Whoops. A Royal Welsh Warrior shot an RTR Challenger 2 6 times at Castlemartin recently. 5 hit the tank(none penetrated the tank).

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On 23rd September 1925 Princess Mafalda, the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, and Philipp of Hesse, grandson of Kaiser Friedrich III and nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II were married.

According to AVM (Retd) Lester, you can't recognise Palestine without them having clear borders, an accountable government, monopoly of force, and functioning institutions. But he recognises Israel and if Palestine doesn't have clear borders then, by definition, nor does Israel.

I wouldn't want to be associated with any one of these retired officers.

In the latest episode of Trump is an c*nt and so are all his people.............

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

Today we had an inter-departmental day at work and I went to a slug model-making workshop run by one of my natural history colleagues who is an expert in slugs and snails and has made various models for the galleries. Best bit of my day! The beauty of being in a museum of mixed collections…

For another rich man’s gain In the endless quest for wealth and power They stomp us down with great disdain www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZWQ...

As Army officers, we used to talk all these hypothetical scenarios about being given unlawful and unethical orders and what you’d do. If you’re in the Navy, it’s not hypothetical anymore. You’re being told to kill people you have no legal authority to kill. You’re being told to commit murder.

I am on the GWF naughty step (again).

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Good sensible stuff from Jack Straw. emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Today in 1327 King Edward II was murdered. The story his courtiers told is that that a red hot poker was thrust up his anus. When asked for any information on the incident the A&E nurse said: “He still maintains he fell on it”.

This is the coolest man in the UK. It's not even close.

I was yesterday years old when I found out about the Athletes' Volunteer Force. Formed in 1914, there were geographic branches in a number of cities incl Exeter and Bath. They amalgamated with the Central Association of Volunteer Corps in around April 1916 to become the Central Assn Of Vol Regts.

The Reform right like the MAGA right are completely fact averse and know that they can bullshit their way to power because their followers simply don't care about truth. That's the threat this country faces, and it strikes me that our media are ill equipped to tackle it and failing us all.

Capt Edward Algernon Duff originally served in the Canadian Inf before transferring to the Tank Corps. He served in 1st Bn 1917-1919, commanding the tank Andromeda at Cambrai. In March 1919 he went to south Russia. 1/2

85 years ago today: GOC 7th Armd Div, Maj Gen O'Moore Creagh, issued a Special Order of the Day on 22 September 1940.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

"Cheers drives".

I listened to The Westminster Hour on R4 last night. One of the guests was Tory MP Alex Burghart. I looked him up this morning. In his official portrait he looks just as smug as he sounded on the radio. Horrible person.

To say that I dislike David Mencer is today's massive understatement.

Rep. Jim Himes: "Having the Defense Department kill alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is illegal...These folks are committing murder — murder defined as killing without a legal basis. I am mystified over why the rest of the chain of command is quite comfortable with it."

The UK has officially recognised a Palestinian state, as Starmer has just announced melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/09/uk-r...

In September 1925 the British Army conducted large-scale manoeuvres featuring the first major exercise for a new Experimental Mechanized Force. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9v6...

Thousands fill Paris Square and Azza Street in Jerusalem, expressing anger and demanding an end to the fighting and the return of the hostages. Credit: Eitan Salony

Two British Members of Parliament attempted to visit the occupied West Bank including Ease Jerusalem last week via the crossing from Jordan into Palestine and were denied entry by the State of Israel. One of them, who is Jewish, wrote an op-ed in the Guardian condemning this.

The @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks to choose from. Antonia Newell will be talking about the incredible Agnes Bennett, a doctor and the first female commissioned officer in the British Army. She eventually ran the Ostrovo Unit in Salonika. Ticket details 👇🏼

The 2025 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social is taking place in Bath. It aims to "highlight the importance of nature and imagination in all of our lives, in the face of the ecological crisis." So why is one of the installations held together with sing;e-use non-recyclable cable ties?

Do any of you good people got a copy of Hallie Roubenhold's Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen? If so might you look up someone in the index please?

Dutch late night TV has its take

Just ordered. #Niche

Retired USMC JAG here. Criminal liability applies to everyone in the chain of command who carries out a manifestly illegal order. The first person who refuses would be the first one who isn’t committing a crime. However, not everyone in the chain of command has access to the same information.

Tried another clip & this seems ok. Yours truly being ultra cautious on the sticks

Does this look familiar? Every week we'll share the worst pavement parking pics we get from supporters. Add your photos to our interactive map and help us find pavement parking hotspots in England 📍 act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

B80’s sound awesome btw This was the one on the Saracen Command Post sparking back to life for the first time in forever earlier this year

Some nice B80 music here - if I seem to be driving steady it’s because I have no brakes - turn uphill to stop 😂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtCh...

We might be about to find out just how supine the following institutions are about the 1st amendment 1) The media companies 2) Congress 3) The Supreme Court Likely answer? Probably (in decreasing order) very supine.

1/ If you've been itching to know how the size of the civil service has changed... we at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have you covered. I've crunched the numbers from the latest ONS data release, which you can read about here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/ci...

Blimey. I wasn’t expecting Sir Max Hastings to be speaking out and for me to be agreeing with everything he’s saying on R4.

I, for one, am very grateful to President Trump for ending the war between Aber-Baysian and Albania. Too many people had died. Both Aber-Baysianese and Albanianianians.

The Nine Questions Hanging Over The Assassination: 1. Why Was He In Sarajevo? 2. What Happened At Mayerling? 3. Did He Support The Cisleithanian Option? 4. Were The Okhrana Involved? 5. Were The Archduke's Telegrams Intercepted? 6. Was The Marriage Legal? 7. Did The Driver Take The Wrong Turning?