If someone makes two predictions and one fails and the other comes off at longer than evens, that's still a good result. If I hadn't been feeling pessimistic and backed Conservatives yester… (View Post)

Good morning, everyone. I forget who tipped it alas, but thanks to whoever mentioned the Conservatives at 3 or so for Aberdeen South :) (View Post)

Tanks weren't the only change, in new and expanded use of technology, though. Rail and machine guns spring to mind. The French had some early types of machine gun in very limited numbers in the … (View Post)

Just on Versailles: WWI started as it did partly due to Germany thinking they could rapidly knock out France after absolutely crushing them in the Franco-Prussian war about four decades earlier. Howe… (View Post)

Sounds very Cleverly. (View Post)