Cricket fan. Traveller. Fascinated by history. Penchant for classic cars. Back-up account for @nickfshort.
Bath, England
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The latest Twitter lunacy. I'm now locked out of my main account for telling someone who asked that I had an Amazon delivery of 'r**or blades.' Twitter seems to think I'm promoting suicide. See you in twelve hours!
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Column this week is on the brave women of Iran, and the cowardly leaders who mourn President Raisi telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05…
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We pay tribute to the men & women who stood to fight the Russian invaders
RIP – Oleh Parkulab, Maksym Kyrpa, Dmytro Matsko, Oleh Rybalchenko
These put their bodies
Btwn us & the flaming skies,
Btwn us &a night as foul
As ever fell on European eyes
#ArmUkraineToWinNow
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I think we should stop saying "the war in Ukraine" and start saying "the war in Europe" instead.
This is the largest war on the European continent in eight decades.
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The regime which murdered Nika Shakarami, which has occupied my country for the last 45 years, which is happy to sacrifice any number of people, including Palestinians - in its pursuit of global Shia revolution: this regime is not your friend. In fact, there can be no peace until this regime is no more.
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BLOOD AND IRON: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 is on offer on @AmazonKindle
You get one Bismarck, three Kaisers and four wars, all for just £1.29!🤯
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Good news, lads. Twitter will respond in 5 - 7 days relating to my 12-hour ban on @nickfshort. Well, that's a relief.
See you in twelve hours. Hopefully.
Cc. @guywalters @kreuzberged @MClaudeHawkes @stockotrader @Roger_Moorhouse @davidjmcarson1 @philmcraig @pirateirwin @fugitiveink
#FreeNickShort
I've just got a twitter ban on @nickfshort for advising a friend to be on guard when watching 'Zone of Interest' as it's a tough view. I used 'violentlanguage' apparently. Seems the twitter algorithm had never heard of the phrase I used. Honestly, this platform is beyond parody.
I've just got a twitter ban on @nickfshort for advising a friend to be on guard when watching 'Zone of Interest' as it's a tough view. I used 'violentlanguage' apparently. Seems the twitter algorithm had never heard of the phrase I used. Honestly, this platform is beyond parody.
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Very disturbing.
⚡️Reuters: US officials say China aids Russia's massive military expansion.
Supplies from China are helping Russia launch its "most ambitious defense expansion since the Soviet era and on a faster timeline than we believed possible."
kyivindependent.com/reuters-…
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This is so dumb. I’m proud to wear this patch on my armour, and if I fall in the line of duty, I’d be proud to die with this flag on my chest.
If you do not take pride in the country you want to represent as a politician, then stand aside for people who do.
Keir Starmer faces discontent as Labour MPs reject union jack election flyers theguardian.com/politics/202…
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#OTD 1933, an ardent social-democrat, Berlin MP and since 1926 official director of Strandbad #Wannsee, the popular lido at the bight of the river Havel, Hermann Clajus committed suicide to escape imminent loss of is post, imprisonment and possibly tortures at the hands of Nazi thugs.
Having been warned by friends about the planned arrest and knowing what happened to others who shared his fate (see tweets 11.03 and the story of the medical staff at Berlin's Krankenhaus am Urban in Kreuzberg), Clajus shot himself in his office at the lido.
His body was cremated at the Wilmersdorf Crematorium. Today a Stolperstein (stumbling stone) before his house in Schützallee 45 and a plaque at the Wannsee lido, commemorate his name.
Images:
1. Portrait of Hermann Clajus, via Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (The German Resistance Memorial Centre), Berlin.
2. Stumbling stone for Hermann Clajus, image via Projekt Stolpersteine Teltow-Zehlendorf at stolpersteine-berlin.de
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On the night of 9/10 February 1940, 140 000 Polish civilians were deported into Russia. The forced deportation to "Nieludzka ziemia" (The Inhuman Land) just began.
Up to 1.5 million Polish citizens, including over 200,000 Polish prisoners of war, were deported by the NKVD from Soviet-occupied Poland to the Gulags. They were deported in four waves that occurred from February 10th 1940 through mid-June 1941. Most died of starvation and disease under forced labour.
Let us never forget them and their suffering!
Read more: britishpoles.uk/hunger-overc…
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Why are we still tolerating this nonsense?
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Ravilious worked as an official war artist during the Second World War, one of the many British artists commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC) to create a visual record of the war.
See more of his paintings here: bit.ly/3Gj79WU
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