“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.”

Chained to a hurtling death machine

Chained to a hurtling death machine

Supposedly, it was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin who once said words to the effect that, “there are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. Quite apart from my revulsion for Communists in general – and Lenin in particular – this most likely...
Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues

Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues

We are back, at long last, after a lengthy break, with a new Domain Query podcast. Once again, we are answering a question from LRFotS Randale6, who draws an intriguing parallel between the current, parlous, state of the FUSA, and the old Byzantine Empire. Our friend...
Yanking a nuclear-tipped Bear’s tail

Yanking a nuclear-tipped Bear’s tail

For those paying attention to events in and around Banderastan (like yours truly), news started streaming in on Sunday about some rather audacious, and quite repugnant, terrorist attacks in Russia, beginning with the destruction of bridges in Bryansk and Belgorod...
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 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...
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 God-Emperor flays a man alive

The God-Emperor flays a man alive

As I said in my poast from last night, the major news lighting up the airwaves at the moment is the very public, extraordinarily brutal humiliation – and that is the correct term for it – of the Narcofuehrer of 404 – Country Not Found, by His Most Illustrious, Noble,...
The cold mathematics of war

The cold mathematics of war

Three years ago today, the Neo-Tsar ordered the Russian military across the border into Ukraine, and set off the train of events that led to the 404 War. That fateful day completely and irreversibly shattered the world order that existed up to that point. The Western...
Peace is in sight

Peace is in sight

The past few days have seen a rate of change in American politics that has most observers reeling and reaching for the sick bags – not because these changes are bad, necessarily, though to the minds of the more liberal commentators, they surely are. Rather, it is...