Why hasn’t the Russia Report been released?

Arrest by a bunch of thugs because he’s black and has an accent - there, fixed it

26th September 1939. The first British aerial victory of the Second World War was scored by a Blackburn Skua of 803 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Ark Royal. Though the type was primarily a dive bomber, it was armed with four wing guns and also served as an interim FAA fighter. #NavalHistory 🧵1/6

26th September, 1942: The Morlaix disaster. 133 (Eagle) Squadron, an American-manned RAF unit newly equipped with Mark IX Spitfires, had been detailed to provide escort for USAAF B-17s attacking rail yards at Morlaix, near Brest. 🧵1/13

Christ almighty - it's like wasps around a pot of jam...

(True colours.) Refueling a Spitfire. #WW2 #HISTORY

This will be popular: 'Deprioritise' road repairs to 'encourage' more train use in Derbyshire Reform councillor Cllr Alex Millward made the suggestion in a Derbyshire County Council meeting www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

I want a government that asks 'how can we make things better for people?' not 'how can we make things harder for those people you don't like?'

I interviewed an F-117 pilot; truly fascinating look into the weird world of the Nighthawk in combat: hushkit.substack.com/p/i-took-the...

“Crypto-fascist Guttersnipe Demands Conservative Parliamentary Candidates Pledge to Dismantle Major International Legacy Project of Winston Churchill to Demonstrate Conservative Values”

Anyone who’s ever tried to get within 5 feet of a f****** swan and seen their lives flash before their eyes can call this for the complete bollocks it is. He looks like a spitting image puppet brought to life.

The foreigners aren't coming into the UK and 'eating the swans', but they are coming and buying £885,000 houses in cash with money that they earned from *checks notes* being a waitress. I'm sure Nigel Farage would agree, that needs investigating.

The PFI disaster Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers. NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed. Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value. Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

I wonder what Britain's far-right will say about Netanyahu's weedy far-right son calling for the Falklands/Malvinas to return from Britain 🇬🇧 to Argentina 🇦🇷 🤔

statistic of the day

Thanks John Oliver

This evening’s absolute random-ass posting brought to you by me seeing the Army Chief of Staff (our highest ranking officer) doing a podcast with some energy drink brofluincers which made me think about the state of the “Profession” and blech

The first in a short series of posts from the RAF Museum in honour of the @nmtdambusters.bsky.social Pod. First the stalwart of the early Gardening operations, the Handley Page Hampden (complete with battle damage) @jamesjhistory.bsky.social @lydiajane13.bsky.social 1/7

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Delighted to finally reveal the new SPACE gallery at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk! It was a pleasure to help - providing what may well be the largest photo of the🌖on🌎! The gallery is stunning, and it's so special to see the Apollo 10 Command Module alongside Soyuz.

the gas makes picture timeless. it looks like gunpowder, a la Rev, 1812, civil war

What’s the opposite of anti-fascism?

Have just got back from Normandy and I was delighted to discover that History Hit have uploaded this documentary I did with @thehistoryguy.bsky.social to YouTube. You can learn all about D-Day remains on England’s south coast here:

Please, take a moment to read this. Like @sturdyalex.bsky.social, I no longer feel that this country is the home I have known almost all my life. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

Read and enjoyed! Review up on Amazon!

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

For those who think everything that can be written about Concorde has already been, you'll be delighted to find Jeff Berlin's new account in the latest edition of @flyingmagazine.bsky.social. It's a delightfully long read accompanied by many of the author's excellent photos. (📸 Jeff Berlin) | 🛩️ 🖥️ 🥇

Readers need journalists who don't repeat the unfounded claims of elected officials, even in headlines. This is like day one stuff, folks.

FREE ARTICLE HERE! WOO HOO! hushkit.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

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The “school shooting industry” is one of the most depressing term I’ve ever heard.

it's real support from actual racists

Harvard can't use someone's race to decide if they are going to be a student, but ICE can use a student's race to decide if they are going to detain/incarcerate them. According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone.

Last week Nigel Farage hugged Lucy Connolly because she called for extreme violence against ethnic minorities. If he becomes prime minister, every single non-white person in the UK is in mortal danger.

The alien fleet appeared suddenly and entered Earth's orbit. A message was broadcast, in thousands of languages "Greetings! We are the Interstellar Mobile Library. We have 4096 ships, please suggest landing sites for all." "Yes, of course it is free, and for all people." "Why? We are a library."

Regular reminder that no matter how misshapen and useless a French aircraft in WW2 was, Heller would do a kit in 1:72 of it, and we should all be grateful.

Sarah Huckabeast is standing under a tent giving a speech while kids are forced to stand in the rain.

#OTD in 1944, the first V2 ballistic missile - fired from The Hague - fell on Britain. Killing three people in Staveley Road, Chiswick: a 67-year-old woman, a three-year-old child and a soldier home on leave. #WW2 #HISTORY

I wish there was some way of opting out from BBC News. Happy to pay the same licence fee or more, for the other stuff. But not the dumb-as-fuck, oh-what-larks news punditry. It's toxified the whole corporation.

He seeks to rule by decree because he cannot govern within the law.

#bbc @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social The BBC's complaint process is a joke. Worse than that it's designed with one thought in mind - that's the BBC is, basically, sound, that a complaint is about exception management, not fundamental editorial skew, bias or mismanagement BBC news' current editorial

Having been through it before I can confirm this. I have quite a bit of experience of public sector complaints processes and I honestly could not believe how arrogant, contemptuous and defensive the BBC's process is. I can't actually believe it is *allowed to be* this way

This!

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.“ Nigel Farage’s tax affairs ‘irrelevant’ to voters, claims deputy leader of Reform www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...

Calling Black Children this…. UNACCEPTABLE

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

Looks like <checks story> Tom Hanks is the latest collateral damage in the military's search for LetHAitY. www.rawstory.com/tom-hanks-tr...