Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1.  @pindapoy214  Some would say that France was in breach of contract, by steadily pushing back to completion dates for the boats, and at the same time increasing the cost of the contract itself.
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  2. Monty Python & the Holy Grail :- 'I thumb my nose in your general direction!'
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  3. A 'colonialist thief' who actually invested a fair proportion of his personal fortune in purchasing the marbles from the governor of the Ottoman province of Greece, after the building upon which they were displayed had been used, at various times over the previous 350 years, as a munitions store and a gunnery practice target, and some of the stonework was being broken up for road fill by an administration which had no interest in artwork not of Islamic origin. Your knee jerk reaction, of 'Someone British did it so it must be wrong' is so tedious.
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  4. Ironic that the Grrek PM should use as an argument the Mona Lisa. An artwork created in Italy, now securely locked away in a museum in France.
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  5. It was once, indeed, integral to the Parthenon, but the remaining Frieze is no longer in situ, but was removed some time ago because of pollution damage.
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  6. Don't you know the rules. Only white people can ever be racist.
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  7.  @tonybennett638  Definitely no, as I don't live in Australia.
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  8. Our cricket season has just finished. Next year, I intend to identify as a 14 year old girl in order to open the batting for our under 15 girl's team. I anticipate considerable success, and probably a nice trophy for winning the batting averages.
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  9. Perhaps. But he also lacks a spine, as his surrender over the uniform issue has demonstrated. What Harry wants, Harry gets, apparently. Even if this means insulting every ex serviceman and woman in the UK.
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  10. Poor Greta. It seems to be becoming increasingly hard to look relevant.
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  11.  @TunguskaTerma  Indeed, but only after a series of military victories, fifteen years in power, and with the whole of Europe combining against him.
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  12. I have some sympathy with the airhead at 4.45 as I felt the same when I heard that James Anderson was being retired. However, I doubt that Joe Biden was ever that good a bowler.
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  13. Don't be cruel. David Lammy is convincing proof of the theory that, in politics, wisdom & intelligence only hold you back.
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  14. Only nine corrections? Was it a very short speech?
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  15. It seems that getting arrested is this little girl's increasingly desperate attempt to appear relevant. I write 'little girl' because, even though she is twenty, she tries to look fourteen at the most.
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  16. Perhaps I am being unfair, but President Biden reminds me more and more of the Peter Sellers character in the 1979 movie 'Being There.'
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  17. Is there any point in sending so long a letter to Mr. Biden? Won't he have forgotten most of it by the time he reaches the end?
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  18. Is there anything in the US constitution which requires that the President must still be alive? If not, I nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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  19. I asked my son, who would be of conscription age, of his opinion. He said that he had no intention of sacrificing himself for the lads in the four star hotels, and that his view was more or less universal among his mates.
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  20.  @evaristus4821  You must be very old, and very wedded to mesolithic levels of development.
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  21.  @joemoody7440  'Barbaric Colonial History?' Compared to most Empires, the British were almost saintly, whatever idiots or ill-educated people might think. Name any other Imperial Power which voluntarily gave independence to colonies, and still maintained friendly relations with them 80 years later.
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  22. You think that it is possible to debate several hundred years of history in three or four minutes? How charmingly naive. Especially when the interviewer chose to talk over the historian for most of the time.
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  23.  @tracyshute5399  Actually, giving them the benefits of Western technology, medicine, education, and law., as had been happening for almost 100 years. Why do you think the population of India increased so rapidly during the Raj? A tiny number of Britons administed India, generally through a large network of Indian civil servants. The tragedy of the deaths from Partition should be placed at the feet of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who insisted upon a separate Moslem nation. Needless to say, it won't be, of course. Not when there are easier, if incorrect, targets. What, by the way, do you think the British were 'doing to the people of India in the 1940's?'
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  24. That isn't the way it works. When a left-winger makes an outrageous statement, they use the 'Freedom of Speech' argument to justify it. However, when someone else makes an argument which disagrees with them, the same left-wingers scream hysterically for cancellation of the villain concerned. Since the idea of education was abolished in favour of indoctrination, this will become increasingly the norm. George Orwell predicted it years ago.
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  25.  SUTTYMCFC  I would like to believe that, but have doubts.
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  26. The left are never able to leave politics out of anything.
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  27.  Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace  'The British killed many more than 600k people in their quest for colonialism.' That is rather a bold statement. I assume that you can support it with a credible source?
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  28. The vast majority of people would agree with you. Unfortunately, a clique of embittered leftists seem to hold positions in the media and education out of all proportion to their numbers. It seems that, as they realise how small a group they truly are, they feel the need to become increrasingly irrational.
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  29. The President of China had a telephone conversation with Joe Biden which lasted for two hours? POOR SOD! I expect he needed a strong drink afterwards.
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  30. I take anything James Anderson says very seriously. He is, after all, perhaps the finest seam bowler England has ever produced. What? Not THAT James Anderson? Oh dear! Sorry I spoke.
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  31. I suspect that you have the same problem that exists in both the UK and the US. You no longer have education, you have indoctrination.
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  32. Actually, she is having no effect at all on the Royal Family, as she continues to destroy her own credibility.
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  33.  @Terry-g9j  Are you? Is it uncomfortable, or have you got used to it?
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  34.  @SebsWorld  I won't comment further. You are clearly an idiot, or simply ignorant of what happened in WW2.
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  35. Could I please apply to be Greta's assistant? i have been highly skilled at sitting down for years.
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  36. τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν; translated as "Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction." From 'Antigone' by Sophocles. Or, in Latin, 'Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.' Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason.
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  37. I wonder if a form of government which seems to have worked quite well in the Agora of a small Greek City-State in the 5th Century BC is really appropriate to a 21st century where opinions are entirely dictated by those who control the media.
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  38. Glory to our Dear Leader President-For-Life Starmer! He will triumphantly lead a grateful nation to a wonderful future in which the People's Republic of Britain will become a Paradise on Earth! (Just thought I should put that in case the police check my e-mails and posts.)
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  39. Possibly, Trump's advisors referred him to Napoleon's old maxim, 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake?'
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  40.  @BBBrasil  Isn't it obvious? I want the most powerful nation in the Western World to be run by someone who isn't so clearly mentally disadvantaged that he might accidentally trigger off the end of the world with his penchant for bizarre off the script ramblings.
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  41. No. They are simply drones obeying orders. The problem cannot be addressed until those who give the orders are confronted.
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  42.  @stephfelis7355  In Oldham, one of the gang leaders was a council employee.
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  43. The drones who appear in this video are not the problem, although the WPC with the permanent smirk, who seemed to find what was happening amusing, was rather disconcerting. The problem lies with their seniors, who have abandoned traditional policing in favour of an 'agenda.' The drones will, of course, always act as required, just as similar ones did in 1930s Germany. After all, in their minds, BEFEHL IST BEFEHL.
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  44. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  45. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  46. No, it should have been 'The Liberty Bell,' now known as the Monty Python theme.
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  47. I understand that an arrest warrant has been issued for Trump, apparently for 'Bleeding in a Public Area.'
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  48. Since when was wearing an outfit which degrades the flag of your nation 'Patriotic?'
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  49. Did the 'actress' about 2.50 in seem 'odd?' Perhaps drunk, or had she sniffed something. Her speech seemed slurred.
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  50. Please stop publicising suggestions that Harry Markle 'go home.' THe Americans allowed him in. He is their problem. IN SHORT, WE DO NOT WANT HIM BACK. WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH WASTRELS HERE!!
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