FACT OF THE DAY. 14 March 1879. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. He was one of the greatest physicists of all time. He’s widely known for developing the theory of relativity and for the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

They are right. The chapter I am working on right now has 50 footnotes so far and yes, it's very tedious. :-)

Framing the First World War explores how perceptions shaped military decisions. On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lqHGPVUv7NS0ykwvb4Xgt Learn more: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640560/ #WorldWarI #MilitaryHistory #UpKansas @mpmfinch.bsky.social @draefox.bsky.social

From a man who knows the details:

"No quarter, no mercy for our enemies" is an admission of war crimes.

WTF

In shock news, the US Secretary of War doesn’t understand war.

I've just written to @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. This is only the 2nd letter that I have written to a national publication. The first was in December 1995 to @autocarofficial.bsky.social (sent by email while deployed in the Balkans). It was pretty frivolous but they very kindly published it.

Toda and shukran @gershonbaskin.bsky.social

I am in Bath. One of the best weather forecasts for me is to look towards @brunelsbridge.bsky.social. If I can't see it I am probably going to get rained on pretty soon.

Tories arguing that Churchill should be on banknotes rather than Otters, because of WW2, are showing their ignorance. Here's a photo of an Otter participating in the fighting in Italy. I don't see Churchill in this photo.

Happy Friday comrades.

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like. And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

Liar liar liar.

This man is SACEUR. That’s not a post/person to be ignored.

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

Bugger.

What did Dr Murrison MP do about female body armour when he was an MOD Minister? Absolutely nothing!

Incredible self-own from the US president here, suggesting he's unable to keep his streets safe, even in comparison to the streets of a country he is presently bombing.

Waltz is the US's Ambassador to the UN..........

Can anyone explain to me why SWR tells me that a "Seat reservation is mandatory for this journey" when: a. Seat reservations are no mandatory (thus making their statement a lie). b. Seats cannot be reserved (thus proving by having that warning statement that they are incompetent).

Yes, I know that there are much more important things going on, but the thing that is really annoying me right now are the people (journos and presenters and commentators) who keep saying Straits of Hormooooze and Hizbullah. Please please will someone have a word with them.

I know that Wiltshire and Dorset are next door to Somerset, and I also know that when it comes to Peers there are probably more important issues to deal with, but as a start I think that all the Dukes (30) and Earls (189!) and Marquesses (34) must have to live in the place that is in their title.

Apart from the sovereignty issue, that's about 22% of annual US production of Tomahawks flying past there. This isn't a sustainable campaign.

In news that really isn't news because we have all known this for a long long time...........

Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals, after the Conservative party call the Bank of England's decision to put British wildlife on our banknotes "deeply depressing"

My rough timeline: If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn. If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption. If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

I thought Trump said they had sent the Iranian Navy to the bottom of the sea already? 🤔

Badenoch has started PMQ’s by punching herself squarely in the face. She’s heroically fucking stupid

Hegseth is confusing activity with achievement. Giving us the (huge) number of bombs that have been dropped is meaningless in strategic/campaign terms.

Stop it people. It’s not the Straits of Hormoooze.

Our hotel manager in Lisbon, puzzled face: ‘Please tell me, why do people in Britain like Mr Farage?’

As we have all been saying. There is no strategy. Just bombs and missiles.

11 March 1918 Captain Albert Evelyn Alderson 3 Bn The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) died when he accidently drowned. He was buried in the Struma Military Cemetery, Greece. Albert is remembered on the War Memorial St Peter & St Paul Church Minnis Lane, River. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Bad translation here - obviously it wasn’t a “flying bomb” (a VI/ doodlebug/ precursor of the cruise missile type of munition) because we didn’t use them. The German will have been “Fliegerbombe”, which means “bomb dropped by plane”, as opposed to a parachute mine.

11 March 1918 Captain Hardic Grey Ashton of 25 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps died from wounds and was buried in the Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, France. Hardic was 23. Hardic is remembered on the University of Manchester Memorial where he had been a medical student #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

11 March 1915 Lt William Munro Ross 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. William was 22. William is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social and Eton College #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Iran is called the greatest terrorist in the world. But actually I think you will find the greatest terrorist in the world did this...

Ballpark? This tells me that they don’t give a fig about their service personnel.

Sharpest bit of BBC journalism I have heard in a long time newsreader: how long will it take HMS Dragon to get to Cyprus Correspondent: it depends how fast it goes 🙄

Smile, we got some of our servicemen killed. Just when I think the can't get any worse they prove me wrong. For casual visitors, Waitman is the messenger here, please don't' shoot him!

These people are utterly bonkers. Yet people will still vote for them.

Did anyone challenge this? Or perhaps ask why the US sold T’hawks to Iran?

When did the Straits of Hormuz become the Straits of Hormoooze?

Who the scrambled eggs voted for this idiot…

There really are some very horrid people out there.

How many people are going to challenge him on any of this?