Interrupter_Bastardo

As it was then, so it is now.

Yep - I had to pay for a cold weather jacket I gave to an SAS guy with hypothermia and never saw again!

@CarlBovisNature @exitthelemming @ChrisGPackham @DeborahMeaden @MeganMcCubbin @Lucy_Lapwing @DrAmirKhanGP @CityCorpHeath @BBCLondonNews @sophiepavs @WildlifeTrusts Humans ruin everything.

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬 There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬 Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬 (Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

A reminder that on this day in 1989, Arsenal’s dramatic title win only had 2 mins of post-match analysis. 30 secs from the studio, the trophy presentation, a quick word with Tony Adams, then it was off to News At Ten. ITV did not mess about in the 80s.

37 years ago today: The magnificent Brian Moore provided the iconic soundtrack to a moment of high drama at Anfield. “THOMAS CHARGING THROUGH THE MIDFIELD. THOMAS… IT’S UP FOR GRABS NOW!”

Soldiers in WWII were quite proud of the trophies that they brought back after the war. Here's an example found in the details of this photo of a few men from Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Head over to the channel for more!

One of Delacroix’s darkest visions of conquest has returned to the Louvre with its force restored. After years of study, X-rays, comparisons, and conservation work, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople can finally be seen with new clarity. Layers of varnish and deposits had long dulled the painting’s color and drama. The restoration brings back its readability: the violence of 1204, the broken grandeur of Constantinople, and the full technical command of a mature Eugène Delacroix. This also completes the Louvre’s restoration campaign for Delacroix’s large-format works, a project begun in 2019. Now on view in Room 700, Denon Wing.

Here's a good joke for your Bank Holiday. A British magistrate identified in court papers only as "Taylor" has been deciding convictions and sentences for more than 100 British defendants from his home. In Portugal. The arrangement, conducted under the Single Justice Procedure - which is the streamlined process by which a magistrate can deal with minor offences without an open court hearing - was running for years before anyone in the British legal system noticed it was happening, and would still be running today if a fellow magistrate had not, at considerable personal cost, refused to take part and raised the alarm. The whistleblower in question is a serving magistrate who had concluded, after some study, that what was being done was unlawful. He is now suing the Ministry of Justice. He alleges that, having flagged the practice internally, he was bullied, ostracised and progressively excluded from the work he had volunteered to do. The only thing about this that's a surprise is that it's been exposed at all. This sort of baroque, even sublime level of piss-taking is, by now, a recognisable British institutional ritual. So, I must concede, is the reaction to it. An individual notices something is wrong, says so through the proper channels, is treated by the institution as the problem, gets bullied half to death, and ends up in court. We saw it with Alan Bates, with the consultants at the Letby ward, with the surveyors at Grenfell, and now with this magistrate, who has the additional indignity of having had to bring his case while his colleague was, presumably, still in the Algarve. The Ministry of Justice's response is the part of the story that most repays attention. Asked, by Sir Jeremy Hunt MP in Parliament, whether more than 100 convictions secured by a magistrate sitting from a different country might need to be revisited, the Ministry stated that there were "no grounds to suggest that any case where the magistrate conducted remote hearings from abroad was unlawful or needed nullification." The Senior Presiding Judge then advised, in a separate communication, that magistrates and judges should not, in fact, be conducting court proceedings from outside the United Kingdom, the diplomatic objections of the foreign states involved being one of the more obvious reasons. The two positions are not formally in conflict. They are, however, the same Ministry saying that an arrangement which the senior judiciary has now banned for the future was, until ten minutes ago, completely fine. Totally alright. One hundred British defendants (at the lower end of the magistrates' jurisdiction, sure, but the lower end is where most people in this country actually encounter the courts) have now been sentenced by a man from his holiday home. When the Ministry of Justice found out, it concluded that the arrangement was fine. When the Senior Presiding Judge found out, he concluded that it was not. The whistleblower who exposed the whole thing has, predictably, been treated by his colleagues as the problem and is now suing his own Ministry. The convictions, meanwhile, stand. I just hope I get the screenplay rights to this one. It's just too perfect an encapsulation of what the British genius, once responsible for the architecture of the world and man's command over nature, has been reduced to: running obvious abuses of office, rank, and authority for years under the noses of the people paid to notice but too thick or venal to actually notice. If we weren't being consistently saved by single people, heroic individuals, willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder to expose these charlatan prats by a single individual at his own cost, it's absolutely frightening to imagine where we'd be. In respect of abuses like this, like Chagos, like the rape gangs. Anyway, the arrangement ends and the convictions stand. The magistrate will fly back from Portugal (he's still sitting!). The Ministry of Justice will issue a procedural note. The whistleblower goes to tribunal. It's not only time we root-and-branched the criminal justice system in this country - in which 'criminal justice' has come to imply an affinity for the criminal, just as the 'Taylor Swift Holy Dinner Party & Human Affairs Circuit' implies an affinity for Taylor Swift - but our approach to whistleblowing as well. These are the only people preventing our slide into barbarism, as things stand. And whistleblowers who exposed dysfunctions of this kind will, under a Progress government, be honoured for the public service they have performed, and the institutions that punished them will be held to account for the punishing.

This year's side quest is to go to Mount Athos and live like a medieval monk for a few days. I think it will be spiritually enriching and will help give me firsthand knowledge for my books. Plus I want to have an adventure again like I did back when I used to go backpacking.

@GoffIsElite @mike_daddino I bet that made them popular.

@InterrupterB @mike_daddino Yes, there’s a video of someone doing it to lose a highschool state championship game

I promise… this is the most astonishing video you will see today

@KiskiRivers @mike_daddino Good to know. I wonder in this case if it’s the defensive player with (og) next to their name.

@InterrupterB @mike_daddino It counts. Every now and then a rebound or put back will bounce off a defenders fingers before going in. The points get assigned to the last offensive player to touch the ball. Which kind of begs the question, in this case does a player still receive credit for these points?

21 years gone today, but always in our thoughts. The man, the myth, the legend. Pte Willie Jenkins QGM. ex 3 Para.

How do you convince the Gen Z that this guy was a left back 🤯

@MaybeSoland @gerardtbaker Victorian era Generals with old fashioned ideas of warfare refused to adapt to the different entirely new conditions of ww1, resting heavily on antiquated ideas of propriety and tactics, were willing to write off thousands of lives over small territorial gains.

@InterrupterB @gerardtbaker They walked towards the enemy for two reasons, the first was to maintain communication and discipline (other methods hadn’t yet been developed) and the other was to avoid exhaustion These men were carrying a lot of equipment and running would result in them getting tired,

Loved Blackadder but this portrayal was more lazy cliche than genius. Serious historians have long since debunked the “lions led by donkeys” myth; stupid, heartless generals sending helpless fodder over the top. Classic promotion of a self-loathing lie by British cultural elites

@MaybeSoland @gerardtbaker I understand your point, however later on in the war at some points they did running attacks and I’d argue that it wasn’t necessarily worse because of it. Secondly walking resulted in horrendous casualties and little appeared to change regardless.

@HeroesOfBritain I know it was disbanded but I say bring it back. Use it when world war 3 finally starts. Or better yet, combine the camel corps with the SAS.

@InterrupterB not sure that's possible now. the icc was disbanded in 1918 but we can still learn from their bravery my local memorial has a plaque for them

The Imperial Camel Corps. A forgotten British regiment built for desert warfare during WWI. How many people today even know their story?

@Gabbar0099 This is a naive, simplistic, unintelligent, one-sided argument which doubles as ignorant propaganda. Also, the UK is number 9 in the world for prostitution.

Highest rates of prostitution in the World : 1.Thailand (Buddhist) 2.Denmark (Christian) 3.Italy (Christian) 4.Germany (Christian) 5.France (Christian) 6.Norway (Christian) 7.Belgium (Christian) 8.Spain (Christian) 9.United Kingdom (Christian) 10.Finland (Christian) Highest rates of theft in the world: 1.Denmark and Finland (Christian) 2.Zimbabwe (Christian) 3.Australia (Christian) 4.Canada (Christian) 5. New Zealand (Christian) 6.India (Hindu) 7.England and Wales (Christian) 8.United States (Christian) 9.Sweden (Christian) 10.South Africa (Christian) Highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world: 1.Moldova (Christian) 2.Belarus (Christian) 3.Lithuania (Christian) 4.Russia (Christian) 5.Czech Republic (Christian) 6.Ukraine (Christian) 7.Andorra (Christian) 8.Romania (Christian) 9.Serbia (Christian) 10.Australia (Christian) Highest homicide rates in the world: 1.Honduras (Christian) 2.Venezuela (Christian) 3.Belize (Christian) 4.El Salvador (Christian) 5.Guatemala (Christian) 6.South Africa (Christian) 7.Saint Kitts and Nevis (Christian) 8.The Bahamas (Christian) 9.Lesotho (Christian) 10.Jamaica (Christian) Most dangerous gangs in the world: 1.Yakuza (non-religious) 2.Agberos (Christian) 3.Wah Sing (Christian) 4.Jamaica Posse (Christian) 5.Primeiro (Christian) 6.Aryan Brotherhood (Christian) Largest drug cartels in the world: 1.Pablo Escobar – Colombia (Christian) 2.Amado Carrillo – Colombia (Christian) 3.Carlos Lehder – Germany (Christian) 4.Griselda Blanco – Colombia (Christian) 5.Joaquín Guzmán – Mexico (Christian) 6.Rafael Caro – Mexico (Christian) And then they say that #Islam is the cause of violence and terrorism in the world and want us to believe that. Who started World War I? Not Muslims. Who started World War II? Not Muslims. Who killed about 20 million of Australia’s indigenous people? Not Muslims. Who dropped the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan? Not Muslims. Who killed more than 100 million Native Americans in South America? Not Muslims. Who killed about 50 million Native Americans in North America? Not Muslims. Who kidnapped more than 180 million Africans as slaves from Africa, of whom about 88% died and were thrown into the oceans? Not Muslims. First, we must define terrorism or understand how terrorism is viewed by non-Muslims. If a non-Muslim commits a terrorist act, it is called a crime; but if a Muslim commits it, it is called terrorism. We must stop dealing with double standards.

@MaybeSoland @gerardtbaker I was taught that certainly at the beginning of the war, the soldiers were told to get out of the trenches and walk, not run, towards the enemy in lines. Is that wrong?

@InterrupterB @gerardtbaker Have you considered that the technologies available to all sides were simply horrific and were leading to those deaths The generals and officers, who died at higher rates than the enlisted, tried everything they could possibly come up with to get around technologically imposed