Italy is what I meant by Churchill's inability to read a map. He was forever starting battles in mountainous areas that made sense on flat terrain. (View Post)

The most stupid school practice for subjecticide is teaching Shakespeare by having Year 10 take it in turns to read lines in a dull monotone, when they can watch world class drama performed by world … (View Post)

Even the left-wing US media? John Bolton is a right wing Neocon. His main policy difference with Trump (under whom he served in his first term) is that he is anti-Russia and wants to bomb everyone. (View Post)

Most newspaper front pages splash Prince Andrew, about whom I struggle to care. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c231n2zlpreo (View Post)

We could probably have knocked a year off the war by sacking Harris. The area bombing campaign, whatever you think of its morality, was ludicrously ineffective until better navigation, first by onboa… (View Post)