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As it is that time of year again, here is W/C L.E. Healy's wonderful response to the Air Ministry's reminder, hours into the landings in Normandy, that 2TAF's Hawker Typhoon Bomphoons were not cleared to drop 1000lbs bombs. The Canadian Tiffys had already dropped 48 of them that morning... #dday

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

In my experience most white van drivers drive like they're trying to achieve this anyway

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

I tried to be polite about it before, but it probably bears emphasising: Given the UKs various defence budget black holes on existing or upcoming committments, both in terms of efforts like Dreadnought, GCAP, surface fleet, to say nothing of land forces, the talk of 12 AUKUS SSN is an utter fantasy.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 29 days ago • 140 comments

Jeez - all the money spent just to drop gravity bombs.

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Latest in-depth article: Royal Navy presents bold ambitions for the Future Air Dominance System www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-p...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

but seashells!

submitted 39 days ago • 1805 comments

I think about this comic at least once a week

submitted 46 days ago • 301 comments

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

submitted 46 days ago • 85 comments

Devastating, distressing and urgent journalism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Sobering read

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The US has blocked a G7 statement to condemn Russia for its Palm Sunday missile attack on Ukraine's city of Sumy, which killed at least 35 people and injured over 100, including children. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 71 days ago • 105 comments

NEW BLOG POST The final part of the series on the Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV), efforts to replace Land Rover and Pinzgauer. Comments and a proposal www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2025/04/ligh...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

submitted 76 days ago • 624 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Salute to all of the geniuses in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street, and in media c-suites who convinced themselves that what the USA needed was an autocrat CEO — and that Donald Trump was that executive. Brilliant, sirs. Just brilliant.

submitted 79 days ago • 33 comments

Production at this facility was temporarily shut down as they assessed the impact of tariffs going forward.

submitted 81 days ago • 157 comments

#TrumpTariffs The tariff list continues: Heaven 25% Disneyland 10% The Lost City of Atlantis 25% Narnia 35% Hogwarts 10% Oz 15% Enid Blyton’s Toytown 10% Middle-Earth 30% Jurassic Park 12% Utopia 15% Kanye West 25% Kanye East 15% Nipple 10% Paris Hilton 30% Rod Hull 10%.

submitted 82 days ago • 108 comments

🔥 🔥 🔥 www.ft.com/content/47c2...

submitted 82 days ago • 147 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 83 days ago • 503 comments

US: Europeans must take responsibility for their own defence US: NO NOT LIKE THAT

submitted 84 days ago • 23 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 84 days ago • 1056 comments

If the tariffs hit hard tomorrow - and to be honest, either way - the UK needs to respond with a strong 'Buy British' campaign. Canada has done it to great effect. Time for some progressive patriotism to stand up to the Orange Menace and his callous trade war.

submitted 84 days ago • 128 comments

Musk has so much to say about German and French and British and Ukrainian and South African internal politics but never a word about China or Russia. Strange, right? 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/elon...

submitted 85 days ago • 231 comments