Bleddyn Bowen

A short time lapse of the fragmentation event on LUCH (OLYMP) #40258 that took place today, 2026-01-30 from 06:09:03.486 UTC.

The Parliamentary Press Gallery Staircase has been adorned with a fresh round of photos by PA’s photographer Stefan Rousseau

They prove he is the master at capturing politicians’ true character

Emergency alert prepared for Brits - with warning that will come to phones Whitehall officials are tracking debris from a Chinese rocket hurtling towards Earth, though the government says it is 'extremely unlikely' to hit Britain

Timing is everything…

YouTube video by AztecUK The Naked Gun 2½ - Nuclear Power Commercial

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In that case: Can all the people across society who didn’t go to university give all the benefits of university research and local economic activity back please.

The villains from Naked Gun 2 1/2 won.

All those Art of War for Business books are about to pay off.

Russia's only pad for crew launches suffers major damage in 2025 Service platform collapse at Site 31 in 2025

Roskosmos manager casts doubts on timely repairs of Soyuz pad.
DETAILS, UPDATES: www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur-r7-...

Have you considered writing a TV drama script?

a close up of a man in a suit and tie smiling ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie smiling

Where have I heard that one before...

As it happens I had this on order at the national archive at Kew today…

If the UK Government is not a guaranteed customer for the missiles, then the propsect looks immediately less attractive for the businesses loking at the tender. Either way, without replacing US ISR systems having just the UK missiles won’t address US dependency concerns.

Amazing how voters on the right, who might have been expected to be supportive of defence, are actually the most squishy on this issue.
www.thetimes.com/article/fb20...

Somehow I think there will be ‘more transatlantic conflict’ even if the deal is approved.

It was on Thursday that the first minister called again for policing to be devolved and on Monday that the home secretary rejected it

And if you think that’s hard, wait until
you hear about mining on the Moon!

That’s just a silly amount of satellites.

It's a matter of funding and cross-party political will. Entirely doable in material terms.

Yep. I had a strictly policed word-limited rant about Golden Dome and its sillyness (as a nuclear missile shield) here: www.astro-politics.org/articles/gol...

'They just blended into the Costco as if they weren't there, man!'

And next week we WILL read all of Clausewitz's Book VI: Defence, people!

*book club groans in unison*

Yeah I mean the sound advice for Tokyo remains to commit yourselves in earnest, but it's still crazy that the allies are doing all this heavy lifting when basically every strategic action and statement since last year has pointed to a massive US selling-out at the first opportunity

Why did the UK abandon Orbex? Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologise to my paid subscribers.

Interesting update from @andrewparsonson.bsky.social on the twists, shakes, and flips in UK launch and the Orbex situation.