Dan Rex

Every time you fly anywhere on earth. It traces back to Croydon. ✈️ South London. 1920. The world's first international airport. The world's first air traffic control tower. The world's first airport terminal. The world's first airport hotel. 🏨 And the word Mayday. In 1923 senior radio officer Fred Mockford needed a distress call. Most flights went to Paris. So he chose the French for help me. Mayday. Mayday. Mayday. Used by every pilot. Every sailor. Across every sky and sea. 🌊 Charles Lindbergh landed here in 1927. One hundred thousand people came to meet him. Amy Johnson took off from here in 1930. The first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. Winston Churchill took flying lessons here. George VI got his wings here. 🇬🇧 It closed in 1959. The building still stands. In Croydon. Every international airport on earth. Every air traffic control tower. Every Mayday call. Traces back to South London. This is the kind of history we were never taught. 📚 Proud Of Us UK is funded entirely by the community watching it. No sponsors. No broadcaster. No institution. Just people who believe British history deserves to be told. If you watched this and felt something... That's exactly why we exist. Join the people keeping it alive: proudofus.co.uk/support 🇬🇧 Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@stephen_howell6 @MilitaryBanter The song of course

@DanMRex @MilitaryBanter At the song or the response?

I'm willing to get 100% behind Army HQ on punishing whoever drafted that song. All I'd need is proof that everything in it was a lie. Otherwise, it's simply shooting the messenger

@RosieDuffield1 @KarlTurnerMP The Westminster culture highlighted by this behaviour is one of many reasons the talent, over several decades, has gone elsewhere.

And just for the record again, @KarlTurnerMP is one of the most respected, most decent, most popular MPs, liked across the House. And his political know-how is clearly considerably greater than those foolish enough to be 'briefing' (lying and gossiping) viciously against him.

@TheFigen_ Speaks to a heightened appreciation of culture, which we seem to have lost or at least forgotten

Imagine starting with a block of stone and ending with this…

@ashalexcooper All of them!

It’s almost decision time… so which pup would you pick? 4, 5 or 6? 🐾🐶

@mragilligan Seems entirely counter-factual.

Me in the Spec on how MPs are getting it wrong on counter-extremism. They listen too much to activists who deny jihadism as a threat, and academics who go on for pages about the far-right with barely a mention of Islamism. #comments-container" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spectator.com/article/what-w…

@509298 Up of course

Forget the Defence Investment Plan and the car crash disaster that is #Ajax. Now that spring has arrived the most important question for our armed services is this; sleeves rolled up or down? 😳

@SattyMootien1 Genuine sadness at how low we have reached.

What instantly comes to mind ?

@SamanthaTaghoy @AllisonPearson How deeply unpleasant. I can only hope the horrific reality is brought home to them. With so much complicity and turning of blind eyes MPs and Councilors, I fear the inquiry will be manipulated to protect them.

I was sexually abused from the age of 5. I still feel the hands on my skin. I still get night terrors. I still struggle with relationships and trusting others. But apparently the mass rape of little girls is just a joke to these leftist cretins.

@pinstripedline Enjoy. Sounds the perfect tonic and probably best to switch the phone off.

Off on a much needed bird watching, hiking and craft beer based holiday. Normal cold war tweeting will resume in a couple of weeks!

@edwardstrngr65 @_paullay There is nothing more important than the Defence of the realm. What troubles me deeply is that for so long, our senior military leaders have been complicit in the lie. I expect this from politicians but not military.

Delusional. But explains how we have got here - we have been fooling ourselves first…

@Kermode_Ursus Agreed. I think that this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Dogs have been companions to humans in what is now the United Kingdom for approximately 14,300 years Never come between the people of our great Kingdom & our dogs, NEVER !

@UKLabour @DavidLammy And quite possibly the worst.

This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.

Here @LiamHalligan absolutely nails everything that’s wrong with the UK economy now. Worth 10 minutes of your time.

630 people drowned in the Irish Sea in one night. ⛵💀 A British man studied the data afterwards. And invented something that every single person on earth uses every single day. On 25 October 1859 the Royal Charter was hit by a hurricane off Anglesey. 450 people died. That same storm destroyed 133 ships and killed nearly 800 people around Britain in a single night. Robert FitzRoy was head of Britain's Meteorological Office. He went through every piece of data from that night. And he realised something that stopped him cold. He could have predicted it. 🌊 So he built a network of 15 coastal weather stations around Britain, each one connected to London by telegraph. Every morning they wired their readings in. Pressure. Temperature. Wind direction. Cloud. He began to see patterns nobody had ever seen before. On 1 August 1861 The Times newspaper carried something completely new. A prediction of tomorrow's weather. FitzRoy called it a forecast. Not a prophecy. A calculation. 📰 He hoisted storm warning cones at every major British port. When the cones went up, fishing boats stayed in harbour. Lives were saved. How many? Nobody will ever know. Today every country on earth publishes a daily weather forecast. Every app on every phone. Every "chance of rain" anywhere on earth. The word forecast itself. All of it invented by a British man who decided we would be prepared next time. 🇬🇧 This history has no budget. No broadcaster. No institution behind it. Just the people who believe it deserves to exist. Support the channel: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@ShabanaMahmood Or anyone who was aware and turned a blind eye - crucially those in positions of authority and particularly parliamentarians.

The grooming gangs’ scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country’s history. The independent national Inquiry will now begin its crucial work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred. There will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes.

@Telegraph Vital

🔴 Police officers who failed to investigate Asian grooming gangs will be held to account by the public inquiry into the scandal, its head has pledged. Baroness Longfield said the inquiry would not “shy away” from directly investigating the specific ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds of the perpetrators behind grooming gangs. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/3…

@Adrian_Hilton @BBCNews I am assuming this must be Russian disinformation just to make the British even more grumpy.

Dear @BBCNews, stop this right now.

How wonderful!

@JChimirie66677 @DrChrisParry The talent has pretty much gone entirely elsewhere. The challenge is how to encourage them back in to public service.

A Parliament of Charity Workers and Lobbyists. In a Time of War. Of 238 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024, 72 worked in the charitable sector, 72 were political employees and 70 worked in communications or lobbying. Roughly ninety percent have never worked in defence, manufacturing, engineering, medicine or law enforcement. A parliamentary source quoted in the Sunday Times put it plainly. If only we had the same number with defence or military experience, maybe we'd be in a different place. Maybe. But the problem runs deeper than defence spending. It runs to the question of what kind of person ends up in parliament, what professional formation shapes their instincts, and whose interests they are constitutionally equipped to represent. Charity sector workers are trained to see the world through the lens of vulnerable groups, international obligations and institutional compassion. Political employees are trained to manage narratives and avoid uncomfortable truths. Communications and lobbying professionals are trained to advance the interests of whoever is paying them. Not one of those professional backgrounds prepares you for the question of how to defend a sovereign nation, manage a border, hold a foreign state accountable or protect a citizen from an Iranian proxy group that is firebombing Jewish ambulances on British streets. The parliament that responded to the Golders Green firebombing by debating the language used to describe it is a parliament staffed by people whose entire professional lives have trained them to manage perception rather than confront reality. The government that rolled out an anti-Muslim hostility definition while twenty Iranian backed terrorist plots were being planned on British streets is a government whose instinct is accommodation rather than accountability. The thirty six MPs who wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding Nick Timothy's investigation were not all acting from professional instinct. Several have documented histories of antisemitic language or associations. Others represent constituencies where the Muslim vote is the primary electoral consideration. The Sunday Times source suggests the problem is defence spending priorities. It is that. But it is also the Trafalgar Square response, where Keir Starmer reached for Tommy Robinson rather than engaging with a theological argument he knew he could not answer. It is the Attorney General deploying his Jewish identity to provide cover for a false equivalence he knew to be false. It is the parliamentary machinery mobilised to silence the people naming what is happening while the people doing it operate without consequence. All of it flows from the same source. A political class whose professional formation is compassion, accommodation and message management, governing in a moment that requires clarity, resolve and the willingness to say plainly what the evidence shows. Britain is not short of intelligence assessments. MI5 has thwarted twenty Iranian plots. The Walney report documented Iranian influence operations in the charitable sector. The security services know what is happening. The problem is not knowledge. It is the absence of the professional formation, the instincts, the language and the willingness that would allow the people in power to act on what they know. Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies. They were never going to see it coming. And even now that it has arrived, on the streets of Golders Green, in the WhatsApp groups of the Green Party, on the Embankment where death to America was chanted on a Sunday afternoon, they are still reaching for the tools their professional lives gave them. Compassion. Accommodation. Message management. And the instruction not to take the bait. "Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies."