There are 136 councils in England, Scotland and Wales. If you heed the media it appears the Reform party had a landslide victory on Thursday. I beg to differ.
When a country has an elite school it is always described as the Eton of (insert country). In the FTWeekend today Aitchison College is “Pakistan’s answer to Eton”. Is there a Harrow of Pakistan, or anywhere else? But I digress.
You may remember General Raymond E Lee from a recent post: the General’s Moustache. Well I have now got his London Journal which consists of his letters to his wife (and young daughter) living in America while he was serving as Military Attaché in London, 1940-1941.
This was made in 1954, shot on location in Machu Picchu, stars Charlton Heston and bears more than a passing resemblance to Raiders of the Lost Ark, made about quarter of a century later.