GUEST - 22 Dec 15 - 06:46 AM

So a television programme now becomes a reliable source of history."

It would certainly appear to when it suits yours or Jom the infallible's purposes.

Certainly a factual historical documentary beats television drama, comedy, and a horrendously misrepresented film script.

GUEST - 22 Dec 15 - 07:05 AM

It was me who called Teribus an ignorant fool. I have never mentioned flamingos in a post. Or aardvarks."

Prove it - Ignorant fool

Ferguson thinks that Great Britain would have been better off economically had it stayed out of the war - In that he is remarkably at odds with the Foreign Secretary at the time Sir Edward Grey. Ferguson is also in error as his conclusion is based on the assumption that things would have gone back to the way they were before, as happened by and large after the end of the Franco-Prussian War - then the Prussians stole Alsace-Lorraine from the French - with a Belgian and French defeat in 1914 Belgium would be annexed, their colonies along with those of the French would have become German and the ports of Ostende, Zeebrugge and Antwerp would provide bases for a powerful German High Seas Fleet only four hours steaming from London.