Very telling I think in that riot footage that the people at the front of the crowd are the keenest to get in the police's face, but don't want to fight - the push clearly comes from behind.

You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like.

I wonder if the government's going to respond to this year's far right provocations by cracking down on rioting like they did with Southport two years ago, or by placidly rolling over, like they did a year ago in the face of the flag intimidation campaign.

My current AI peeve; reading digitised archival documents as PDFs while Acrobat constantly offers to 'summarise' them for me. No! I need to look at the page with my human eyes and think about what it says with my human brain.

I reckon HMS Belfast could take it in a fight. londonist.com/london/thing...

Saw a bolt of lightning in the distance a moment ago. Now torrential rain and rolling thunder.

This is disgusting and disgraceful.

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Appeasement is bad. We should never have let the bond markets invade Czechoslovakia.

Have launched Operation Tire Out The Four-Year-Old by taking him to #IWMDuxford. I'm confident that it'll be at least 80 or 90% successful, just like Operation Market Garden.

Twinned with Sphincter.

Have launched Operation Tire Out The Four-Year-Old by taking him to #IWMDuxford. I'm confident that it'll be at least 80 or 90% successful, just like Operation Market Garden.

Started playing #MetroidProme4 on #Switch2. Early days, but gorgeous environments so far and it's scratching that Metroid Prime itch not felt since the remaster of the original in 2023. #gaming

As the battle of Caen raged, British Army concert parties entertained British paratroopers and patients in medical areas. The Army's own Stars in Battledress landed in Normandy on 14 June - includes some great APU IWM footage! #skystorians newsletter.mattheweaton.co.uk/p/entertainm...

Not quite the acrid stench of cordite, but the next best thing.

Perhaps Andy Burnham should have taken a penalty.

Flower arranging by the multitalented Mrs K has resumed.

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Reminded of the existence of this marvellous bit of film. 1 June 1944 - British troops of No.3 Commando muck about while off duty, as filmed by cameraman Sergeant George Laws. Less than a week later, these troops would land on Sword Beach on D-Day Film: IWM A70 24-3 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

The IWM catalogue records: 'This Service Dress jacket was worn by Pilot Officer Ronald Noel Hamilton 'Ron' Courtney of 151 Squadron, Fighter Command, when he was shot down over Dunkirk on 29 May 1940... 🧵 1/x

The IWM catalogue records: 'This Service Dress jacket was worn by Pilot Officer Ronald Noel Hamilton 'Ron' Courtney of 151 Squadron, Fighter Command, when he was shot down over Dunkirk on 29 May 1940... 🧵 1/x

Reminded of the existence of this marvellous bit of film. 1 June 1944 - British troops of No.3 Commando muck about while off duty, as filmed by cameraman Sergeant George Laws. Less than a week later, these troops would land on Sword Beach on D-Day Film: IWM A70 24-3 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

I assume he's got an important message for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

It only took one V2 to break all of the windows on the north and west sides of #IWMLondon, when a V2 fell about 200 yards away in January 1945.

Blue Origin to be renamed Red Finale.

Suspect that Question Time's real interest in AI is so that they can have an entire panel of Nigels Farage.

The right to keep a loaded and cocked shotgun and an unrestrained dog in a truck, shall not be infringed.

'Social activity preceding induction: attempted to get obliteratedly drunk'

1st: aww 2nd: oh god someone's going to have to deinstall, inspect, conserve, pack, insure/indemnify, transport, courier, and install a painting that must be worth a bazillion pounds. And then do it all again in reverse on the homeward leg.

This is appalling. In a free society speakers and audiences should be free to meet without intimidation or harassment.

The Browning .50-cal looking set to march towards a full century of blasting away at things.

Fortunately the Second World War soon intervened to close the British Museum before its staff could continue disrobing beyond the point of unsightliness.

Some almighty thunder cracks just now.

Ah, it's one of those rare occasions when the Russian fleet *actually* sighted Japanese warships.

I'm going to have to have a watch of this, so it's a bit of a pity that this review makes it sound pretty conventional.

Saw this headline and thought 'oh fuck off, Tony'. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Please god let this be true.

Listening to #TheRestIsHistory's episode on the 1915 sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania and a few #IWMcollections items came to mind. A short thread. 🧵 First up, a camisole worn by Mrs Margaret Gwyer. Image: IWM UNI 11978 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Troops Trying to Cope with the Sweltering Heat, 'Convoy' series, 1941-42. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2100)

'Female helpers washing up after a children's midday meal at a canteen, Bearsted Kent.' Photo: Horace Nicholls #WW1 Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

A pet peeve - we're seeing more of these stories as the wartime generation reach their 100th birthdays and later. But they often give no information about people's actual service. Like this; in what regiment or corps? In what theatre? In what year?

Timothy Taylor's Landlord is the best English pale ale in wide distribution. Discuss. 🍺🍻

A nice story of a detectorist trying to return a cigarette case to the owner's family. Interestingly, the original owner was a British soldier of 1/5th Welch Regiment, killed on D-Day, but his cigarette case turned up in a field south of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Achieve evaporative cooling by tipping your drink over your head.

Today is one of those days when my conservatory achieves its true vocation and turns into an industrial furnace.

Sorry, no. Unless you joined the staff before the establishment of the Department of War Studies in 1962 you have no grounds to complain. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Pre-air conditioning my car before getting in, in compliance with the Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002. Feels like the kind of luxury that will eventually have to be illegal under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

Pre-air conditioning my car before getting in. Feels like the kind of luxury that will eventually have to be illegal.

Radical thought, but I think films should make sense even if you haven't seen some TV show or other.

I really don't care if Bluesky is a bubble. I left twitter because it was obvious that Elon Musk was fomenting civil unrest in my country and I didn't want him to profit even a cent from my posting.