Actually… that was amazing! I mean I don’t know that I’d have wanted much more than that, but it was like a neat shot of toffee cheesecake.

That is indeed the Concorde moment of my life. Been relentlessly downhill ever since.

I’m struggling to think of a barbers or hairdressers in Brighton where having them pop to the pub and sort you a pint/cocktail whilst you get a trim wasn’t an option. I had a very fine Breakfast Martini whilst getting a mullet on Sydney street a couple of years back.

Are those standard HE? With time fuses? Imagine if they’d had proximity!! (Might actually have been quite good for bombardment- late war prox fuses proved very handy hitting kampfgrupen in hasty assembly areas)

RN: behold our utterly hapless surface vessel procurement program…

USN: there’s no way you can hold this much beer…

Right then, back on the list it goes.

Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.

Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.

Wow, really? I’d been warned off by wretched reviews!

The countries that are still consuming it? Well, Hungary is one of them and it’s a pretty far right and authoritarian place with Russian sympathy. And the EU can’t ban them buying it outright without universal assent from all their members including Hungary.