Alternate Seat of TYR

The consistently superb Bartholomew’s notes on religion has published extensive details about Paul De L’Aire Staines, various old friends, and South Africa. As it seems inevitable that he will fire off a nastygram at any moment, readers are asked to mirror the text in the interests of public enlightenment; I’ve dropped it in the comments.
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The Metropolitan Police Authority meets on the 22nd November to discuss Sir Ian Blair’s case; they cannot be left uninformed.
This body consists of members from the London Assembly, magistrates, and “independent members”. Their details are here. The balance is as follows - 7 Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, who can be expected to vote no confidence [...]

Do you want to take part in the very first blogging lobby of Parliament? More seriously, if you’ve already written to them and demanded that all our Iraqi employees are taken along with us before we withdraw from Iraq, here is your next set of instructions.
On Tuesday, the 9th October, 2007, between 1900-2100</strong hours, there [...]

Michael “DSM” Smith of the Times reports some detail on the recent action in Afghanistan in which two UKSF members were killed. Worth reading. How would your answer change, though, if you knew that the two companies of 3 Para involved equal roughly 50% of the total infantry force available to the British Army in [...]

For some reason, otherwise sensible people go flappy around the edges about the UK nuclear deterrent.
Critics of the force often like to talk about how independent, or otherwise it is. This is a good point: after all, the rockets are leased from the US. But for some reason, from this starting point they rapidly [...]

If this post worried or angered you, fear not. Our best man is on the case. Defence Procurement Minister Lord Drayson, no less, is heading the negotiations on F-35 technology transfer and RR workshare.
That’s the Lord Drayson who gave Labour £100,000 and got a huge government contract, then a peerage, and then gave Labour another [...]

A Saab Viggen-shaped dinosaur.

The comments spammers are backarooni! After the last time I did this they disappeared for several weeks, so maybe time for another dose. The links point to http://2ee.us/shitetheyreadvertising.html, so let’s play WHOIS whack-a-mole!
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Whilst checking in on latest Kenyan Armenian Czech Indian mercenary news, I stumbled on this. Italy has a space research and rocket launch site in Kenya. Who knew?

It’s been reasonably widely reported that the British and US governments have fallen out about the terms of British participation in the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35 or JSF) project. The RAF and Royal Navy are planning to buy a considerable number of the aircraft’s STOVL (Short Take-Off Vertical Landing) variant as the eventual replacement for [...]