31 years ago today, Command & Conquer was released. GDI vs. Nod. Tiberium fields. Base building. FMV mission briefings. And hours spent hearing “construction complete.” Command & Conquer didn’t just become a PC classic, it helped define what real-time strategy would become. One of the greatest eras of PC gaming was just getting started.

On ABC AM this morning. Two brothers, going to the Grand Final. One flying in from the UK - London-Melbourne return: $1,800. (AUD, not pounds) One flying in from Perth. Perth-Melbourne return: $2,400. Tell me again how the airlines don't utterly screw anyone outside of Victoria who want to go to the grand final. This is an absolute rort when it's cheaper to fly halfway across the world to see a game than it is to fly across the country. #AFLGrandFinal

If somebody wrote a book or filmed a movie, it would flop. Nobody would believe it. This is the saga of the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus. Thirty years of warnings, a corruption scandal, a protested contest, a fixed-price contract that blew a hole in Boeing, Category I defects on delivery day, two boom failures — including one that snapped off an F-22 and fell into the Atlantic — and we still have not replaced even half the KC-135 fleet. The line is running about 15 a year. Readiness is still in the 60s. You don’t cross the Pacific on a 62-percent of a tanker. (Photo credit: Boeing photo illustration, Neg. #: MCF10-015)

tying britain's wealth to property was one of the biggest mistakes we made. stop building homes and of course prices inflate. then we called the inflation "wealth" and spent 30 years protecting it. so now we've got pensioners sitting in £600k semis on £12k a year, and 30 year olds on £80k who can't buy one. everyone's rich on paper and nobody's got any money. the house you live in should never have been your primary investment asset. it's now people's inheritance, pension, wealth. but it was the easiest way for a country to feel rich without building anything.

🔥🛢️One of the most incredible sequences from today’s attack on Moscow: a Ukrainian MICH-2000 long-range strike drone pushes through a wall of Russian air-defense fire and successfully reaches the Moscow Oil Refinery grounds. For a long time, the MICH-2000 was one of Ukraine’s most secretive long-range strike drones, kept under strict OPSEC and operated exclusively by the SSU.

Unemployment rate for people with post-secondary school education aged 18-24 in Asia, Australia and a rest of the world average. Chart: IMF

SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 parts, including a canopy, wound up in Hong Kong — sparking an investigation on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key components of the highly-classified program. with @marksatter politico.com/news/2026/09/18…

Exclusive An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & @ZcohenCNN cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…

Kim Jong Un’s sister says only ‘idiots’ believe North Korea will give up nukes bit.ly/4AmUQ6I