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Tom Nelson + Martin Durkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUAJ2_fe_IE
tomo
Mike
in motorcycle racing bravery and foolhardiness aren't often separated by much at all!
I occasionally watch recent IoM TT stuff and NI road racing video and involuntary flinching is definitely part of that experience. I've learned that running full screen with the volume up isn't the best way to start....
tomo
Wrt the exploits of Beatrice Shilling, a chum and I visited Brooklands last week and took the opportunity to look round the historic motorbike collection. Sure enough, there was a pic of the good lady alongside an identical Norton to the one she rode. My chum and I took one look and decided that we weren't anywhere near that brave!
MikeHig
Robert
it is what it is....The thing for me, after reading Vincent Orange's Keith Park biography was what I perceived to be the stolen valour opportunism and the repeated indulgence of catastrophically inept commanders - in the tumult of war such things are to be expected but one might've hoped that corrective remedies might've been applied somewhat sooner when ruinous problems had been identified.
On the election of public officials, the key is, I feel, the matter of immunity from the foreseeable consequences of actions taken when in office - in the UK we've seen a dismantling of accountability (in large part thanks to the 1997-2010 New Labour administration and their "stay-behinds") - the permanent bureaucracy's accountability continues to be attenuated - as we're seeing with the Post Office malarkey. I'm aware of the date...
Lawfare is a part of the game that at the moment seems almost exclusively in the hands of statist "progressive" leftists.....
The "cuckoo" lawfare in the USA looks to be lurching into even more insane territory with the Democrat proposal to impose a partisan judge specified, sprawling gag order on the leading candidate in the 2024 POTUS election.
tomo
tomo,
Certainly not going to contest what you say about Park and Leigh-Mallory. It's good to learn from history, and no harm musing on how it might have played out differently. It's not like you're insisting on black arm bands and tearing down statues.
Steyn's talk with Conrad Black was worthwhile listening. I wasn't a close observer at the time, but I thought Black's conviction was a bit on the nose. Stinking to high heaven seems closer.
We constantly complain about our comfortably tenured bureaucrats (as per that Ridley tweet), but I wonder if the Amercan setup — voting for your sheriff, fire chief, district attorney, even judges (in some states) — isn't even worse. It more or less guarantees that the job will be political. And so we see umpteen prosecutors chasing after Trump, etc. It's cuckoo.
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That's only a little bit of Melbourne, and a particularly deluded little bit at that. Victorians are at least rid of Daniel Andrews, but I must admit they didn't cover themselves in glory by repeatedly electing him.
Apparently today's the day Scotland's new anti-hate-speech laws come into effect. Here's my key quote from the article:
Police Scotland's Chief Constable Jo Farrell has said the new law will be applied proportionately, upholding people's freedom of expression.Proportionate is a red-flag word. In this context it means the police are all to become judges.
Once again, it's Lord Moulton's warning about the law being a terrible way to enforce good manners.
Robert Swan
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https://twitter.com/CalumDouglas1/status/1773616762698846481
tomo
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1773649172849119583
tomo
iniquity /ĭ-nĭk′wĭ-tē/
https://www.steynonline.com/14143/conrad-black-on-the-dirty-stinking-rotten-corrupt
Black's stubbornness has got him into trouble in the past - but I came away from this chat feeling some sympathy.
The same toolkit is being slowly deployed against the rest of us in the Anglosphere imho.
- I'd add that Park wasn't the only victim of damaging factional infighting in the British military - a topic that goes some way to explaining how the war was actually fought, - the discussion of which has been suppressed since the gongs and ermine were handed out in 1946.
tomo
tomo; I suspect the separation is what are known as "Oh Sh1t" moments!
I find the IoM stuff almost unwatchable - but thoroughly enjoy MotoGP, even if only highlights.