Great magazine, can't be bought enough. It is time you went national.

And great colour scheme this issue. Cos it isn't just Brown, it's Des Browne. Maybe you don't know him but he is this weeks Defence Secretary. I think last weeks was some drunk press ganged from an East Kilbride pub called Ingrams. And the week before that it was some other shite, a NuLab blood-sucker lawyer called, actually what was he called -the guy with no reflection - Geoff who ? Geoff what ?
I remember a time when they couldn't staff the Northern Ireland office for more than a month, when that was the least desired cabinet office. Now it is ' if you are not careful then we'll send you to the MoD', the punishment posting. Cos you know at a time of war, it is important to show a consistent face to the enemy, those bastardin foriegners we hve to slap down every now and then. Don't blink or they will smell weakness. Name, rank and expected pay-out, that's al you tell 'em.

...Daft old Dessie Browne, he had ten thousand women and men,
He sold their stories to Rupert Murdoch, then he called them in again...

I'm not sure about my original, off the cuff analysis after watching the mainstream. I chose the word 'debacle' but they are going with 'fiasco'. I can't decide, maybe they are right this once. Maybe fiasco is a better word for the governments handling of this. Of course in the pubs it is just a balls up. Faye Turney on page three of the Sun today. I am a bit chufffed that I guessed that straight off. It was meant to be a joke though, I was embarrassed that I said it. She says she is giving some of her wealth to her ship. Good. Maybe the F99 can afford to employ a captain who isn't a treacherous political stooge.

Whenever the British/English Empire started we now have a firm end-date.