As a thesis by an academic rather than a more mass market author, it’s not unusual to find quotes used extensively to illustrate the author’s theory.

For “extensively” read “almost exclusively.” I could sit at home, read other people’s books, watch films, and cobble together a book from them, but I prefer to get out, to read files and ask questions of those who were there.

Talking of Plymouth, the book recounts the press treatment with Picture Post depicting people on The Hoe waving defiant fingers across the Channel – however the population of Plymouth had halved by 1942 compared to 1939 as people fled the city.

Or died.

The most usual (four-spoke) part no. seems to be A.H.10019, which was also used on the IX, XIV & XVI; also used on the XIV was the A.H.8375, which apparently had a different diameter hub, but used the usual diameter tyre.

In the RAF numbering system 64 is “Aircraft engine, servicing tools.”

It really is astonishing how the same daft rhetoric gets pumped out, and the worrying thing is that there appear to be those who believe it. Censor the press, send dissenters home, and, while they’re sitting in their mud huts, on an earth floor, they’ll learn how to behave. Yes, of course they will, and 84 has more than a whiff of the excuses trotted out in readiness for the Nazis “Final Solution.”
Have the experiences of Malala, Peshawar, and Nigerian schoolgirls taught you nothing? The one thing these nutters can’t stand is the idea of an unbiased education, since that will signal the end of their influence. We used to burn and drown “witches,” here, until the peasantry learned enough to know that they were being conned; now we send them to Parliament. This trouble will continue until youngsters are taught what the Koran really says; apparently an edict has been issued, in Saudi Arabia, against building snowmen, because the Koran does not allow the manufacture of a figure of a human being. When did you last see a snowman, in somebody’s front garden, that looked like someone?

BTW at least one cartoonist from charlie hebdo was fired because he made a drawing about the wedding of sarkozy’s son with the daughter of the darty group’s owner. But yeah freedom of speech alright.

At least he wasn’t murdered because of it.
I was sacked from my first job, to make room for the boss’s nephew; if you think a life of work will always be full of sweetness and light, you have an awful lot to learn.

It’ll be interesting to see if the French start demanding (again) that we change the name of our railway station; last time, Agincourt was suggested as an alternative, and it all went quiet.

So tell me, how do they fair in the European Championship?

Winners: 1968 Manchester United; 1977 Liverpool; 1978 Liverpool; 1979 Notts Forest; 1980 Notts Forest; 1981 Liverpool; 1982 Aston Villa; 1984 Liverpool; 1999 Manchester United; 2005 Liverpool; 2008 Manchester United; 2012 Chelsea.
Runners-up: 1975 Leeds; 1985 Liverpool; 2006 Arsenal; 2007 Liverpool; 2008 Chelsea; 2009 Manchester United.
And, if you check, I’m fairly sure that you’ll find that not one of those teams was 100% made up of English players.

Only a few weeks ago, a complaint about money paid to certain executives drew the response that to get the best you have to pay the best wages. This apparently only applies to office staff, and not the working-class serf whose only skill is to be able to apply a curved surface (forehead or toecap) to another curved surface (ball) and get it to go exactly in the right direction.
A man can sit in an office, and, at the stroke of a pen, refuse a loan to a company, throwing people out of work, until he finally retires, and it’s perfectly fine that he should be paid millions, including bonuses, while it isn’t fair for someone whose skills will fade at 35-40, when he becomes surplus and unemployable. There aren’t many bank managers, or BBC newsreaders who risk having their career ended by a boot on the shin, either.
Footballers don’t only kick a ball around for 90 minutes, they also spend hours on a training field, in all weathers, honing their abilities in the hope of, one day, getting the chance to perform at the highest level. £300,00, for playing in front of, and entertaining, 100,000 spectators, means they are being paid £3 for each one.
They also do get paid by results; if they slow down, through age, they’re dropped, then sold off, like lumps of meat, or just given away to other teams. Funny, isn’t it, how it’s always the Rooneys of this world who’re held up as examples of the obscenity of footballers’ wages, while those in the nether regions of the Football League, who often need a second job to make ends meet, are quietly, and deliberately, forgotten.
At times I really despair at the rampant jealousy and snobbery that is displayed in this nation.