L. Ron Hubbard did suffer one severe injury during the war - to his ego. For someone with narcissistic personality disorder, like Hubbard, that was the worst kind of injury he could possibly have received.

Melanoma Trump.

There has understandably been a lot on here over the past couple of days about National Service.

So as a historian who actually studies and writes about compulsory military service, here are a few thoughts on the challenges it poses. A quick 🧵 1/

As on past Memorial Days, we think it’s important to remind readers about #Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘stolen valor.’ Historian Chris Owen looks at Hubbard’s claims about being injured in war versus the actual record.

My favourite John Spellar story from when he was minister of state at defence, 1999-2001: speaking to squaddies about to be sent to Bagram, Afghanistan, he expressed surprise at their enthusiasm. “Must be better than Catterick, sir.”

A worrying report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Today’s post, on why the English find Dutch so funny edwest.co.uk/p/we-hebben-ee…

I am 100% in favour of National Tea Time and would vote for that...

Car design has come a long way in 100 years, thankfully.

Worth noting that it's quite likely that some of the store's customers were there buying supplies to repair their homes and businesses after previous Russian attacks.

Thirteen years ago today, the greatest ever Scottish-interest story was reported in the press.

The thing about Giverny - a village in France pretty much entirely given over to art tourism - is that it's basically got a licence to print Monet

your Mad Max name is the last substance secreted from your body + your grandfather’s job title