Operation Bodyguard: The Crazy (And Successful) Plan to Fool Hitler Before D-Day
15 May 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II
Govt reports it is doing nicely, thank you, at getting us into houses – but it warns it must also find ways of getting us out of our cars
15 May 2021 Leave a comment
Whoa, there – she’s bolted!
We refer to Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, who this morning dropped another media statement into our email in-tray as Associate Housing Minister.
It was her third while she has been wearing the Housing ministerial hat.
She did issue another statement as recently as May 6 but that was as Minister responsible for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence and – in the same capacity – she has delivered two speeches.
In her statement today she didn’t actually announce anything. Rather, she said the Government welcomed the release of the second progress report on the Homelessness Action Plan and the progress it records.
More politically provocative was a statement from Climate Change Minister James Shaw and Transport Minister Michael Wood, although they, too, did not announce a new policy.
Rather, they invited public feedback on a range of policies being mooted to reduce emissions…
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The Sopranos – Uncle Philly Leotardo vs Faustino “Doc” Santoro
15 May 2021 Leave a comment
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Massive Subsidies For Wind & Solar ‘Industries’: The Never, Never, Never-Ending Story
14 May 2021 Leave a comment
Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. That was over 37 years ago. And there was no lack of assistance in the form of tax credits and federally sponsored R&D, along with a whole bunch of other punitive mandates and targets designed to cripple conventional generators and favour chaotically intermittent wind and solar.
Wind and solar don’t run on sunshine and breezes, they’re powered by massive and endless subsidies. Remove the subsidies and both so-called ‘industries’ would disappear in a heartbeat.
The perpetual claims about wind and solar competing with dispatchable generation sources, such as coal, gas and nuclear, ring hollow when talk turns to reducing the subsidies and forcing the unreliables to face true competition – unleashed…
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Was Lady Jane Grey a legitimate Queen of England and Ireland?
14 May 2021 Leave a comment
When reading the lists of the Kings and Queens of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom, there can be discrepancies regarding the reign of Lady Jane Grey; some will list her as a legitimate Queen of England and some will not.
The question I am examining is whether or not Lady Jane Grey can be considered a legitimate Queen of England and Ireland or should she be considered a usurper? The issue at hand is there is no authoritative body to judge either the legitimacy or illegitimacy of Jane’s 9 day reign. Therefore it is open to interpretation and historians have been debating this for many, many years.
I am just another voice in this chorus of historians debating this issue. I will state my case in this post to why I don’t believe that Jane Grey was the legal successor to King Edward VI.
Lady Jane Grey
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History of Male British Consorts Part I.
14 May 2021 Leave a comment
Mary Tudor was England’s first queen regnant. As mentioned in the initial post announcing the series, Mary I of England is acknowledged as the first Queen to reign in her own right despite the brief, disputed reigns of the Empress Matilda and Lady Jane Grey.
In 1554, Mary married the future King Felipe II of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556. He was the eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who is also Carlos I of Spain, and Eleanore of Portugal.
Felipe’s father arranged this marriage to 37-year-old Queen Mary I of England, Charles’ maternal first cousin. Charles V ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to Felipe in order to give his son equal status to his wife upon their marriage.
Their marriage at Winchester Cathedral on July 24, 1554 took place just…
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2014 Hamas rocket launch pad lies near Gaza homes
14 May 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, war against terror
The DeHaviland Comet: The First Passenger Jet
14 May 2021 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: air crash investigations
The Stuarts: William and Mary (1689-1702)
13 May 2021 Leave a comment
The Catholic King James II had fled his throne, and a favored Protestant Dutchman named William of Orange had roused the people in what became known as the “Glorious Revolution.” It was a moment of extraordinary growth and opportunity for England under the governance of a foreign king. William, perhaps more than anyone, transformed the fractious English monarchy into a dominant imperial power. England was now to be regarded as a significant European power, on par with France, in alliance with the Netherlands, a hegemonic influence over the aging Spanish Empire. David Starkey calls William one of England’s greatest monarchs.
William of Orange was a tenacious yet somewhat sickly figure. As a child he was asthmatic and partly crippled with a tubercular lung. “But within this emaciated and defective frame there burned a remorseless fire, fanned by the storms of Europe, and intensified by the…
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