“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.”

Churchill’s cock-up

There is a legend in foreign policy circles concerning the way in which the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia came to be. The eastern border of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – which is ruled over by, supposedly, a really-for-real descendant of Islam’s...

Medicare for thee but not for me

As most of you know by now, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont was rushed to hospital a few days ago and two stents were inserted into his arterial passages in order to unblock the blood flow in his body. The irony of this very high-quality and very high-speed...

The Balkan solution

Remember that Mel Gibson period-piece film, The Patriot, which actually was a rather good, if somewhat inaccurate, stylised portrayal of the battle for American independence in the southern colonies? Do y’all remember that scene where the colonial Congress of...

“They’re farmers with pitchforks!”

In the wake of Robert Francis Shamrocks Padraig Kilkenny Guinness Begorrah O’Meara Shillelagh O’Rourke’s strident insistence that the Daemoncrats absolutely will come and take your guns, Paul Ramsey provides a pessimistic Gen-X Hard Right take...

Grunt-work

Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of...

How the swamp works

Until His Most August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra*, came along and completely overturned the apple-cart of the political establishment, we never really had a good term to describe the way...

Bye bye, Johnny

The swamp-draining carries on: President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has terminated National Security Advisor John Bolton from his position, citing strong disagreement on “many of his suggestions” regarding foreign policy. “I informed John Bolton last night...

The middle age of the Middle Kingdom

It has become very clear over the past few years that Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilisations” hypothesis was eerily prescient, and that China will indeed become one of the primary belligerents in a roughly five-way global conflict. The Chinese,...

Bully for Boris

The new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of PommieBastardLand, one big fat fluffy teddy-bear named Boris Johnson, is showing that this bear has serious claws: Boris Johnson will suspend parliament in a bid to stop MPs thwarting Brexit as the Prime Minister...

Yeah, sure he did

The paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell yesterday, as you all know by now. Evidently he committed suicide, probably because he couldn’t bear the weight of his crimes. And if you believe one single word of that last sentence, I...