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@Roger_Moorhouse I'd class it as twat on twat.

No. He criticised you because you were being a twat. 🤷🏻‍♂️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@bo66ie29 A don't forget the larks singing over the fields as you walk down the track way.

This is a place unique in Southern England where a river flows into the sea unaccompanied by a port complex, roads and cars, caravan sites and other trappings of the human race; a place still comparatively remote and peaceful where the silence is only broken by the call of a seagull or the shrill piping of a flock of oystercatchers. Patrick Coulcher, 2001

@SeaSpitfires The administrative state hard at work.

Someone close to me found trying to join the RNR impossible. The hoops to be jumped through, especially when she innocently ticked yes to ‘have you ever in your life had a migraine?’ made it pointless to continue. If I was conspiracy minded I’d say Capita were a Russian asset.

@timothy_stanley No, he'll go on a massive sulk like Heath and hopefully we'll never hear from the fat loser again.

A country that rehabilitates John Major will come to love Keir Starmer in time.

@Knowledgepoint I like the General Wolf statue at Greenwich Park that also has war damage.

Victoria and Albert Museum (Exhibition Road): The west wall of the V&A (and neighboring Natural History Museum) still shows visible pockmarks and damage from a 1941 bomb. This is often described as one of the most poignant "wounds" left unrepaired as a memorial.

@TerraOrBust Yes but he probably has complications getting to his holiday cottage in France so the UK must suffer.

Richard Corbett wants the UK to - pay over £200 Billion to be an EU member - to adopt the Euro - to have Schengen open borders - have tens of thousands of additional illegal migrants forced onto us by the migration pact all so he can avoid paying £5 for data roaming.

@cjsnowdon Owen could do a live action replay to see if this is true. I would like to volunteer to taser Owen and kick him in the head.

I’m not an expert but I think the answer is “to make him drop the knife”.

@AtticumFloreat @wesstreeting We?!? Or the political class?

@wesstreeting An attack on British Jews is not an attack on all of us, it's an attack on British Jews because they're Jews not because they're British. It is however, a failure of our way of life because we have allowed it to get to this point.

An attack on Britain’s Jewish community is an attack on us all and our way of life. This is happening again and again and again. I’d like to thank Hatzola, Shomrim, and the emergency services for their swift response - but we’ve got more to do as a government and as a country.

@AJNewbury94 Like it's going to make any difference, those deadbeats in the Conservative Party are toast.

Tories coming out swinging against Reform as the local elections near. Kevin Hollinrake takes aim at Farage's donations, from a crypto billionaire, and refers him to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner. They referred Robert Jenrick earlier in the week for a (much smaller) donation. Kevin says "why does Reform think the rules don’t apply to them? This stinks and Reform should come clean now."

@Knowledgepoint I suppose it would stop scooter riders as well.

Mitre Court "cross bars" or vertical metal posts found at the entrance of the narrow alleyway in Ely Place, historically placed to prevent criminals from escaping on horseback through the narrow passage leading from Hatton Garden, London's jewelry district into Ely Place.

@marekjanous @NiohBerg Fuckwit.

@NiohBerg Interestingly, until Brexit, any military threat to the Falklands would oblige the whole EU to help… 🤔

Britain could lose the Falklands because of weak leadership. It's not the 80s anymore, there's no Thatcher in charge and the UK is a depressing shell of its former self. If Argentina simply walks in and takes over, possibly soon with Trump's approval, what exactly will Keir Starmer do? Send an angry worded letter? Would he even care at all?

@Knowledgepoint I don't like cockles but I love the continuity. My thanks to you for pointing out the little oddities of London.

One of the oldest "cockle stalls" in London, dating back before WWII. Located at the top end of the East Lane Market (East Street) in Walworth. Open on Saturdays, it serves Southend cockles for roughly £2.50 a cup.

@NavyLookout It would be nice if Hermer and Shiner had to share a cold chilly room in the Tower.

Should those initiating vexatious lawfare cases on behalf of our enemies against veterans who have served their country be charged with treason?

@Valen10Francois Bah! Away with you and your facts.

Please allow me to introduce myself...

@DrFrancisYoung I'd settle for just one mistress.

Let’s not forget it was actually built for Cardinal Wolsey, who lived there a lot more modestly with just one mistress

@geoallison George, you all worked hard and deserve your success.

I've been reviewing our traffic figures over the last year and some of the numbers genuinely caught me off guard. According to our Google Analytics, the UK Defence Journal recorded 60 million page views in 2025. while I already knew that, I learned recently that month to month, our peak traffic sits among the top 30 news websites in the UK by page views, and within the top 10 in Scotland specifically measured by page views, according to Ipsos iris figures published by HoldtheFrontPage. That, amazingly, puts us ahead of most some established news titles in Scotland and a significant number in England. We started in 2014 with no publisher backing and no real plan beyond wanting to cover UK defence and security matters accurately and straightforwardly. Over a decade later we're an IPSO-regulated publication with a team of contributors drawn from military, industry and academic backgrounds, read by serving personnel, defence industry professionals, and government and policy circles across the UK and beyond. What I find most unexpected is the size and continued growth of our general public readership. For a specialist defence outlet that is genuinely unusual, and it is something we are still getting our heads around. I honestly did not expect any of this when we started.

@Knowledgepoint I can't think of a more working class dwelling.

The Prince Consort Lodge: Located within Kennington Park, this Victorian cottage is a genuine curiosity. Originally built for the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park as a "model dwelling" for the working classes, commissioned by Prince Albert later moved to its current location.

@Knowledgepoint Did it have the marble topped tables? I've only had one pie a mash with liquor and it was NOT to my taste!

Then & Now: Bert's 184 Old Kent Road, SE1. One of my old haunts in my teenage years. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a standard lunch of one pie, two scoops of mash, and liquor (parsley sauce) cost approximately 1 shilling and 6 pence. (8p) Now a doctor's surgery.

@Madz_Grant Is this bribes for votes?

Imagine how you'd feel if you were a Labour MP in an ex-industrial heartland seat, your constituents are constantly telling you of their anger about migration levels, then your colleague Thornberry does a video explicitly saying: "more immigration so we can spend more on welfare"

@andrew_lilico Much like him.

Well that was all pretty pointless.