Getting there is the battle — Valentine was barely adequate… but, as a barely adequate tank that fitted into the limitations of the British wartime economy it was close to a piece of genius. In design terms it was a retrograde step, a 1938 tank thrown into war in 1940 because it could be built with…

A read-along podcast to Iain M Banks’ Culture novels. — Hey there folks and welcome to my attempt to explain this project. The Culture books podcast A read-along discussion and guide to The Culture series of books by Iain M. Banks. Each episode matches a chapter…culturebooks.libsyn.com These books are immensely fun to read, and we hope this podcast will capture some of that fun, as well as bringing you a sense of companionship when we hit one of those “what the hell was that”…

Why it’s not as dumb as it sounds — So yesterday the Australian Government tried to throw a dead cat on the table to distract from the Novak debacle, by announcing it was buying a bunch of tanks. The Novak debacle had begun life as a dead cat to distract from the miserable collapse of the covid testing system…

Christian Kerr has died. For years around the turn of the millennia his alter ego Hillary Bray set afire the hearts of straight white politically inclined men by writing about the power struggles at the heart of the Liberal party from the perspective of a young but well connected conservative…

Episode 44 of Every Naval Battle in History. In this episode we’re exploring the second Roman victory at sea of 190BCE, the Battle of Myonessus fought by the fleet of the Roman Republic with their allies Rhodes and Pergamon, against the Seleucid Empire.

In 190 BCE the Seleucid Empire (A Greek successor state to Alexander’s empire based largely on the old Persian Empire) fought two major battles at sea against the Romans and their Greek allies. The first of these was fought at the mouth of the Eurymedon River (in modern day…

A Soviet Tragedy So this is a sad story, but one worth telling as I can’t find anyone else who’s put these pieces together in English online. In my spare time I make a podcast about tanks. One thing that kept coming across every time we were talking about Russian…

Tales of a veteran, of very moderate success, in the pods — So you’re thinking about doing a podcast? Your friends think you’re hilarious and you’ve really got something to say? Got some mad banter with your mates and it’s time to ride that show to fame and fortune? OK well have I got some advice for you… DO IT! But do…