Tag Archives: war

Disbelief

Posted on June 19, 2020 by the archivist

Infowars: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the polarising director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, slammed everyday Americans for refusing to go along with ‘authority’ on medical matters, and accused people of ‘amazing denial’ when it comes to ‘truth’. … Continue reading →

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Political Volcanoes

Posted on June 15, 2020 by the archivist

James Delingpole asks: how much time needs to elapse before a historical crime is considered expiated? Should the Italian government be paying Britain reparations for the indignities its legions and slave-keeping elite inflicted on our people from 55BC to 388AD? The … Continue reading →

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War

Posted on March 29, 2020 by the archivist

Smoking is an idle time activity. Idle Theory was an inkling I had one sunny spring morning in 1975. I’d recently started building heat flow models at university, and was wondering how to judge whether one heating system was better … Continue reading →

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The Keepers of the Big Stick

Posted on January 13, 2020 by the archivist

We are living in a time of moral chaos. And we’re also living in a time of deepening moral chaos. There’s nothing new about this. It’s been that way all my life. It didn’t start with my generation. I was … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Certainty Of Complete Ignorance

Posted on January 8, 2020 by the archivist

After watching Australian politician Craig Kelly being denounced as a “climate denier” on Sky TV by Piers Morgan and Laura Tobin, I found myself wondering for about the thousandth time how it was that people become so certain about things … Continue reading →

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Has Donald Trump Just Won WW3?

Posted on January 4, 2020 by the archivist

In WW1 millions of soldiers were slaughtered in the front lines in Flanders. Hardly any of the generals who were commanding them were killed. In fact I can’t think of any. The principal British general, Douglas Haig, survived the war. … Continue reading →

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Them and Us

Posted on December 31, 2019 by the archivist

Yesterday I posted without comment a partial transcript of Martin Durkin’s remarks during a Spiked! discussion. Today I’ll add a few of my own comments. I think the main thing that stood out for me was the suggestion that there … Continue reading →

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Fighting Forever Wars On Something

Posted on December 17, 2019 by the archivist

The War on Smoking is really just another War on Something. We always seem to be fighting Wars on Something. And these wars are always eventually lost. US alcohol prohibition 100 years ago was another War on Something. More recently … Continue reading →

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And Now the Storm-Blast Came

Posted on November 30, 2019 by the archivist

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o’ertaking wings, And chased us south along. In this verse the storm is a tyrannical winged man. He might … Continue reading →

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Reducing Military Fitness

Posted on September 11, 2019 by the archivist

Via the comments: Smoking and vaping is to be banned at the UK’s only Army training centre for teenage recruits. Hundreds of junior soldiers pass through the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate each year. Its commanding officer Lt Col … Continue reading →

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