The Siege of Jadotville! For this week's episode of War Movie Theatre, think Zulu, if the Zulus had heavy mortars and air support. https://pod.fo/e/39d05d
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The Siege of Jadotville! For this week's episode of War Movie Theatre, think Zulu, if the Zulus had heavy mortars and air support. https://pod.fo/e/39d05d
It's only Regime Change if it comes from the NeoCon region of Washington. Otherwise it's Sparkling Restructuring.
Question: someone i know who's already a writer in another area wants to do a crime-writing course. No getting published content, they have that covered, just craft stuff. Preferably online, suitable for a UK timezone. Please do share if you don't know of one! #AuthorSky
Apart from its countless other pleasures, I, a professional screenwriter, will never figure out how you write something with a plot hole the size of the Lincoln Tunnel & it just doesn't matter, nobody cares, maybe you notice it but then you forget, the movie is just that good
Love this podcast. Flypaper for middle aged men.
Have I mentioned my "head injury" theory?
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“Nobody wants to see an escalation,” the Tory leader replied, before then demanding Britain escalate things. “What is the prime minister waiting for?”
-- by @roberthutton.co.uk
I'd give it five minutes if I were you. I just predeployed.
Hoping to combine it with VAT making their school fees unmanageable.
Why is it I'm thinking of the 'Judgement at Nuremberg' section of @warmovietheatre.com when I see this quote?
Totally.
The Siege of Jadotville! We're kicking off Fighting Irish Month with a terrific film about a forgotten battle. Think "Zulu", if the Zulus had air support. champ.ly/TFoVlEto
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Goondalf too of course, and Gimli, son of Gooin.
Ah, the goons, the Men of Goondor.
Excited to get a Badenoch explanation for this line on Radio 4. "Actually, it's Tolkien." thecritic.co.uk/the-...
I *think* Kemi Badenoch is currently arguing for a first strike approach to nuclear war.
It’s a little-known fact about Kemi Badenoch that years ago she must have suffered a traumatic brain injury that has left her completely unable to recall any event after 2002. That may sound ridiculous, but once you know it, it explains an awful lot about British politics. Take, for instance, Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The Tory leader demanded to know why Britain wasn’t joining the Americans in attacking Iran. That’s a brilliant question if, like Badenoch — and apparently her entire team — you have absolutely no knowledge of “UK Involvement With Events in the Middle East: 2003 to Present Day”. Otherwise, even the most slow-witted MP would get a pretty handy clue from the first three letters of the target country’s name.
The best explanation for the British right's enthusiasm for war with Iran: brain damage. thecritic.co.uk/the-...
"Mr Speaker, as @GIGACHAD_1776 said to me on X yesterday"
Such an odd boast.
As Reeves went on, our eyes were caught by her Tory opposite number, Mel Stride, who was going through his speech notes. Where Reeves had gone with a traditional typescript that she followed with her finger, Stride’s approach is more impressionistic. He scrawls ideas and lines in thick black pen, and then goes over them with multi-coloured highlighters. Sometimes he draws round words, sometimes he writes things out in large letters and then colours them in. It looked, from afar, like they had been produced by a ten-year-old, as if Stride might ask Kemi Badenoch to pass Vicky Atkins a note asking if she liked him during Home Office Questions. The chancellor’s message was that things are working well, and election-winning growth is coming our way. “Every pound that we have secured in this forecast today can be wiped out by a change of course,” she said. Not by the changes of course she’s already executed, you understand, but by other changes of course yet to come.
Mel Stride's Marvellous Multicoloured Messaging. My SKETCH... thecritic.co.uk/what...
Ultimately, there simply aren't enough clues as to what he's like.
I think "half-devil and half child" captures something of Trump.
That's because you wasted your teenage years on the internet.
Just remembered Mel Stride exists.
Here to serve.
A random headline generator with nuclear weapons.
As Reeves went on, our eyes were caught by her Tory opposite number, Mel Stride, who was going through his speech notes. Where Reeves had gone with a traditional typescript that she followed with her finger, Stride’s approach is more impressionistic. He scrawls ideas and lines in thick black pen, and then goes over them with multi-coloured highlighters. Sometimes he draws round words, sometimes he writes things out in large letters and then colours them in. It looked, from afar, like they had been produced by a ten-year-old, as if Stride might ask Kemi Badenoch to pass Vicky Atkins a note asking if she liked him during Home Office Questions. The chancellor’s message was that things are working well, and election-winning growth is coming our way. “Every pound that we have secured in this forecast today can be wiped out by a change of course,” she said. Not by the changes of course she’s already executed, you understand, but by other changes of course yet to come.
Mel Stride's Marvellous Multicoloured Messaging. My SKETCH... thecritic.co.uk/what...
The insistence on processing Trump's pronouncements as though he's FDR rolled into JFK rolled into Ronald Reagan is just bizarre.
