Whitey Grandad

We'd have to negotiate a trade deal with 50 countries just to get back to where we are now, and we would be doing it with a population of 60m compared to over 500m.

Cogitamus ergo sumus

We always bought our daughter a Saints Calendar for Christmas and it was a standing joke with us that the players shown in the summer months would be sold during that same month.

I've been looking for some time for a chronometer which is thin and has a clean face. Any suggestions are welcome.

No it wouldn't. It would be lsot.

He's just managing expectations.

It was only a special manoeuvre that saved the German fleet. They had practised a 'battle turn away' where every ship turned simultaneously. It required great seamanship. The German fleet had practised a manoeuvre for just such a predicament: the ‘Battle Turn Away’ (Gefechtskehrtwendung). This manoeuvre required each ship to turn away simultaneously, covered by a smoke screen generated by the destroyers and light cruisers. In the confusion of battle a high degree of seamanship was required of the battleship’s captains.

It demonstrated that the British had supremacy of the seas and ensured that Germany never tried another escapade. As an American journalist put it, 'The prisoner has assaulted his jailer but he is still in jail'.

Have you forgotten the Whigs?

We don't actually choose our politicians, that's all done by the parties. We are presented with a very short list and asked to put a cross against one of them.

I used to have some cigarette cards about this which my grandfather must have collected so some of the names and images are very familiar to me. At that time it would only have been 40 years since the events. I have the utmost respect for all those who served in that conflict.

'Election broadcast'? Is that what we're voting for?

Are you advocating a vote to leave without any intention of actually leaving?

Of course I'll vote because I'm not qualified to decide to abstain.

Me too. The Great British Public are not qualified to take such decisions. We have an overblown elected parliament and we pay them to sort out these sort of things. They shouldn't go running back to mummy every time that they have to make a decision. We didn't have a referendum when we declare war in 1939.

Foulmouth

Autocorrect, innit.

As they say about experts: X is an unknown quantity and a spurt is a drip under pressure.

All very balanced and sensible and sums up my views completely but you have explained them far better than I.

And what about all those from the rest of the world?

Leicester robbed of a win against us? I certainly don't remember that.

Great minds indeed, but I think it's just my fingers that work faster

It's another case of 'what if'. History is full of examples of small missed chances that might have changed everything. Unless you believe in predestination of course

You can't blame the EU if someone is breaking the law.

We don't sign Zlatan. Zlatan signs us.