Huh, why did I think it was '45. Fair enough, kudos.

So HMS Vanguard was launched in October 1945 and commissioned into the Royal Navy in '46.

She didn't serve in combat during Korea or Suez, but she was on the navy's strength until '59.

Then there are the Iowas, all 4 of which were recommissioned in the 80s as essentially floating missile batteries

I mean, on what date do you consider battleships to have become obsolete?

Pearl Harbor? Midway?

There is ONE simple lesson. Learn it. Believe it. Teach it. There is NO benevolent Empire. No matter how politely it dresses up its violence

James Bond is the Hercule Poirot of STDs and extrajudicial killings. Turn up, do a job, contract/spread chlamydia, give your new girlfriend a fake phone number, fly off to your next adventure.

Also, Max Mosley was a right cunt too.

His family and descendents aren't ostracised and hounded from door to door for the rest of recorded time?
The man was a *traitor*, an enemy of our society, in intention if not in deed, and we just let him continue on living without comment.

Class consciousness among the upper class is real.

Honestly, even as a Brit, I hadn't realised how weird the Mosleys are until now.
Like, here was a guy who *supported Hitler* and would have been first in line to collaborate with the Nazis had they invaded, and he's just allowed to return to normal civvie life after the war is over?

He's an *American* fascist deepcut is the important detail. If Alex Karp was British, him knowing about Mosley's granddad would be understandable. The fact that an American techbro knows who Oswald Mosley was is *deeply* worrying.

Yep. Louis Mosley, son of Max Mosley, son of Oswald by Diana Mitford.

The first rule of politics is: humans like the people who feed them.

The second rule of politics is: failing rule 1, humans like the people that help them kill their enemies.

It's so fun seeing Pilou Asbæk play a part that he's actually enjoying, rather than just suffering through it for the paycheck. (he was apparently *very* disappointed in how GoT Euron was written compared to book Euron)

Is that a jfc (laudatory) or a jfc (derogatory)?

Probably, but I wouldn't be surprised if this government pulls the old "national security" card to try and block that.

Regardless, I don't think we need to see the footage to understand that these boats didn't represent an immediate threat to anyone, so, y'know, it's murder on the high seas.

They haven't produced any evidence that the boat was armed or otherwise a threat to anyone, least of all a threat to any US military personnel.

Smuggling drugs is also not a justification for lethal force. I'm not an international lawyer by any means, but this smacks of breaches of maritime law too

More, "I have stuff you need in the Spring, you'll have stuff I need in the Autumn. Here's what you need, I'll see you in 6 months."

There's a lot of evidence to suggest that currency was developed as a means of rewarding soldiers, since taking them away from their farms would leave them destitute.

Ohh!!! I remember that! Total dickhead