I was in a US shooting range the other day stapling a target to a bit of cardboard and had the startling realisation that the stapler was about 10 times as complex a piece of engineering as the .32 r… (View Post)

It's the Horatio Alger fallacy, or two fallacies. One, you would have had to forego sky TV every year since the norman conquest to save up for a year of Winchester. Two, not everyone and not eve… (View Post)

I remain fascinated by the Head Boy thing. It's the lowest stakes appointment in the world, the only qualification needed is unlikelihood of being taken in for drunk and disorderly or molesting … (View Post)

Sequential or concurrent? (View Post)

The D Day invasion force had to deal with a 24 hour overrun after Eisenhower's decision of 4 June, to put it in perspective. (View Post)