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"The Spanish Infanta is not a virgin" "Oh, that's alright, only one of you has to be".

A selection of Pratchettisms on the subject; "I'm going to have a word with young Verence,' said Nanny. 'He is the king, Nanny,' said Agnes. 'That's no reason for him to go around acting like he was royalty.' =========================================== "....she lived in hope, and prepared her granddaughter for a royal life by seeing to it, whenever possible, that Ermintrude was not taught anything that could possibly be of any practical use whatsoever" ====================================== "The city of Genua had run out of royalty, inbreeding having progressed to the point where the sole remaining example consisted mostly of teeth " ========================================== "Take the crown off a king and all you had was someone good at having a weak chin and waving to people" =========================================== “Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again." =============================================== It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.” ================================================= “Royalty pollutes people’s minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone’s granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was.”

Every good republican knows his history.

Erase

Not popular with the Scots.

Died too young to really register - and ultimately his son lost nearly all of France.

Alfred was never King of England, let alone Britain or the UK. Then again, he did institute the first version of the Royal Navy.

And set himself up as head of both Church and State. And remember, it wasn't an altruistic act, he needed a second divorce. If you want to consider the development of the CofE and removal of Catholic influence, his children Edward and Elizabeth did far more.

11 small pro-Russian parties which were seen as collaborators. The largest of them had 44 seats out of the 450 seat Parliament, 9 of them had none at all. Pretty similar action to Britain banning the British Union of Fascists in WW2. Good try, though.I think you can do better.

What a good little Putin shill you are - whataboutery as a deflection tactic at it's finest. How many of those were deliberately targetted ? How many women and girls were raped ? How many civilians forcibly deported to 'filtration' camps ? In your opinion is the Russian invasion justified ? ( That is YOUR opinion, not a link to some deluded anti-western keyboard warrior's verbal diarrhea ).

A bisexual into guns and muscle cars......tough choice.

And she will carry her top end boutique shopping bags, climb into her Bentley/Range Rover/whatever and drive off to her multi-millionnaire's mansion.

When I worked in trhe Public Sector I used to have to supervise, guide, and correct the work of external software engineers who were being paid more than me. PS staff are an easy target for those who don't need the services they deliver, or are members of the Tax Payers Alliance. People should try being a Childrens' Services Social Worker for a month.

It's bollocks.

In the latter years of the Thatcher/Major run of Tory Governments one Government department got rid of a number of staff and replaced them with contract staff. This led to the Minister reporting a saving on the Department salary bill because although the cost of the contractors was higher it came out of a central pot rather than being the responsibility of the Department itself.

The "greatest" Monarch ? I would suggest Elizabeth 1, or possibly Victoria.

The Winter War, during which Russia invaded, was in 1939/40. During the peace that followed Finland searched for allies to help it re-arm and bolster it's defences. Sweden didn't want to help, Britain at the time couldn't, so Finland finally turned to Germany as Operation Barbarossa loomed and Finland saw a chance to take back territory in Karelia that it had lost the previous year. The Germans supplied weapons and aircraft, and positioned troops in northern Finland to attack Russia. This is something the Russians still hold against them.

It is reported that the battalion commander at the river crossing had kept back his recon troops as his personal bodyguard after threats were made against him by his tank crews.

Now we know why they are looting white goods

Come on, tell us how you can feed yourself on 30p per day.

A lot of it is actually business related, but is above the average claim, and comes on top of his £84k salary. He is also on a personal protest by not attending or otherwise watching England games in protest at the players taking the knee. And if he was Labour and came out with the same trite condescension he would be rightly lambasted.

Ukrainian forces North East of Kharkiv are reported to have pushed their Russian opposition back across the border.

The Tory MP claiming you can cook meals for 30p per day claimed over £220 thousand in expenses in the year 2020/21.

They fought on Germany's side in WW2.

50 more fines to be issued after further investigation into Partygate. This brings the total so far to 100.