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@CraigBr22288103 @match1uk @matoxley @Official_CS27 Mm wanted him out of honda

@match1uk @matoxley @Official_CS27 What's that got to do with MM?

20 years ago today Casey Stoner scored his first #MotoGP pole position in Qatar, for his second race in the premier class. Due to a missed flight, he had spent the night sleeping in an airport lounge, only just making it to Losail in time for FP1, which he topped. This was the day everyone knew Stoner was something very special

@matoxley Wish there was a replica helmet of his. Absolute legend.

@adrianmckinty What do you consider essential in the "classics"? I'm willing to give some a go. I screenshot alot of your suggestions but I sometimes struggle with halfwaythroughitus.

@MrJonathanCarr @ReassessHistory Is this picture meant to demonstrate your expertise?

@ReassessHistory Well, I haven't fact checked them. Are they not?

in life if you ever worry about mediocrity carry this thought in your heart with pride you are not the living embodiment mark felton

@gavinemmett You guys need a geologist on the team

I've seen some stuff in my time in MotoGP, and expected the unexpected in Brazil this weekend. But a big hole opening up on the front straight was not on my bingo card.

@HistoryBowsh @james_2904 @Gliderpilot44 @robert_lyman Love your books...wish the maps were better. Not a criticism as I think your writing is fantastic.

@james_2904 @Gliderpilot44 @robert_lyman Cheers mate! Third coming in 2027!

Time for a trip to Southeast Asia.

@BulldogBDX @PracticalClass1 @NECRestoShow Can bdx be picked up in person from your place in Saintfield?

A little peak round @PracticalClass1 @NECRestoShow before it opens tomorrow and I am too busy to go look at more. 😁

@worstall @robert_lyman Who would a modern sergeant have fought? Afghan irregulars or the iraqi army? What good would that do against Russia or China?

@robert_lyman "not to forget how to fight" Do what they did. Retain all the sergeants and captains and above. Privates and Lieutenants are cheap and quick to train.

Think the British Army is badly prepared for war? ‘What war?’ I hear you ask. Quite right. ‘Any war’ is my response. In April 1939 the British Army boasted 892,697 officers and men, 224,000 of whom were in the Regular Army (there were 173,700 in the Reserve and 438,100 in the TA). We had 140 infantry battalions and 30 cavalry/tank regiments. When war was declared the numbers went quickly to 1.3m (conscription started immediately). But numbers hid a bigger problem: unbeknownst to most we had forgotten how to fight, and accordingly had no answer to the subtlety of the Wehrmacht’s Sickle Cut when it slashed through France in May 1940. The challenge for today’s modern army is, like the Reichswehr in the 1920/30s, when numbers are low, equipment and money scarce, not to forget how to fight and to retain the ability to rebuild when needed. amzn.eu/d/03cQ8Wy4

@EamonnMallie @colin_davidson @SJAMcBride @SorchaEastwood His eyes must have been painted on, quite literally

ANOTHER HISTORY-MAKER CAPTURED IN PAINT…Rev Harold Good who was one of the independent witnesses to the IRA’s putting its munitions beyond use shows no signs of his recent illness, in this fine portrait by ⁦@colin_davidson⁩ ⁦@SJAMcBride⁩ ⁦@SorchaEastwood⁩ ⁦

@mototingle Where was it?!

Ever seen one before? It’s a Yamaha Tricker xg250 Designed for urban mobility 🏢 Never released in Europe Nice simple looking motorcycle, the 250cc 4 stroke is a rock solid design

@denying_history Try "wicked beyond belief ". Best true crime book ever imo.

I honestly loathe true crime. Every time I’ve dipped into it because of some bookish partner I’ve picked up for a couple of weeks or so it always ends up being written or directed by people with very little ethics or honesty. Take The Jinx or Chaos as examples.

@richardpbacon Any other country and you would have sympathy for enforced conscripts.

I mean…

@silentrob73 How would you have prevented it?

This is shocking. A violent, large-scale stabbing on a train near Cambridge in which nine people are in life-threatening condition. While the public watches ministers and mayors post about safety, campaigns about knife crime, and endless social-media policing. Let’s be clear the first duty of police and government is to protect innocent people from violence. And they failed. Two suspects went on a rampage aboard a London-bound train and yet the system did not prevent that. What did our front-line agencies do to anticipate or prevent this? Why are we still responding rather than proactively protecting? I stand with the victims and demand accountability. We must see immediate answers: how did this happen? what intelligence failed? what will change? Because words of concern after the fact are not good enough. This is not about panic or fear-mongering. It is about the objective fact that the basic job of the state is to safeguard life, and last night they failed.

@PaulHic80466580 @pupaxx333 Thanks, will go nicely with einsatz Arnheim

@Andyhb84 @pupaxx333 Here you go! panzerwrecks.com/product/kampfr…

The Hickstarter is continuing to be a great success! I thought I’d add some pictures of actual combatants at Arnhem and the figures they inspired. We’re committed to make this range as authentic as the Arnhem Heroes range. empressminiatures.com/kampgruppe-arn… #chainofcommand #bolatction

@PaulHic80466580 @pupaxx333 What publication are these photos from?

@pupaxx333 Two pictured here. These men are in the same unit as well. Officers with spurs as well.

@CalumDouglas1 Are there many examples of an engineer indulging themselves and also ending up with a great product? Britten motorcycle maybe?

Engineering IS at its core, a form of art, but unfortunately, to be a really good engineer, you have to deal with turning your thoughts into an actual deliverable working product for a certain amount of money by a certain date with many other constraints. So its like saying "paint me a picture" to Picasso, but then saying "I need it in 2months, and you can have 8 tubes of paint, of THESE colors, and you can only use one of these 4 brushes". I`m not sure he would be very impressed. So its art mixed with very high level discipline. and this is how you make real things which work and dont kill people because they fail. It needs a special mindset, and you have to get used to the creative bit being perhaps the first 20% of what you do, and the other 80% being the difference between people who wished they could do it, and those that can, which is spending the 4 months or even 4 years (if its aerospace, or more !) after you`ve finished your creative period of a project, making it a real thing which works. Lots of people get fed up with that and just cant do it. What you need to decide is, do you want to just paint an image of something, or do you want to paint your picture AND then stick it through the huge task of making that vision into reality. Some of that is mindset you either have or do not, but some of it is also training, you may not be used to the process of thinking about something, making it, and then holding what you imagined. Going through that cycle can be extremely transformative, which is why practical experience and apprenticeships are SO critical, if you live only in the theory, you can miss out on the dopamine hit of feeling your creations in your hands, which is enough to fuel you through the effort needed next time, knowing the reward is there. I dont think you can make someone who isnt and cant be, into an engineer, but I do think a lot of potentially very good engineers never get exposed to the right encouragement and proper training to realise their innate abilities. I nearly didnt, I failed at school, and didnt go to university after leaving, only after working with my hands in industry for half a decade as a TIG welder and sheet metal worker did I get the confidence to realise maybe I could be an engineer, and went back to university, I didnt graduate till I was 30 years old.

@RobinPercival2 Weren't some of the weapons supposedly destroyed in fact sold and located following the "west side boys" rescue in Africa?

There are more questions which now need addressing. What action will be taken against those who committed perjury during the Saville inquiry? What action will be taken against the MoD who destroyed tge weapons used by tge murderers even after they were told not too by Saville

There are many important questions arising from the prosecution of Soldier F. Why did it take 53 years for any prosecution at all to be mounted. Why was there no police investigation into the Bloody Sunday murders until after 2011, 39 years after the murders took place?

@timdavies_uk No such thing as a homeless veteran. They all have somewhere warm to sleep, many simply choose not to, or dont want to follow housing rules on intox.

Because we know this annoys you more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧👍

@richardpbacon Looks like hamas are butchering people again, already.

@columeastwood You look the most unglamorous and unhappy person in that photo.

I was with Palestinian families at Shatila refugee camp in Beirut yesterday when the ceasefire was announced. It’s a moment of relief, grief and hope that genocide is coming to an end. But peace doesn’t happen overnight. We have to be vigilant, the world has to keep watching.