Oasis were better than the Beatles
There is no Beatles song that is as remotely a good driving song as “Morning Glory”. And no one from the Beatles took on Eric Cantona
Also getting someone like Patrick MacNee for “Don’t Look Back In Anger” was perfection

I get people not wanting to credit 1990s British music as it coincided with the rise of Tony Blair and all his poncy, third way, neo everything nonsense. But that was not Oasis or even a Blur
Sorry if this has upset so many of you cringing conformists but the Beatles are the ultimate example - next to the property market/wealth distributions - of unearned Boomer privilege. A real politics of reform would tax the Beatles/their estates/Yoko Ono to a confiscatory level.
The Beatles make Take That sound like AC/DC.
Deep down, you know it is true.
We need to be honest here.
Oasis' "Morning Glory" is a great driving song. Phil Collins' "In the air tonight" is a great stopped at the lights song. If you have never drummed the solo on your steering wheel when stopped at the lights or even by the Heat, are you a man and have you lived? Well? Whither?

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21 Nov
Noting debates here over the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (March-May 1954), it remains my position that the French loss (esp post-Korean War armistice) was a needless disaster & that the Allies should have helped the French resist the Communist insurgency. I blame Ike. 🇫🇷 ⚜️ ImageImageImageImage
The brilliant war correspondent & historian, Bernard Fall, wrote superb histories of the French experience in Indochina, include the Dien Bien Phu denouement ImageImageImageImage
Bernard Fall's account of the end of the French war in Indochina at Dien Bien Phu was a lesson that awaited 'learning', less for the successor Vietnam War (which was a just war of assistance to Sth Vietnam) than for the Afghan War of our times. ImageImageImageImage
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21 Nov
Look forward to the Media taking responsibility for cheering on a 20 year War so that NATO could bring weird European liberal norms to tribal & primitive Afghans that hated us as occupiers & in which our local allies were often pederast Warlords. We need a complete accounting.
For example, Laura Bush thought the Afghan war was important enough for the 'Afghan women' but not so important for her own daughters to enlist .... Guess what the media cheered on....?

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More here - apparently we are all now occupying Afghanistan to bring Brooklyn to Bagram .... you can never withdraw. Ever

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19 Nov
A moral equation of the 'body count' between abortions and state executions is simply absurd....also, an execution usually follows an exhaustive if at times flawed process. They are two separate species of 'death penalty' & culpability of the 'executed'.
Biggest problem for advocates of the death penalty: the criminal justice system can and does make horrifically unjust errors.

Biggest problem for opponents of the death penalty: what do you do with those tried and convicted at Nuremberg in 1945-1946?
What if the death penalty is to be viewed, historically at least, as the domestic application of war powers the State will use abroad? The Sovereign's duty was to protect the realm, against enemies foreign and domestic. Do those to be 'droned' deserve any due process?
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Parler sounds Cromwellian
If you do not know what this means please unfollow.
Why are you following anyway?
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17 Nov
As it is Montgomery's birthday in the UK and as we are all discussing the Afghan War, am reminded of Monty's dictum: "never reinforce failure". Also that Monty (wounded in WW1) would always visit his wounded in hospital after every battle & would then be inconsolable for days.
Both of Montgomery & MacArthur had superb WW1 records and both were the last Edwardians with a certain panache. Both stood out when visiting front lines so as to be seen, even at risk of sniping (almost killing Mac at times). Contrast with 2020's 'bureaucrats in uniform' is stark
I wrote this in 2017 on the Afghan War & really everything then as now is a symptom of a military culture that has degenerated since World War II (the last war we unambiguously won) and everything else since has been a non-Clausewitzian political exercise

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I think everyone who watches The Crown is in my timeline. I have not watched it. Also the historical innacuracies, as with Downton Abbey, will only irritate. I fear The Crown will be what Brideshead Revisited is to an earlier generation, a source of bad retro-ism.
British productions market themselves like this for a reason cf Chariots of Fire, where Eric Liddell was this irritating scold (a Scottish trope of sorts, along with the drunk guy burning a football stadium down) whereas Harold Abrahams should have been the focus of the movie.
The two best recent British historical movies I have seen of recent - and which I commend to all of you in this November/month of the dead - are "Mary, Queen of Scots" & "Testament of Youth" re Vera Brittain. Historical accuracy very good & lead actresses are their character
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