In this year’s Sir Michael Howard Annual Lecture, Dr Halik Kochanski will explain how and why all across Nazi-occupied Europe some people decided to resist the Third Reich. 📅 03 Dec | 🕕 18:00 |📍Bush House 🔗 ow.ly/Bbne50X5C5l

More than 100,000 Sikh soldiers fought for Britain in WW1 and today their courage marches on🪖 The 1914 Sikhs Ceremonial Troop make history at Wellington Barracks - the first of its kind🇬🇧 Read more⬇️🔗 brnw.ch/21wX4lg

John Sweeney again with the latest on the Nathan Gill sentencing...and a personal message.

Got my The Kohima Educational Trust newsletter today, and saw these two fine tomes from chiselbury there from my talk a few months. Grab yourselves a copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 for yourself or as a Christmas gift for the Burma/WW2/tank enthusiast wherever you get your books!

Fact: When the plane gets raised to 30 metres, our crane then spins around rapidly until it reaches launch velocity and we cut the rope. This saves up to 65% of the fuel normally used in a conventional take off. #Environment

Our Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 rocks.

Not content with having a little Sandmännchen on my bedside table, I'm now starting to get into Polizeiruf 110. Do I need help Katja Hoyer ?

Al Pinkerton, "A bill to enter negotiations with the European Union to agree a customs union between the UK and the EU" "Businesses know it. The public feel it. It's time this house admits it" "Brexit has been an abject economic failure" "It's choked business investment,

It could be worse. It could be Doenitz…

In my spare time I run a village pub. It’s the centre of a small Berkshire village, and has been in use as a pub since 1723 (we’ve owned the building - built c. 1400 - since 1608). We’ve just run the numbers. It’s not looking good. Net profit is down a third of pre-covid

On 13 April 1944 the siege of Kohima had been underway for 9 days. It had another 7 to run before relief. During this time about 1,000 men of men of the Indian Army (the Assam Regiment, the Assam Rifles* and 4/7 Rajput) together with the 446 men of the 4th Battalion Royal West

Here’s the incomparable Kenneth Williams discussing accents. Absolutely glorious.

Read this. The idea that war with Russia is inevitable is too silly for words, the product of a political class too timid to understand how to use the levers of statehood (diplomacy; sanctions & the selective use of military force) effectively to achieve national goals, either

Fire up the Lancasters lads

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AMERICA IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACIST‼️

Congratulations to NATO’s incoming DSACEUR 🇬🇧 Air Chief Marshal Sir John Stringer KCB CBE is appointed as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe SHAPE - NATO Allied Command Operations 🎉 The 1st RAF officer in 40 years✈️ #NATO #DSACEUR

Ok, this is fvcking hilarious 🤣

“The Americans are being played,” British historian Sir Antony Beevor told Sky News. He says Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a “useful idiot” advancing Moscow’s goals, especially on Ukraine.(2025)

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