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….no, not the fall of the Berlin Wall (though Bleungberg can vaguely remember that), but the death of Emperor Hirohito.

Bleungberg can still remember the gloomy morning when the news filtered through the television screen, and the giant screens relaying the wartime Emperor’s passing in the centre of Tokyo.

The next death that Bleungberg can remember as a child: Nicolai Ceausescu.

Regular followers of this blog will have noticed the obscene mileage Bleungberg has accrued over the past few years.

And given the number of times Bleungberg has flown in or out of London, it may come as a surprise that we have patronised British Airways just TWICE since 2003: a one-way flight from Stockholm, and a one-way flight to Istanbul.

The truth is, British Airways is rubbish. The planes are old, the air hostesses are ugly, tickets are more expensive, and they have a habit of losing one’s baggage. Crucially, they are just not as good as their rivals - in particular to go Transatlantic, or to other parts of Europe. Now, with charges for seat-allocation, stingy luggage allowance, no hot food, rubbish in-flight entertainment plus much more, there’s simply no reason to fly with BA.

Similarly, Iberia is equally rubbish. Bleungberg had to fly with them once to Casablanca (via Madrid) and frankly, the London Underground was nicer.

The two airlines’ merger is interesting. Not least because things couldn’t possibly get any worse.

Or could it?

Mind you, both still have a long, long way to go before they can match Alitalia’s crapness.

The French are an amazing bunch - no nation in the world is capable of electing successive twats as presidents.

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin all hated de Gaulle. Pompidou was pompous, whilst d’Estaing practised incest. Mitterand couldn’t keep his senile dick in zipped up, whilst the latest incumbent Sarkozy is, in short (no pun intended), a mindless midget usually caught lying again during the Berlin Wall celebrations and is a modern-day Napoleon in all but name.

Bleungberg though, reserves all our hatred for Jacques Chirac - that pompous, arrogant, senile, corrupt, perverted piece of shit who got lucky when he came up against that racist frog, Le Pen, and got an undisputed second-term.

This week, it was announced that Le Worm Chirac is to be tried for corruption and embezzlement dating back to his days as mayor of Paris.

Send him down, we say though, we’d naturally prefer if he were to be mauled to death by his clinically-depressed doggy!