You are Jeremy Corbyn and I claim my five pounds... (View Post)

Whatever one thinks of Thatcher and her politics, she did at least have a vision of what she wanted to do, and stuck to it. I imagine Starmer going to the breakfast buffet and changing his mind on th… (View Post)

I don’t buy that. Lloyd George had no control over which troops fought over which bit of the line. And before the day a lot of the brass thought that the bombardment would have wiped out the Germans,… (View Post)

What’s fascinating is just how much the lessons learned in WW1 governed how we fought in the second war. People get distracted by mechanisation and tanks, but generals like Monty fought huge set piec… (View Post)

Yep. Basically a full Anfield. A third dead, the rest injured. In one day, and actually for the most part fairly early on in the day. The signs had been there in the American Civil War, but truly the… (View Post)