting my daughter and I have timed it very badly. The shipping forecast suggests a force 8 for my ferry crossing, so perhaps it will be delayed/… (View Post)