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Mug open to grifters. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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“Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, nineteenth-century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar.”
T.S. Eliot
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An RAF drone has been used to monitor Russian warships in the English Channel for the first time.
The unarmed RAF Protector RG1 spent more than 10 hours surveying foreign vessels between late September and mid-October, alongside Royal Navy warships and helicopters.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Small memorials like this - parish churches, cricket clubs, schools - are, I think, among the most moving. A reminder of the cost of the Great War to the 'little platoons'.
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Navy eyes speeding up warship production to update ‘rotting’ fleet thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
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'One nation stands above all others in positively rewarding overseas visitors: Uruguay. This South American country is among the 99 per cent of destinations that would love to have a problem such as overtourism.'
Tolls on holidaymakers are proving increasingly common – but @SimonCalder looks inside a South American destination that has gone in the opposite direction ⤵️
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The amazing Art Deco design of the SS Normandie that sailed from Le Havre to New York (1935-39)
It was later taken over by the US Navy during WWII while docked in Manhattan to be used as troop transport but was destroyed by fire and never left port
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I will be sad if the Commonwealth burns down because of a few Caribbean leaders trying to get something they will never get. It has been an honourable association which, on the whole, has done much good.
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A fantastic 1960s snippet of how the British nuclear C2 network worked - showing how the Prime Minister car was dependent on the Post Office and 'AA Headquarters' to reach the PM in a crisis where his authorisation for nuclear retaliation was required!
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Meanwhile here in the US, the timeline of applying to the National Guard and shipping off to training is about 3 weeks.
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Podarowałem pieniądze na konserwację polskich grobów na cmentarzu Łyczakowskim we Lwowie i dostałem naklejki (:
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My artistically inclined son @Plothringen has created an appropriate 🎃 Halloween Jack o' Lantern
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Vivien Leigh looks as cold as ice as Ingrid Bergman arrives late for a dinner engagement in London in 1957. Leigh was obsessive about punctuality. Ingrid, a notoriously bad time keeper, was not.
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An historic day in Berlin: gilesmacdonogh.substack.com/…
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South Africa loves Boer War ‘traitor’ so much they restaged her funeral thetimes.com/world/africa/ar…
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medieval modern
edward schulte, st. anthony of padua, dayton, oh (1954)
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What did he make of her? Difficult to say. All the secretaries were just “Miss” to him. We remember the life of Churchill’s last-surviving personal secretary economist.com/obituary/2026/…















































