It seems extraordinary now but back in the days of World War II, Radar was comparatively new, and not all of even the most modern and powerful warships carried it. This video tells the story of a night action between a powerful modern fleet with a battleship and eight heavy and light cruisers against a force of mostly much older ships with just three key advantages - unlike the Italians, the British had an aircraft carrier in their force, and HMS Valiant, one of the three elderly British battleships present, all laid down before World War one, had radar. The third key advantage was that the Italians were using the German "Enigma" system for their most secret transmissions, and a few days before the battle, Bletchley Park broke the Italian codes and warned the Royal Navy commander, Admiral Andrew Brown Cunningham (ABC) that the Italian fleet had sailed. To protect the biggest secret of the war, that Britain had broken the Enigma codes, the British sent a reconnaissance plane t...

A fan fiction video of a discussion between Grand Admiral Thrawn, Captain Pellaeon, and General Covell on the nature of command.

The Star Wars parody brigade have cottoned on to the extraordinary election going on in Clacton, UK and some of them have produced this song. The people who put this together did so in jest, it is not affiliated to the Count Binface or Reform UK campaign and it is intended as a joke, not an attempt to influence the election. 

" Memoirs of an Invisible man " by H.F. Saint, published in 1987, is a worthy successor to H.G. Wells' classic " The Invisible Man. " It paints a gripping and plausible a picture of what a modern society might do to a man who was accidentally rendered invisible by a nuclear accident, which is as unforgettable as Wells' iconic novel.   This is a really really good book, to an extent which was not remotely captured by the mildly entertaining comedy film it inspired starring Chevy Chase and Darryl Hannah and with the late Sam Neill doing a brilliant job of capturing some of the menace of the villain from the book, which is the character he plays, while fitting in with the light comedy of the film version. The central character and first-person narrator, Nick Halliwell, is a New York securities analyst, who had never done anything terribly remarkable before the fateful day he accepts an invitation to a press conference at which a brilliant scientist is going to ...

We are sorry to learn that the great actor Sam Neill has died. He had great roles in so many movies - an unforgettable villain in some, for example his role as the captain who turns out to be an android in the first "Alien" film, a brilliant and very real hero in others such as his role in the Jurassic Park franchise, where his reaction to the dinosaurs made them seem so much more real. It has been suggested that for naval audiences, Neill will be remembered for his role as Captain Second Rank Vasily Borodin, the steadfast executive officer aboard the Soviet submarine Red October in The Hunt for Red October (1990). His portrayal of Borodin's professionalism, loyalty to his captain Marco Ramius (played by Sean Connery) and quiet courage helped make the film one of the most respected naval thrillers ever brought to the screen and his fate and final words were particularly poignant. Unlike the book " Memoirs of an Invisible Man, " by H. F. Saint, the film version w...

This youtube clip is a spoof, put out by James Cunliffe and not issued or endorsed by the Count Binface campaign for the Clacton by-election. It was issued as a joke and is linked to here on the same basis.