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Johnson's worst nightmare!

Let us hope they don't grant a hereditary title (even if posthumous). Who would inherit it?

A story about various public appointments made by minsters being rejected by various watchdogs. Very much a Florida man tactic.

I see Eustice has suggested the whole Owen Paterson affair is a storm in a teacup. Even if it could be argued that it has been overblown, that is an utterly inept way of trying to get over it and move forward.

Somewhat ironic that there has just been much discussion about the intelligence, organisation and sheer ability to produce goods of the Germans in the 1940s. A huge contrast to the tories of today in the UK.

The service existed at least in the early 1960s and, I think, well before. Just can't readily find how long it took then. I'm sure if I went through archives of timetables, I'd eventually find it. At one point, I was using Thameslink and/or Watford via Clapham routes. Which made sense to me at...

The train started at Bournemouth! Looks like there are currently no direct trains even to Newcastle. Change at Birmingham. About 8 hours to Glasgow.

Though there has long been a cross-country service via Basingstoke, Reading, Banbury. (Obviously depends on where in Hampshire.) Not sure it always extended to Edinburgh - possibly at times terminated at York or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, - and has at times (I think) split with part going to Glasgow.

Three piles of poo on the pavement. I'd rather step in this one than the other two? :)

Roll out the barrel same old, tired and pathetic line: 'Get booster jab to save Christmas', British health minister urges Javid ain't no saviour. Of Christmas or anything else, so far as I can tell.

Mail and Times are going after the £3 million for a seat in the Lords story. Strongly. I can't imagine anyone who had paid £3 million, if there were any truth in the allegations, would be very happy at becoming the focus of investigation. While Observer goes after Covid contracts.

A week ago, 5% would have been optimistic.

It has been said so many times that Johnson's hero was WSC: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning...

It appears that Wales is having problems with the third dose. The population being so often spread thinly and communities well separated makes handling the Pfizer vaccine difficult. (With its well-documented ultra-cold freezer requirements.) That is a reason further vaccination has been...

Many don't realise how dependent on drugs was John F Kennedy. (Though I don't usually use the word "drugs" in relation to hormone replacements.) He took liothyronine and cortisone (and other substances).

Let us hope that Johnson doesn't see firing the Article 16 gun as a way to divert attention from corruption.

But Zeiss lenses were, at the time, designed for cine film in vertical format - whereas Leica were going for what became full frame horizontal format. Hence, they had to make their own lenses. (Yes, I got the joke. :) )

Looks like Johnson isn't as popular as he thinks he should be: Sir John Major has launched a searing attack on the government over its treatment of the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal, condemning the handling of the row as “shameful and wrong”. The former prime minister said it suggested Boris...

The origins of Leitz, Camera, Action? :)

Future-quote: There was also quite a lot of evidence to suggest (non-UK ) allies wanted Johnson to remain in charge. He was seen very much as the weak link. (I'll not go so far as to suggest anyone even considers an attempt on his life.)