A New York times editorial reminds us of what the British and French discovered during World War I when they tried to force passage through the Dardanelles, then controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The Gallipoli campaign, as it was named for the peninsula that runs along the strait, of 1915-16 was Winston Churchill’s brainchild as…

In spite of the ten million turn out for yesterdays marches, most of the media didn’t give it the full recognition it deserved. As expected Newsmax, the world’s shittiest faux news channel described them as being funded by communists, whilst Fox concentrated on basketball, the world dumbest sport, for most of the day. My old…

News that Pepsi Global has kicked off Pepsi Football Nation, a global platform designed to bring football, the world’s most popular sport, and the game you play with your feet not your helmeted fucking head, into everyday life from Rio de Janeiro to London. The agency is Big Time Creative Shop and the work will…

According to MediaPost “50% of all online traffic we see is no longer human. It is machine-based.” And that data in The 2026 State of AI Traffic & Cyberthreat Benchmark Report, released today, shows monthly AI-driven traffic surged 187% in 2025, nearly tripling in a year. Will humans please form an orderly line at the…

Am I the only one who sees the current situation in the Straight of Hormuz as a likely repeat of the 1956 Suez crisis, which resulted in the shut down of the canal for many months. I should know… I took part in it during my RAF service. Flying Dakotas…

On Monday, traders placed nearly half a billion dollars in bets on falling oil prices just 15 minutes before Der Trumpf’s announcement of so-called “productive” talks with Iran sent prices tumbling. As one market strategist succinctly put it… “It’s hard to prove causality . . . but you have to wonder who would have been relatively aggressive at…

Chief MAGA Wanker, Lindsey Graham, when asked about the possible invasion of Kharg Island, he responded, “I trust the marines, I trust DOD, we got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. We did Iwo Jima, we can do this, my money is always on the marines.” He seems to have forgotten that when…

In a further boost to Der Trumpf’s already massive ego, two coins that feature his obscene likeness are getting closer to reality amid swirling controversy. One would be a huge, 3 inch, 24 carat gold collector’s item. The other would be a controversial one dollar coin meant to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. A U.S.…

Ubersturmbahnfuhrer Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol head who became the face of Der Trump’s immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month. Bovino was removed from his role as CBP commander at large in January and returned to his role as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California. The move came…

Deighton, one of my all-time favorite writers brought wit, realism and class consciousness to cold war espionage fiction, reshaping the genre in the 1960s in contrast to the Ian Fleming Bondian Bullshit happening at the same time. We had two things in common, we both rose to the exalted rank of Corporal during national service…