They are not fiddling while Rome burns. They are twiddling knobs on a dashboard connected to nothing. And wondering why people don’t love them. (View Post)

There is a story that someone on the pacifist side of Labour asked how he could serve under that ghastly war lover, Churchill. Attlee was said to have replied “The country needs someone who loves war… (View Post)

Atlee had a somewhat brutal effectiveness. Some say it came from the trenches in WWI. (View Post)

Both Sweden and Finland are very heavily armed and always have been. Their neutrality was a bit of a Cold War fiction. The Soviet plan for invading Europe included attacking both at the start of a wa… (View Post)

When GWB was president, a Canada anti-nuclear activist was screaming about the fact that American anti-missile defence would draw in Canada. This was on a Canadian radio show. An American general, on… (View Post)