Radio 5 was sniggering about the LotR show this morning, "not my cup of tea", "never seen the films", and so on. But the first season alone has a budget basically the size of what… (View Post)

He's talking absolute rubbish. In late 2001 the Pakistani ISI evacuated much of the Taliban leadership, and then the US pretended it didn't happen, and essentially allowed the Taliban to re… (View Post)

Al-Qaeda was based in Sudan when the larger Bojinka* plot was being prepared. It would be nice to think we just had to hold one bit of territory to thwart them, but it's total nonsense. * Based … (View Post)

Starmer's not had a good summer. I don't particularly mind him, but I'm starting to think he might also be a bit rubbish. (View Post)

I think that perhaps they are able to do their job because the data comes out quite a lot later, so by the time they say 'it was really four times that' the pandemic has already moved on. T… (View Post)