“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Monday morning in the Thucydides Trap

Monday morning in the Thucydides Trap

It’s Monday again, and if you are like me, you just could not be arsed to get out of bed this morning. It was a rough night, to be sure – I am not sure exactly why, given that I performed a righteous sermon at the Church of the Iron God on Sunday night and...
Economic force multipliers

Economic force multipliers

Note: the following post is an expansion of a series of lengthy comments that I made on my Telegram channel earlier today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference wrapped up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (not Astana, Kazakhstan, which is what I mistakenly...
Friday T&A: Drinking Games Edition

Friday T&A: Drinking Games Edition

Gents, I just got back earlier today from a short trip to an event that involved a lot of words that would normally make me swear a blue streak. These include “networking”, “socialising”, and – most horrible of all – “other...
Send them all home

Send them all home

Chaps, do you remember that whole weird series of episodes of what we might call a White Trash Soap Opera, suitably titled Yorkshire Dales or some such, involving a father-of-two who took in a Ukrainian refugee and then ended up dumping his not-wife’s ass in...
Losing battles to win wars

Losing battles to win wars

The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...
Monday morning Crown and Ring

Monday morning Crown and Ring

Monday is back with a vengeance, and I for one am definitely feeling it. My Sunday workouts involve maxing out the weight on squats and deadlifts, and the older I get, the longer it takes to recover from that kind of a workout. On top of which, the mood in some parts...
The twenty-one year emergency

The twenty-one year emergency

You all know what today is. You all remember where you were, 21 years ago today. Think about that span of time carefully. If your child was born in that year, that same child would already have passed the ages of maturity for driving, voting, and drinking in the...
Sunday Scripture: The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues

Sunday Scripture: A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus

2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,[a] who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ...
Friday T&A: Rainbow Bridges Edition

Friday T&A: Rainbow Bridges Edition

This has unquestionably been a difficult week for my friends in PommieBastardLande. The death of Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, has rocked the nation, but it does not come as any great surprise. Let’s be honest – once you hit your 90s, every day is basically a...