Gallipoli didn't have a city of around a million people - Bandar Abbas - right next to Suvla Bay.

Worth a read.

Fail to prepare? Prepare to fail.

And it makes the key point high up. The HEU is still at large. While that's the case, neither Bibi nor Trump can easily call it quits.

This is the thing. Many, many people in media, foreign governments, geo-political risk consultancies - you name it - have assumed the Trump Administration is a rational actor and analysed it as such. It is not. It is stupid, mad and ignorant. It is Trump himself, in other words.

Shorter Trump. I'm assembling a global coalition of countries I have insulted and worked against - even stating openly that I wish to subvert their democracy - to defeat an enemy that is already completely beaten. I am a very stable genius.

Unfortunate juxtaposition.

Shortbread.

A libertarian who has done more to reduce the liberties of British people than any other figure in centuries.

Mind you, it's the same for Polanski.

We have a rightwing political ecosystem where the take is everything. The position. The slam. The pose. That could not be more different than actually running stuff. It's a huge disjoint for all politics, but it has especially damaged the right.

Snippet from @nickcohen.bsky.social that really resonates.

Completely fucking stupid and everyone involved in a press notice quoting "government sources" should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Yeah but the Mongols successfully conquered Iran.

"I lost my job after going on a Jew Hunt."

Powerful campaigning against halal pork over on the other site.
#fuckwits #racists

Arseholes who have never lived more than five miles from a Wendy's.

Not a new chapter in The March Of Folly. A whole new multi-volume series.

Not many Negro Spirituals quoting the New Testament.

I think we've reached the point where all understand that it's a ritualised performance. Everyone has their allotted roles. There's a beginning, a middle and an end.

They were mainly after Gas Food Lodging.

Exemplary media relations work. You can generally trust the rhythm section with stuff like that.

They didn't come all the way from Tucson or El Paso or wherever. They'd played a gig at the Arts Centre. Everyone had a lovely evening.

I invited Green On Red to a house party in Norwich. They came and had a good time.

All polling is based on "modelling". None of it is "raw". Different models are available.

Rome, circa early 450s.

Looking forward to this all being sorted out in 2074. We'll all be sick of it by then.

First, Eastern Poland. Now this.

Trump latterly discovering the Straits is like when Truss latterly discovered gilt yields.