Whilst on the subject of the Blackburn R.1, I'll treat you all a bit more with this. If I owned it, it would be hanging from my living room ceiling when not being flown. A fantastic model. #Blackburn #Aviation #AvGeeks #HistScaleModels #RC youtu.be/nVZP04EiIPw?...

At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email [email protected] for zoom logins

How to deal with accusations of teenage fascism, by Clive Dunn. 1. Admit that you were attracted by fascism as a teenager and give a brief explanation. 2. ⁠Recognise fascism for what it is and leave. 3. (the key bit) Spend the rest of your life not being a fascist. N. Farage take note.

Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this. Pretty brazen...

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What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today in 1944, at Roermond in the Netherlands, sound recordist Lt Peter Handford points his microphone at 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, and captures their singing at an open air church service. 🔊 #history #ww2 Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

These schmucks are approaching what I like to call a "reverse Afghanistan" sexuality here:

Convair B-58 Нustlеr 🧵 The B-58 was the most technologically advanced aircraft of its time. A Mach 2 capable, wasp-waisted war chariot, drawn by four J79s, that included silver brazed stainless steel honeycomb sandwich panels in its design.

In case you missed it: our investigation into how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of thing is often reported as "perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken". But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken. 🧵

I wrote a few words about Mani for The Sunday Times - I didn’t know it would be behind a paywall, so here it is if you would like to read it: (1/7)

A B-17 "Flying Fortress" taking off. #WW2 #HISTORY

Conical Camber stuff.

A warm summer’s day at RAF Lakenheath #Avgeek #aviation

An old cartoon which we've recently put back up on our website because it *feels* like the right time to do so i don't know why www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

This wizard film is just about to screen on YouTube... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtZ...

So unbelievably touched that #EagleDays has been included in The Telegraph's "Greatest Books of 2025" List! Thank you to everyone who has supported it so passionately, and to my publisher @headofzeus.bsky.social & agent Georgina Capel for bringing it to life 🥹❤️ www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

Amelia Laskowska - Polish fencing champion, sports journalist and, once in wartime Britain, publishing entrepreneur and creator of the first diary for Poles in the West.

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"  | North East Bylines

So, don’t ask the current White House occupier about the (frankly) bizarre implications of THAT #Epstein e-mail. The next interview of Bill Clinton with cameras present needs to ask him about it. All he needs to say is "I did not have sexual relations with that man, President Trump” and it’s over.

I always thought flavoured crisps were an American creation, apparently not. From Katja Hoyer’s Zeitgeist substack. open.substack.com/pub/katjahoy...

My Swiss Army knife seems to be the naval aviation issue, as it has an arrester hook for deck landings.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Presumably the Daily Telegraph and GB News will go big on this story?* Deeply embarrassing: Michael Prescott himself doctored a Trump quote in his anti-BBC report against...doctoring a Trump quote. *waits until end of time www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

This is America today. It doesn’t have to be this way.

I describe this as “dumb” in my rant here: open.substack.com/pub/ericchan...

10 American Aircraft That Flopped in British service! Beast of an article: 11K words by an absolute dreamteam of writers hushkit.substack.com/p/10-america...

The Heritage Foundation should go hang out with the Taliban, they’re kindred spirits

While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.

A question about Joey Barton's case How much does X pay him? Were the specific posts for which he was convicted monetised? If so, what happens to his income for criminal posts? Are there any sanctions for a platform which rewards (and so v likely incentivises) aggressive criminal posts?

This account is a must follow for any fellow SF geeks. Highly recommended.

I am Ghanaian born and mixed race but I am English, not British. Not because I have relatives who died fighting in both world wars and can point to land in Cumbria my ancestors owned 500 years ago. It’s because when I open my mouth in a pub in East Kilbride or Ebbw Vale they think “English cunt”

The tension lies in legitimacy. The legitimacy of the profession rests with society (because of the public trust req), even though the military serves the regime. So when the regime is illegitimate (read: non liberal) a military with public trust is a threat, and so regimes undermine the profession.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:qnuc6peim4kp5soue6honkbr/post/3m4hijvh3jc2r.

Instead, senior leaders should really be asking, “at what point does continuing to serve as a military professional and steward of the profession do more harm than good to the values I swore to support and defend?” 16/

No possible way this could become a nightmare

Is it possible that someone started this rumour to get rid of the people who’d object to an exit tax, and can we then impose a re-entry tax on those people it they try to come back?

And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations. I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.

Hello, New Jersey! There’s a lot at stake in this election, and I’m here tonight to talk about why @mikiesherrill.bsky.social should be your next Governor. Watch live:

Rumors spread online that a man was jailed in Tennessee for posting a meme criticizing Trump after Charlie Kirk's death. That's true. ✅ Here's what we know about his arrest: www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Five of the Original #WAFS/#WASP STANDING: Barbara Towne Dickson Fasken (21 Dec 1916 - 19 Dec 1995) Helen Richards Prosser (2 Aug 1921-23 Oct 1976) Barbara “B.J.” Erickson London (1 Jul 1920 - 7 Jul 2013) KNEELING: ...

Convair B-58 Нustlеr🧵 Continued

I'm one of those immigrants in the UK. Let me tell you about the nice little cul de sac where I live. My neighbors are from all over (Korea, Eastern Europe, Africa, India). In fact, I think most of the residents here are immigrants. They are very nice and law abiding. We should deport Reform.

1915: "Sir, wouldn't it be funny if the Marines had a recruiting poster of a pretty woman dressed as a Marine?" "Good one! Make it so." 1918: "I can't help but notice there are like 300 women Marines here now."