Really, NYT? "The F.B.I.’s relationship with MI5 is arguably the most important in Five Eyes" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

It’s 2025, and Angelina Jolie has been closer to the frontlines than Vladimir Putin ever was

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

OTD in 1853 the Battle of Oltenita was fought. 1st of Crimea war. Russian troops crossed into European Turkey to "protect orthodox Christians" as excuse to try to capture Constantinople. Lost 20 times as many as the enemy in 1st engagement of a war we'd lose. It's a tradition.

LBJ was the last president this concerned with "ball room".

It's weird that a shoehorn is a tool that helps one thing slide smoothly inside another thing designed to hold it, without applying undue pressure, but shoehorning means awkwardly forcing one thing inside another where it doesn't really fit, in a way that may well cause damage

Any discussion of traditional English food and identity that isn't grounded in eels is a lie. #TrueEelFacts

Brexit means Brexit

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

This makes me feel very old.

New Blog: Most people doing #OSINT aren’t doing OSINT. They’re just Googling with extra steps, screenshotting dashboards, and calling it “intelligence.” That’s not tradecraft. That’s cosplay. Let’s talk about what OSINT is not: www.dutchosintguy.com/post/stop-ca...

Friends in UKHE tell me things are grim, and they're right - but some of the injuries are self-inflicted.

This is excellent.

A cheering story in the troublesome times.

I always wonder if this sort of thing is part of a carefully calculated information strategy, and I almost always find myself concluding 'Nah, it's just the usual porosity of the USG'.

This is epic.

“Are you enjoying MS Outlook so far?” * Yes * No * Fuck off and die

It's impossible to know where to begin ... "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens,"

As always, the BDA doesn't support early claims of resounding military success. This is a truth that transcends time, politics and national boundaries.

Israel knocks out Iranian cyber infrastructure, and then - completely by coincidence - loads of anonymous pro Scottish independence social media accounts go offline. Fancy that! ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...

What does this actually mean - is research a 'legitimate business need'?

'Anonymous Low-Level Losers' would be a great name of a band.

I was delighted to discover that in the 1920s the India Office had no mere departmental historian but, in the shape of Sir William Foster, the 'Historiographer to the India Office'. There's posh.

What's the dumbest reason your posting history will deny you a US visa? For me it's probably laughing at the USS Chesapeake, seen here in its final ascended form...

“There is no intel” JFC www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Love this.

lol what happened here

Wonder if I’m the only Brit today realising what a real ‘special relationship’ looks like?

I assume all the outlets that printed the credulous lie that he left to deal with an imminent national security crisis will print corrections or retractions? If not, why not?

Somebody here wrestling with the real big issues of our times. But let's all read the evolving stance of the @NYT fashion correspondent. FFS.

Well, strap my vittles. Who would have thought that government does stuff that makes no profit but comes in handy in a crisis. Almost like that’s the whole point of government.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

I come from a country that has a real king and every year we have a parade for his birthday, all without tracks tearing up Birdcage Walk or artillery in Whitehall. Bands and bulled boots, that's all you need. #justsaying

Since it is a given in certain quarters that any SNP electoral setback can be laid at the door of Thames House, someone will be along shortly to explain now MI5 fixed the result. 'Sno fair, so it's no.

Reading SDR2025 and I'm all, like, WTF happened to the JIC R&P process?

Class …

Not a businessman, but I my question would be 'what is this trillion bucks buying me?'

Is this American exceptionalism? Trying to imagine a British Foreign Secretary, or a Lithuanian Defence Minister, or a French Minister of Justice doing this and not being immediately faced with accommodating the rough end of a pineapple.

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

Some proper historying here ....

WOW!

Always makes me tear up when I see academics standing up for their beliefs by /checks notes/ … doing a runner.

This is a wonderland of misbehaviour by US officials. Wish the UK did something similar.