Although as you say Big shoes to fill... I think Matt Smith has Phillip off great... except not as tanned as the real thing in the early years...not his fault obviously lol
Would honestly be interested to what @donga the crazed leftie. Thinks of the series. He's arguably a better historian on this period than me .... I admit I never concentrated on the royal ties after ww1 other than the obvious... Also interested to hear from those that lived through this on here. I like the series bevause be you a royalist or republican this series will challenge you a bit but not make you go "oh he'll no"
Think the stuff about Edward VIII that came out in the papers about a decade ago is illuminating, and it had to be told: the little **** urged the Nazis to keep up the bombing of civilians until we surrendered. Not too sure about all the Phillip stuff as that's not real history, imo. Newspaper tittle-tattle stuff. I'm a republican, if pushed, but you simply can't argue that if you have to have a queen (and supposedly it is an unelected constitutional counter-balance to an elected tyranny in a sort of way that Madison had to engineer a substitute for in the fledgling US constitution), then Liz has been as good as it gets. Be interesting if they do the aborted coup of '68 to depose Wilson: supposedly Mountbatten and Solly Zuckerman stopped that, but I wonder if Netflix will include it, and there's always been a grey area about what Elizabeth did and didn't do.
I've always been irked by the phrase, "grammar and spelling nazis," because the nazis weren't renowned for promoting universal education, preferring to keep people ignorant, so who are the real nazis? My reason for telling you this is to avoid you referring to me as a nazi when I tell you the philosophy is capitalised, as a proper noun, but its followers are not, so they're nazis, not Nazis. Interestingly, in German it is capitalised. Anyway, you're welcome and moving on, it wasn't just the royals. In the early days of the war, Lord Halifax refused to bomb Krupp's, the largest German arms manufacturer, because it was a private company. Most of the cabinet seem to have been of a similar appeasement mind to Halifax and Chamberlain, seeing Britain as not being able to afford another war so soon after WWI, which could, to use Skidmark's phraseology, knock us off our perch, even if we won. https://storify.com/ukwarcabinet/a-compromise-peace-lord-halifax-in-may-1940
'Should Mane have been on the pitch to score the equaliser?'. Er, he scored before foul on the edge of the box, didn't he? Besides which, he should never have been booked in the first place, you stupid mare.
I fwewel ****ing aggrieved that he was booked for being fouled in the box, then they're asking for him to be booked for a clear and obvious foul on the edge of his own box. And this is without the fact that the bent ****er barely give us a foul in the first half even though they were kicking lumps out of us, especially VVD.
Anyone watching The Looming Tower? Top notch for Amazon on this one. I know it's only one side of the story, but if I was a US citizen I'd shoot some of those CIA officers. No wonder some of the tinfoils think it's a conspiracy: The FBI and the CIA spent more time thwarting each other than stopping 9/11.
