BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Election 2005 | Which party is winning the air war?: “On the first full day of campaigning, Mr Blair and Mr Howard both opted for virtually identical helicopters – variations on the Sikorsky S-76, which is also used by the Royal Family. Mr Howard opted for the more modern…

Been playing Ubisoft’s Silent Hunter an undue amount the last few days, a superlative submarine simulator for WWII. I was hunting a small merchantman out of Dover, having happened across it on the way to my patrol zone off East Anglia, when the seas started getting stormy. We almost lost the ship in the storm,…

Silent Hunter – a merchant seaman gets a sinking feeling… 

The pope, I couldn’t care less about. Though if you do, you should read Robert Silverberg’s short story “Good News From The Vatican”, which you can download here, and is available in bookshops here. I’ll even lend it out if you ask nice. It’s about a random group sat in a café outside the Vatican,…

Silent Hunter III Four days out of Frankfurt, and we’re tracking a small merchantman heading for Niemejgen. We were cruising towards out our target sector just off Dover when we spotted it, and we’ve taken a lengthy detour to chase it down. Silent Hunter lets you speed up time, so this has only taken ten…