This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Finish the sentence:

Despite all the fire and fury the Luftwaffe was only able to put a major RAF airfield out of action for a matter of hours.

IF the strike aircraft were driven out of RAF Fairford by an enemy threat, then that enemy has enjoyed more success than the Luftwaffe during the whole of the Battle of Britain.

Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser

“it didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization”

There is no truth more universally acknowledged yet universally ludicrous than “a government is defined by its first 100 days.” Cameron: Brexit Blair: Iraq Biden: Afghanistan withdrawal Trump 1: covid George W: 9/11 Obama: healthcare Im not convinced it’s even true of FDR Churchill? Fair enough

You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.

Looking for an old pic and stumbled across this one of me and Jerry Springer holding a WW2 US aerial bomb in a tv studio. No idea why or when.

Someone on the Today programme said that “China is flexing its muscles and threatening its neighbours like never before” and I think I am going to lie down for a bit in the woods.

Arguing about who is truly English while AI leeches into our lives is like the Mexica having a furious debate over a minor doctrinal issue while Cortes limbers up on the beach.

What are ‘the canonical ethnicities’ anyway? German? Greek? Hungarian? Not Austrian, Belgian, Italian, Moroccan, Russian, obvs. Imagine being so assinine. You can be an Austrian German but not a Scottish English. A Bosnian Serb but not an Icelandic Norwegian. Where are the Burgundians at?

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

Those absolute head bangers have convinced themselves that Churchill, King Charles, Henry V and Brunel aren’t proper English. Robert the Bruce isn’t Scottish. They are modern phrenologists. They spend the weekend working out what George Best was.

To live in a world with minute, irrelevant distinctions of religion and nationality. What a dream.

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

This is one of the most bonkers stories I have ever seen. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Fascinating to compare google maps with the local Chinese navigation app. Two screenshots, stationary on the same street corner.