You have to confess to a certain ambivalence towards news journalists.*
One of the charges the postmodernists throw at historians of the old school is that they create the illusion of empiricism by the style they employ in their writing. No hint of a mention of ‘I think…’, an attempt to surpass the amount written in [...]
Archive for the ‘War’ Category
On lies and damn lies.
Posted in History, Morality, Patriotism, Politics, Russia, TV, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia, Journalism, Mikheil Saakashvili, Postmodernism, Robert Mugabe, the BBC, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on August 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On Russia and Georgia.
Posted in Patriotism, Politics, Russia, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What she said.
On 9 Rota.
Posted in Cinema, History, Patriotism, Pregnancy, Russia, War, tagged 9 Rota, 9th Company, Afghanistan, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Iraq, Vietnam on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago they showed a Russian film about the Russian Afghan war on TV called 9 Rota, or 9th Company.
You actually saw this when it first came out back in 2005 or thereabouts, but settled in to watch it anyway as you remembered it as being quite good, and in any case [...]
On the refuge of scoundrels.
Posted in Alonso, Britain, F1, Fernando Alonso, Formula 1, Hamilton, James Allen, Language, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Patriotism, Russia, Russian, The Rest of the World, Very Fast Cars, Few Women. Who Drive., War on August 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
As a fan of formula one, your years in Russia were a bit frustrating.
It’s true that the races were generally available on one of the terrestrial channels, although it always seemed to take a few races for a deal for the TV rights to be struck. Missing the opening of the season every year and [...]
On falling scales.
Posted in Britain, Education, Health, Patriotism, War on March 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So you decided you’d better do something towards researching current conditions for armed forces veterans as a result of the ’support the troops’ project described here.
And there you are doing the absolute minimum by rootling around the Ministry of Defence website, when you discover that there is, in fact, a Veterans’ Day. And there has been [...]
On supporting the troops.
Posted in Blogging, Britain, Culture Shock, Morality, Patriotism, Russia, The Rest of the World, The USA, War on March 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A chap called Hobgoblin, who you came to via Charlotte and Aphra Behn’s postings on the topic, has requested movingly and persuasively that people blog about what it means to support the troops. This seems like an admirable project, even if it didn’t run headlong into your latest train of thought, so here goes.
It’s not something you feel you [...]
On humanity.
Posted in Books, Britain, Morality, Patriotism, Religion, Russia, The Rest of the World, The USA, War on March 3, 2007 | 8 Comments »
So there you are about to recommend a book in a thread as a result of Midnight Jester’s very thoughtful and sensible post on the nature of responsibility in war. Suddenly you realise that you have done this so frequently over the last few years that rather than wear out the keyboard and encourage people to read it one at [...]
On the rewards of persistence.
Posted in Marriage, Public Transport, Religion, Russia, War on October 13, 2006 | 8 Comments »
After turning on the TV, the second thing you and B did in Moscow was visit B’s newlywed friend A and his bride. Which was a lot of fun.
About halfway through the evening, A said, giggling, “Do you remember the time we went to the monestary?”
Sure do:
The social call to B’s monk at his monestary had [...]
On rapscallion kings.
Posted in Britain, Monarchy, Russia, Teenagers, War on June 29, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The other form of rebellion you employed as a teen was to be longwindedly anti-monarchy.
Not violently. Good grief, no. But it probably wasn’t a good idea to get stuck in your vicinity at, say, a party just after mentioning the M word. Not unless you didn’t mind being pushed into a corner and declaimed at [...]
On St Petersburg.
Posted in Art, Monarchy, Religion, Russia, Sightseeing, War on June 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve just said goodbye to the cousin from St Petersburg. Her visit meant you got in some Proper Sightseeing, and reminded you of the time you stayed with her in her home town. Here’s what you wrote:
2003 marks the year when Peter I stood in the middle of a mosquito-infested swamp he had just wrested [...]
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