A year or two before Russia’s SMO began, I found myself at a social event chatting with a forty-something in the publishing world. She’d flourished in that world but now wanted a year out to travel. Topping her bucket-list of … Read More »
They might surrender, but I don’t think we should count on it. The Sundance Kid Remember that line, from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid? The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang have sprayed the middle of nowhere with bank notes from the excessively … Read More »
Next time you’re in Grimsby – for a Trawlerperson’s Convention, say, or to watch Grimsby Town give Man City a caning – you’d be literally and certifiably insane not to tootle seamlessly into the Humber Estuarine jewel of Clethrepos, playground … Read More »
So, these conditions are very simple. Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Moreover, I emphasize, precisely from the entire territory of these regions within their administrative boundaries, which existed … Read More »
When going to war, even by proxy, underestimating your enemy can be catastrophic. One of its commonest causes is buying your own propaganda, yet the high stewards who run the West on behalf of its creditor oligarchs have done precisely … Read More »
While genning up for a future post, on whether the pace of dollar decline is being overstated by worthy but wishful thinkers, I found this, posted today on the substack of Simplicius. To the backdrop of the three day G7 … Read More »
Great post from Caitlin today, skewering with her customary withering eloquence no fewer than five industrial scale whoppers: There’s been a massive upsurge in anti-Semitism within “the Left” since October 7. Liberal politicians promoting this “upsurge” are genuinely alarmed, and … Read More »
Reuters headlines of June 10 (above) and June 9 Alexander Mercouris is too well informed on Ukraine and Middle East, and too lucidly nuanced in his reasoning, to be ignored on so trifling a ground as his fondness for the … Read More »
It’s good to be back in Sheffield. These pix were snapped today on my phone while we took in Burbage Rocks, Carl Wark and Higger Tor on a short clockwise constitutional, ten minutes from Steel City House. * * *
You may be sick of seeing the image below. I must have used it at least twenty times. Truth be told I’m sick of it myself but it’s just too damned useful … … it sheds too much instantaneous light … Read More »