@dcsandbrook@TheRestHistory My grandfather had the contract to supply paint to the fortress. My father and he left on one of the last trains out of Przemysl. My father remembered the Austrian gunners inside the train shooting at the Cossacks galloping alongside.
John Major is compelling on need for prison reform. Nutshell: custodial sentences are awarded too often to the mentally ill and frail, the government has failed to fulfil promises to expand prison capacity, parole decisions are wrongly being politicised https://t.co/MG7yNuDe5n
@TheRestHistory Just listened to the Afghanistan double bill. Your most illuminating podcasts so far. (Although your world cup of gods is a close second). Thanks for giving me something to think about.
@janegarvey1
Top night at the Bridge Theatre. But disappointed that neither of you felt you could criticise the sisterhood. So just us men can cop it? Surely equality has gone far enough to share both praise and the opposite?