Sep
4
No Easy Day by Mark Owen: review
September 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Just finished skimming “No Easy Day” by US Navy SEAL Mark Owen (aka Matt Bissonnette). The details on operation Neptune Spear are quite in-depth, very readable and occasionally accompanied by some nice turns of phrase . . . I cannot help but agree with the sentiment the author expresses upon finding OBL’s weapons: “I slid […]
Jul
3
Rediscovered track of the month: Jul ’12
July 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Love/Hate — Blackout in the Red Room
Jul
3
Andrew Young FSI
July 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
BBC World Service radio leaves Bush House this year. The final broadcast will be a news bulletin on 12th July at midday UK time (Newshour’s final broadcast was on the night of Sunday 1st July, podcast here) so I’ve decided to commemorate the move by trying to find out who Andrew Young was. This fine […]
Jun
28
Taki’s Yacht Bushido for Sale
June 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Long time Spectator columnist Taki has often written about his yacht Bushido and his frustration at the rise of the super yachts aka “floating gin palaces”. Yesterday his exasperation at the new rich reaches new heights and he writes rather cryptically that “As of this summer . . . it’s THE END.” What could he […]
Jun
22
In Praise of NHK World
June 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I don’t know exactly when NHK World came to the UK. I suspect it was in 2011 shortly after the tsunami hit Fukushima. I first noticed it on the Freesat service around August 2011 and I’ve been tuning in more and more frequently for the quirky delivery, refreshing bluntness of its reports, strict almost religious […]
Jun
1
Rediscovered track of the month: Jun ’12
June 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Wasted Years by Iron Maiden via Ryan Adams
May
4
Rediscovered track of the month: May ’12
May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Rainbow, Since You’ve Been Gone
Apr
21
Rathergate Rumbles on . . .
April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It’s always nice when a comment points you to something you’d otherwise have missed. Al Dorman’s rather acerbic post here took me on a search across the ocean to a publication called Texas Monthly which has published one of the best examinations of the whole Killian memos/Rathergate debacle I’ve yet seen by Joe Hagan. Read it […]