Don’t care – might be more interested in Libya though.;)

Another misguided miltary adventure with no apparent end in sight. The politicians sadly never learn.
Then again somebody needs to protect all that capital investment that companies made. We can’t let money come to any harm can we?

I just think that if they can be so careless about a simple word, then the rest of the movie is going to be equally tiresome. A triumph of presentation, hype and hysteria over accuracy, I fear. I really do wonder what Fry was thinking of, getting involved with such garbage

Not that your pre-judging it or anything.:) How can you say such things when it is months/years away from completion?

If I said that your forthcoming book on the Scruggs Wonder jet was garbage without seeing it you would be entitled to feel aggrieved, and rightly so. Why is this any different?

I don’t think you can use the word “careless” about this word either. They have clearly given it a great deal of thought. Peter Jackson himself said that he would be criticized whichever way it went.

Integration of course! Of course we can only speak from personal experience – mine is at least first hand whereas yours is second hand.

Integration eh? Presumably adopting “our” culture. So would that be Welsh culture, or Scottish culture, rural, urban, west Country etc… – what culture? Britain has been multi-cultural for centuries. It’s what make it the country it is.

My apologies, I hadn’t realized you were Asian to experience racial abuse first hand.

I would imagine that the majority of posters on thread are white males, average age 40s or 50s, working/middle class and therefore unlikely to have been on the receiving end of much racial abuse in their time. I know some who have and it isn’t nice. The use of words and language are powerful weapons these days.
I think within some there is a desire to actually be offensive in the interests of “historical accuracy”.

If in order to tell a story of bravery and ingenuity a trivial fact has to be changed – so what?

It won’t be the only factual error in the movie I bet.

Without wishing to hijack your Filton thread, I don’t think any of the buildings at Woodford are listed at all despite some dating back to the 1920s. I suspect they will be demolished if required.

Maybe not, but letting the Taliban back in power would be asking for trouble.
Have we forgotten 9/11 already?

Withdrawal from Afghanistan would really mean that those servicemen’s lives were wasted.

Hope you’re not as “P”d off now.:)

According to a certain internet auction site, for example, it is an offensive hate symbol (perhaps they have a point, to an extent) but its just another example of trying to airbrush out of history things that are considered offensive to the PC brigade.

For PC brigade read most of Western Europe which bans the display of the swastika – even on model aeroplanes.

I’m afraid the use of the phrase “PC brigade” takes many of the responses firmly into Daily Mail territory

We’re not there anymore. The last UK troops left Iraq a few weeks ago. There was nothing illegal about the Afghan war. Misguided maybe but not illegal.