Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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23 December 2009
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The French have also set their clocks one hour ahead from last year to save daylight so some French regions will enjoy “double summertime”.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too Ally, hope to see you on Jan 21st in Bury South.
Don’t you get the feeling Medvedev is casting around for things to do while ‘Prime Minister’ Putin runs the country and waits to come back as Prezza proper?
Typically offbeat and splendid blog may I say. Merry Christmas to you too. I always come on here for a bit of politics, but am always pleasantly surprised when you venture elsewhere — except for football. Hate the game!
Would a stitch in time still save nine under the decimal system, I wonder. Personally I doubt they’d be able to resist changing it to ten.
Bit naughty not to reference the article that stimulated you! And excellent piece by the excellent Clive Cookson in today’s Guardian
John Willman … it was the FT not the Guardian.
I’d be very concerned about timing boiled eggs under a decimal system. They might be too hard for dipping soldiers into!
Oops – Clive Cookson’s article in the FT, not Guardian
Went from your blog to a map and studied relative size of Russia and China … Eleven zones probably too many for Russia, one certainly too few for China. China probably went for one to show total central control, USSR probably went for 11 as a way of showing they were bigger than the USA. Now they realise size matters more than symbols of size. Odd the Chinese have not changed their ways since Mao went. But then having seen how they behaved at Copenhagen, who would they allow to verify their changes??
Back in the 70s BBC Northern Ireland ran an April Fool’s Joke on “Scene around Six” to the effect that this was being reintroduced. being about eight or nine at the time I believed it to be true until may parents told me it was a joke.
Am I right in believing that France and the UK were on GMT until the Occupation in 1940, subsequently France remaining on CET?
Napoleon was the first neo con!
Good luck for 2010 and the election. If you, Gordon and Mandy can pull it off you’ll go down in history as the greatest political geniuses of all time.
Alastair
Thank you for this great & interesting blog
Happy Christmas & We will need you even more in the New Year to help Labour secure a fourth term