So, it’s over; the British Army’s responsibilities in southern Iraq have been handed over, and now the rapid drawdown begins. Colour me delighted. But…this is also the last opportunity to do anything for past Iraqi employees. I’m aware that some number of them were taken to the UK, but I reckon someone ought to make…
Read More IraqA data point from Germany. You may recall the debate regarding whether or not it was possible for the 7th July bombers to have concentrated their own hydrogen peroxide without needing special equipment; Dsquared took it to the point of carrying out dubious experiments in his freezer. It seems that the so-called Sauerland group of…
Read More …but there’s lots of girls with peroxide curls and the black & tan flows freeSo, Chris “Chris” Williams, J. Carter Wood, and I met up in London to attend the aftermath of this ORG event. A good time was had, even though we didn’t find Charlie or Cory at the Three Kings; we heard of how I made an epic fool of myself in Berlin, how policemen are exported,…
Read More ranting in ClerkenwellYou thought Abu Muqawama was cool? You’re behind the curve. I’ve only been reading the new French multiblog, Alliance Geostrategique for a few weeks, and they come out with a series of posts like these: Living in the city at war, or how the difference between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian centre of Sarajevo (narrow streets,…
Read More French blogs considered harmful, in a good wayI’ve been reading J.G. Ballard on and off for years. The first thing I read of his was the short story My Dream of Flying to Wake Island, which was included in an anthology edited by (of all people) Frederick Forsyth. I remember vividly the weird, inspiring force of it. Much later I got into…
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