I Have So Many Windows Open Right Now But Absolutely Zilch Attention Span
So, it’s quick links time!
Telegraph Blogs – Daniel Hannan: The Internet is dragging Britain away from Europe and towards the Anglosphere
Brett McS sent me this one within moments of me reading an excerpt from it in The Corner. It’s an interesting and perhaps obvious point, though I think perhaps a little optimistic. And I’m not [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Tony Blair’s Lying, War-Mongering, Money-Grubbing GUILTY CONSCIENCE
The Times – Is giving away £5m a reason for such hatred? By David Aaronovitch
Tony Blair announced he’d give the proceeds from sales of his new autobiography to a veterans charity (a quarter of his net worth, apparently), and this sparked a most incredible reaction. Yesterday a letter was published in the Guardian (natch) calling [...]
Categories: War and Peace
That Was England
This is England is a very good movie. I’d like to point out, though, that none of those people were voting for Maggie before the NF man came along. Ahem.
Has anyone done any research why in the 60s – 80s, the British went so spectacularly batsh.t? I mean, you have your Mediterranean countries which protested [...]
Categories: History
Ghost Stories
Hmm, what to link to today…
Corner – Wikileaks vs. Democracy
It will take time to assess the real harm caused by this dump of some 92,000 classified documents into the public domain by Wikileaks. But as I argue this morning, the Obama administration’s warning that there would be damage seems highly credible. It’s hard [...]
Categories: War and Peace
On North Korea and Relative Harms
The Times – Sometimes peace does more damage than war
The other point is this. At the end of the Korean War, we agreed that the division of Korea should persist. Despite North Korea’s aggression — including blatant acts of war, including the possession of nuclear weapons — the West does not plan military [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Checking In On How My War Is Doing
Hey it’s Saturday morning! Time to ruin your mood! Same bat time, same bat columnist…
Macleans – Mark Steyn: Where ‘nice’ Obama has got us Why would Ahmadinejad take him seriously when even Karzai flips him the finger?
The toppling of the Taliban was an operation conducted with extraordinary improvised ingenuity and a very light U.S. [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Your Week In Review, or: The Stuff I Miss Never Watching TV Anymore
NRO – Mark Steyn: The Unengaged President
Only the other day, Sen. George Lemieux of Florida attempted to rouse the president to jump-start America’s overpaid, over-manned, and oversleeping federal bureaucracy and get it to do something on the oil debacle. There are 2,000 oil skimmers in the United States: Weeks after the spill, [...]
Categories: Politics
Political Correctness and New Age Mumbo Jumbo: How the North Koreans Totally Play Us
National Post – Pressure to bolster North Korean leader makes war inevitable, analyst says
“It’s actually a racist worldview that should be seen on the far right of the ideological spectrum and which is actually completely incompatible with the basic ideas of Marx and Lenin,” said Mr. Meyers [professor of international studies at Dongseo [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
And Today, the Metric System
Well, that was fast. Just yesterday I started fominating about ending the French Revolutionary tyranny of measurements, and today I see this:
TLS – Before London went metric A tribute to the city’s lost architectural dignity, and its unregarded lives Lindsay Duguid
The story of Lost London is straightforward: a largely Georgian city with medieval survivals was [...]
Categories: History
SDA ✈ LGW
Telegraph – First flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years ends in farce with plane impounded
The first flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years has ended in farce with the plane impounded at Gatwick airport after Kuwait went to the High Court demanding £780 million for planes stolen by Saddam Hussein.
Ouch.
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Anzac Day (+2)
Reductio ad Hitlerum… Veritas!
(Whee it’s fun speaking Langlish/Englin/Latlish/Etin/see what I mean?)
Telegraph – Roots of Islamic fundamentalism lie in Nazi propaganda for Arab world, book claims
The roots of Islamic fanaticism can be traced to Adolf Hitler’s radio messages broadcast around the Arab world during the Second World War, according to a new book.
It’s all so obvious:
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Categories: History
Moral Degeneracy and *Your* MSM!
I missed this. A report of Toby Harnden’s from 2004, relinked to by Instapundit, talking about yet another idiotic antiwar movie that’s bombing (I’d never even heard of it till last night) (I’d link to the original Spectator article but it just punts to the home page):
The other day, while taking a break [...]
Categories: War and Peace
American Decline, Where Neither the Second Amendment Nor the Caliphate Can Save Us
Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE
I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
The Fall of Constantinople and You
Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella
Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]
Categories: History
