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@TheRestHistory I just read that as “Jimmy Carr”, an even more unlikely opponent.

A battle of wits and nerve between two very, very unlikely opponents: Jimmy Carter vs Ayatollah Khomeini

@Edeaulx The lunch of champions

@arthistorynews wonderful thread, thank you Bendor!

Holbein’s epic The Ambassadors is seen as one of the most mysterious paintings in Western art. But understand the circumstances in which it was made, in 1533, and the meaning becomes clearer. Let me try a thesis on you. Long 🧵 1/

@spyhistory @thetimes @wnbooks @NorthbankTalent Very well done! Looking forward to reading it.

Please excuse me, BUT I am jumping for joy after receiving this amazing @thetimes review of my debut book #HerSecretService which is described as ‘groundbreaking’ - WOWEE. The review concludes - ‘By the end of the book you are in no doubt that the real women working in British Intelligence were far more interesting than Miss Moneypenny ever was’. Mission completed ❤️

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@Cb20226 Fantastic, cannot wait to see it.

This has gone viral on TikTok. The curator, Mark Murray-Flutter, is a great sport who I got to know while serving @Royal_Armouries board, so he was up for doing a Gen Z script. Credit 👏🏻

King Charles meets New Zealand women’s rugby union team @BlackFerns They asked for a hug, the King replies: “Why not!” #KingCharles #RoyalFamily #blackferns #royalcameraman

@AnnwieAnna @pol_LU @AtlanticCouncil @ACEurope @Marshall_Center @ACScowcroft @ISDP_Sweden @stenrynning @FrencLindley @SlawomirDebski @andrewmichta @edwardlucas Many congratulations!

🎉 Some personal news🎉 very happy that yesterday I successfully defended my PhD in Political Science at Lund University @pol_LU 🌍 About #alliance formation in the #BalticSea region, see link👇 Thanks to my family, to my superviser Magdalena Bexell, external reviewer @AndersWivel and many more who supported me along this long journey. You can call me doctor now😁 #dissertation #PhD #thesis #NATO

Congratulations on the gold medal @jacovangass! We were cheering you all the way, you were outstanding!🫡 #ParalympicsGB

The UK Typhoon Air Wing stands with friends in the Armee de l’Air et de l’Espace and Escadron de Transformation Rafale 3/4 "Aquitaine", in remembrance of their two colleagues who yesterday slipped the surly bonds of earth. A la châsse! 🇫🇷🇬🇧

The foreign policy debate ⁦@UKHouseofLords⁩ on 25/7 was interesting on the Defence Review, being led by our own Lord George Robertson. In his speech👇he noted it w’d be more difficult than the one he did as Defence Sec in 1998, given that../ #contribution-02D8DB4D-B0EA-40A9-8183-80AA32FFDE57" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-07-…

@seanpk @seanpk would you mind telling us the brand and dose of each that you take each day, as a starting point for research for individuals requirements?

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If you are interested in the big questions of war, peace and international order in the “long” 20th century, allow me to recommend the H-Diplo Roundtable on my new book THE NEW ATLANTIC ORDER. issforum.org/roundtables/h-…

@hoffman_bruce Buying!

GGS&S is also featured just down the road at the world famous Hatchard's bookstore (est 1797)

Välkommen! Sweden joins #NATO! 🇸🇪 🤝 Together, we strengthen security and cooperation. Welcome aboard!

We pay our respects today to Major Mike Sadler, the last surviving member of the original wartime SAS (Special Air Service), who has died aged 103. He is pictured here in the North African desert during #WW2. Born in 1921, Sadler joined the Long-Range Desert Group, a reconnaissance unit based in the North African desert, in 1941 and subsequently entered the SAS (Special Air Service) to launch night-time raids in Libya. He became the unit's top navigator, fighting with the SAS in Italy and France before setting up the SAS intelligence unit. In December 1941, Sadler was part of the first successful SAS raid - on Wadi Tamet airfield, where a team of six men destroyed 24 aircraft and a fuel dump. On the night of 26 July 1942, Sadler, without headlights or a map, guided 18 jeeps filled with twin Vickers K machine guns along 70 miles of desert to within 200 feet of Sidi Haneish airfield. The group then opened fire as they drove between planes, wrecking at least 37 aircraft. Sadler was also one of the officers to follow SAS founder, David Stirling, on the last SAS operation during the desert war in January 1943. It involved crossing the Tunisian desert to meet the British-American 1st Army, but a German unit ambushed them. Stirling was captured and would spend the rest of the war as a POW in Colditz. Sadler managed to escape with another SAS soldier and an Arabic-speaking Frenchman. He guided the group on a five-day, 100-mile trek without a map or food provisions to link up with the 1st Army. On 7 August 1944, Sadler was dropped by parachute into the Loire as part of Operation Houndsworth to reach SAS squadrons behind the lines. He helped destroy fuel depots, encouraged local resistance, and prevented Panzer divisions from heading north. Mike Sadler finished the war as a major. He has received the Military Cross, the Military Medal for his role in the Wadi Tamet and Sidi Haneish airfield SAS attacks, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, France’s highest award in 2018. Who Dares Wins.

@hoyer_kat Hang on, whose birthday party?

During lockdown, I sent my family in Germany a cardboard cutout of myself so I could be with them at Christmas even when I couldn't. It seems cardboard Katja is still around. I appear to be at a birthday party in a Greek restaurant in Brandenburg at the moment 🥳

@holland_tom We need an after action report!

I think most people would accept that I have very little left to prove as a cricketer in English conditions - I’ve seen it all, done it all - but I don’t think an elite sportsman can truly qualify as elite until he’s proven himself in overseas conditions. Like Australia…

Four seasons standing looking up from the same spot in Highgate Wood with a vintage #Nikon 8mm fisheye lens