Winnersaint

Have no skin in the game but I'm not sure its quite as 'tinpot' as you suggest. Not Russell Group I admit, but dates back to the late 19th Century part of the federation of Welsh Universities. not a converted Poly not Tech College. Unlike my Alma Mater which was a non-specialist College of Higher Ed specialising in teacher training and is now a fully fledged university.

Feel sorry for Whelk who ate a dishwasher tablet at HT.

It’s like this place between 8:30 and 8:45 but worse.

That’s a great shout

Looking forward to nuclear meltdown on here if he does that.

Interesting that potential transfer talk about Jander has come out this week To RB Leipzig and suddenly he's playing like a tart, hmmm.

Tice the Temu Trump.

Seahawks DC is a Brit.

There's good reason why they've been above us most of the season.

I was just thinking that. Lets hope they take note for our promotion push next season, also a trend in the Prem.

I'm not so sure now. I suppose that ship has long sailed and on a personal level I still have EU citizenship so in my bubble I think its become less important.

I enjoyed the Battle of Britain series and the Operation Pedestal video. They also did a two parter on Taranto which was fascinating. My dad was Fleet Air Arm, joined up on VJ Day so I grew up hearing stories about aircraft carriers and they were of particular interest. Currently pinging between their Hood/ Bismarck story and Joanne of Arc on the Rest is History.

The War in the West Vol 1 by James Holland. Challenges the narrative of the early years of the war that Britain was on its knees and a German victory was inevitable. Particularly after the rapid fall of France. Others have written similarly about this, for example Julian Jackson but James Holland takes the jigsaw pieces of other works and connects them up. Some interesting nuggets I did not know. Car ownership, despite Hitler building the Autobahn network, was significantly lower in Germany than in France or Britain. 1 in 47 compared to 1 in 14 in Britain in 1939 and 1 in 18 in France. "The fewer vehicles there were meant there were also fewer factories than in say, France or Britain, making them. The fewer factories there were, the fewer people there were with the know-how to make vehicles, and the fewer mechanics there were to repair them; it meant there were also fewer people who knew how to drive them, and fewer petrol pumps to fill them. This shortfall in expertise could not be magicked out of thin air. It took time to build up." "Germany ate proportionally more pork than any other country, but the problem with pigs was that they competed with humans for foodstuffs, in contrast to sheep, which ate grass. The solution was to reduce the number of pigs, but that then meant less fat was available, which in turn meant people ate more sugar beet and potatoes; this in turn led to less fodder for what pigs there were. British people, on the other hand, ate a higher proportion of mutton, which was a more practical meat source because sheep only required grass and their wool could be made into uniforms". Also if you're interested in this sort of stuff the We Have Ways of Making You Talk pods with Holland and Al Murray are very good too.

Haunting blend of narrative early photos and music, brilliant!

That's a bit harsh on Soggy to be fair.