Bugger the bats. There are millions of the fuckers. (View Post)

You might also have thought the invasion of Ukraine might have led China to conclude that mounting an invasion in far more challenging circumstances might end very badly for them. (View Post)

I view him similarly to Jolyon Maugham. (View Post)

I thought Boris Johnson was shameless. Really, he was just a rookie. (View Post)

There’s one of Bernard Cornwell’s novels where a rising aristocratic star in the Foreign Office gets relentlessly promoted, because his skill is to tell his superiors what they wish to hear, while gi… (View Post)