I tried something similar last time my dad visited and the range of horrified grimacing sipping faces he made trying eisbocks was well worth the expense

the clean wehrmacht myth effectively the founding logic of NATO - we can have a good, clean, effective military that is beyond reproach, so long as you don't look too closely at when things go wrong

a very common logic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ZW...

I keep getting little snippets of this podcast on instagram and I have no idea how you can stand to listen to it for more than 7 seconds. just the most self-satisfied savvy dreck possible

It’s like having a nuclear reactor in your living room. The promise of cheap, limitless energy? Yes please! The constant monitoring, the vast hidden risks, the stewardship over the negative downstream effects? Well…

Unity
Determination
Decency

or

Preferential Or Exclusive Trade With 30% Of The World’s Total Land Mass

Which do you think had a greater impact on British performance in the war?

Paul being allowed to do this is also a bit of an indicator of institutional collapse also, surely. Like someone sneaking into the Bretton Woods meetings and suggesting we use bits of wood connected by string for currency and it being taken to a vote.

the mistake they made was not sending them to a British elite school, who know far better than the Americans that educating children comes a pretty distant second to reproducing the ideas that keep elite schools open

hi it’s robert jenrick here, just letting you know that kemi badenoch eats big dinners. sending this on the burner phone that I have for just this message. off to be a big tory now, don’t ever ask me about this in person bye.

no you see this violence is inevitable, somehow! and the only way to stop it is to .. hrm … keep women from … working in … consulting firms and … media companies … otherwise … hrm … hrmm ... slightly struggling with the causation here but it’ll come to me

smash cut from that to the opening of Children of Men

hot fuzz

maitlis really an object lesson in what decades of standing on eggshells in deference to a power you cannot comprehend does to a mf

YOUR ideological dictator, murderous autocrat, genocidal lunatic

MY cowboy, 'sod the red tape'

From the single Irish republic flag and total lack of Northern Irish regalia we can only assume he‘s in the Continuity IRA

globally far-right violence hasn’t increased, it’s moved from state or para-state (e.g. Ordine Nuovo, GAL, Operation Condor) backing to independent actors more loosely organised. Accounting for these and for ethnonationalist / separatist groups there was always far less left violence than right.