That's a Hurricane II, with 4 cannon, rather than the Hurricane I with 8 machine guns which was on strength in 1940. A lot of Hurricanes were sent to the USSR and fought on the Eastern Front.
Disgraceful that in this day and age there are households where someone has to work 12 jobs just to put 1 million quid on the table. I expect they have to use special foodbanks where you get supermarket vouchers in exchange for crypto.
I have a suspicion that Mark E.Smith and a lot of other post-punk autodidacts actually absorbed a lot from BBC2, a way for young males who couldn't or wouldn't join the middle class student scene to join in secretly.
"Media Studies" may not have quite existed as a distinct course then, but English courses certainly had modules on popular culture and genre fiction. I remember a programme looking at scifi and its tropes.
I think an underrated influence were the Open University broadcasts on BBC2, late night but also Saturday mornings. It was possible to dip in to the world of higher culture (or science and maths) without identifying yourself as a student or graduate.
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.
No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Looking at the extraordinarily vivid products of the world of "scifi and fantasy art" on Facebook. So many different ways to draw girls with sexy uniforms and big tits, stood next to huge rockets.
