@alanallport.bsky.social
Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Britain Ejects Hereditary Nobles From Parliament After 700 Years https://theonion.com/britain-ejects-hereditary-nobles-from-parliament-after-700-years/
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
“How many impeachable offenses can I commit in one 24-hour session” challenge
U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week
Tuberville had to correct the media for not factually stating he’s a racist.
In case you’re wondering if the media is doing its job properly or not.
BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention.
DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.
As others of pointed out, not the least of Hegseth’s atrocities against language are his pilings on of lazy metaphors. Trump’s at the wheel and the throttle but he’s also playing cards.
Kristi Noems husband 10 days after they get a dog from the pound
From the "High Command Case" at Nuremberg:
There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking”
Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced that between 600,000 and one million families have been displaced as a result of the ongoing war, and humanitarian needs are increasing rapidly.
Just the wildest fantasy here. Korea was *hugely* partisan.
"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
Even Trump has a sort of low cunning
I will say one thing: nothing demonstrates the value of military history, the staff and war colleges, and reading military theory like watching a war conducted by a bunch of guys who skipped all of that in favor of 'manliness' and push-ups.
Gotta take those 4 Australasian spaces first
I used to play Risk a lot in high-school. Here’s how many troops I think it will take to hold the Strait of Hormuz.
It might be recalled that in August 2021 when there were 13 fatalities during the American pullout the GOP and MSM made it clear that this was the single greatest disaster/scandal in US military history.
Pete Hegseth at a military funeral, solemnly ripping off his shirt to perform a 21-push up salute to the fallen.
The DoD and Congress defunded the agency responsible for identifying and returning the remains of the pilot and crew of the KC-135.
I prefer to watch military debacles from the safety of at least 50 years.
Btw any servicemember ordered to perform no quarter in the usual legal sense ie no taking of POWs would not only be entitled but be required by law to disobey that order.
The defense of this is that Hegseth has no idea what no quarter actually means but it sounds tough so he just blurts it out.
This raises the next question of whether the SoD should be someone who doesn’t know what etc etc
“Don’t proudly announce an international war crime for at least 20 minutes” Pentagon challenge.
TBF Article 1 of the Constitution delegates war making power to the President’s vibes.
This is what, about four rifle companies? Don’t expect OVERLORD.
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
Turkmenistan shit