Traditionally, annoying royal dukes were permitted to choose their own deaths. That's how the Duke of Clarence was drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine in 1478. I'm wondering what the equivalen… (View Post)

It was before. Ribbentrop was writing memos confidently predicting a civil war in Britain because Edward had so many supporters. One of them being one of Ribbentrop's own ex-(or possibly not so … (View Post)

The only slight irony of that remark is that when European leaders met to discuss the Ukraine/Trump disaster, they held their meeting in *checks notes* London. Ultimately, the whole thing was a compl… (View Post)

No it isn't. Nothing funny about it. (View Post)

They are not immortally safe sir. They may collapse in a Heep. (View Post)