Rivalry with Rosa ended, Awdrey is my greatest rival now.

Mina seeing great benefit from the fact we're not on a water meter.

"They said they were going to get Göring, but he was too smart for them, the lawyers, he was too smart... got his own way out, abracadabra, you know, maybe I'll do that, abracadabra, and then I'll be the one laughing."

(I guess the title of the second gives it away a little, but equally "Midnight Treasure" could easily be a euphemism for pussy in one of these novels.)

As I said at the time, they tried to build Paris and failed.

Weirdly appropriate to the overall vibe that Dublin has one (1) huge continental boulevard but as soon as you move off of it every other building is boarded up and the city has the energy of a run-down post-industrial northern town.

Medieval scribe c. 1300 AD: Luv me rolls, so easy to store and carry.

Leeds Brotherton Library c. 2000 AD: What if we made everybody carry around a five foot long cardboard platter whever they wanted to look at this document.

How do you feel about the Wakefield rolls being flattened out and mounted on cardboard.

Did your guide tell you that the bunker would've been obliterated in actual nuclear attack, and the whole ROC network was armageddon theatre designed to make it look (to the public and foreign observers) that the govt. had a plan for nuclear war when in reality the whole country was a write-off?

Canal idea is clearly misguided, better alternative is to dig a Channel Tunnel underneath Oman that's big enough for a Panamax to sail through.

Nice that the OP can't read satellite imagery properly and has drawn their hypothetical canal line straight through a whole bunch of mountains.

Hell hath no fury like a cuck scorned.

They've got to get that presidential palace excorcised or something.

This article lays out the details of the actual accusations, and the knowledge of this stuff was so extensive that if we had a PM with actual guts we could legit send David Cameron to the Hague over it, but alas we're lumped with Keir Starmer: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fun fact: the guy in charge of doing this got made First Sea Lord last week!

I think this gives J. K. Rowling way too much credit for a) paying any attention to what year the books are taking place in, and b) thinking about how events in the wizard backstory line up to any event in the real world apart from WWII.

He's already dead, Ross.

Between this and Liz Truss something really needs to be done to protect elderly heads of state from official meetings with right-wing nutjobs.

Ironic that someone who works on church court records has fallen victim to an issue of ecclesiastical law (working on a church holiday).