Thriller writer, travel writer, AI wrangler, vacillator
Gobekli Tepe
Joined February 2009
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GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT!!
📣🥂🤷🏼♂️🎉🍸🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
My memoir
MY DANGEROUS RELATIONS
A Memoir of Anarchy, Family and Survival
Will be published by Verdurin in September 2027. Huzzah! The book they “loved but were too scared to publish”, see this email, will be published
🍾🍾🍾 – at City of London, London
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A few warm fatherly tears shed today by an empty fort in the woods, so lovingly built, and so lately left, by a growing child with (quite rightly) more grown up things to do. I wish I could find her in there peeking out again, just a little smaller.
Too fast; it is all too fast.
Sergei Bondarchuk’s WATERLOO is one of the historic masterpieces of movie making. Imperious & epic. Movies like this will never be made again - because Bondarchuk used real men & real explosions, and now AI will fake it for cents
Perhaps that’s for the best. 400 horses died
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My grand father was severely wounded at Verdun in 1917. He never talked about what he saw and experienced there for the rest of his life.
A million views for this AI video, but wow I wasn’t sure it was fake, at first. We approach the end of visual “truth”
“This is great. What shall we do next, now we’ve done the Boriswave?”
“How about shipping in 30,000 Afghan men at vast expense, while trying to hide this from the British people?”
“Brilliant!”
The Economist's estimate of Britain's age- and sex-standardised conviction rates for sexual offences by the offender's nationality
economist.com/britain/2026/1…
Another grace note: the French & German bones are mixed in each vault, as they were mixed in the Lorraine earth. So the pilgrim who kneels to her father kneels to the man who shot him - and cannot kneel to one without the other. No country had asked that of its mourners before
The ossuary at Douaumont is so affecting I researched its design. The windows onto the bone piles are placed deliberately low, so that you are forced to kneel before the dead, to see
Genius
The architects took inspiration from relics in ancient Christian basilicas
“Hardly an epidemic” - Economist-speak for the plague of migrant sex crimes - must now be filed alongside “largely peaceful protests”
A hard look at Britain’s data suggests so. But it is hardly an epidemic economist.com/britain/2026/1…
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we absolutely should in fact genetically engineer bioluminescent plants & trees and then completely eradicate the affront to God that is LED street lights from the face of the Earth
Aden in 1960. And some idiots still insist that the British Empire was “bad”
كانت عدن تتقدم على عواصم كبرى برقيها ومدنيتها وثقافتها وصناعاتها المحلية، وتمتلك مطارات وموانئ وشعبا راقيا يمتلك وعيا حضاريا مميزا. عاشت عدن أزهى عصورها، حتى ابتلانا الله بأقوام لا يدركون معنى الدولة ولا يفهمون قيمة النظام والمدنية والتطور.
#السعوديه_سبب_الدمار
This proves my theory that the Marseillaise is a really crap national anthem, albeit a distinctive, very jaunty tune. It’s too complex and hard to sing for the first stanzas. Stirring national anthems need to be simple, like Oasis songs
After a while, when a big shell landed in Verdun it automatically churned up a geyser of human flesh - the already dead - which then rained down on the living troops: a slapping rain of rotting human bone, fat, brains and putrid horse flesh. Disease thus piled on disease
The gory details of Verdun are so impossibly horrific they sound unreal. But they’re real. The stench of the 300 day battle - death, shit, piss, rats, gas, corpse flies, rotting men and horses - was so bad, new recruits began vomiting when they got within five kilometres
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These are the only posts that the leaders of other parties have made about the most consequential technology of our age.
Embarrassing.
Bienvenue to the international capital of champagne, the royal citadel of Gallic glamour: Reims! The home of Cristal and Dom Perignon!
France is in trouble
Place Galland, Verdun. Utterly anonymous - yet it has a unique, distressing history. In the 10th century it was a big slave market, where captured Slavs were sent south to the harems of Islamic Iberia. Specialist workshops, hereabouts, castrated the males before selling them
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Do read this excellent @thomasknox article: The town where Europe committed suicide spectator.com/article/the-to…
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A very wonderful meditation on war and peace in Europe by @thomasknox (I guess). If you don't want to pay Michael Gove's wages, find another way - read it in a supermarket perhaps.
The town where Europe committed suicide spectator.com/article/the-to…