tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post7918666545997550682..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Beer Foils KidnapBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78413628794668474462008-04-16T09:31:00.000+00:002008-04-16T09:31:00.000+00:00I agree with Malty that Home's period as PM was n...I agree with Malty that Home's period as PM was no tour de force, but Macmillan was a very hard act to follow and then, after a single year, he had to face an election (the Tories had completed a full 5 year term) and a rampant young Harold Wilson who had the political nous to make mincemeat of him.John Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-17378221855574700472008-04-16T08:59:00.000+00:002008-04-16T08:59:00.000+00:00Sir Alec was the first British prime minister to ...Sir Alec was the first British prime minister to be born in the twentieth century (in 1903). Somehow he seemed much older then than 60 seems now (I speak with feeling on that last point).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45306398751294505972008-04-15T15:29:00.000+00:002008-04-15T15:29:00.000+00:00I'd like to think he served them Whitbread's - nec...I'd like to think he served them Whitbread's - nectar of Empire! - from a crate in the pantry; blue labels on deliciously chill brown glass bottles, and into pewter tankards. None of today's nonsense about cans, Stella 'n' scratchings.<BR/><BR/>Maybe he also kept quiet about the incident because he saw it as unremarkable, quite normal even. These were students, ragging about. That's what Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-82515458734487605382008-04-15T14:54:00.000+00:002008-04-15T14:54:00.000+00:00I remember Lord Humes tenancy of No 10, not exactl...I remember Lord Humes tenancy of No 10, not exactly a tour de force.<BR/>He was (his descendant is now) part of the Northumberland and Scottish borders toffocracy. That consists of the above, the duke of Northumberland, The Ridleys, The dukes of Beuccleuch and Roxburgh, the duke and duchess of Sutherland, Maggies mate Ancrum and a few more lesser toffs.<BR/>These people between them own vast maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59771908035065466892008-04-15T13:58:00.000+00:002008-04-15T13:58:00.000+00:00Yes Johntyh, a fine fellow - also the only British...Yes Johntyh, a fine fellow - also the only British PM to have played first-class cricket (Oxford, Middlesex, MCC). Imagine Gordon Brown at the crease - no, don't...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69223841286093368242008-04-15T13:47:00.000+00:002008-04-15T13:47:00.000+00:00Douglas-Home struck one, even in the sixties, as ...Douglas-Home struck one, even in the sixties, as remarkably old-fashioned, as if just arrived, fully formed, from the Edwardian age, particularly when viewed against the politically blood-thirsty time of October 1963 and the battle to become the ailing Macmillan's successor. He came across to the armchair observer as an utterly decent man whose political reputation never seemed able to throw offJohn Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-18851028078116899092008-04-15T12:15:00.000+00:002008-04-15T12:15:00.000+00:00Such quick-thinking heroism may be gone with the w...Such quick-thinking heroism may be gone with the wind. Apparently climate change will make us all more <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24011745/" REL="nofollow">vulnerable</A> to kidnapping. <BR/><BR/>True, the article makes it clear Australians have the most to worry about, but this is no time for smugness. Rumour has it parallel research will show a similar threat to whiskey in Scotland Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-86905946331097143812008-04-15T11:03:00.000+00:002008-04-15T11:03:00.000+00:00Imagine what a grotesque tear-jerking ritual the B...Imagine what a grotesque tear-jerking ritual the Blair would have made of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com