Will Bone

So Farage has, in the past, engaged in the 'what makes someone British/English?' debate as he put it in regards to Muslims and Eastern/Central Europeans. Now if he wants to lie to seek an off ramp, so be it. His only red lines are what will prevent him getting closer to being PM.

He has always pointed to the fact that his political projects have refused to go into the blood and soil rhetoric in public. Behind closed doors it is alleged that he is far more comfortable with that language than he presents.

Given Jonns' recent blog about Augustus/Octavian: Streeting is very Lepidus coded. Told by many of the ancien regime that he should be leader and yet finds himself outmanouvered by someone who'd long been away from the center of power....

Fully agree: Russia and Iran are both within this catagory. However so is Saudi Arabia.

Lib Dem canvassers prepare to go to...... southern Holbern and St Pancreas

*Slams head on desk* If you want to talk about ballistic missile defence and you keep mentioning the 'Iron Dome' as an example then you need to then clarify how you plan to supply and pay for such a system without considerable military aid from the global hegemomic power.

The Iron Dome system is, in reality, a multilayered system of imterceptors that requires significant input from both a scaled up domestic production *and* regular top ups from the US.

James Gunn deeply loving certain comic book storylines has served him well (and Marvel: seriously you couldnt pay people to read Marvel Cosmic before GotG) in the past. But.....

Woman of Tomorrow was written during DC's darker reboot era: which makes it an odd choice to adapt given Gunn's well publicised love of the much lighter "All Star" version of Superman that he had brought to the screen.

*Catholic Church looking over its own numbers* "Look boys we went for quantity over quality"

I have to say: not a fan of the A wing being changed from a Incom purpusfully designed interceptor to counter the TIE Interceptor class later in the war.

*Weeps in Trade Specialised Committee prep*

So, just to be clear, just as professional wargaming starts to lose the stigma of 'oh is it like toy soldiers?' Sky broadcasts a series that puts it right back where it started. Fucking great.

This kind of thing hacks me off as the people I know who have made their careers in the profession are genuine experts: utilising their skills in ways that the title 'wargaming' barely covers: emergency planning, local authority enviromental planning, housing policy and a myriad of non military uses

So, just to be clear, just as professional wargaming starts to lose the stigma of 'oh is it like toy soldiers?' Sky broadcasts a series that puts it right back where it started. Fucking great.

His Brexit Quadrology kinda charts alot of this descent but also the racheting up (in his own mind at least) of the importance of his narrative of the UKs' political scene.

The only thing I struggle with the Spielburg & Hanks WW2 trilogy (Band of Brothers, Pacific, Masters of the Air) is the now inevitable cheap shot at British and Commenwealth forces in them. It is made even more notable by all three series careful highlighting of Resistance movements in each series

To be clear the victory in WW2 was allied: even if you reduce the Allies to the USSR, British Empire and US, the removal of one of the three makes victory even more costly and far more dificult

Quick anecdote given the discourse: I was once told that my bisexuality was a problem as 'you might try to screw my 16 year old brother'.