www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

Why is Caroline Bingley so unpleasant to Mary? #theotherbennettsister

TWO RONNIES FEEDLINE KLAXON

The Other Bennett Sister is an absolute delight. I especially like Mr Collins depicted beyond the usual figure of mock and scorn.

A life of Napoleon's Bravest of the Brave. The barrel cooper's son who rose from private soldier to Marshal of France who ended his life as a condemned traitor in front of a firing squad.

Trump called for aid. Japan has answered.

Jane Lapotaire, actress who stunned the West End and Broadway as Edith Piaf www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8835d65... She played a thinly disguised Helena Kennedy KC in the 1980s BBC drama about radical lawyers Blind Justice @davidallengreen.bsky.social

A thorough going bastard.

My piece on Marshal Ney for Aspects of History magazine.

Government’s response to Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban was ‘clumsy’, say MPs

Rather a daft piece. The answer is no, unless something emerges that we don’t yet know about. The piece tries to speculate about what that might be, but doesn’t get far. Much as I know this won’t please Bluesky, a disproportionately republican audience: I think it could well make him more popular.

Writing Fall From Glory was a very pleasurable experience.

Aspects of History magazine are running a promotion for my book 'Marshal Ney: Fall From Glory' It is also available on Amazon in kindle and in paperback.

I am going to the perhaps unwise task of taking on two legal titans simultaneously. But I feel both @davidallengreen.bsky.social and @danneidle.bsky.social are seeing the offence of misconduct in public office as more complicated than it actually is. (Breathes deeply!) /1

The plot for a future comedy film on Netflix.

Interested in the Napoleonic Wars? Read my book on Marshal Ney, Napoleon's Bravest of the Brave.

#KeithChegwin stars in the Children's Film Foundation family film... 🏹 ROBIN HOOD JUNIOR (1975) 6:35am with #MandyTulloch family drama #TPTVsubtitles

A man tries to get his dog to drop its ball so he can throw it again. The dog leans away with all of its legs, ball clamped between its teeth. Man: This isn’t how it works Craig.

Night shift sights.

Extremely interesting article and take on a complex area of law, covering freedom v privacy with sides of harassment and harm. The extent to which an individual should be restricted from filming or taking photos in a public place is complex. The sheer volume of cameras is problem one. /1

I once worked with a colleague who reveled in sulphuric farts. Until one day.......

Facebook historical AI is a hoot.

The Special Relationship.

Monday.

In an amazing coup, Reform have a star defector, the self-described most popular politician in Britain! It's... hang on, have I got this right... Nadhim Zahawi? thecritic.co.uk/zaha...

Conquest’s Second Law tells us to treat any bureaucracy as if controlled by a cabal of its enemies. I know it’s supposed to be a joke, but if you were a hostile nation trying to inflame British streets, this is exactly what you’d dream of doing.

BBC News - Fake admiral admits dressing as navy official at Remembrance Sunday event in Llandudno - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"In several important respects, though – political; moral; in which interests he was happy to fight, and which he kowtowed before – Ernest Marples was both cause and symptom of a country about to get onto the wrong track...." Wrote for the I Paper about one of the villains of 1960s transport policy