Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast

Headline: drunken sailor fined and suspended.

Well, I believe that firmly settles that question:

I think for the admin’s next trick they should declassify all info related to the Vela Incident

Let's be more blunt, if I had a nickel for every time I've been told a man on the right who posts aggressively about grooming gangs is "not safe in taxis", well, I'd have more than two nickels.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

Labour's 2024 electoral coalition is values-disparate but valence-united: i.e., regardless of wider beliefs, they all want to see improvements in public services and cost of living.

The route to re-election has always involved focussing on this at (to some degree literally) all costs.

Actually remarkable how neither Tory or Labour have accepted the "public services were shit" version of the 2024 election.

Solving this rhymes wirh "baize faxes"

Early black and white view of Balfron

Goldfinger photographed in front of Balfron

New on Substack, my post on the origins and design of Balfron Tower in Poplar designed by Ernő Goldfinger for the London County Council, completed in 1968. Now sadly privatised; more on that in next week's follow-up.
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S04E01: Dershowitz opens a cookbook for the first time in 50 years, only to find that somebody has torn out all the pierogi pages. Cuomo must compete with Laura Loomer for Donald Trump's blessing to become Secretary of Defense.

S03E06: A desperate Dershowitz attempts to obtain Polish citizenship. A left-wing challenger emerges to Cuomo at the co-op board.

S02E13: 'Dershowitz takes his case to the Supreme Court. Cuomo schemes to chair the local school board."

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

If a fighting age male is an economic migrant, i.e. moves because he cannot find work back home, does Nigel Farage believe that he should have simply attacked the local jobcentre until they gave him work

If a fighting age male escapes Gaza does Rupert Lowe suggest he should have joined Hamas instead

The implications are astounding, when you think about it. Does the Reform Party endorse the Janjaweed

The usage of "fighting age males" as a far right dogwhistle for a type of asylum seekers who supposedly shouldn't be admitted fascinates me, because the only way that makes sense is if you build on an assumption that anyone in such category should be "fighting" whatever malaise they fled.

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

Scratch the surface of just about any problem in Britain and privatisation of functions the state should be performing is pretty much always there somewhere www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is that contradiction that always deeply depresses me whenever I think of that movie, which made such a deep impression on me

however, of all of the things we did to Japan, the all-out destruction of their maritime resources was one of the most justifiable under the laws of war

Many people have watched Grave of the Fireflies and do not understand that it was actually the shipping campaign that caused the starvation depicted at the end of the movie

"In the pursuit of a historical fantasy, today’s rulers want to erase the reality that modern India would be unrecognisable without the imprint of the Mughals."

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✍️Richard Eaton

(the pacific submarine campaign is way under-discussed but essentially the US did to Japan what Germany was trying to do to the UK)

I think the campaign to destroy Japanese shipping was a good thing; it also contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of children by starvation.

and when I say inevitably I mean it, the Allies could have made other choices that reduced civilian casualties but the bulk of them were a byproduct of total war in a way that is very different for us to comprehend

Japanese leaders were convinced to a man if they didn't push the most aggressive line possible they were to face an insurrection, not from the officers and Emperor, but from their subordinates below, and recent Japanese political history told them their killers would be lauded and celebrated

In late 1945, the IJA found a warehouse full of guns owned by IJN and asked to requisition them because the defense of the Home Islands is clearly an army thing

They were promptly told to fuck off because those rifles were for the Navy's last stand in the name of the Emperor, not the Army

People like to point at a counterfactual in which we did a conventional invasion with no WMDs and unfortunately that doesn't exist because we were planning to use air dropped landmines with chemical weapons in them

Imperial Japan in late-1945 was at the point where the standard issue "kit" for their volksturm style militia to defend the Home Islands was going to consist of bamboo spears and ceramic grenades

The number of people endangered by the selfish stupidity of refusing vaccinations is absurd. Babies aren't eligible for measles vaccination until they're 6-12 months old and spreading measles presents a mortal danger to them

Sociopaths outraged at kids being raised not to be sociopaths