Squander Two

[There are a few mild spoilers in this. They were all either in their respective films' trailers or in their first few minutes or are frankly trivial and don't matter, so nothing major. Don't read if you don't want to risk it.]
Superman is the dullest of all superheroes. He's just too damn super, forcing the writers to come up with yet another way for a bad guy to get hold of some of the frankly implausible amounts of weaponized kryptonite that are lying around, again and again...

The problem with Fascism is not political.
There's been a lot of debate (well, "debate") lately about whether it's OK to punch Nazis, because apparently that's the kind of world we live in now. Those lovely people in Antifa, of course, say that it is — and, helpfully, define "Nazi" as "anyone...

I've seen a lot of claims that what happened yesterday in Manchester represents some sort of new low.
It doesn't.
Mark Steyn wrote this in 2004, after Beslan:

Brendan O'Neill, a man who usually talks a great deal of sense, has ceased to do so:
Corbyn and the IRA: an infantile scandal
O'Neill has been saying for months that one of the great things about Brexit is that, now our political class are having their scapegoat taken away, our politics is now much more about proper issues that matter. And he's right about that. But now he...