I go to suppers organised by Saul David, where military historians speak, and then we discuss it over dinner. They’re immense fun. (View Post)

I do from time to time, find myself wondering if this is like our 1970 election, with a sudden shift back to the government in the polls, that did not quite materialise on polling day. The swingback … (View Post)

Sure, but from about 650 onwards, for the best part of a thousand years, European nations (and Anatolia, when under Roman rule), were under siege from the Middle East/North Africa. That does not mean… (View Post)

The Crusades of course, did not occur in a vacuum. Some of them were a response to the invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, and then the Balkans, by the Turks, of Spain and Southern France, by Arabs… (View Post)

O/T, and far be it from me to defend Trump, but it does appear that Judge Hannah Dugan, really was breaking the law, by trying to obstruct the course of justice. (View Post)