Of all the things I don't care much about this week, the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury comes top of the list.

Morning.

Good. Now proceed to the criminal convictions. news.sky.com/story/firm-l...

This is so funny. Google AI missing the fact that virtually all 37 CCS personnel were taken POW on 28 May 1918 and held at Langensalza. Artificial? True. Intelligence? Nah. #ww1 #genealogy

Oh, not the National Archives website playing up AGAIN

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Prospective client wanting me to research a soldier. "I need it by Wednesday". Sigh. A Wednesday in about four weeks time, maybe.

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Anyone surprised? “Former Welsh leader of Reform has pleaded guilty to bribery charges”. Such a patriot he took money to talk pro-Russian propaganda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A national digital ID card fully implemented and working flawlessly by the next General Election? Not a chance. (a) Because we have no national data infrastructure worth the name, (b) because they will outsource it to incompetents, (c) they will faint when they see the price.

Why is BBC spending our licence money on this? Nothing whatever to do with UK. Less than nothing. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8... BBC Verify Live: What we know about the suspect in the ICE facility shooting in Dallas - BBC News

I'm no fan of the ScotlandsPeople website but this ruling is just appalling. #genealogy

Had completely forgotten that I had this. Sent from a relative in Australia years ago. Maybe 100 photos and most interesting. Dated 1927. #milhist #genealogy

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

For those who still don't believe there are bot-farms and bot-farmers manipulating social media ...

In 1964, a British officer I am studying who died in May 1918 and was buried in the French National Cemetery at Epernay in Champagne was, with many others, exhumed and moved almost 200 miles to Terlincthun on the English Channel coast. I think thats a terrible shame. #ww1 #genealogy

#CovidContracts If you missed this, you should really try to watch The Tory government, in all its "glory," Incompetence, corruption, and cronyism www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Home from my respite week on Beverley. Cracking town. Will definitely return one day.

Drove a lot of miles around East Yorkshire this week. Barely a flag of any sort to be seen, except, for some reason, in the village of Wetwang. I leave you to draw your own conclusion.

First item on news: deportation of a single asylum seeker. By plane. Accompanied by three officials. A) country has lost its marbles, and B) the possibility of a long weekend in Paris had nothing to do with three going.

"Warm relations" with a tyrant. This is appeasement. And it will not end well for UK. BBC News - Sarah Smith: Trump visit showed UK's warm relations - and limited influence www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had an afternoon at Beverley races today. Not something I do at all often. Excellent place with wonderful views. And I came out £100 up, so I count that as a good day! Still can't figure out why some people dress like they're at a cocktail party. 1/2

Reform UK were elected on promises of unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Now Leicestershire is seeing the consequences… Reform UK presses Government for more Leicestershire cash amid ‘mission impossible’ claims www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/politic...

Well, as I finally got to see their memorial a few days ago, I thought it was timely to add a piece to the Long, Long Trail about the Wagoners Special Reserve. See "Who were the Wolds Wagoners?" at www.longlongtrail.co.uk/wolds-wagone...

Russia Today was thrown out of the UK because the level of misinformation it peddled was a danger to UK democracy. However, it never called for the overthrow of the UK government. This loathsome creature and his cesspit platform should face an immediate ban.

Staying in Beverley for a week's respite. What a lovely town this is.

Staffordshire county war memorial. Victoria Park, Stafford, Staffordshire. Commemorating those from Staffordshire who gave their lives in all conflicts. #LestWeForget

Is this bloke thick or just extraordinarily naive? BBC News - Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie www.bbc.com/news/article...

Highly recommended.

Nigel Farage's main puppet master a genocidal arms profiteering Thai Zionist billionaire outed ... #SocialistSunday

Starmer's gutless silence is deafening.

Sledmere. A place I have wanted to visit for years. Finally! #ww1 #genealogy

News broadcasters - yes, I am looking at you, BBC - please be aware that I do not give a flying f*ck about this bloke Kirk or who shot him or why. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Had cause to look at this again today. Nice piece of work, if I say so myself! www.longlongtrail.co.uk/gazetteer-of...

Thinking today of my former work colleagues in NJ and NYC and the torrid time many of them had on 9/11 and after. I was just stranded in NJ and an onlooker trying to help out, but even that was traumatic. People came together for a while. Distressing to see what's happening now.

The prime minister delivering a solemn eulogy about a contrarian YouTuber most people will never have heard of. Truly the British century of humiliation rumbles on

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder. Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

If it had your number on it ... In this instance, a Private soldier cleaning his rifle managed to shoot himself through the foot. The bullet passed through the floor to a room below, where it fatally wounded his company commander. Locon, France June 1915. #ww1 #genealogy

I see my Reform-headed county council have been wasting time discussing who should be responsible for deciding which flags should hang outside county hall. Where is Taxpayers Alliance these days?

And it's down again today. IT team doing a cracking job there.

Tonight is the 85th anniversary of so many WW1 records being destroyed. #otd #ww1 #geneaology See www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-1940-fir...

One of my now-rare trips to the National Archives today. Photographed 43 officers service records for my latest book. Some good stuff too ... an alcoholic; an MC winner who became a thief and was imprisoned; one missing man whose grave was reported found but was later lost again ... #ww1 #genealogy

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Good stuff and worth a listen. Seems that in @zackpolanski.bsky.social UK now has one party leader that will also take Farage down. About time the others stood up.