The Motherland calls her children home
Russian Telegram channels today absolutely blew up with the news that the liberated territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, plus whatever has been freed in Kherson and Zaporozh'ye...
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...
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...
Sunday Scripture: The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues
15 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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