Mastodawn

@greenpete @ChrisMayLA6 A lot of RAF people later considered the strategic booming campaign against German civilians to be a war crime, yes. "Bomber" Harris was the only really senior British commander not to end up in the House of Lords. He *specifically* targeted residential neighbourhoods with fire combing. Cf. Hamburg, Dresden.

Andrew Brown 4d ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 5d ago

RIP Len Deighton.

Deighton's working class spys in books such as the Ipcress File & Funeral in Berlin were a major shift in the literature of espionage...but for me, his best work was Bomber.

And the reason: my father pilot & Squadron Leader in Bomber Command during WW2, thought it was the best depiction of what he had gone through, he ever read & this from a man who refused for the most part to discuss his role in what he had subsequently concluded was a war crime.

#RIPLenDeighton

Andrew Brown Feb 28

Charlie Stross Feb 28

RE: https://radikal.social/@henry/116143876277203506

The future's so bright I gotta jump in the glue pot now.

Andrew Brown Feb 19

marnanel Feb 18

May Lent bring you as much patience as whoever is working Bedford council's social media

https://www.facebook.com/BedfordBoroughCouncil/posts/pfbid0aJ7obzLNb3ka4QJGExKWqSKr4iCgMthG5poqCU3Cw5UMkYpxbPEjmVvGkhKLBsPpl

Andrew Brown Feb 6

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Tom Stafford Feb 6

"And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another."

Andrew Brown Jan 24

Shriram Krishnamurthi Jan 24

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

Andrew Brown Jan 20

Matthew Malthouse Jan 20

World Economic Forum at Davos, 65 heads of government walk into an ultra-private, not even translators present, locked door meeting.

An hour later 64 walk out.

#PoliticalFantasy #FixThisMess

So, hey, did Bari Weiss ever finish up the extra reporting that that 60 Minutes story needed? Did she ever get through to Stephen Miller for a comment? It’s been three weeks.

Gosh, I hope she didn’t forget.

Andrew Brown Jan 12

Kalle Kniivilä Jan 11

Hage, Råängen