Meanwhile the earlier version – 20 years ago with Chris Tarrant – goes on, repeat after repeat, but the high-tension episodes are long gone and recent ones are peopled by the dim. Two of his sponsors have turned away and a question mark hangs over further episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which he hosts – scheduled for filming this spring. The media have not used their kindest words to treat Jeremy Clarkson since his less-than-gallant description of Me-Again, aka the Duchess of Sussex. “If you lot are the cream, Gawd ’elp the skimmed milk” It has all but crippled once-mighty Germany ever since.
Of course, Germany’s former slavishness to Putin started with ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s insane decision to abolish her country’s nuclear power system and become dependent on Russian oil and gas. Many of us Brits still salute the Norwegian patriots who destroyed Hitler’s atomic research plant at Telemark and the Poles who were so brilliant in the RA F and at Monte Cassino. The “lender” country would have Ukraine’s eternal gratitude and a round of applause from the world. Why not just lend some surplus Leopards in your back barn to Kyiv for a bit of Repair Shop “servicing”? If he can crush Ukraine, Putin will attack target after target to reconstruct his Russian once empire.īut there might be another way for any Leopardpurchaser to help Ukraine. To do this, under the terms of their original sale, they need German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s permission. She has masses of these MBTs but the main point is that she sold them to 12 other European countries and 10 at least wanted to sell or donate their available ones to Ukraine to save that country’s life. We are sending a few – too few – of our Challenger 2 main battle tanks to help crush Putin’s coming spring attack.īut the game-changer and thus the continent-changer is Germany’s Leopard II. The German tank affair is complicated but vital to resolve if Ukraine is to survive. What proof did either of these posturers bring to their office that they could ever actually run anything? In Wales Mark Drakeford has to pump another large “bung” into Cardiff Airport, which keeps on flirting with bankruptcy despite having a virtual monopoly of flights into and out of the principality. It is so behind schedule and over budget that the Scots might think they are getting an ocean-going luxury liner instead of a little chug-chug to service the outer islands. La Sturgeon has tried to build a small ferry with government funds. In Scotland, the economy has been going downhill like one of the Aviemore ski slopes, propped up mainly by subsidies shipped north under the Barnett Formula. Since then both have been run into the ground – though the local media dare not say so. Their new powers included almost complete mastery over their national economies. Governments in Edinburgh and Cardiff were established and local panjandrums duly installed with all their panoply. So plaintive were their wails that this was granted. The zealots of Scotland and Wales clamoured for devolved national government.
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