>>71485 I was wondering earlier when Brian Clough became a politician. He's behind Liz Truss in this picture and you can barely see him, but it's definitely the real Brian Clough.
It's weird that Brian Clough would be attending the Remembrance Day ceremony with a load of Prime Ministers. It's doubly weird when you remember that he died in 2004.
>>71852 I'M THINKING ABOUT DITCHING MY RENTED ACCOMMODATION AND BUYING A NICE CAMPERVAN. SHE'D BE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE IYKWIM AND EMPTY OUT THE SHIT WHENEVER NECESSARY.
>The family of Captain Tom Moore have been accused of using the Second World War veteran's name to construct a spa and pool at their home.
>His daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and husband Colin submitted a planning bid for an office for the charity set up in the fundraiser's name. While the couple used their names in the planning application, they used the charity's name in the statements they submitted over heritage, and design and access.
>The charity's trustees said: "At no time were The Captain Tom Foundation's independent trustees aware of planning permissions made by Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore purporting to be in the foundation's name. Had they been aware of any applications, the independent trustees would not have authorised them."
>The couple said they needed space "urgently" for presentations and memorabilia, and got permission for an annex but a retrospective application for the spa was refused.
>>72168 >In the prologue to the 2020 autobiography, Capt Sir Tom wrote: "Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name. Its goals are those closest to my heart, with a mission to combat loneliness, support hospices and help those facing bereavement... I am deeply honoured to be given yet another opportunity to serve the country of which I am so very proud."
>In a clip of the TV show released to the BBC, Ms Ingram-Moore's husband, Colin, told Morgan that the "vast majority" of the £809,000 revenue reportedly raised by the family's company Club Nook Ltd "came from the three books that he wrote with Penguin Random House". He said "95%" of the Club Nook money was from the books.
>Ms Ingram-Moore, of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, said: "These were my father's books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books. He had an agent and the agent and he worked on that deal. They were Captain Tom's books and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook." Morgan asked, "For you to keep?" and she replied "Yes - specifically".
>This summer, the foundation stopped taking money from donors after planning officials at Central Bedfordshire Council ordered that an unauthorised spa pool block at Ms Ingram-Moore's home should be demolished. The building on the site of the family home - originally approved for the use of the occupiers and the Captain Tom Foundation - was granted planning permission in August 2021 and had been partly constructed when revised plans, which included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen "for private use", were submitted in February 2022. The revised plans for what was called the Captain Tom Building were turned down by the council in November 2022.
I've got a feeling shit is going to go down on rememberance Sunday. A massive rumble between the rememberancers, just stop oil and the pro-palestinian ethnics.
They do this so that people go straight to the comments to let everyone know how fuming they are. The site's Javascript will usually do a quick scroll past the ads wot the outraged readership don't know or care to block, which is where they make their money. Odds on that the actual article doesn't elucidate on the headline / byline for that reason.
I can see him becoming the Mackenzie Crook to John Oliver's Iain Lee. That's the only career path for him now. Or perhaps he could just go to America anyway, and see how far he can get by pretending to be Ben Elton.
former Hamas chief is behind one of the groups organising the pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests, The Telegraph can disclose.
Nanook Kathem Sawalha led the proscribed daft militant wog group in the West Bank in the late 1980s and is alleged to have “masterminded” its military strategy with involvement as recently as 2019, before moving to Britain where he lives in a London council house. He is a founder of the eskimo Association of Britain (MAB), one of six groups behind the under-fire march in London on November 11, and Israeli authorities claim his son, Obada Sawalha, is now its vice-president.
The revelation comes as The Telegraph has discovered that half of the groups organising the march - who are still defying calls from the Metropolitan Police to call it off - have links to Hamas.
>>72192 While a four way brawl between The eskimocs, The Baddiel-Robinson alliance, Just Stop Oil and the police would be extremely entertaining, the coronation was a such a disappointment that I refuse to get my hopes up
>>72195 I can see Just Stop Oil mysteriously working to stop any significant numbers arriving in London. And you'll get a lot of stories come out from those that do arrive that are mysteriously feel-good rather than entertaining.
I've bought a poppy but will stay home on Sunday like I do every year. The option that presumably makes everyone a little bit angry.
>>66920 I always wear my poppy out of respect for all the teenagers who were sent to their deaths by incompetent generals. I don't understand why this is such a constantly controversial topic on this board.
They weren't sent to their deaths by incompetent generals. They were sent to their deaths by largely competent generals engaged in a cold, rational and arguably cynical calculus about attritional warfare. We're told that those generals were too stupid to realise what they were doing, but they knew full well, they just viewed men as another resource to be expended in the pursuit of their strategic aims.
Until 1994, the black bit in the middle of the poppy read "Haig Fund", as in Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl of Haig, as in "Butcher" Haig. The bloke in charge of selling the poppies sent two million Tommies to their deaths in Passchendaele and the Somme, but he was also the bloke who broke the Hindenburg line and ultimately brought about the German defeat.
I'm not particularly anti-poppy or pro-poppy, but I am greatly troubled by the modern practice of "remembrance" as a sanitised and ahistorical kind of ritual that has precious little to do with war or death. The poppy can mean many things to many people, but all too often it is as much of an empty symbol as a red nose or a yellow wristband. I reluctantly wear a poppy out of respect for the living - for those who wear one to remember someone they have lost and would see my failure to wear one as a snub. Out of respect for the dead, I study history.
It can still be reasonably argued that the generals were stubborn and slow to adapt their tactics, especially as new technology was brought to the battlefield which could have been used much more effectively. but, really, that's just far too easy to say in hindsight, and all too difficult to achieve in the heat of the war effort.
I think it is definitely true to say that the military leadership remained too determined to repeatedly attempt mass offensives, when it should have been readily apparent by at least 1916 that the stalemate of trench warfare could only achieve breakthroughs at the expense of horrific losses. The Germans took far fewer casualties overall in the war, which can be easily seen as a result of the fact they spent much of the war on the defensive- although it's fair to say that in itself that was only out of necessity, because they had already been on the back foot and struggling for manpower, food and materials since quite early on in the war. Their generals would have just as happily thrown more men into the grinder if they had been able to.
at the end of the day, if you put yourself in the position of those commanders and really imagine how the logistics and day to day bureaucracy of actually fighting the war worked, it's a bit more understandable how things happened. These blokes weren't riding around issuing orders from horseback like the Napoleonic and earlier eras of warfare, battles were bigger and bloodier than ever, and by necessity the generals were far away from the action, all they had to go by were the daily reports coming in about casualty numbers and fragments of intelligence about where the next attack was expected. On a good day you can imagine it was all they could do to organise enough fresh reserves to plug the gaps, and with communications and logistics as the main strategic bottleneck, it's unsurprising how the best plans they could formulate usually just involved a massive artillery barage and a mass charge at sunrise.
If the second world War started in 1939 and you probably had to be 16 to fight in it then that means you'd have to be about 100 to have taken part. Are all these old people you see on remembrance day just hoping people can't do maths and that they probably did fuck all because they were born too late?
The youngest veterans would be at least 96 years old. There are a few left, but most of them will be being pushed around in wheelchairs by now.
Check their medals or ribbons - everyone who served for at least 28 days during the Second World War is eligible for one of these, so if they don't have one, they're probably a blagger.
>>72214 You're really not seeing many WW2 veterens on Remembrance Sunday anymore. Or rather, you're seeing a good percentage of them. That's why 6th June 2014 was such a big event, because it was the last decade significant numbers of service personel would be making the trip to Normandy. I will forever feel like a cunt for not getting my shit together and spending the last ten years recording as many interviews as possible with these people. I can only hope someone less stupid and mentally ill than myself was more on the ball.
Also, what do you call that? When something's a decade apart from the same thing a decade ago? Decidal? Obviously not but I don't know. See, I'm thick as pig shit.
>>72217 I assume the word would be "decennial", but that's not a word I have ever heard anywhere ever in my life.
I keep thinking one of the spookiest things about those "2003 was 20 years ago!!!!" observations is that when all the World War 1 veterans died, everyone immediately shifted their focus to the World War 2 ones, and now those are as old as the World War 1 ones used to be, just a few years later. How did that happen?
It's come up a bit recently due to the revelation that people filled in the last Census with a whole load of new terms to describe themselves wot no-one has heard of, and since Big Brother's IT systems are still running on punchcards, and it would cost £1billion in consultancy fees alone to get something adequate which wouldn't even go north of Nottingham, we may as well just give up.
