Lovely day at #WHWFV yesterday. Cool vehicles, a catch-up with many friends and excellent talks including a barnstormer by @normagraham.bsky.social I learned so much about the Canadian Paras! Thanks Norma.

Lisbon is a very photogenic city I have to say. Loving it here despite the very un-celtic temperatures!! 🥵☀️

Got home from work to some nice presents to myself. Looking forward to getting stuck into these highly acclaimed books from @historybowsh.bsky.social and Dr Victoria Humphreys.

It should be illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and not show ID. This makes it too easy to impersonate law enforcement and murder people in their homes.

...and so Jeremy Hunt is now Sir Jeremy Hunt. My article about working for his dreadful pre-politics publishing company Hotcourses was a popular among NHS employees when he was health secretary; sharing it again for old times' sake. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

What do you think of this cover, @njg330.bsky.social ? I’m a fan! youtube.com/watch?v=972p...

Mini Irish IC gathering in London w @flyroy2.bsky.social @jameshayes.bsky.social

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid

Your lede ought to make it clearer that the children didn’t ’flee alone’ because their parents wanted it that way: it was because the British government, egged on by the same anti-refugee prejudices that animate the right today, refused to let them in.

(1/3) The documentary filmed inside Thames Water, shows that the company is even more of a mess than we previously thought. It is clear that it's also woefully out of touch with customers' experiences. #sewage #water #thameswater #bbc

Today’s FREE article is up and it’s a tribute to men and women who have won their nation’s highest gallantry awards. From the US Civil War, to WW1 and WW2 find out all about ordinary people doing extraordinary things achurchill.substack.com/p/free-featu...

In today’s episode we look at the NCAC, and the political intrigues and tensions between the CBI leadership. It’s not to be missed!

Not sure what's going to be happening at the #Superbowl? Brush up on the rules of the game taken from the match day programme from 14th November 1942. This contest between Yarvard and Hale played at the home of @ulsterrugby.bsky.social was the first game of American Football in the E.T.O.

Even though most of us will probably never lead the charge, we all have a vital role to play in this battle before us. "Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star." ~ MLK

Hi, humans. I’m God. Please do less killing this year. More working together to fight for basic human rights. Thanks in advance, God

youtu.be/Y_0DKPm9n8g?... For any angry loners out there that would like to watch the full thing.

Turns out 2025 is going to be sunny. 😁 👍🏽 Happy New Year everyone.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

A list of ten countries and the number of heavy metal bands they have per 1 million people... China = 0.1 Jamaica = 0.3 Thailand = 2 Albania = 3 South Korea = 4 Cuba = 6 Japan = 11 Russia = 14 Brazil = 18 Finland = 532

Today’s article is live and it’s all about how America declaring war in 1917 made victory impossible for Germany and her allies… Found out how the US mobilised her industrial power… And how the experience gained would also help defeat the Axis powers in 1945

Petition to award Walter Tull the medal he was recommended for when he died. chng.it/7xQ7jc7v29

🚨🎄CAPTION COMPETITION 🎄🚨 Quote post this image of my boy Jenson in his castle of made of my book Forgotten Armour with a funny caption, and will send a free signed copy to that person! @chiselbury @forgottenwarpod.bsky.social #history #tanks #christmas #book #Giveaway #xmas #author #india #ww2

TONIGHT- Join me along with a FAN-tastic cast for a live radio performance of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. This rendition of the timeless holiday classic benefits the #EdAsnerFamilyCenter, a truly worthy cause!!! 🎄 ❄️ 🎅 🤶 ✨ 🎁 🔔 ☃️ 🌟 J Streaming SATURDAY at 8pmET/5pmPT on TrillerTV PPV

This cartoon is from 1930. It could have been today.

I went on the @nmtdambusters.bsky.social podcast to discuss my writing on depictions of RAF masculinity in Men At War, especially via the memorial of 158 Squadron at RAF Lissett, and the life and writing of Bertram Warr, Canadian pacifist and poet turned highly-effective bomb aimer bit.ly/3Bi1S2Y

I'm on the Library of Lazy Thinking podcast discussing Patrick Hamilton's bleakly funny war novel The Slaves of Solitude, and how Britain is a boarding house ruined by Nigel Farage & other modern incarnations of despicable "trother" Mr Thwaites. Tune in here: lazythinking.substack.com/podcast

It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist

This was a brilliant chat with @luketurner.bsky.social. Now available on early release to our subscribers. Sign up here: www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/supp... Otherwise out on Wednesday for general release.

Homeward bound from Barbados. Was a pitch black night, then the moonrise came in spectacular fashion. Looked more like the sun at one stage.

Lovely wintery colours & shadows in Boston Common this morning. The round thing on the path is one of 56,000 sea mines swept up by Boston-based naval vessels during the FWW! Who knew…?

A beautifully warm autumn walk around NYC last week. ☀️