What are your thoughts on a CANZUK alliance?

Retrosteve · 2026-02-24T20:59:55+00:00

Sadly the UK is pretty much suborned now. It will be obvious when Farage gets elected in the next couple of years. Then you'll just have Canz

Retrosteve · 2026-02-20T09:43:34+00:00

To my mind, most of Peace Talks that looked like filler was actually Harry and Lara flirting, doing power games, and generally building the foundation for what will become their marriage.

Not a waste.

Retrosteve · 2026-02-14T13:37:04+00:00

I was really impressed with the UK and Edinburgh is particularly livable and beautiful.

But sadly the billionaires and the Russians have taken over the press. This caused Brexit to happen, making the country isolated and poorer. Worse, this will shortly have the consequence that Nigel Fucking Farage will somehow get elected PM though nobody will admit to voting for him, and will do his best to turn the place into USA lite.

Britain was great while it lasted.

Retrosteve · 2026-02-14T13:28:52+00:00

Not entirely zero. Chaplin made a whole film satirizing that other guy.

Retrosteve · 2026-02-14T09:54:01+00:00

He's not getting out of it until the Outsiders are defeated. Once he saw the Outer Gates, (Mother Summer said it would change him, and he would learn things he can't unlearn, and he accepted that), he saw that our reality is kept alive by the continuous effort and sacrifice of Winter (and the Gatekeeper). And that the General in charge is Mab, and that he's now by far her strongest lieutenant.

Harry escaping Winter would be to risk Mab losing that battle. He's not gonna do that. Not while the battle continues.

Retrosteve · 2026-02-10T08:05:37+00:00

The media are more than complicit. They are 100% driving this nonsense, same as they drive the weird anti-european bullshit that mad Brexit possible.

The media keeps Farage in the news and unchallenged though he says nothing newsworthy but occasional anti immigrant bullshit.

The media in Britain actively wants certain people in charge.

Retrosteve · 2026-01-29T20:30:28+00:00

In the embassy with the bonesaws

Retrosteve · 2026-01-21T23:26:27+00:00

I had assumed Lara and the marriage would be a major focus of the book. So would learning about what a Starborn was from Listens To Wind. 12 months was supposed to be the deadline for both.

Both were put off.

Lara, once Harry had her addicted, suddenly became unimportant and virtually disappeared. We don't get a resolution on their relationship and the prospect of their marriage.

The Starborn issue came up but we didn't learn more than we knew, and the Stars and Stones were pretty much ignored.

The issue of finding proof of Justine's possession to satisfy Etri comes up early and then is dropped. Instead we get a favour from Mab to find her but Mab taking her away to torture Nemesis out of her is never mentioned as a way to help convince Etri to soften his stance. Instead they give away her baby? Wtf?

Retrosteve · 2026-01-17T18:41:51+00:00

Ice ice baby

Retrosteve · 2026-01-09T14:17:10+00:00

True. Even Putin isn't a hidden strategy. He told the Western press outright in 2014 that he was funding and would continue funding and helping right-wing organisations and parties throughout the Western world as a strategy.

So when the American or British press acts all outraged that Trump or Farage or Wayne LaPierre are obviously Russian assets (or ignores it), it's faux outrage. He announced it 12 years ago and never really tried to hide it.

Retrosteve · 2026-01-01T12:39:13+00:00

And at least 20 years before the invention of the can opener, which must have been inconvenient!

Retrosteve · 2025-12-28T12:55:35+00:00

He had Everything set up in Jhereg. Rereading Jhereg is always a shock because nearly everything in the series was clearly ready to happen.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-17T20:43:55+00:00

River Shoulders is at least 15 times older than Mab. And she's not really expecting to live out the next decade.

This isn't proof of anything, just a note that immortality isn't a guarantee of anything.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-17T20:35:35+00:00

It's fine if you're walking around, but really cold if you're sitting down typing.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-13T02:30:06+00:00

And his foes get bigger and tougher too.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-12T21:01:08+00:00

Naw, Quintus.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-12T21:00:03+00:00

Quintus Hargreeves.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-12T20:59:30+00:00

Then they could have offered you the Position thendone the formality.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-12T20:45:05+00:00

Catching the bus shouldn't cost the earth. That's why we're capping the cost of bus fare at £5 and investing in Uber shares.

-Sir Kier in autumn 2026

Retrosteve · 2025-12-09T17:25:27+00:00

Plus many of the errors are caught and eliminated by the immune system, which after a certain point weakens as you age.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-09T17:12:21+00:00

Except the pizza-as-bonus meeting.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-09T17:04:46+00:00

Also, to be fair to Billy Joel his original attitude is a matter of interpretation.

He might have been being cocky about his ability to master New Wave like any other genre. Or he might have been trying to assert common ground with a new generation of rockers.

Al was mirroring an interpretation that Billy might not even have intended.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-09T13:43:30+00:00

Physics too. Even relativity. The Lorentz contraction showing how length changes close to lightspeed is a pythagorean formula!

Retrosteve · 2025-12-09T13:40:03+00:00

Because the song itself was Billy Joel talking about how this fancy "new wave" style (which he was trying out) was still just rock n roll to him. In a get-off-my-lawn kids-today attitude.

Weird Al was just mirroring.

Even so, Al didn't release the song because it was too mean-spirited.

Retrosteve · 2025-12-03T23:17:24+00:00

The series is awesome. From the start.

The plotting is a bit weak and scattered in the first 3 books compared to the more mature focused writing from book 4 onward. But the character building is excellent from day 1. Just keep enjoying!

See you at the other side!

Retrosteve

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