Alternate Seat of TYR

1st Royal Scots deployed to Iraq this week, in a movement that I don’t think was part of the routine brigade roulement. Underneath the racket about paedo shitbags and surveillance dolphins parenting binge estates, it rather vanished into the background noise, but there is an interesting point here.
Out of the battalion from the British Army’s [...]

Just who was it who chartered Irbis’s Ilyushin-18D UN-75005, serial number 187010204 as a “private” flight from Kabul to Sharjah on Tuesday at 1235 local time? They weren’t using a BIS- flight number, but the aircraft registration as a general aviation movement. And - why haven’t we heard of the old crate (well, it’s not [...]

Just who was it who chartered Irbis’s Ilyushin-18D UN-75005, serial number 187010204 as a “private” flight from Kabul to Sharjah on Tuesday at 1235 local time? They weren’t using a BIS- flight number, but the aircraft registration as a general aviation movement. And - why haven’t we heard of the old crate (well, it’s not [...]

Interesting analysis on WSC’s drinking habits.
Professor Warren Kimball of Rutgers, editor of the WSC-FDR correspondence and several erudite books on the two leaders, maintains that Churchill was not an alcoholic -”no alcoholic could drink that much!”

As I first heard from the statistics log, the wanted arms dealer Arkadi Gaidamak’s son Alexandre is trying to buy Portsmouth FC. Gaidamak was one of the people at the heart of the Angolan wing of the Elf scandal, next to Pierre Falcone, and is wanted by the French police and Interpol. This hasn’t stopped [...]

…to say NO to Identity Cards.

This is rather worrying, no? Spanish general and CINC Land Forces says the army has an obligation to intervene if the Catalans get more autonomy. Chief of General Staff asks Defence Minister for authority to sack him. Defence Minister goes one better, puts him under house arrest!
Is it me - or is everyone else going [...]

Interesting analysis on WSC’s drinking habits.
Professor Warren Kimball of Rutgers, editor of the WSC-FDR correspondence and several erudite books on the two leaders, maintains that Churchill was not an alcoholic -”no alcoholic could drink that much!”

As I first heard from the statistics log, the wanted arms dealer Arkadi Gaidamak’s son Alexandre is trying to buy Portsmouth FC. Gaidamak was one of the people at the heart of the Angolan wing of the Elf scandal, next to Pierre Falcone, and is wanted by the French police and Interpol. This hasn’t stopped [...]

…to say NO to Identity Cards.