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Also, probably not a good time to launch an appeal for funds.

I tend to associate Shackleton with the Lancaster derivative coastal command aircraft. My father was on them when stationed in Malta. Incredibly good footage.

So a few Ukrainian pilots cross the border, walk up to an airfield, see some Migs, amazing keys in ignition, plenty of fuel, fully armed, and nick them. Poland radios "Please can we have our balls planes back!". Russian convoys get blasted.

Truss' comment the other day about people being welcome to go and fight for Ukraine has been repeatedly rubbished by several, including ministers. Today: The UK transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has warned against British soldiers traveling to Ukraine to illegally fight, saying it is a...

They appear to be pretty much a Renault subsidiary.

Western capitalism at its finest emulating trades unions. One out, all out. :)

Something that I had really never thought about. But as soon as I did, it became obvious why there are problems to overcome. ‘You can’t just lop bits off the bike’: UK firm debuts bicycle for people with dwarfism Islabikes to mass-produce model specifically for adults with achondroplasia, after...

Somehow, despite its ironic etymology, it sounds odd to be using Molotov cocktails against Russians.

Don't believe a word of it. It is a wind up...........

How does that balance against the long term risks of departing and not being supported by the successful EU and eventually drowning due to lack of support?

Interestingly, I very much remember the gap-toothed rows and terraces in many towns. Where one, or a few, buildings had been bombed and collapsed. They were so much a part of the scene, I don't think I ever really expected them to disappear - as they almost all have.

That is one of the few large towns I have never been to.

It's what Labour did 1923 to 1929. All their fault.

Now she is damning her predecessors: This is what Liz Truss said near the start of the hearing when asked why efforts to deter Russia from invading Ukraine failed. She said: I think post-Cold War the west took its eye off the ball. Defence budgets were cut, there was too much entering into...

I thought most of them were already in London?

I could imagine some sort of associate membership being invented. Whatever they call it.

The UK is not a key player? Is that what you just said Liz Truss? Stewart Malcolm McDonald (SNP) asks what No 10 means by the sixth point in the PM’s six-point plan for Ukraine (“a rapid campaign to strengthen security and resilience across the Euro-Atlantic area”). Does that mean reviewing the...

Chris Bryant is growing on me: Chris Bryant (Lab) asks Truss if she is ashamed that only 50 extra visas have been issued to Ukrainians. Truss says the Home Office is working quickly to hand out visas. Bryant says, if the government was prepared for this (as Truss has been claiming in her...

And now Georgia wants in: In a surprise U-turn, the government of Georgia has applied for EU membership just days after declaring it would not accelerate its application, as fears grow among the Georgian public that the Russian invasion might not stop with Ukraine. A day after Ukraine made its...

Yes - it was nice for a walk. Also the Tiergarten. And the former Olympic swimming pool complex. And Charlottenburg. And KaDeWe.