Dan Kaszeta FRHistS

WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at a Reform UK petrol station They have pledged to reinstate the 5p fuel duty cut in their first Budget

Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy.

So much dignity going on.

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Guess Hegseth was called in early for a briefing and drove himself.

But the smoked eels are divine.

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It was a cost cutting exercise and not a strategic response. U.K. lost critical niche capabilities which it could no longer replicate and has left military shockingly underprepared. So when press and Badenoch go after Starmer about the state of our military just remember who is really responsible

The Essex Lion which is actually a housecat seen after too many lagers.

David Icke

America moves farther from the light every damned day

sorry. "Animals are too woke and you will have to shoot your cats and dogs now. But it's due to LibDems and Greens and Methodists and Vegans" - Kemi, probably

Reform’s Malcolm Offord is recycling a dangerous racist trope Nigel Farage’s leader in Scotland is recycling early 20th-century American rhetoric about foreign men to whip up fear

Reform’s Malcolm Offord is recycling a dangerous racist trope

So, the Tories have declared animals as "woke".

Is Kemi going to do a Noem and starting shooting dogs?

Bejebus, man, why do you gotta get into my world.

Nigel Farage’s ridiculous war on heat pumps will leave Britain in the cold | LBC Tax cuts will benefit the rich while doing nothing to fight climate change, writes Alex Chapman

Reform's plans to cut heat pump grants to fund tax cuts is of most benefit to the wealthiest people - what we need is to use green tech to support families struggling with high energy bills. @alchap.bsky.social writes for @lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...

Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?

To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics

The warnings are there for us all to see

BBC Verify live page graphic showing (left) the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, seen by satellite, from Sentinel-2, Copernicus, on 27 February; (right) a map of the Middle East with Crete, Israel and Iran marked, as well as the location of the Ford.

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A long first week of the Iran conflict and a team effort by BBC Verify to supply news outlets.

Here's my contribution explained with how-to examples.

First, 24 hours' wait, we finally saw the USS Gerald R Ford after it left Crete. My piece with Barbara Metzler:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Compare this thread to the Chilcot Checklist, produced after the invasion of Iraq to avoid another stupid war.

Nigel Farage told us Brexit would give
£3 billion more a year to our NHS

He now says Britain is so broke,
our NHS needs to be scrapped
replaced by US-style healthcare insurance
bankrupting thousands, leaving thousands more to die

He lied before
He hasn't apologised
He's still lying

Bit young to be an Oldie.

The BBC will regret jettisoning the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race

The Conservative press are all up in arms over the BBC "losing the rights to the boat race" like it's some great national betrayal.

Meanwhile, in the real world:

● LBC had the radio rights from 2005 to 2010

● ITV had tv rights from 2005 to 2009

● Nobody else cares

This week, the Home Office launched a consultation on its Use of Force Policy - indicating its intent to use force on families and children during enforced removals.
Let's be clear: using force on children is utterly unacceptable. Period.

If this were X I’d be told off for being a godless woke communist for even looking at a bus

Hah

I still think about this a lot.

Good

Any fool knows Bluebird is on the Kings Road not Fulham Road

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Quite the thread.

On the other hand word finally seems to be getting through that you can’t pay cash on a London bus. This changed years ago but people still try

I’ve only ever heard of this legendary event