History Scientist

@historyscientist.bsky.social

Professional scientist. I like reading books about history. Editor of the Bluesky edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. http://historybooksreview.co.uk/ https://beautyscientist.github.io/GSDIANOZAS/

Is scrapping the triple lock electoral suicide for Labour. It would be for the Tories. But I would have thought it would have just made grumpy old people who always vote Tory even grumpier. That wouldn't hurt Labour and would give me personally a laugh.

The Americans shouldn't want to fight Iran. The Americans don't want to fight Iran. But given that they are fighting them, they should be able to win. Why they aren't winning seems to me to be the most interesting question.

At the time of writing this, the Fairford incident could be anything on a spectrum from organised attack by foreign government all the way to badly chosen Tesco delivery order. But if it is an attack, it's hard not to argue that it's a legitimate military target.