Statue of the week award

One of London’s finer statues - Merchant Navy chap at Tower Hill looks out towards distant convoys and dreams of hot cocoa.

Back to the early 80s...

Holy crap.

Here we are, 25 years later and things look strangely familiar.

Talk of 3m unemployed within the year.

IRA murderers gunning people down for the sake of it.

Russia and China grumbling about the West and rattling their sabres.

England about to lose a Test series in the West Indies (and to follow it - probably - with Ashes defeat).