I think yes he should be. His comments re comparing the government’s immigration policy with Germany ‘s in the 30s devalues the holocaust and were insensitive! The BBC’s employees are meant to be impartial ! Also the BBC would save paying his ridiculous £1,300,000 salary! - paid by us for the questionable licence fee. PS I don’t like hi... Read More

First reports on Radio 4 PM of a 'conflict' between Russian SU27 and US Reaper over the Black Sea. Looks like the Reaper was brought down. Read More

Some of the pilots in this video are obviously saying it in jest, but the "flat earth society" are using it to prove their point. Can't believe in this day and age, there are still people who believe the earth is flat. :O [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bht0LbX0UU[/ame] Read More

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64824436 Really tragic story of a cyclist killed after falling into the path of a car. The pedestrian gestured at her and made her fall off in front of the car and the pedestrian has now been found guilt... Read More

Thank you Wensleydale, I'll jump to it and find something suitable. Have a go at this one. Read More

Could anyone point me in the direction of a list of past BBMF Commanding Officers please. On this occasion Google does not appear to be my friend. Read More

There are some that will remain sacrosanct as long as the field they are applied in remains, (passing of the port) to others that appear to die out (burning of piano's). Some that due to the institution being centuries old are part of the foundations and by joining/entering a person carries on these traditions. Very interested in thoughts on tra... Read More

There are a lot of soundings at the moment in relation to Eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Kiev Government will look to conduct a major attack on this area. In 2014 the people in this area disliked the Maidan Sq protests and did one of the own which was attacked by Kiev. As this area is populated by people with more Ethnic ties to Russia... Read More

I have just returned from Manchester airport with a colleague who will be staying with us for a couple of days. She has been to the UK before a few times, and was actually in Manchester for our company Christmas party in 2022 ,however she only stayed in central Manchester. Today we came in from Germany, and I drove from the airport round the M60 vi... Read More

China claims to have learned from SARS and not to be hushing up the current outbreak. A relative working in China has seen this notice. What should he make of it? Read More

I was recently looking at some photos I have and one was of a Lockheed Jetstar. This made me wonder if any of those gas guzzling VIP transports still fly? I ventured over to airliners.net to see if any of their photos showed recent action. They did not. So, does any of the forumites know of any of these classic jets which still ply their trade in t... Read More

I know there is a cohort of strong Putin supporters here, but this looks to be getting serious and his shtick might be going over for the home side, but maybe it is time for him to stop playing with matches. Lots of jaw-jaw going on at the moment as it should. Options, however, to give leverage to those talks seem limited in this scenario. Fo... Read More

Care about "Free Speech" and it importance in a free and just society? Here is an Essay written by Professor Jonathan Turley who is a Professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. In it he discusses the concept of Free Speech from several Centuries ago in both the United States, the UK, and Europe. In it he di... Read More

Ladies , Gentleman and everyone else, I've just been hearing from Nick Ferrari, along with other outrages in this country today, that the Dambusters Ancestral Home, could be about to become a migrant centre. My personal feelings are that this confirms this government to be radical left liberal. Could not a purpose built detention centre be bui... Read More

Landing Fedex and Southwest taking off at [url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-investigates-aborted-fedex-landing-texas-2023-02-04/]Austin[/url] Read More

Shamima Begum bid to regain UK citizenship rejected https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64731007 For all those who said it couldn’t be done, it would appear it has been. Rightly or wrongly, she won’t be coming back to Britain any time soon. BV Read More

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64280480 Dozens of people have been killed after a plane with 72 people on board crashed near an airport in central Nepal. [QUOTE]The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing before... Read More

[left]BBC exit poll giving Con 368 seats Lab 191 SNP 55 Lib 13 an 86 majority.. We have a couple of billboards up round here, large one for Con in the local horses field as normal, and a tiny one in a garden for Lab[/left] Read More

They are doing trials in the sims to see if feasibly if ever needed [QUOTE]The U.S. Air Mobility Command is expanding the limited-aircrew employment concepts it has been exploring with [url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/kc-46-pegasus-tanker-flies-with-a-single-pilot-at-the-controls]aircraft like the KC-46 Pegasus[/url] to include the [ur... Read More

So we have the Bank of England raising interest rates to combat inflation while the government attempts to undermine the BoE by implementing the biggest tax cuts for decades to stimulate the economy. This will normally lead to more inflation unless the BoE keeps raising interest rates to counteract government policy . All this done in our name with... Read More

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Assuming a modest budget and a 2 week time frame, what air museums on mainland USA would be worth visiting? Would be prepared to cross the country as required. Obvious choices would be USAF in Dayton, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and Smithsonian, Davis Monthan. Any hidden gems or slightly off track/beat places... Read More

Long time Lurker, first post. firstly just wanted to say I’m a offshore worker so probably had some of you guys or girls take me to and from work, always in awe of what you guys and gals do for a living so hats off. Probably a mundane first post so apologies, I’m currently on the rough field off humberside. was just wondering if there’s a d... Read More

[QUOTE=Kiltrash;10642121]Not a Caption. Buster has gone missing; he has had the call from Goodison Park[/QUOTE] Couldn't do much worse than the last 6! :mad: Anyway...many thanks Kilty. Always an honour. Seeing we're on a theme...

STRIKES ! I hope that I am not alone when I say that I am absolutely disgusted by the strikers who are doing their best to drag this country down. Where on earth have these people been during the last 3 years ? Firstly COVID struck - the country was almost brought to a standstill ! The government faced with the biggest crisis since WW... Read More