genuinely funny how the outcomes of this could be either:

a new ship that utterly fails (literrol combat ship, zumwalt, constellation) or just... yet another Block of Burkes.

"The new battleship will be an upgrade to the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers"

THE BURKE NEVER DIES

She's been going "oh, other staff agreed with me" for ages - she inadvertently acknowledges in her Mail interview that the only other member of staff who verifiably (i.e. actually told other people) took her side was a man.

german

the fucking "sex and gender are different" thing was a mistake from the start as it's just too advanced for cis people to understand what *sex* even is. they think it's your fucking chromosomes and nothing else, worse some seem to think it's the writing on a birth certificate.

if going to paris it can be cheaper as not paying the sodding 13 euro each way airport tax for ligne14 or RER B though!

eurostar has such that pull of "well unlike with planes i'm going to actually end up in paris and not have to site on line 14 or RER B for nearly an hour", but it is about an extra hour over flying.

I think people conflate "slavery exists at all in a time period" with "people in that period were totally chill with slavery." Coincidentally, they're probably the same people who are unaware slavery is still happening today, even in the imperial core

under Boris Johnson trans acceptance grew, he was no outright ally but he did not have half the targeted hatred and bile that labour have

it feels unfair to say labour don't know what they want, the one central thing that kier starmers government has been firm on is that they want to trans people dead

"no no it's more of a toilet stasi"