This arrived yesterday NeverMindTheDambusters It’s next up to bat after I finish the excellent Eagle Days by Dr Victoria Taylor 💛💙✈ I recently agreed to join the team at the 158 Sqn association as an archivist.

Affirm Yes!!

"The notion that Putin is under pressure from his military-industrial lobby to continue the war is fallacious. His overriding goal is to strip Ukraine of the core element of sovereignty as he defines it: the ability to defend itself," Alexandra Prokopenko writes. ft.com/content/2278e8…

🧵No, It Didn’t Start on October 7. It Started in 1987. Let’s clear something up. If you’re one of those people who chants “From the river to the sea” and dreams of abolishing Israel altogether - scattering its people to the wind - then I’ll save you some time: this post isn’t

MPs approve plan to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group bbc.in/3IoTjGu

After 2 years of pause, joint NATO-Georgia exercise "Agile Spirit 2025" will take place in the Republic of Georgia. Thousands of troops from USA, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania and Japan will take part in exercise.

On 25 March 1807, the United Kingdom abolished the slave trade. More than two decades later, slavery was abolished altogether in the British Empire through the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. More than 800,000 individuals were freed from slavery with immediate effect in Canada,

England has one of the shortest breaks in the world. Learning doesn’t suffer, otherwise children in many other countries wouldn’t be bilingual for starters. We shouldn’t conflate education with childcare; they’re not the same. The issue is a lack of clubs for children to do.

UK School summer holidays are considerably less than both the bulk of Europe and the US, yet silly suggestions like this are still being in made. Here’s a thought: maybe find out what those countries do to make childcare possible? Wild idea, I know! #edutwitter

Indian troops of the 20th Division search for Japanese at the badly damaged station in Prome, Burma, 3 May 1945. Read more about the Burma Campaign here: bit.ly/3se0Ksh Image: IWM (SE 4081)

The best thing you'll see today!

After market stickers for the Wimpy I’m building. I’m torn between the 40 Sqn markings and the 311 Sqn markings. I know which Jamie Heffer would choose…

If Putin is given land from Ukraine, there is a propability that in few years there will be a war in the Baltics and we are again "negotiating" transfer of the territories of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to russia to "end the war"

Too many in Europe still choose to ignore this

Brian Glenn: President Zelenskyy, you look fabulous in that suit Zelenskyy: You are in the same suit. I changed, you did not.

Remember to check in on ya pals. You never know what they’re going through. Talking is the best way to help yaself especially when you’re barrelling demons. You ain’t on ya own. I’ve had hundreds over the years and had good people around me. So if your thinking you ain’t spoke to

Vanquished communism

One reason I don’t particularly want to go on a train pulled by a steam locomotive is … you can’t see the locomotive then.

Found this little gem in a National Trust bookshop today. One for James Jefferies