Giving Rumsfeld a run for his money

[Herr-Berbunch]

Before there was Donald Rumsfeld with his -

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.

- we, in Britain, had our very own Sir Humphrey Appleby*, Cabinet Secretary, with this little speech -

(Background, the PM wants to abolish orders for Trident and cruise missiles, instead keeping a useless Polaris whilst Sir Humphrey argues about the probability of the Russians knowing if the button would be pushed. Or not.)



I often forget how good these series are but started from the beginning, again, a few weeks ago. Brilliant scripts, brilliant acting, brilliant British comedy.


*just acting, I'm sure the real things are just as good.