Shire Network News is back within a week of the first one foir 2010 being put up! Didn't think we meant it when we said we'd be returning to a weekly format, did you?

 

This week the Anglosphere's hardest-hitting political podcast returns to the dark days of the 1940s and wonders what would have happened if today's soft-cock politicians and thinkers had been in charge of the United States. The results are about as unpleasant as...well, as reading the news today I suppose. Indulging you enemies and kicking your allies square in the yarbles - how do you think that's likely to work out in the end. Read some history people, with special reference to the Byzantine Empire's alliances of convenience with the Muslims against the Latin Crusaders, and how well that paid off for them. Check out those minarets currently flanking the Haigia Sophia in Constantinople and draw your own conclusions. Yes, we said Constantinople, please e-mail the subsequent fatwas directly to our lawyers.

 

New presenter Murray introduces you Americans who are about to enter the wonderful world of state-funded health care to the concept of the "waiting list", discusses the definition of the word "spar-lash" in relation to Russian violations of UK airspace (the enemy is always probing people, never forget that, what happened when an adult rescued a schoolchild from up a tree (this is he UK we're talking about, so you can probably work out what's coming), why you can't get a baconburger in certain UK KFC's anymore (you already know why, lets be honest), and why Norwegians aren't massively popular in New Zealand just at the moment. And Doug Payton is along to add his voice to the many, many commentators unhappy at the US lurch towards Euroweenism.

 

The new presenter, Murray, can be found here (swearing encouraged) and here (less swearing, more trebuchets).