Just a couple more days, and we get to the very best day of the year. Christmas is almost upon us - for me, always a truly special and wonderful day. Every year when I was a child, we would go to...

This week's entry into everyone's favourite series is unfortunately late again, though I do have a kind-of-sort-of good excuse. Basically, I was playing free therapist to several different people,...

Things have been unreasonably quiet around here at Didactic Mind for entirely mundane reasons - namely, yer very 'eavy, very 'umble servant has been run off 'is feet with work and other things. You...

It doesn't take much to realise that Western elites have completely lost the plot. The Western elites are literally psychopathic at this point. They have no rationality, no decency, and absolutely...

This one will be relatively short, as I'm sure most of my readers - by and large Americans - have better things to do than read poasts on some blog while belching their way through the usual epic...

This has been one of the weirdest weeks in recent memory - which, given what we have experienced in the last 9 months, is saying something. After all, this is the week in which the Ukrainians...

Today is November 11th, which the citizens of the Commonwealth often celebrate as "Armistice Day", and which Americans call "Veterans' Day". Either way, it is a day of solemn remembrance and respect...

I've been pretty much out of it most of the day, and I'm not quite sure why, but it is clear that the last few weeks of VERY hard work really took their toll. Now that a major project has...

The constant drumbeat of, frankly, insane talk about nuclear weapons and who will launch the first strike over the last couple of weeks, has gotten well and truly out of control by now. The rhetoric...

This week has certainly been eventful in the world of geopolitics. Prime Minister Chucky is out, as I pointed out yesterday, after a brief, disastrous, and totally ignominious reign that saw the...

If the events of the past few days have proven anything, it is that toadying up to Clown Prince Zarnulf of Hy-Bandera is hazardous to a politician's career prospects. The Curse of the Dummy...

The Russian phrase in the title is their way of saying, "happy birthday" - it literally translates as, "with the day of birth" - and today is, in fact, someone's birthday. No, it is not mine - but...