My third career is as an historian currently exploring the story of British manufacturing and its impact on our society. https://britishmanufacturinghistory.uk/ I had previously written on army supply in War on Wheels, Ordnance and Dunkirk to D Day.
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@pippacrerar.bsky.social the resignation just underlines what an impossible job Starmer has to wrestle. There is not enough money to pay for our defence ambitions (even if the numbers added up) and to solve the myriad of social problems bequeathed by austerity. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hitler and Lord Haw Haw had medium wave, around 3KHz. Putin and Farage have X,RT and GB News, amplified via the BBC.
Reform are destabilising the country.
#bbcbreakfast
@johnharris1969.bsky.social when I saw the strap line to your piece, I thought no way - a civil war? Come on it’s just a bunch of thugs. I then read on and I quote ‘A nation with solvable problems is being recast as violent dystopia, and why?
To smooth the path to power of some of the most terrifying politicians Britain has ever seen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have studied army supply and can say that since the end of WW2 the military have complained that expenditure was inadequate. Our defence ambitions far exceed our financial ability. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
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As if Northern Ireland hasn’t suffered enough. These right wing shits must stop now.
@theguardian.com hard copy headline describes the rioting in Northern Ireland as anti immigrant protests. Please be honest - this is violence by racists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#Kiev belongs in the liberal west. What an example, not least in the young audience. Thank you Charlotte Higgins and @guardian for bringing joy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
If we need a metaphor for Trump’s America it is surely this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It is a problem that runs right through our national dna. We were perhaps a leading country but that was a long time ago. We can’t have higher defence spending and more social housing and people not being treated in hospital corridors philwriterthoughts.blogspot.com/2024/02/livi...
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Former defence secretary accuses PM of putting UK’s security at risk at a time of growing international threats
