JUSTICE FOR MARLER!!!!

The Gentile one is nearly 1,500 pages!

Some of us have been calling you that for ages

The Axis had many problems in their logistics chain to North Africa. Port capacity wasn't really one of them.

The early postwar strategic context for Italy has a key element of moving closer to the US. Not just against the Cold War eastern bloc but also partly as opposed to say Britain. Worth remembering eg the British oppose Italy being a founder member of NATO, but they’re overruled by the US.

A key postwar claim of Fioravanzo (and others like Di Sambuy) is that the naval strategy was sufficiently successful to fight the Allies to a stalemate until Torch (or maybe even Husky), ie until US intervention in the theatre. Obviously this is partly about preserving reputations but also…

As you might expect, I agree with Fabio’s comments but will add one thing. The early Cold War context in which Fioravanzo and others write their postwar claims is important too. Worth noting that as well as eg writing some of the official histories Fioravanzo writes something for USNI Proceedings

Ah ok, thanks. Best of luck for your research trip!

Is that at the Archivio di Stato di Trento? If so, may I ask how you found the booking proces?

The biggest own goal was explicitly ruling out core tax rises during election campaign imv. Doing so might have nabbed them a few more seats on the fringes but the cost of breaking a central pledge will be much bigger. Also felt pretty obvious to me that rises would probably be needed at some point

Also Columbia Records

Have you snuck up many Welsh flags around town?

In rugby terms, I think that reselecting Lecornu is the equivalent of holding the ball up over your own try line. You didn’t concede a try, but you’re going to have to kick possession away again in a moment.

Yeah same, has started to usurp Spidey to some extent here but again the songs are decent so again no complaints

‘Super hero on the beat’ is a classic. Good lyrics

The broader Spidey playlist is on a lot at our place/in the car at the moment and I genuinely don’t mind it. Some catchy songs. Take the small wins wherever you can find them I guess

Lots of it is very good but I’m not sure I could bring myself to eat Casu martzu.

I was more just curious why the lines appear to converge there

Does this map centre on Sardinia? Does that mean Sardinian food is in every category?