“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.”

A bad case of the Dien Bien Flu

A bad case of the Dien Bien Flu

If you have not yet seen the video of Emannuelle Micron’s “wife” (beard, actually), Brigitte, smacking “her” husband around at the very tail end of a trip to Vietnam, then you are missing out on some legendary comedy: The French government almost immediately went into...
When the Anglo-Saxons began to hate

When the Anglo-Saxons began to hate

The picture you see above comes from a friend of mine, living in PommieBastardLande, who contacted me recently about certain, alarming, developments on that foggy, damp, drunken, moss-covered, thoroughly depressing rock in the middle of the North Atlantic. What you...
The Farce is with us, always

The Farce is with us, always

Most of us generally have better things to do – especially as we get to around middle age, or thereabouts – to waste time on nostalgia. Life goes on, things change, and there is little point in worrying about what could or should have been. So it is with...
The absolute and appalling state of PommieBastardLande

The absolute and appalling state of PommieBastardLande

Take a look at the picture above. Where do you think it was taken? Calcutta? Manila? Addis Ababa? Cairo? Nope. All wrong. That picture is from Great Britain’s second largest city (by population) – Birmingham. And that picture is a summation of everything that is wrong...
“Jaw-jaw” vs “war-war”

“Jaw-jaw” vs “war-war”

The quote falsely attributed to Lord Winston Churchill goes something like, “jaw-jaw is better than war-war”. This is not quite what he actually said, which went something like, “Meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war”. This is one of those odd instances where Winnie...
An announcement about the future of Didactic Mind

An announcement about the future of Didactic Mind

Gentlemen, the time is now right to make a big announcement about both the present and future state of the Didactic Mind site, and all of its associated properties. As you may have noticed over the past several months, my output has diminished considerably, due to...
The Great Izzlamick Schism

The Great Izzlamick Schism

For those who are not well-versed in Izzlam, the whole Sunni vs Shi’a divide does not really make a whole lot of sense. It is like listening to two particularly stubborn – and, frankly, not very intelligent – siblings arguing over N’Sync or the Backstreet Boys, except...
Of nonsense and nuances

Of nonsense and nuances

Much ink has been spilled over the last few days in the wake of the meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between the Ukrainian and American delegations. After that long meeting on Monday – which apparently lasted something like eight hours – the two parties issued a joint...
The Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up

The Khreat Khokholite Kursk Kock-Up

Two days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defence officially announced the full liberation (or recapture, if you prefer) of the town of Sudzha, in the Kursk region of Russia. The collapse of the Ukrainian defence forces in the region brought to a near-end what has to be...