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@northumbriana Like to think he uses it as a clan chief’s cromag rather than a walking stick.

I bought a shepherd’s crook like that from a shop in Blanchland a few years ago but I’ve never had the confidence to take it for a spin … UNTIL NOW

@ifellonithonest If defending the realm isn’t your top priority as a government then what is?

We are governed by morons

@RJHargreaves @Roger_Moorhouse @OspreyBooks @robert_lyman Now added to the watch list and looking forward to reading it later in the year.

Pleased - and proud - to announce that 1942: Hitler's Gamble for Victory is now heading to the printers. Thanks to @OspreyBooks for having faith in me, @robert_lyman and @Roger_Moorhouse for kind endorsements, and everyone who has contributed/supported me. Out June 18 UK. #ww2

@MartinKoenigsb2 @AndyAitcheson My wife gave it 15 mins. I gave it 45.

@AndyAitcheson This movie had a negative effect on my marriage. We walked out after an hour of utter shit. Totally modern actors pretending Badly to be 1940s people. Total POS

Terrible film. Assault on the Japanese bunkers set piece: exceptional.

@AndyAitcheson Only war film I’ve ever given up on.

@wartranslated Ugly looking brute though.

Old Ukrainian Leopard 1 tanks have been turned into modern fire support systems. The Belgian company John Cockerill has delivered an upgraded Leopard 1 tank to Ukraine, equipped with a new Cockerill 3105 turret.

When I was at university a Nigerian on my engineering course told a joke about corruption I adapt it for the present: So a Pakistani engineer, a Nigerian engineer and an English lawyer go to visit each others country after graduating. Nigerian visits the Pakistani guy. Says "You did well for your self, expensive car, huge house you were a bit of a waster at university, how come you did so well for yourself?" Pakistani guy rubs his hands together and says "I went into the Civil Service, see that bridge over there... 20%" Few years later Pakistani guy visits the Nigerian guy. Says "Wow you are doing even better than me you have a fleet of cars, a mansion, security your own jet, your were an even bigger waster than me how come you are so rich" Nigerian guy rubs his hands together and says "I went into politics. See that bridge over there... 40%" Another year passes they both go back to England and visit the English guy. He has a lovely property and expensive car as well. They both say "You were the biggest slacker of all of us how come your are so rich?" English guy points and says "I stayed in Law, See that bridge over there?" Nigerian guy says "No"

@SteveSayersOne @ajcdeane Complimentary incompetence and squandering of public money by Scottish Govt and local authorities over ferries, trams, investments in failing businesses for starters. Not to mention Deposit Return Scheme, court cases, QEUH scandal. Hundreds of millions lost. Zero accountability.

- The post criticizes the UK government's scrapping of the A303 Stonehenge road tunnel project on March 18, 2026, after £180 million in taxpayer funds were spent solely on planning since 2023, yielding no construction progress amid archaeological and financial disputes. - It highlights systemic accountability gaps in British public projects, noting that officials face no professional consequences for such overruns, contrasting with more efficient global infrastructure models like Germany's Autobahn expansions. - User replies amplify the critique by referencing parallel wastes, including £216 million on an HS2 bat tunnel and stalled Hammersmith Bridge repairs, illustrating a broader pattern of inefficient spending totaling billions annually per National Audit Office reports.

We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.

@antianti69 @fitaloon @theSNP And no-one will be held accountable. It’s just one of those things in modern Scotland. Another scandal where no-one is to blame.

Half a billion of hard pressed tax payers money all to end up on the scrap heap. Mark my words. @theSNP

@Wilson34David What a tosser. Just when you think you can’t despise a politician more, Gray lowers the bar. If he can’t vote yes then by default he should vote no.

Anyone who sits on the fence on a matter that is literally life or death doesn’t deserve to be in Parliament.

@Dougwriter City of Gold my favourite of his books too.

RIP Len Deighton, author of so many fantastic books. I've enjoyed all of them, Bomber, The Ipcress File, Hook, Line and Sinker, and Winter, but the one I always go back to is his Western Desert WWII novel, City of Gold.

@SofiGaming @Martin_BS And warships. Just been looking at where Iowa class ships are in the US coincidentally

@Martin_BS There should be!

Looking for tanks and museums? I built a Google Map that has the answers! Folks are always asking which tank museums I recommend and so here's a compilation. Museums and publicly accessible collections that include tanks and more are displayed with pinned info Link is ⬇️⬇️

@Britwarmemorial The 3rd Carabiniers weren’t at Calais. Major Coxwell-Rogers was on the staff of 30 Brigade

War memorial tablet. St. Michael’s Church, Lower Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire. Commemorating Major John Henry Coxwell-Rogers of the 3rd Carabiniers. KIA at Calais, on 26th May 1940. Second World War. #LestWeForget

"We should keep Churchill on the £5 note" "We should have Wildlife on our money" There's a compromise

@marksmith3468 @gorbalsgoebbels @heraldscotland Enough of them will it seems. Turkeys voting for Christmas

@heraldscotland Surely the Scottish electorate won’t reward corruption

The SNP are set to be returned to government in May. 👇

@BrianWi54076087 @RealStephenKerr @murdo_fraser It would get us some hard working MSPs rather than backbench deadwood though.

@RealStephenKerr @murdo_fraser Voting tories is not going to get rid of the SNP Stephen

Today we launched the Stirling Conservatives campaign to remove the SNP from power. The smart way to stop an SNP majority is to vote Scottish Conservative on the peach ballot.

As we wake up this weekend, news of yet another violent attack on Jewish children. These are just some of the violent acts aimed at Jewish communities in the West this month. Where is the outrage? A warning: antisemitism will always bring down the society that tolerates it.

@WFASouthScot @mehercle Staff officers and guard regiments wore their rank insignia on their shoulders. Line regiments wore them on their cuffs at this stage of the war.

@mehercle I'm no expert on uniforms, Alan, but I think officers from the Guards had never used insignia on their cuffs during the First World War. Adam from SMRG might be able to confirm. @adbrora

Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, 7th Baronet. Captain, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Killed-in-Action, 12th March 1915 at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. (Aged 25). His letters were published in 1916. Photographed with his men after a trench raid in November 1914. Q57457

@indieandluna @LukePollard @D_G_Alexander Because education is a devolved matter. Funding will go to create new courses at existing colleges. What funding is cut to buy new ferry propellers or fund court cases which weren’t budgeted for?

@LukePollard @D_G_Alexander Where do they get the money from ? Scotland has already set its budget so where do they cut. Defence is a reserved matter so why don’t the UK government fund the lot?

SoS Scotland @D_G_Alexander and I are clear, Labour backs Scotland’s young people. That’s why the UK Govt has committed £10m towards two Defence Colleges in Scotland, and if the SNP are serious about supporting Scotland’s defence industry, they will step up and match fund.

@Donswanny @LukePollard @D_G_Alexander 1. Have you seen the money getting spaffed on ferries, Tony? £10m is peanuts for Swinney’s government. They can burn through that on unwinnable court cases in a month. 2. I’m Scottish and I want them, Tony. I want our young people to have chances at good jobs. Am I alone?

@LukePollard @D_G_Alexander Defence is a UK reserved matter and as such all decisions and funding comes from Westminster 1 ScotGov operates on a fixed budget, where would you propose we take 10m from 2 who said the people of Scotland want these colleges?