Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
RW edgelord podcasters insist Jaws is a fake 🦈 invented by the deep state to suppress white heteronormative Christian men. They continue to insist this even as Jaws literally eats their legs.
weinberglet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
I have a mental rule for students to understand the Eastern Front in WW1: Germany beats Russia Russia beats Austria Austria beats Italy Italy doesn’t beat anyone
Follow the Minnesota 1stTBF, everyone did that in ww2. 😁
French AT doctrine in 1940 was pretty solid and they would have blunted the Blitzkrieg advance but for positional mistakes at the outset which meant they never got a real chance to try.
tuccyI seem to recall reading somewhere that Germans lost more tanks between Dunkirk and fall of France, than between 1939 and Dunkirk. French Army also seemed to shift to tactics similar to later Eastern Front (basically infantry-and-AT-guns strongpoints instead of regular "line"), but too late.
Me: “what day is it I start teaching again? It’s like 4 weeks away right?” <looks at calendar> Me:
Jason Bateman's Oh Shit ReactionALT: Jason Bateman's Oh Shit Reactionstatic.klipy.comEl primo latino de Count Binface www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
White elephant in the room: Colombia swears in costumed anti-corruption activist as senatorLuis Carlos Rúa revealed himself to be Elefante blanco just three days before election for ‘his own safety’. Now he is tackling graft from senate floorwww.theguardian.comAbout this “I have some conservative and some liberal views, just like all Americans” thing: it’s a reactionary centrist truism and it’s … simply not true. In terms of policy choices (not identity or voting habits), most Americans are consistently liberal. It’s been well documented since the 60s.
Hamilton NolanUnfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Troops were still resisting in the Maginot forts in July, knowing the situation was hopeless, and had to be ordered by their own government to stop fighting.
John CI will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
Why is it that these “now we’ve got to be grown-ups and make tough choices” bits never touch the idea of raising taxes
Terminally von der Leyen"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"
It’s perfectly ok to speak ill of someone in death who was objectively a terrible person in life.
Ben GoldacreSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
Hilariously the author cannot come up with a single concrete example of what one of these positives might be.
USA TODAY OpinionOpinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.
OTOH she completely deserves be fired just as Bondi and Noem did. OTOH it’s never the men.
Mike WalkerBREAKING: A Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
I suppose it’s a small point of historical curiosity whether his flunkeys are making up favorable polls and showing them to him.
Aaron RuparTrump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been”
