Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 50

I think I've got the new variant edition

Headache, bad sleep, coughing, snivels, I think I caught it while doing my public defendant duties.

Yes, I’m not just a swashbuckling IP lawyer but also practise criminal law for indigent defendants.

My mood is off because of this.

Twitter is just a shite bucket of Nazis.

Substack is little better with its funding of Hananias.

The war is grinding.

Writing is grinding.

NATO/EU is letting Ukraine bleed out. Hungary, Austria and half of Germany are cheering the Russians on.

Couldn’t happen to a worse dynasty

Mood music

Blast from the past

What the analysts and writers should have been studying in 2022. Not their COIN nonsense. Now Russian air power is quite different in 2022 than it was in 1988. But the mix of resources then affects what is happening now, on both sides.

Still a classic

Budd of the week