#Churchill

Alarmed by the number of novice drivers causing their tanks to topple over, the allied forces in WWII took the logical step of adding training stabilisers... Oh all right...This thing
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It's actually more complex than this.After Dunkirk, Britain was desperate for any help it could get. The lack of trained killers and the dearth of equipment left Britain vulnerable to
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It is, of course, utterly ridiculous for Boris Johnson to describe the UK's approach to Coronavirus as a 'success'. It's a bloody insult. We probably have the highest number of
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On your left: image from Google Photos courtesy Arup Halder, a view of the dinghy lending room of the Kalyani Public Library from 2019. The last shelf is for young
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While U.S. CIA involvement in experiments with mind¬altering drugs in the 1950s & 1960s was made public in Rockefeller Commission hearings 1975, emphasis upon abuses by U. S. intelligence agencies,
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The Secret History of the British 'Royals'[NEW THREAD] Please RT if you like this post I've been inspired to make this post after researching Gregory Hallett's claims that he is
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In 1975 Sir Michael Wilford became the British Ambassador to Japan. On 6 June 1944 he was a Captain and Troop ldr in 82 Assault Sqn RE, Churchill AVREs. He
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Temple Bar, Fleet Street.London historically was rather better managed than we give it credit for. With proper pavements since the 1760s (reportedly English & Scottish construction teams raced each other
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Johnson’s “build build build” speech was good politics. Yes as been documented already on social media, it was full of lies, reheated old “promises” and fake numbers. But it sets
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Ken Livingstone did nothing wrong: a thread The bottom line is this: Livingstone was pushed out by Labour, and betrayed by his own comrade Jeremy Corbyn, for the supposed crime
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The Cause of World Unrest (1920) by Howell Arthur Gwynne, Editor The Morning Post, London.https://samisdat.info/books/the-cause-of-world-unrest-1920 “Want and opinion are the two agents which make all men act. Cause the want,
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Some funny facts about high ranking axis figures (thread) Hitler:-Was terrified of Cats-He had a favourite Alligator named Saturn which he often visited at the Berlin Zoo, he was taken
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THREAD:While Foreign policy experts try to understand why China is provoking multiple countries at once, here's a blast from the past:WW2: Just before the start of World War 2, Nazi
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Thread on the importance of @CWGC and the way every beautifully tended grave can unlock the stories of lives lost and sacrifices made. I saw this lonely stone in a
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The Commandos of the Second World War brought a new type of capability and would be used for many Operations such as Chariot, Jubilee and Overlord, just to name three
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What is Johnsonism? Is it a useful concept? What are its social bases & how does it cohere them? What are it’s likely strategies and limits? What’s the role of
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