I always experience whiplash when I see the actor in serious roles (eg Succession). I keep expecting him to pull out a large gun. (View Post)

Some countries have moved from "climate change may happen and will be disastrous so we must avoid it" to "climate change is happening and will be disastrous for some but not all, and o… (View Post)

Ajax is a tracked vehicle with a crew of 3 or 4 with a 40mm gun. It is intended for combat reconnaissance: scouting ahead of a tank column looking for threats, shooting at bushes to see if anything i… (View Post)

I think society is changing. The combination of the JMarriott death-of-reading and reward-for-outrage-engagement and silos and, and, and, and (waves arm at all this) is leading to a population with l… (View Post)

Rather sadly, appointees by the party leaders to the House of Lords need not have any merit at all. The appointments committee is an effort to give spurious respectability to what is an arbitrary par… (View Post)