Why oh why are these people always 'senior'? 'Junior' people know stuff as well (in truth, often a lot more than 'seniors') yet you never see them revealing things nobody wants you to know.

So cockup not conspiracy? . It usually is.

Academic publishers - a group who make estate agents look paragons of morality.

There's a reason NPR's flagship current affairs program 'All Things Considered' is known in some circles as 'All Things Done To Death'. Too much worthy balanced over-thought analysis. Let's just have some 'well refreshed' Irishmen belting out a good one -

youtu.be/yAEFKjqPtlU?...

Brits use the full ‘septic’ - but that opens up the wide wide world of rhyming slang, as well as antipodean linguistics.

I’m just going to carry on using the old British army slang terms of ‘Spams’ or ‘Elmers’.

Oh, let them numpt on ... helps flag the ones who don't understand how these things work.

Yet.

Your life, your tin, your choice. I’ve a bauble from Mr Blair’s wars - I sweated my pert little buns to earn it, and whatever the morality of the cause I feel I earned it.

Only if you’re a Siegfried Sassoon wannabe.

I'm happy to be 'a bloke who used to be in the army' (other services are available).

Loving the fact that despite the article being retracted, T&F are still charging $56 for non-institutional access to it ....

I've only ever seen it with men from what now be called the 'traveller community' in the Scottish Highlands.

What, the UK’s now faced with marauding bands of evangelical ‘youth pastors’? Sheesh.

In a proper army a half colonel posting this sort of mince would be treated to 'some quiet words of advice', and shortly thereafter would make his debut on Linkedin touting his leadership and management chops. Or would be announcing his run for a house seat somewhere in MAGAstan.

Canadian devotees of the Robertson screw feeling quietly and politely smug.