I would say that he is a very lucky individual. I’m not sure what happens next though. Manslaughter charges? Will they throw the book at him?

Just in passing…

Mention of Englanders of any size prompts me to observe that the devolved Scots seem to be making a lot of noise in the British Parliament about the government’s response, but don’t appear to be pushing through any legislation in their own parliament to fling open their country’s borders to migrants.

England 413 people per sq km. Scotland 68 people per square kilometre

Moggy

Its too cold up here and they wouldn’t like it.

I wouldn’t push for a full restoration, though that fully restored example in Canada looks great. Looking at the colour photographs and footage of the recovery, it seems that the paintwork still retained its original hues when recovered from the lake bed. W1048 now has an odd coppery/brown hue and appears to be missing a lot more cockpit Plexiglas, to give but one example, than when recovered. Both are symptomatic of steps taken to either restore or stabilise the airframe, but neither really do it full justice, in my opinion.

I wonder why it is that the countless migrants from anywhere are so attracted to the teeming alleyways of Western Europe ?

They must have heard about your warm hospitality, John.

You mean criminal trespasser?

Over on the airshow thread, they’re called freeloaders for being on “naughty” ground.

Potato po-tah-to. :eagerness:

I agree with this one. Sneaking onto an active airfield to gain entry (forced?) to an aircraft you have no right being on-board, purely so you can post photographs online for Internet bragging rights? Whole different ballgame from the naughty field. :highly_amused:

Chris Packham is one of the few wildlife presenters who doesn’t anthropomorphise the animals.

I think that anti-Semitism has become so ingrained in our Muslim communities, that they do not see that this has become a common path to extremism.

Not sure if this thread has simply become ‘post a controversial view’ or not, but the way I see it…

Anti-semitism still exists in the western world, and people are all too willing to simplify history down to ‘Hitler hated the jews’ without ever acknowledging his popularity or the propensity for anti-semitic beliefs over here. I don’t think these beliefs necessarily went away, but are simply propagated in other ways. For example, it seems trendy for university students and other radical young minds to protest endlessly against Israel. It seems trendy to consider the Palestinian people as downtrodden underdogs, coming under fire mercilessly from violent and impulsive Israelis;all the while timidly calling for peace. What if all of this is nonsense? The way I see it (again) is that the Palestinians, and other Islamic countries in the Middle East, wish to rid that area of the world of Jews. This activity is latently supported within certain, decidedly non-Islamic, areas of Western media and these crowds of angry students are simply the useful idiots doing the grunt work. I don’t see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a level playing field at all, and I think that the media in this country is either willfully duped, or cynically playing along, with the PR wing of Hamas. So called Israeli atrocities are reported verbatim by the BBC, without any independent corroboration, and news reports covering Israeli matters are often balanced out with a ‘these Palestinians have it rougher’ narrative. The way I see it (yet again), if you can turn barren desert into fertile land, with road, energy and water infrastructure, education and medical facilities and an astonishing defense system then you are entitled to that land.

Where I get especially confused is that the pro-Palestinian stance is synonymous with deeply left-wing philosophies, yet I dare say homosexuals and women get a slightly easier time of it on the Israeli side of the wall. I guess one can overlook homophobia and misogyny if it risks your perfect vision of the Palestinian people.

“No one wants to talk in the media about this…” except the 99% of the media that is already talking about it.