9 July 2013

Young Fogey

noun

– a young or fairly young person who adopts the conservative values of an older generation (see Old Fogey).

Example sentence:

The chubby London detective wore the three-piece, pink shirt and toothbrush moustache of the archetypal Young Fogey.

– Margaret Moore, Forests of the Night.

Today’s aphorism

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

― Nelson Mandela

On this day

9 July 1941 – British military cryptologists break the Enigma code which the German Army was using for encrypting messages used for directing ground to air operations. However, a group of Polish cryptologists claim to have assisted in the cracking of Enigma and have been campaigning for recognition of their part in the break-through.

9 July 1982 – In the early hours of the morning, 30 year old Irishman, Michael Fagan breaks into Buckhingham Palace and makes his way to Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom. Reports at the time, claimed that he spent 10 minutes in there talking with the Queen before being arrested, however, Fagan later claimed that the Queen immediately fled the bedroom and summoned security. The incident was the biggest royal security breach of the 20th century.

9 July 2004 – A US Senate Intelligence Committee finds that the CIA misrepresented the threat posed by Iraq, which was used by President George W. Bush in order to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion by the ‘Coalition of the Willing’.