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MI5 missteps re the Manchester Stadium bombing came in for some more excoriation on Newsnight. I listened carefully and it all seemed to turn on intelligence received by MI5 about the bomber's activit ...

It was good to see Trump back in the news. It was good to see Stormy Daniels back in the news. How one misses these splendid characters. It was less exciting, though doubtless more important, to see l ...

I got an email from Virgin boasting they were the fastest internet provider in the known universe at 650 mbps (miles per second) and provided an URL https://samknows.com/realspeed/ where you could che ...

The National Football League is a collective of thirty-one billionaires and the Green Bay Packers, who are a collective of some sort in themselves. A franchise costs billions -- the Washington Command ...

I was commended by medium.com for getting claps this week for the following posts

Britain sending uranium-depleted shells to Ukraine

Everything you say may well be true but since 'the public' ar ...

A quite shocking report by Newsnight on football agents and the 'half a billion' lost by the Inland Revenue because of 'dual representation' -- agents being paid by both players (lots of tax) and by c ...

John, we have taken up the story here:
http://www.applied-epistemology.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=57856#57856
Very interesting!

As you have discovered long since, my pieces on Medium make no cla ...

Although this is 'only' a Facebook discussion, all these kinds of claims are to be found routinely in academic papers and textbooks. Early Medievalists -- they refuse to use the term Dark Age -- just ...

In a recent argy-bargy on Facebook about an Anglo-Saxon stone found in -- and therefore allegedly identifying -- an Anglo-Saxon church, Hatty was taking on all-comers and one of them posted this up. ( ...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Russian authorities arrested an American journalist on espionage charges. Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal...
While not denying this may very well b ...

Magnificent! I'll just pop in a few asides.

In 1424 Hardyng was at Rome, where at the instance of Cardinal Beaufort
The Beauforts are big wheels on the Lancastrian side of the War of the Roses s ...

"Hardyng spent the next twenty years writing a history of Britain that made good use of his earlier career as a spy"
I make no such claims about Hardyng, but medieval historians and geograp ...

Here's a kind of red/green flag situation that came up recently on medium.com about a British medieval historian new to me (for shame) but sounds worth an airing

John Hardyng: King Henry V’s Spy ...

Finding the original is always fraught. Not that they ever are. As we point out in various places

1. the original always survives long enough to be copied
2. the copy always survives long enough t ...

One battered stone to another battered stone: "You should see the other one."

Author	Message
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1275 Views: 228771	Forum: Politics Posted: 7:17 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1275 Views: 228771	MI5 missteps re the Manchester Stadium bombing came in for some more excoriation on Newsnight. I listened carefully and it all seemed to turn on intelligence received by MI5 about the bomber's activit ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1326 Views: 191999	Forum: Politics Posted: 6:48 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1326 Views: 191999	It was good to see Trump back in the news. It was good to see Stormy Daniels back in the news. How one misses these splendid characters. It was less exciting, though doubtless more important, to see l ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2219 Views: 364691	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:20 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2219 Views: 364691	I got an email from Virgin boasting they were the fastest internet provider in the known universe at 650 mbps (miles per second) and provided an URL https://samknows.com/realspeed/ where you could che ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 530 Views: 85081	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:11 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 530 Views: 85081	The National Football League is a collective of thirty-one billionaires and the Green Bay Packers, who are a collective of some sort in themselves. A franchise costs billions -- the Washington Command ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2219 Views: 364691	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:47 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2219 Views: 364691	I was commended by medium.com for getting claps this week for the following posts Britain sending uranium-depleted shells to Ukraine Everything you say may well be true but since 'the public' ar ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 530 Views: 85081	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:22 am Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 530 Views: 85081	A quite shocking report by Newsnight on football agents and the 'half a billion' lost by the Inland Revenue because of 'dual representation' -- agents being paid by both players (lots of tax) and by c ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Forum: British History Posted: 7:58 am Subject: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	John, we have taken up the story here: http://www.applied-epistemology.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=57856#57856 Very interesting! As you have discovered long since, my pieces on Medium make no cla ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Forum: British History Posted: 6:17 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Although this is 'only' a Facebook discussion, all these kinds of claims are to be found routinely in academic papers and textbooks. Early Medievalists -- they refuse to use the term Dark Age -- just ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Forum: British History Posted: 5:55 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	In a recent argy-bargy on Facebook about an Anglo-Saxon stone found in -- and therefore allegedly identifying -- an Anglo-Saxon church, Hatty was taking on all-comers and one of them posted this up. ( ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1275 Views: 228771	Forum: Politics Posted: 4:56 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1275 Views: 228771	For the first time in nearly 40 years, Russian authorities arrested an American journalist on espionage charges. Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal... While not denying this may very well b ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Forum: British History Posted: 3:16 am Subject: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Magnificent! I'll just pop in a few asides. In 1424 Hardyng was at Rome, where at the instance of Cardinal Beaufort The Beauforts are big wheels on the Lancastrian side of the War of the Roses s ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Forum: British History Posted: 4:18 pm Subject: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	"Hardyng spent the next twenty years writing a history of Britain that made good use of his earlier career as a spy" I make no such claims about Hardyng, but medieval historians and geograp ...
Topic: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Forum: British History Posted: 3:15 pm Subject: Red and Green Flags
Mick Harper Replies: 19 Views: 691	Here's a kind of red/green flag situation that came up recently on medium.com about a British medieval historian new to me (for shame) but sounds worth an airing John Hardyng: King Henry V’s Spy ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Forum: British History Posted: 1:03 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Finding the original is always fraught. Not that they ever are. As we point out in various places 1. the original always survives long enough to be copied 2. the copy always survives long enough t ...
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	Forum: British History Posted: 11:08 am Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Mick Harper Replies: 2545 Views: 491345	One battered stone to another battered stone: "You should see the other one."