8 March 1969: broadcast of first episode of The Space Pirates. Space Pirates are destroying navigational beacons; the Tardis lands on one and the pirates blow it up.
8 March 1975: broadcast of first episode of Genesis of the Daleks. The Time Lords send the Doctor, Harry and Sarah to Skaro, where Davros is experimenting.
8 March 1982: broadcast of first episode of Earthshock. Paleontologists disappear and the Tardis appears in an underground cave system, attacked by androids under Cyber-control.
8 March 1983: broadcast of third episode of Enlightenment. Turlough is rescued by the Buccaneer, whose captain invites the others over for a party.
8 March 1984: broadcast of first episode of The Caves of Androzani. The Doctor and Peri get poisoned, captured and (apparently) executed.
8 March 2002: webcast of “The Child, Part 1”, fifth episode of Death Comes to Time. I’m just going to note the anniversaries to this in future, the plot is too peculiar to summarise.
ii) date specified in canon
8 March 1702: setting of Big Finish audio Phatasmagoria (1999)
OK, so having a bit more time now I shall respond to your questions about points 2 and 3 – if only so I can stop arguing with you in my head.
Point 2 I have already touched on – you are correct that the criticisms of the EU’s social democratic agenda comes from both right and left. We could obviously argue about exactly what constitutes ‘social democracy’ but let me explain that I was using the term to characterise the form of government the EU institutions seem to favour – capitalist, corporatists, highly regulatory especially as regards social regulation, etc. (And I am talking about the EU as an institution, not the individual governments.) I am not aware of a better term to describe that than social democracy and while aspects of it are incorporated in every political party’s beliefs, as a totality it is a political belief system that is only favoured in this country by the centre left – so only a small proportion of the political spectrum.
As regards point 3, I was not saying that we haven’t been at war. We are an aggressive warrior people and I believe we have been at war with every single European nation at one time or another, not to mention numerous wars with the rest of the world. What we have not done is instigate a war of conquest in Europe since the fifteenth century, nor have we been successfully invaded since the eleventh century. Therefore while we do understand that the peace-keeping role of the EU is very important to Europeans, it does not feel that way to us. Hence we don’t count it in the list of reasons why it is important for us to stay part of the EU.
I hope that is clearer.