Iceni warrior

Commonwealth over USA every time.

I was going to root for the Leafs but I can switch.

I've just found a site to stream the hockey. It's the least I can do if you're going to watch the big rugby games.

He's a greenie too. I look forward to seeing solar panels on the roof of Buck House.

Indeed. I don't even begrudge the pitance she costs me. I look forward to Prince Charles trimming the fat though. Direct line only, the rest can stand on their own feet.

I'm looking forward to HM's Christmas speech. Annus Horibilus Maximus...

Greatest soap opera ever...

In what way?

Harry was very fond of Major Hewett.

They needed a blue blooded virgin of child bearing age. Probably not that easy to find, particularly of Charles' age. Imagine being thrust into the spotlight of the British tabloids aged 19. None the less, no one forced her to marry the heir to the throne so I think she was fairly calculating. It was an arranged marriage, not sure that I believe that they fell in love.

No argument from me there. The marriage was all but over by then due to her husband's infidelity. As she famously said ''there were always 3 people in this marriage''.

She remained Princess of Wales.

Andrew is also a Knight of the royal Victorian Order (for now).

Harry had to fight to be able to stay with his unit when it was deployed. There were lot of people in high places who didn't want him to.

Prince William also served but didn't recieve a Knighthood. Is the difference Harry's active service?

Pistols at dawn you conspiracy theory spreading Crown and Anchor...

What was the Knighthood for?

It is not Her Majesty's role to interfere in politics or even state her position. This is why she is the perfect head of state.

Those harbouring wet dreams of civil war are the deluded. Whilst there is more to lose than gain from war it will never happen. The majority have comfortable bourgeois lives and they're not going to risk them for some short sighted ideology that benefits only the extremes. The wingnuts in America have been predicting civil war for years but a few anarchists kicking over trashcans or marching with tiki torches does not a revolution make. Same with the rabble rousers like Farage, his predictions of blood on the streets if ''the will of the people'' is ignored have not come to pass.

They too are extremists and a minority. The majority lie somewhere inbetween and are far more open to compromise.

You're a cynical extremist, the point is not to move the minorities on the extremes but to unite the majority to the centre. Jaw jaw not war war.

Piffle. Compromise is the best way to resolve impasse. Violence begets violence and resolves little. There's alway a middle ground you just have to have the will to search for it.

American born and born American are not the same thing.

A great leader could fire salvoes of words rather than shells. Strategies could be policies and battles be metaphorical with tactics pragmatic rather than ideological.

There I was in 2016 thinking how can America a country of 320 million people produce two such terrible candidates for the top job. Here I am now, looking at Corbyn and BoJo thinking damn, we're no better ourselves.