Mr. Jessop, your ship insurance premium must be enormous.
Do the other pilots call you Maldonado In Space?
Oi! It's bad enough Sunil calling me Erdogan, without you calling me Maldanado!
Outside sir, and choose your weapons with care ...
Note: The subject Josias "Erdog..." - ooops!
Oh, hi, Josias!
Right Sunil, for that crime I sentence you to torture. I'm going to send you on a 14-day trip around Britain's railways, travelling on as many lines as possible, including Parly services and freight lines. You will have to travel first class (where applicable) to show you those horrors, and failure to photograph at least a dozen station signs will lead to another week's extension.
I have checked the Geneva Convention, and such a punishment is banned as cruel and unusual punishment, alongside the use of chemical weapons, baby's vomit and having to attend a meeting of the PLP.
The United Kingdom is the undisputed World Champion of wars.
We'll spank ISIS back into the Stone Age.
We are 3 and 0 in world wars if you count the Napeolonic kerfuffle as WW0. Is it just a clean-sweep in group stage though?
Unofficially amongst military historians the 7 Years War is counted as the first proper World War. Europe, Africa, The Caribbean, Canada and India as well as numerous smaller places.
We won that one as well.
I nearly included the Seven Years War. As well as global scope it also had very long-lasting consequences. On the other hand I think that when we use the term "world war" there is also the idea of mobilising all the resources of a nation, of nationalist ideology and of a remorseless war that ends in the collapse of the losing side and reorganisation of their home state by the victors. As I understand it, those elements are not there in the Seven Years War but are to some extent in Napoleonic France. But we could certainly see the Seven Years War as WW-1.
And we did win it, indeed, although that verdict was partially reversed by the misunderstanding with the American colonies.
In terms of total war, the Thirty Years War was more intense than the Seven Years War but its geographic scope was much more limited. Even so, I'd be inclined to view 1756-63 as the first of four truly global conflicts.
Bobbitt's concept of "Epochal" or Long War (1914-1990) makes a lot of sense to me.
Good afternoon all. I prefer to think of 1870-1945 as being Europe's Peloponnesian war. I'd accept the argument that there was an overlapping conflict from 1917-1989(ish).
I’m surprised he wasn’t sacked - Never a good idea to have a Party leader and his Shadow Minister diametrically opposed to each other on foreign policy.
The United Kingdom is the undisputed World Champion of wars.
We'll spank ISIS back into the Stone Age.
We are 3 and 0 in world wars if you count the Napeolonic kerfuffle as WW0. Is it just a clean-sweep in group stage though?
Unofficially amongst military historians the 7 Years War is counted as the first proper World War. Europe, Africa, The Caribbean, Canada and India as well as numerous smaller places.
We won that one as well.
I nearly included the Seven Years War. As well as global scope it also had very long-lasting consequences. On the other hand I think that when we use the term "world war" there is also the idea of mobilising all the resources of a nation, of nationalist ideology and of a remorseless war that ends in the collapse of the losing side and reorganisation of their home state by the victors. As I understand it, those elements are not there in the Seven Years War but are to some extent in Napoleonic France. But we could certainly see the Seven Years War as WW-1.
And we did win it, indeed, although that verdict was partially reversed by the misunderstanding with the American colonies.
In terms of total war, the Thirty Years War was more intense than the Seven Years War but its geographic scope was much more limited. Even so, I'd be inclined to view 1756-63 as the first of four truly global conflicts.
Bobbitt's concept of "Epochal" or Long War (1914-1990) makes a lot of sense to me.
Good afternoon all. I prefer to think of 1870-1945 as being Europe's Peloponnesian war. I'd accept the argument that there was an overlapping conflict from 1917-1989(ish).
For some reason I find myself compelled to watch again the Thick Of It episode where Nicola Murray attends shad-cab (sic) with the Quiet Bat People plan...
Telegraph reporting that Corbyn will put the case against bombing at dispatch box, followed by Benn who will put the case for, at a debate later in week (or next week). Described as "unusual".
I was going to immediately respond by asking, 'how does that work?' but thought it safer to wait five minutes. I was wise, because clearly not does not work if Benn has resigned.
Telegraph reporting that Corbyn will put the case against bombing at dispatch box, followed by Benn who will put the case for, at a debate later in week (or next week). Described as "unusual".
I was going to immediately respond by asking, 'how does that work?' but thought it safer to wait five minutes. I was wise, because clearly not does not work if Benn has resigned.
Hillary Benn has not resigned Ignore was from a spoof account, the fooking tossers
Yeah, they're Britain Eiects, only with a capital I. Twitter ought to get a handle on these...
Report them and mark as harmful --> impersonator.
I'm not sure impersonators of obscure political twitter handles are top of their concerns list.
No, but loads of people pull the i / l trick all the time, complete with copied picture. Shouldn't be too hard to automatically check a new account isn't spoofing in this way.
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I have checked the Geneva Convention, and such a punishment is banned as cruel and unusual punishment, alongside the use of chemical weapons, baby's vomit and having to attend a meeting of the PLP.
Just before the 6pm news.
Job done. Corbo finished.
Well done Benn. I did not think that would ever be a sentence I'd utter.
@CJTerry: Afterwards they shall all head to two different breweries, for a piss-up https://t.co/mo6DDGmfAP
I was wise, because clearly not does not work if Benn has resigned.
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Corbyn only leader to the left of Bennites in history...
OK so I will ask again - 'how does that work'?
Report them and mark as harmful --> impersonator.