This is Kilkenny: Hold off on the plucky scrapper talk

Brian Cody and Winston Churchill might not seem to have that much in common, apart from a shared disdain for appeasement.

But Cody is the living embodiment of one of Churchill’s great maxims: KBO — Keep Buggering On. This was old Winnie’s response to allies and underlings when confronted with the great existential crises of his age, usually uttered just prior to lapsing into a whiskey-induced coma. By his reckoning any threat, however grave, could be faced down by an indefatigable resolve to trudge on regardless.