James Fennell

Rearming Britain and Europe — The Task Ahead The road to a rearmed Britain and Europe will be perilous and expensive. There’s no time to waste on the task ahead.

Rearming Britain and Europe — The Task Ahead | "The road to a rearmed Europe will be perilous and expensive. There’s no time to waste." @jamesfennell.bsky.social

My plan for Britain and European rearmament as Trump takes America to the dark side.

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them.

It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday.

And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff.

Incompetence will be deadly.

My piece fo CEPA on Britains strategic challenges now we can no longer subcontract our security to the USA.

Defending Britain Without the US Britain has subcontracted its defense strategy to the US and NATO since the 1960s. Now it’s coming home and urgent work is needed.

Defending Britain Without the US | "The UK has subcontracted grand strategy to the US and NATO since the 1960s. Now it’s coming home and urgent work is needed to make it credible." @jamesfennell.bsky.social

❗️🇩🇪Germany has decided to purchase 🇫🇮Finnish Patria 6×6 APCs as the main armored personnel carrier for the army. It is reported that Germany wants to buy a total of 1,000 of these APCs.

One of these things is not like the others.

Expert calls for NATO collaboration to lower tank costs Defense analyst Nicholas Drummond has highlighted the escalating costs of main battle tanks, warning that current procurement practices are unsustainable. In a post shared on social media, Drummond st...

Expert calls for NATO collaboration to lower tank costs

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Ships crews are becoming smaller - Albion and Bulwark have 300+ core crew, whereas Bays have a core crew of 70.

The radicalised billionaire Elon Musk is Just Amplifying Questions

[The question is whether successive UK governments have pursued a treasonable agenda of great replacement + White Genocide and so are responsible for an inevitable coming inter-ethnic civil war]

Setup my new writing station on my boat ‘Marianne’. Lord Byron enjoying his new perch. Dewinterisation nearly done. New Bimini to fit then off into the wild blue.

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

I used this app

You need a little familiarity with GitHub and computers, but works after trial and error..

github.com/marcomaroni-...

Am importing my full set of threads from X.... wouldbe great if they are shared so I can build up following on Blue Sky too.

Thank you (don't feel obliged!)

Just discovered that my ancestor (4th great grandfather) Richard Anderson was Master of HMS Phaeton, Excellent and Captain during the Napoleonic wars (1797-1801). How cool is that! @kejamieson_

Very interested in the future of Loyal Wingman projects. RAF and RN have programmes of record. Australia, Sweden and BAe have interesting programmes with connection to UK requirement through AUKUS and GCAP.

DAF manufactures trucks in Leyland, pretty much every DAF truck registered in the UK is built in Lancashire. They also have a military CF series - and MV make armoured cabs for them in Scotland. They could be built here. Do we think about DAF as a supplier? @thinkdefence

Here a few things which are being produced, or could rapidly be so, in UK and should be useful. HMT hardtop variants..

A quick look at the British workboat buliding sector... Joshua Preston build aluminum workboats and landing craft in Cornwall

If you followed your childhood dream job, what would you be right now? https://x.com/Mr_A_McSquiffy/status/1758505012815130671

First of an occasional series on boats. I own a river cruiser currently in Burgundy, France (this is not her, but same place) - it’s my escape from Ukraine where work takes me.. planning to do Flanders battlefields in Marianne soon.. 1/

What a beauty spotted this morning

Memorial to the defence of the town during the Franco-Prussian war -a couple of bronze 6 pounder Napoleons, also used in ACW.

Was in Kharkiv yesterday - there is a Mk V tank there! - from 1919 Russian Civil War British Army deployment. This is not my photo, but tank on memorial in city centre, a T34-85 on next plinth.

Saturday at last

The British Army Review – Summer 2023

Reading the British Army Review summer edition on 'how we will fight' - some nuggets
1⃣ loitering munitions (lots of them)
2⃣ C-UAS on Boxer
3⃣ enhancement to Boxer RWS (30mm?)
4⃣ 30mm armed UGV for light forces forces https://issuu.com/chacr_camberley/docs/british_army_review_183

Good luck Mark https://x.com/TheHillTimes/status/1877366066550112548

Amid intense debate over whether there should be a new national inquiry into abuse by grooming gangs, the chair of IICSA Alexis Jay - who also conducted the Rotherham inquiry that reported in 2014 (which I also reported on) - has called for action rather than further “consultations and discussions”

Yeah, I know its becoming Völkischer Beobachter or Pravda, and I'm not wanting to either read or support divisive propaganda...

Patrick Sanders? https://x.com/larisamlbrown/status/1877088799072682384

Imagine if Trump got excited about the Antarctic, and demanded we sell him the Falklands or he will considerusing force.

How would the right wing press spin that?