As Presidents Obama and Medvedev are preparing to sign today an historic agreement to cut the two countries' nuclear arsenals, appropriately dubbed the New Start, it is worth remembering that, for a modern leader, the chances of actually deciding to launch a nuclear strike are very remote, almost impracticable.
This conversation between the British Prime Minister and his Chief Scientific Advisor from the 1986 episode of 'Yes, Prime Minister' is a satire, but also a brilliant piece of political analysis. Former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz seem to have been convinced by the Chief Scientific Advisor's argument, when they supported Obama's approach.
Cancel Trident and free £15 billion to spend on conventional forces and solving Britain’s defence, educational and unemployment problems. Why hasn't it been done yet?
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Friday, October 02, 2009
The Sun supports Labour, or Who runs Britain
The Sun newspaper, the biggest selling British tabloid, announced recently that it switches its support from Labour to Conservative party. In 1997 the Sun's decision to support Labour was seen as a major turning point in Tony Blair's New Labour campaign to stop Conservatives' ruling streak which had begun with Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979. This time Labour is trying to dismiss the Sun as a paper whose readers are not interested in politics.
TV series Yes, Prime Minister, a satirical take on British politics ran all through the 80-s. In this episode Prime Minister Jim Hacker explains to his aides Sir Humphrey and Bernard the importance of the papers and who reads which one. You will see that in those days the Sun, famous for its Page 3 full page photos of topless girls, wasn't regarded very high too.
Bernard closes the scene with his famous quip 'they don't care who runs the country so long as she has bit tits'. Another colloquial word for this vital part of human anatomy is 'boobs'. But what is the difference between tits and boobs? I am told that tits is menspeak and boobs is women's. Is that correct?
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