English justice goes wonky yet again
A police woman is sent a questionable sex video. Her mobile phone seems to show that she hasn’t seen it, knows nothing of it, in fact. The video had been sent to 17 people and yet the one uniformed woman is prosecuted.
Rod offers some br-x-t beating beams
Back in commercial yachtmaster days, I was commissioned to take a once beautiful ocean-going yacht from Portugal to the Cape. It was not exactly the straight-forward voyage I expected.
Sometimes it's better not to see into the future
I hurried down the stairs at the gym and ran into – almost – what seemed half of London’s future female population. A very long line of very young girls, society’ mothers of the 2030s, were filing into a grand auditorium.
Hard won wisdom from a world war
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| Fearlessness and futility ... Wikipedia's reminder of the appalling cost in human life of the first world war. Thanks to Wikipedia for the painting by Georges Scott - L'Illustration & RMN, Public Domain, Link |
While society remembers the astonishing number of people who fought in the first world war, and the huge number who died in the horrendous 1914-18 battles, let me pass on the message from a fighter who survived.
