Fraser Nelson's big idea: we can't let the Iranians down; we must kill more of them.
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Fraser Nelson's big idea: we can't let the Iranians down; we must kill more of them.
Fabulous read.
"Revealed" two weeks on as war turns to quagmire. Funny that.
At the end of his lecture, Einstein was asked to sign the blackboard. That segment of the blackboard was preserved and is on display on the first floor of the Schuster Building, the home of the Physics dept.
The Royal Fusiliers Museum says otherwise: www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/art24491
I fear another Khe Sanh.
His bombast and administrative incompetence make it easy to underestimate Trump, but he's a shrewd manipulator in getting various chosen groups to believe what they want to believe.
And with the twist that Priestley clung to phlogiston theory despite the co-discovery.
Great piece in Unherd by Paul Sagar (Politics, KCL): "How AI will destroy universities: cheating has reached apocalyptic levels". Plenty of witty lines too. archive.ph/90AwY#select...
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"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down".
Jason, Joby Warrick (is he still with the Post?) has a book out this September on Carlos the Jackal:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ja...
Yes indeed. Founding the Open University is also an important part of his legacy.
Veils of smoke and scheming?
Robin, spotted this piece on wartime Trent Park in today's Times. Thought of your father's invaluable work: archive.ph/aKCmL
Remarkable. Like a still from a Herzog film.
A quote for the ages: "There is no policy. More than that, there’s not really a Trump administration. There is only Trump, his impulses, and the members of his Cabinet who try to keep up with them."
Dusting off the Morgenthau Plan.
The Guardian, 8th Nov. 2004, reporting Michael Howard, the then Oppostion Leader: 'Mr Howard's decision to distance himself from the White House reflects his belief that Mr Bush is so unpopular in Britain that voters will be impressed by a politician who stands up to him.'
Local history: John Palin aka 'Balaclava Jack.' One of Tennyson's 600.
He also served in the American Civil War with the Unionists, becoming a POW. He spent the last 32 years of his life in Altrincham, Cheshire.
Yes, Gillian Tett would be excellent.
He doesn't hazard to name any names.
Their trick is to neutralise anything they've said by claiming it's being "taken out of context" - even when the context is more of the same.
The gateway drug was the ECHR. Next stop: the Geneva Convention.
Back in the 60s the press contrived a similar rivalry: Stones or Beatles? A gimmick to sell their rags.
I think of J.G. Ballard's early short story "The Reptile Enclosure." Not a hum but a satellite steers us on a strange navigation.
Desperately needy lackey parades as an elder statesman. A latter day Zelig.
John Tusa (former head of BBC World Service) has launched a new podcast. He and all his interviewees will be 90 years old or more. The deepest pool of talent and life experience.
www.podbean.com/podcast-deta...
