My latest for The Rebel: On June 16, 1779, the Spanish laid siege to Gibraltar. Yet more than 1300 days later it was still in British hands. And a very good thing to.

Britain moved somewhat ruthlessly to seize the Rock in 1704, it is true. But even then Britain was a bastion of liberty… unlike Spain. And in the darkest part of the Second World War, when the former was led by Churchill and the latter by the Nazi sympathizer Franco, the long-ago tenacity of the garrison had a pivotal impact in the survival of freedom as the UK was able to maintain vital ocean supply lines in its struggle against Hitler.

https://youtu.be/K0bvQ5g0bgo

The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rock solid"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/160616Rebel.mp3[/podcast]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12ijhAqm8ys The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, June 13, 2016"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/Ask_Professor_36.mp3[/podcast]

[podcast title="News and Views with Rob Snow, June 10"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/161010RobSnow.mp3[/podcast]

My latest for The Rebel:

Those black banners Islamic fanatics like to wave? They made their first appearance on June 9 back in 747, as part of a dreary cycle of unreasonable expectations of earthly governments, bitter disillusionment and apocalyptic revolt. And it won’t stop until Muslims find a theological justification for separating mosque and state and assigning the latter a subordinate but legitimate dignity in its own sphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6yRUb_Lzw

The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="The Rebel, June 10"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/160609Rebel.mp3[/podcast]

[podcast title="Robson's Roundup, June 10"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/160610RobsonPodcast.mp3[/podcast]

Artificial intelligence. Do we worry about it or not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmUFpFkeNg

The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, June 9"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/Ask_Professor_35.mp3[/podcast]

I was on Late Night Counsell last night with John Counsell, and below is the podcast if you missed it. [podcast title="Late Night Counsell June 7"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/160607LNC.mp3[/podcast]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oy7h9lgwv8 The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, June 6"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/June/Ask_Professor_34.mp3[/podcast]