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Any country with “a strong control by police and military authorities [would sufficiently] preserve the national fighting power unimpaired.”

In fact, air attacks would likely see “the combative spirit of the people roused, and not quelled.”

Well, we’re not dealing with Churchill either:

It is “not reasonable to speak of an air offensive as if it were going to finish the war by itself.” It was “improbable that any terrorization of the civil population which could be achieved by an air attack would compel the Government …. to surrender”

Meanwhile.

Today in 1948 the last British troops left India. They marched onto their ship through the Gateway of India in Bombay, built in the 1920s as a magnificent monument to an empire that had just 20 years left.

The army seized power in England in the 1640s. The Mamlukes. The Praetorian. The Janissaries. The list in endless.

It’s not science fiction that makes us nervous about of autonomous weapons platforms breaking free of human command- it’s history.

Control of warriors has been an unending struggle.

The founding myth of the English is of mercenaries who topple a kingdom.

Why would Lady Jane Grey’s kid have made a bad ruler?

Because they would have been a dud

Just imagine who’s in there.

Dawn in The Forest

Aristocrats going down like they’re in Guards at Waterloo.

Here’s the podcast, about William and many of his justice-involved relatives.

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The last time a British Royal Prince was taken into custody:

The future William IV, Jan 1780.

(Pocock, Sailor King)

My expert analysis is that if Canada beats the USA in the hockey it will be a major geostrategic moment but if we lose then it will be an irrelevant footnote.

Really appreciate it. Thank you.

After 24hrs frantic reading I can say with confidence that the last British royal to be arrested was….

William IV

As a young man he got in a drunken brawl in Gibraltar, he was locked up, revealed his identity & was released.

This & other parallels on the pod now:

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Princes in the tower

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In terms of the brother of a living king, I think (despite the heroically dysfunctional Georgians who came close) it was George, Duke of Clarence, sent to the Tower by Edward IV in the 1470s.

I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.

I cannot stress enough how enjoyable it is to deprive that withered old cunt of your money. Waterstones, Argos, Boots - it is so easy to get whatever you need, and it feels kinda fun, like taking a holiday in 90s Britain

The poetic justice of the USA Olympic hockey team getting smoked by Canada on the ice of all places is going to be so sweet.

A migrant speaks.

The Beaker People catching strays

Thanks for the kind words! The whole team appreciates it.

It is the singular mark of the intemperate Nationalist to hate that which actually represents the reality of national life, and to love a much narrower, uglier, and altogether more unpleasant Nation that lives only in imagination.

Monday, 9th February Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site | Early Modern London School Work and Play Treasure Trove | Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gathers?

💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥

📰 Exquisitely-Frescoed Vesuvius Villa Reveals Frozen-in-Time Construction Site 🏛 🖼 🚧

📰 Tudor London School Treasure Trove 🚸✍️

📰 Did the First German Neolithic Farmers Fight Local Hunter-Gatherers? ⚔️🛡🚜

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This Desert Island Discs with Prof Michele Dougherty is an antidote to so many of the negatives dominating the news. Intelligence, love, science, music, arts, supreme effort and achievement to the benefit of all of us. Discovery & invention for its own sake. An (inter)national treasure.

Musk - fine with Jesus (an attested Middle Eastern historic figure) being white.

- Furious that an entirely made up woman in a myth about gods and monsters is black.

Still the greatest list ever complied.

Monday, 2nd February Byzantine Treasures and Mounted Warriors in Early Medieval Avar Cemetery | Terracotta ‘Fire Dogs’ from Pre-Roman Padua | Neolithic Enclosure with Secret Medieval Safe Room

💥 📰 A Whole Lot of History 📰 💥

⚫️ Byzantine Treasures and Mounted Warriors in Early Medieval Avar Cemetery

⚫️ Terracotta ‘Fire Dogs’ from Pre-Roman (Venetic) Padua

⚫️ Neolithic Enclosure with Secret Medieval Safe Room

⚫️ OTD: German Army Surrenders at Stalingrad

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