This is a very thoughtful and illuminating legal assessment of that thing my guide said during a tour of a Auschwitz.

Presumably, Reform will claim this was all years ago, and while he's completely innocent, "everyone" had massive presidential style election campaigns in Clacton back in the long distant er summer of 2024 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The 2010s opened with a televised public inquiry into the crimes and malfeasance of the tabloids. It ended with the same papers hounding the PM’s neighbours for phoning the police at 2 am during his drunken, plate-smashing argument with his wife. It’s only got much worse than that since.

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Reading the way the MSM account of the Peggie judgment is headlined and presented you’d think that she had won a total victory …

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

On 8 Dec 1941, the modern fast Italian merchant MV Sebastiano Venier left Benghazi with over 2,000 POWs crammed into her holds. These were mostly New Zealanders and South Africans, bagged at Sidi Rezegh and on Zaafran. About 500 of them would not live another 24 hours. #navalhistory

For the record: I'm on the vestry of a church in an area where Christianity is probably the fourth largest religion. Here is a comprehensive summary of all the trouble we have had from our Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, or indeed atheist neighbours: . . . . . . . Thank you for reading.

Starmer says he’s "taking the gloves off" and that the Greens are "nuts" Big talk from the PM of vibes based cruelty and trickle down cowardice. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The biggest collection of historic Russian armour outside of Russia is in Finnish museums and store rooms. Something I've seen their senior military leadership occasionally remind their Russian equivalents of. Happy Independence Day to all Finns!

Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground: “He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.

I read that as defecated. Kinda the same thing...

The thing to notice about the blatant racism amongst Reform people is that it’s from many who have climbed their way to the top positions. It’s candidates and council *leaders*, not just the foot soldiers. Being a racist is how you succeed in Reform.

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

There is no point along the chain of command—from then-VADM Bradley down to the crew member triggering the missile—where anyone has any excuse whatsoever for giving or following that order.

By the way, Sylvia got paid more for the Carlsberg advert than the film!!

I had an inkling that this would happen as a result of Girlguiding ban on trans girls. The "critical" are destroying institutions and organisations because they can't help but judge others that are different than themselves and won't shut up about it. Massive amounts of respect to those exodusing.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

They use themes from ancient Sumer and Akkad. They even recorded an ancient death lament youtu.be/Si1MsBvIvbE?... It’s an astounding piece of music sung in a language that was old when the romans woke up.

On the News Agents, the team are furious & confused about why the Farage school story hasn’t been picked up properly by the media, listing a lonely handful of dogged journo pals that curiously does not include sister station & ad partner LBC (“news you can trust, and the conversations that matter”)

Migrants, trans and non-binary individuals, disabled individuals, and now neurodivergent individuals. Does Labour have a check list of which already marginalised and vulnerable groups they will go after on any particular day?

Lee Anderson. Free Speech champion.

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.

Fortifications of the Firth of Forth in 1941 - these show some of the fortifications on Inchkeith. More info in the ALT (Images from IWM). Inchkeith is a familiar landmark to me - hooning about it doing 'rescue boat' cover when i was a student! @ckolonko.bsky.social

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

Honestly I’d fall asleep in the middle of JD’s bullshit too.

All these TERF agitators have the media lining up to bill them as "feminists" and "champions of women" when a massive part of their time seems to be spent on bullying women's and girls' groups and going over their heads to have legal actions forced on them against the will of the actual membership.

Haddon Cave is forensic. Worse he will nail everyone’s arse to the wall. Illegal stuff like this is corrosive to decision-making in all ways. Get it all out there & face up to the mess rather than let those who know about the dirty secret to play insider politics.

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

This is a really useful summary of what is going on with regard to accusations against some members of the Special Forces in Afghanistan. But (and I really hesitate to say that to Mark, who is a way way better analyst and writer than I will ever be), I think that there is something missing. 1/

So take this in. Straight from the NATO meeting after Russia’s attack Britain’s primary military town, Salisbury, Boris Johnson flew unofficially to party in Umbria with a former KGB officer working for the Kremlin. Can anyone tell me how this has been forgotten? It is Profumo on stilts

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

Just had dogsh*t put through the letterbox - a Reform UK letter. This envelope was enclosed. Royal Mail will bill Reform 48p for each of these sent back to Reform. So I've printed this scan on 100 sheets of cheap paper and chopped them to 400 units - and dropped them in a letterbox. Crack on.

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

Zack is on fire

"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

In November 1916, William Ivor Castle became credited as the first Great War photographer to take photographs of "tanks in action."

On 25 November 1941, 15. Panzerdivision was very pleased with itself for having executed a textbook envelopment attack using all arms against an attacking enemy tank force, resulting in its complete destruction. Anyways, that's what the war diary says. @sodrock.bsky.social @pptsapper.bsky.social

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War. Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

It's not going away

The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election. Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.

As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

I finished up my winter Tamiya Kubel. As mentioned to Tom I've been slapping weathering products on this and trying out a few things. The chipping worked, but uneccessary. The acrylic mud is good and using oil paints has been a fun experience. #histscalemodels #scalemodels

Zack really does talk common sense

“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.