Andy Lindley

@TrumpTruthOnX Same rhetoric from all of them

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says US ships belong in the "depths of its water." IRGC: "American ships will soon meet the same fate as US bases in the region."

@archi_tradition I know the worst. I’m in it

What is the best country in Europe to live in right now?

@NotoldNOJE @NewWaveAndPunk @phatalstu @Schnitzel63 @FatOldAnarchist Tough one this. In The City due to its raw energy that captured a nations mood of its youth at the time. Modern World was rushed and Mod Cons showed us the transition into one of the greatest bands the UK has ever produced. Sound Effects is worth a mention here. Superb

It's #WellerWednesday so no better time to do this: 1, 2, 3, 4 - The Jam 🎯 Whete would your rank them (favourite first) and why? #TheJam @NewWaveAndPunk @phatalstu @Schnitzel63 @FatOldAnarchist

@nicksortor Charles is playing a blinder. If we needed a reminder of how incompetent Starmer is Charles is doing it. Starmer speaks like a monosyllabic robot. Charles has got banter

🔥 EPIC! King Charles just gifted President Trump the BELL from the UK's HMS Trump, which was a WWII submarine HMS Trump sank SEVERAL Japanese ships during the war 47 looks so excited 😂 CHARLES: "And should you ever need to get hold of us, just give us a ring!" 🤣🔔

@BootneckStuff Is that lawyer still behind me?

Good morning everyone. Right then, let's have you caption this... What's going through Royals mind here?

Alex Baker MP for Aldershot. Home of the British Army. She voted in favour of the `Troubles Bill`

Wow!! Speech of the day, and there’s been some belters. 💥

A former Special Forces Commando who served alongside Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan has finally broken his silence. His name is Dean Burgess. He even speaks of the unwritten code of the “quiet professionals” and says he would feel like a traitor to the Brotherhood if he stayed silent any longer. He describes the brutal truth our soldiers faced: an enemy with zero rules who hid behind women and children, used them as human shields, and laughed at our rules of engagement. Our troops were sent into that nightmare again and again under impossible restrictions. Yet now the government is running a witch-hunt against the very men they ordered into that hell. Stuff 'em, I am speaking out. This gutless Labor government dragged our Victoria Cross hero off a plane in front of his kids, arrested him like a terrorist and locked him in Silverwater with the very terrorists he was sent to fight. What happens in war stays in war, it's always been an unwritten code of honour by professionals who fought and some gave their live to protect us. You do not spend hundreds of millions crucifying soldiers for doing the job you sent them to do. We still inflict our famous & stupid Australian Tall Poppy Syndrome on our own war heroes while bending over for every ideology we are too weak to name. In 1980 Lee Kuan Yew was right when he warned us we would become the "poor white trash of Asia". Well Australia, it's Mission Accomplished. All gift-wrapped and paid for by taxpayers too gormless or apathetic to stop it. At long last Australia is finally waking up. The rage is building. And we're not taking this anymore. If you are reading this and feel the same way but can only say it in private, then WTFU, it's high time to grow a spine and start saying it publicly. For goodness sake stop hiding in the shadows whispering like controlled cowards. #FreeBenRobertsSmith #FreeBSR

Great work Royal

@RachelReevesMP You and your government would have been hand wringing until we saw the first mushroom cloud. Cowards

This is not our war, but it is now pushing up bills for families and businesses. That’s why keeping costs down is my number one priority – and our economic plan has put us in a stronger position to face this crisis.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 SAS soldiers are resigning in significant numbers over fears they will be subjected to “witch hunts” by human-rights lawyers. Multiple sources have claimed that personnel from across 22 SAS, the Army’s most elite fighting force, have applied for premature voluntary release. The Telegraph is withholding the exact figure for security reasons. However, several SAS sources have described the recent losses as “significant” and a “threat to national security”. At least two squadrons, D and G, are believed to have been affected, with insiders saying outrage over recent war crime probes into Afghanistan and Syria, which have been branded “witch hunts”, are believed to be the main driving forces. Among those understood to have resigned include several senior warrant officers, who are the backbone of the special forces and among the most experienced troops in the regiment. A number are understood to have applied for release “on principle” just before Christmas. “Morale is s--t at the moment,” one insider with knowledge of the recent losses told me, while another said there was “considerable disquiet” in the regiment as a result. The SAS resignations are a major blow to the famed special forces unit, which is the tip of the spear in any military operation and is deployed globally. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/ee5ad8ccb…

As a veteran of military operations, this current government may investigate me due to my actions 30 years ago. I`m expected to uphold both legal and moral standards. If I don`t, it`s theoretically possible to face criminal prosecutions. Why aren`t politicians?

@timdavies_uk Can`t quite understand why any of my brothers and sisters would go back? Back to what? We`ve got a system of political leadership that fundamentally despises the military. Now going back to take up arms against the government appeals to me somewhat

Many of us would go back but we can't be bothered to deal with this level of incompetence again. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@ForcesNews Cultural change. Armed Forces = Lethality. Let’s face it, we’re not very good any more. First Sea Lord coming out with the sound bites. One eye on the next gig

"There are no excuses...the standards we set and that we expect apply to everybody"🗣️ The First Sea Lord says the dismissal of Admiral Sir Ben Key highlights how much work is still needed to drive cultural change across the Armed Forces🔗forcesnews.com/services/navy/…

@Keir_Starmer @DefenceHQ You have absolutely nothing to do with this you inept, vacuous dalek. Anyone with a modicum of integrity would have resigned after your inept decision making. Do one. Quickly

It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened. This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes. Today we announced our joint plan with France and other international partners to protect freedom of navigation. We need to see a return to peace and stability, and a permanent ceasefire.

The CIA and the Mossad knew, from the very first second, that the two sides were in absolute contradiction. Not 10%, not 50%. 180 degrees. So why did Trump send JD Vance right into the middle of it? Two reasons. First: when the bomb drops, no one will be able to say the U.S. didn’t try. They’ll have in hand the minutes of the meeting, the photo of the handshake that didn’t happen, the return flight with empty hands. Diplomacy as legal cover for what comes next. Second, and smarter: Vance is against war. Well-known. So when a man like him comes back from Oman and says “there’s no conversation to be had,” no one in Washington can argue anymore that “all it took was sitting down at the table.” The toughest skeptic in the cabinet has become an eyewitness to the impossibility. The U.S. didn’t go to negotiate. They went to document. The Islamic Republic flipped the table, as it always does. This time, with the camera rolling. - @AllanHerzl

@isaacrrr7 We all know how that would end. Turkey would get it’s arse handed to them by Israel

🇹🇷🇮🇱 ÚLTIMA HORA: Erdogan dice que atacaría a Israel. “Si no fuera por la mediación de Pakistán, nos habríamos unido a la guerra”. Pregunta: ¿Si es Irán quien atacó a Turquía, entonces por qué atacaría Israel?

It is with deep sadness that the club has learnt of the passing of Geoff Burrow, the father of Rob Burrow. Our deepest condolences go to Geoff's wife Irene and the whole Burrow family at this time. May he rest in peace therhinos.co.uk/article/23118/…

@anishmoonka Most famous book on the Gulf War? Or infamous? 40% fact and the rest fiction. He also besmirched the integrity of some awesome blokes who are no longer around to tell the truth. PNG

Andy McNab, the man who taught Val Kilmer that reload, spent 10 years in the British SAS (the UK’s most elite special forces unit) and led the most famous patrol of the Gulf War. His partner on set, Mick Gould, was a close-quarters combat instructor from the same regiment. Both had been in actual firefights. Mann gave them three months with the cast. Day one was nothing but safety training. Then the crew built a full-scale replica of the downtown LA shootout street on a sheriff’s firing range, and the actors ran the entire scene with real bullets before switching to blanks for the actual downtown shoot. On set, they burned through 800 to 1,000 rounds per take. Mann placed microphones around the downtown location and recorded every gunshot live, then forced sound editors to strip out the standard Hollywood effects they’d mixed in. The echo bouncing off the glass and concrete in the final cut is real. Mann also sent actors playing criminals to eat dinner with actual criminals and their wives. De Niro, Kilmer, and Sizemore visited Folsom State Prison to interview career bank robbers. Mann himself spent weeks riding in LAPD patrol cars answering real calls. And then the whole thing came back around. On February 28, 1997, fourteen months after Heat hit theaters, two bank robbers in North Hollywood walked into a Bank of America wearing body armor and carrying automatic rifles. The shootout lasted 44 minutes. Nearly 2,000 rounds. Both robbers killed. Twelve officers and eight civilians injured. Police found a copy of Heat in the VCR at one of the robbers’ homes. That incident forced departments nationwide to start issuing patrol officers AR-15 rifles, because the standard-issue 9mm pistols couldn’t penetrate the robbers’ body armor. The loop is wild. SAS soldiers trained an actor so well the military used his footage, criminals used the same movie to plan the robbery that rewired American policing, and it all traces back to a three-month firearms course on a sheriff’s range in 1994.

Most of the common co-morbidities didn’t even exist 100 years ago