Ah... Hastings has gone from being the oracle to just one of many.

Good. Keith has the intelligence not to back pedal too fast in case the chain comes off.

He does however think I got the information about black propaganda from a TV quiz show. Funny, I thought I originally got it from school history lessons, followed by reading books, but there you go. Mention a recent readily available source and he drops you to his level, thinking it is the only source available.

Rather funny actually.

Black Adder may be comedy but the backdrop was well researched. Ben Elton has written a hell of a lot about the war, using research gained from giving the accurate backdrop for their slapstick comedy. To the point of ending the series on the serious point they all felt necessary.

But of course all this is irrelevant. My knowledge is based on a whole life of reading, studying history at school just like everyone else and visiting exhibitions and museums.

Keith gets two or three bits of military history, ( nobody doubts the day Kitchener signed a piece of paper or Lloyd George went for a crap etc) and uses the sympathetic treating of the butchers and incompetent idiots in charge to change history.

Luckily, everybody laughs at him rather than taking him seriously.