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It does what it says on the tin....

I can't resist this. Guido Fawkes, whose blog I like, has been noting how close one of the defence ministers is to the arms industry, though I can't myself see why this is that much of a problem. Only lawyers are allowed to be Lord Chancellor at the Justice ministry, after all. Anyway, I followed a link to the page of one of the companies Gerald Howarth used to work for and found a reference to

BANG (Bombe Aeronavele de Nouvelle Generation)... a new type of multi-purpose insensitive bomb

I mean--and I know you could hurt someone with one of those--how funny is that? And what, when it is at home reading Proust and sipping a pudding wine, is a sensitive bomb?

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