A Quite Surprising Story of another 'Teesside Pioneer' www.talesfrommyshed.com/the-war.../a...

I have launched my first attempt at a website covering local and military history of my area in Great Britain... www.talesfrommyshed.com

Here is the second part of the Teesside Pioneers history from my YouTube channel, hope you like it. Part 1 is also below if you have not seen it too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_d...

I have just posted on my substack, about my uncle Arthur Allport and his exploits during WW2...check it out here substack.com/home/post/p-...

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

Seems that Putin has instructed Farage to lay low for a while.

A look back to the 1980's... substack.com/home/post/p-...

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick” Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

The Old Barbed Wire 1418research.substack.com?r=6mxvji&utm...

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

From Middlesbrough via Gosforth, Cannock Chase, Aldershot, to France with 40th Div. Dug trenches and made roads until 15 Ravine then pain in Bourlon Wood, final tragedy on the Lys in 1918...cos my 'Grandad was a Green 'Oward' with the 12th(S)Bn. Yorkshire Regt.(Teesside Pioneers)...

talesfrommyshed.wordpress.com A new post tonight…check it out you might enjoy it…

Labour are in a very difficult position. MSM has been very effective platforming Reform to allow them to spout their anti immigration rhetoric virtually unchallenged by statistical and factual information. Until we have serious press reform, this will continue. How to combat them effectively? Erm 🤔

With Nigel Farage and Reform UK again calling for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights here is a reminder of why joining Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR is a very very very bad idea youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...

Apple to face court over claims it overcharged UK users on App Store

Maybe now we will see Starmer *do* something about it for a change? 1) Stop all government updates on Twitter X 2) Ban all foreign donations to UK political parties. All donors must be UK taxpayers. 3) Legislate that all lobbyists must publicly publish their donors (eg Taxpayers Alliance).

The uber-aggressive bizarreness continues. This is straight-up hostility against British democracy.

Nine years today since I was an emergency admission to hospital. Turened out a tumour was destroying two vertebrae. NHS killed and removed tumour, installed metalwork so my spine would not collapse, and has monitored me ever since. #UHCW #SWFT #NHS #grateful

Starmer: "I think only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable for the things that have been said about Jess Philips without all political parties and the leader of the opposition to call it out in terms...to condemn it..."

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

Perfectly put.

Lee Anderson on his way to work this morning.

How many arrests?

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

Gary’s Substack gguess.substack.com?r=4vn2kf&utm...

It makes me very sad to see you take joy from this or any violence. You are better than that. The stewardship of democracy needs us all to listen to our better angels and be nonviolent and well read active advocates. Killing CEOs won’t end in better healthcare.

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.

For all the trolls swarming around me I’m not Australian (he’s the short guy), I’m also not a champagne socialist, I grew up on a council estate, left school with no qualifications, studied O’levels at night, worked my way through law school & when not holding power to account drink beer. Cheers🍺

"Like many other parts of the world, the UK is in the firm grip of an epidemic of disinformation and misinformation" A good list of origins of the problem - and tools we need to combat it.

Introducing Autoblue, my new WordPress plugin for Bluesky! 🦋 Autoblue will be available for download later this week, and allows you to automatically share your WordPress posts to Bluesky, and display likes and replies from Bluesky on your site. autoblue.cc (more in thread 🧵)

@peterhart.bsky.social Hi Pete welcome from the dark side…

Can never understand the logic of "slippery slope" arguments when we have a system where the House of Commons decides nearly everything. It's only a slippery slope if in the future the Commons changes its mind on something- which guess what, it can do at any time.

“Killing children is wrong.” A four word sentence that sums up what’s blurred behind the smears An interesting read via Gary Lineker (who doesn’t seem to be on here yet?) www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

RIP John Prescott.

You can’t beat a good cemetery for local history!

Greetings UK farmers!! The man on the left bought a farm to avoid tax, and helped to push up land prices as a result. The man on the right was a prime mover of Brexit - a major drain on the farming economy. They are not your friends. I said… THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!!

I heard that Andrew Tate tried to come stretch his awkward wings here and got banned in just one day. Sorry, hate has no home here. Stay in the bad place, thanks.

In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks

The destruction of the Cloth Hall in Ypres between 1914 & 1918 #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers #history

The Government has this morning defended winter fuel payment cuts after DWP admits it will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty

The Onion. 👏😂

Love @carolvorderman.bsky.social She is an absolute star

‘Donald Trump’s Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever’ Me for Byline Times.

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day. Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

Standby for launch of major new section at The Long Long Trail: researching soldiers of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Should be this side of Christmas.

@airpowerhistory.bsky.social Lying a long way from home...Arthur Cecil Doucet, killed whilst training at No2 Defensive Flying School, Marske By The Sea, Yorkshire...Enlisted 'Mount Carmel, Quebec'...

A long way from home...Flight Lieutenant Arthur Cecil Doucet, Enlisted in Canada and travelled to England, training at N02 Defensive Fighter School, Marske By The Sea, Yorkshire. He died in a flying accident and Rests in the churchyard of St Germaine, on the clifftop overlooking the Tees Bay...#WW1