“First enrage your opponent. Then kill their leaders. Destabilise their governments. Crush their military power and reach. Stop and confiscate their funds. Copy and modify victory, deflect force, reject defeat and always counter-strike. Defeat utterly then rebuild. Repeat.

“While grooving on the previous, state the facts in clear, simple terms repeatedly and loudly and always at the time. Never let big lies go unanswered. Never apologise for the facts. Always have a sense of humour and style. Understand that the free Western Canon is a small bright light in the long dark tunnel of human history.”

Sadly, being a guitar playing blogger, the Colonel Neville Doctrine is not currently available per se. But I do make a nice warm chicken salad and people rave about how neatly I fold my tea towels.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst, are full of passionate intensity”. -William Butler Yeats

The trouble with a standard out of contest and dull reading of the classic Yeats quote bit, is that it appears to be balls in a lot of ways, and a rather lose-lose conundrum if you follow it as any kind of non-plan of non-action. If you’re a jellyfish putz prostrated with confusion on the floor, you’re good! Get off your arse with conviction and ipso facto, ya bad?

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