Outcry as border guards seize British ‘dirty bomb’ lorry heading for Iran says the Daily Mail, reporting that a large quantity of caesium and Americium-Beryllium was seized at a border point on the way to Iran. Delivered from Kent. (HT USS Neverdock).
Previously, Gates of Vienna spent a few posts on the subject of Swedish [...]
Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna has put upan excellent post on the history of the anglo-peoples and their cultural legacy in the form of the anglosphere. It’s a wonderful primer to the history of this idea and the peoples behind it, and well worth the read even if you aren’t interested in history.
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This gates of Vienna post and this EU Referendum post both cover the recent YouGov poll (conducted by Daily Telegraph and also editorialised there), revealing how people with broadly similar ideas can make the same exact point and uyet sound completely different. Gates started by expanding upon the life of one George M Cohen, the [...]
Distillation is a favourite topic of mine. It’s the method whereby the drink of the gods (aka dalwhinnie 18 year single malt whisky) is produced, or at least part of it. Or something. But that has nothing to do with this particular post, except obliquely by the amount of the stuff I’ve drunk over the last few days trying to figure out how best to phrase this. And that’s not good, because it’s hard to enjoy a fine single malt when you’re stressed over projects and unable to let go of a thought…
Recently, on several posts over at Gates of Vienna I’ve been having an on-again/off-again argument with one or two commenters on the subject of whether America should involve itself in our troubles. On the surface, I have to admit, I can sympathise with their position, and in most circumstances I’d agree that the US would be entirely justified in sitting this one out. We (I hate to do it, but for the purposes of this post I’m referring to the continent and the Isles as a single collective entity) have a problem.
