Martin Taylor-Smith

Starmer has immediately flown to the Middle East to emphasise his crucial role in the US-Iran ceasefire, which he didn’t broker, didn’t know was coming, didn’t participate in shaping and had absolutely no part in whatsoever

🇬🇧 He called her the Enchantress of Number. 🧮 In 1843 a British woman wrote the world’s first computer programme. For a computer that didn’t exist yet. 💻 Her name was Ada Lovelace. Her father was Lord Byron. Her mother feared she would inherit his madness so she was taught mathematics instead. 📐 In 1833 she met Charles Babbage. He was building a machine that could calculate. Everyone else saw a calculator. Ada saw something a century ahead of its time. That a machine could process not just numbers but anything expressed as symbols. Music. Language. Logic. Everything. ⚙️ She translated a French article about his engine into English. Then added her own notes. Three times as long as the original. ✍️ Note G. The world’s first computer programme. Written in 1843. For a machine that would not be built for another hundred years. 📜 Published under her initials only. A.A.L. Because she was a woman in 1843 and her name was not permitted on the page. 🔏 The computer was finally built a century later. Alan Turing referenced her work in his 1950 computing paper. The US Department of Defense named a programming language after her. 🖥️ Every computer programme ever written traces back to a note written by a British woman in a Victorian study by candlelight. 🕯️🇬🇧 Did they teach you her name? If you want to see more stories like this, find us at proudofus.co.uk If you want to help us keep them alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

They didn't wait for the government. They didn't wait for anyone. 🍺🇬🇧 Centuries before the NHS, ordinary British working people built their own system. In secret. In pubs. Every week they pooled their pennies. If you fell ill, they paid your rent. 🏠 If you died, they buried you. ⚰️ If your family starved, they fed them. 🍞 No government. No institution. Just British working people looking after each other. By 1800. Four million members. 🇬🇧 They called them Friendly Societies. The NHS. The trade unions. The co-operative movement. All of them started the same way. In rooms like this. With people like these. And almost nobody knows this happened. Britain lost its story. We're taking it back. Story by story. Name by name. Nobody is coming to do this for us. If you want to be part of making sure this country remembers who it is: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

The ice destroyed his ship. ❄️ Eight hundred miles from the nearest help. He brought all twenty-eight men home. Ernest Shackleton. 1914. Set out to cross Antarctica. The Endurance became trapped in pack ice. Then crushed. Then sank. Five months on the ice. Three lifeboats to Elephant Island. Their first solid ground in sixteen months. No rescue would come to Elephant Island. Shackleton knew that. He took five men and the smallest lifeboat. 800 miles across the Southern Ocean. Waves sixty feet high. Hurricane winds. Sixteen days. Then thirty-six hours crossing unmapped mountains to the whaling station. 🏔️ August 1916. All twenty-two men rescued from Elephant Island. Not one life lost. In a lifeboat. Across the Southern Ocean. 🇬🇧 Your support pays for the research, the production and the hours it takes to get it right. Stories like Shackleton's deserve to be told properly. If you want to help keep them alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@UKLabour Thinly spread but corrupts everything it touches. #liebour #Starmergeddon

Pride in Britain, everyone who calls it home, and our place in the world. Vote Labour on 7 May.

Free for 270 years. Nobody ever asks why. 🇬🇧 In 1753 a British doctor called Hans Sloane died. He left 71,000 objects to the nation. On one condition. It must be free. For everybody. Forever. Parliament raised the money through a national lottery. And built the world’s first public museum. Not for the King. Not for the Church. For all of humanity. The idea was simple. Human history belongs to all of humanity. Not just the powerful. Not just a few. For everyone. 270 years later it still hasn’t charged a penny. 8 million objects. Two million years of human history. The Rosetta Stone. The Lewis Chessmen. The Sutton Hoo helmet. All of it free. Still today. The idea Britain invented in 1753 changed how the entire world keeps its history. This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you can afford to help keep it free for everyone else: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@dlLambo @georgegalloway How about posting about them killing thousands of their own people. #hypocites #IranWar‌

On BBC news now the TOP 3 news stories are ALL about a SINGLE US pilot who was illegally bombing Iran. They didn't give a fraction of this coverage to 185 KIDS murdered by the USA. This isn't news, it is blatant and sickening propaganda for war and the USA.

As it appears to be pensioner bashing weekend and pensioners seem to be the ones wholly responsible for the dire economic state of the country, I thought I'd apprise you all of some facts and figures. Between April 2024 and March 2025, the cost of keeping asylum seekers in hotels was £2.1 billion. In 2023, £15.3 billion was spent on foreign aid. As of August 2025, there were 740,000 people aged between 16 and 24 years old receiving Universal Credit. The benefits bill for people aged between 16 and 64 in 2024/25 was £123 billion. In this decade (2020s), our annual net zero transition costs are estimated to be £125 billion. UK quangos cost the taxpayers between £376 - 391 billion per year (2023/4 figures). MPs' expenses (not salaries) are in the region of £130 - 150 million a year. The UK has committed to give the European Space Agency £1.84 billion for the period 2022/27. Since 2022, the UK has committed to give Ukraine £21.8 billion. The UK continues to give money to the EU under the Brexit divorce. As at March 2024, there is still £6.4 billion outstanding. 'Free breakfasts' in schools cost the UK taxpayers an estimated 1 billion per year. I'm sure I could go on. But it's just too depressing. The spending is out of all control, and rising. The interest on our national debt rises daily. And we're governed by socialists who love spending everyone's money but their own. As do all governments and councils. But, of course, it's all the fault of old age pensioners. Rolls eyes. A lot. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

“When measured in real terms, after Brexit total exports rose by more than 23 percent, from £735 billion in 2015 to £905 billion in 2025.” Post-Brexit, Britain is not only doing more trade, but diversification thereof means we’re less reliant on the EU. thecritic.co.uk/brexit-was-not…

The Queen banned them. 50,000 people rioted anyway. 🍞👑 In 1592 Queen Elizabeth I banned the sale of spiced buns. You could only buy one on Good Friday. Christmas. Or at a funeral. So every Good Friday the Chelsea Bun House opened at 3 in the morning. And the crowds came. George II came. George III came. Queen Charlotte turned up and gave the baker a silver mug containing five guineas as a thank you. 👑 In 1792 the crowd got so out of hand that the baker Mrs Hand publicly announced there would be NO hot cross buns the following year. She changed her mind. In 1839, the last year of the Bun House, they sold 240,000 hot cross buns. In one day. 🇬🇧 The nursery rhyme dates to 1733. You are still eating them today. This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you want to be part of keeping it alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@RSKellner @MAC_ARMY1 British bases in the UK, Diago Garcia and Cyprus are being currently used by the USA. Below is are photo of my father in law on HMS Beagle helping rescue American crew from LST 314 off the beaches on D day. Three generations of our family have served alongside US forces!

Iran was always a threat to Europe, yet our British, Spanish and Italian allies—scared of the invading Islamic migrants in their nations--refused to help the US against Iran, not even to use their bases or fly in their airspace. THESE COWARDS have imperiled #NATO. #WWII #History

In this paper we explain the madness of current UK policy on hydrocarbons - and challenge the uni-party drive to bankrupt the country on the altar of globally irrelevant net zero targets. gbbc.uk/uk-deindustria…

Nobody actually knows where April Fools' Day came from. 🎭 But the best theory involves Britain, a Pope, and eleven days that simply ceased to exist. For over 1,600 years Europe ran on the Julian calendar. Created by Julius Caesar. New Year fell on 1 April around the spring equinox. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII said the calendar had drifted ten days from the actual solar year. He introduced the Gregorian calendar. New Year moved to 1 January. 📅 France switched immediately. Most of Catholic Europe followed. Britain refused. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 For 170 years. When Britain finally gave in during September 1752, eleven days had to be removed to correct the drift. 2 September was followed immediately by 14 September. Eleven days. Gone. People rioted in the streets demanding them back. Meanwhile, not everyone got the memo about the new New Year. People who kept celebrating on 1 April were mocked. Sent on pointless errands. Called April Fools. 🐦 In Scotland it was called Hunting the Gowk. Gowk means cuckoo. A symbol for an idiot. In 1957 the BBC ran a straight-faced news report about the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Farmers harvesting spaghetti strands from trees. Thousands called in asking where to buy one. The BBC told them to plant a sprig in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best. 🍝 All because Britain refused to change the date. This is your history. 🇬🇧 This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you want to be part of keeping it alive: proudofus.co.uk/support 🇬🇧 Drop your best April Fools joke in the comments 👇 Or tell us what you've got planned today! Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

I’m sorry to say, but I think the time for @JoaniReid to step down from the role of MP has come. Having previously shared a stage with the @UKLabour MP at hustings I’m shocked by these allegations of espionage for China against her husband, shocked by her financial entanglement with her husbands activities, and sickened by these latest allegations relating to a nuclear submarine captain. The people of South Lanarkshire deserve someone focused on their needs and not skull duggery.

For the first time ever, the true cost of the Chagos Islands Deal is now in legal writing UK taxpayers would pay at least £50bn to give away the Chagos Islands and rent back our own territory of Diego Garcia Not Starmer's £3bn Not £36bn Not £46bn But £50bn+ Let that sink in

"Every red telephone box on earth was inspired by a grave." ☎️🇬🇧 Giles Gilbert Scott was born in 1880. His grandfather had designed the Albert Memorial. At 22, Giles won the competition to design Liverpool Cathedral. A building that would take 74 years to finish. In 1924 the Post Office held a competition. Design a telephone box for Britain's streets. Scott was one of three architects invited to submit. He didn't go to a drawing board. He went to a churchyard in St Pancras. And looked at a tomb. The dome on Sir John Soane's mausoleum. That dome. He drew it smaller. Cast iron. Red. He won. 🏆 The first red telephone boxes appeared on London streets in 1926. Then on every high street in Britain. Then across the British Empire. Today red telephone boxes stand in over 100 countries. They have been turned into libraries, defibrillators, art galleries. One of the most recognised objects on earth. Designed by the man who built Liverpool Cathedral. Inspired by a grave in a London churchyard. 🇬🇧 This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you want to be part of keeping it alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@BBCNews should you not be covering this? You are not a part of the government and should give balanced coverage. #Chagosislands #bbc

@Keir_Starmer why? Protecting your job is more important than firing Ed! #Starmergeddon #Liebour

@Keir_Starmer do you ever tell the truth? #Liebour #Starmergeddon