Painful

 

Bring back Wallace Beery and Robert Newton.

Beware the Technocrats

Spiked has a message for us all. 

I've dealt with many of them and yes, they can be dangerous.

Napoleon

 

Reasonable Question

 What do you mean you haven't read this?

And given copies to friends, relatives, passing acquaintances, and strangers.

Poetry Break

 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott."

Good Point

"Listening to people who have not been much heard before is a good idea, but agreeing with whatever they say is not."

- Nigel Biggar, The New Dark Age

Battle of Britain

 

Get a Look

This is a great chance to get a look at some of the Nicholas Bate (a.k.a. The Man Who Never Sleeps) novels.

I finally realized what Nicholas was doing during those years when he was flying between London and the Far East.

He was writing.

Great Stuff from Western Civ

 

New Perspective: The First World War

 Rapid industrialization not only allowed for the support of massive armies, it also introduced advanced technologies and weapons systems to the battlefield in numbers that would have been unfathomable to commanders in any previous war. Prior to Pickett's Charge, at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee tried to break the Union line with a mere 170 guns. In contrast, during World War I, it was not uncommon for attacks to be supported by 5,000 artillery pieces. At Waterloo, Wellington had fired less than 10,000 rounds of artillery ammunition. At the Somme, Haig fired almost two million shells in preparatory fires alone. When the war began, Allied councils feared they could never match the $70 million in gold reserves Germany had set aside and kept in Spandau Castle specifically to finance any future war. By 1915, the Allies were spending that amount every twelve hours during a big push, and every two days when the front was quiet.

- From Pershing by Jim Lacey