Erik Parker

Brexit was in Russia's interests. Not Britain's.

YouTube video by LincsPod WWII POW’s Heartbreaking Artwork for His Little Boy #WW2 #RAF

I just about managed to tell this story... www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZpZs...

America is getting a royal yacht isn’t it?

The discovery and exploitation of mineral oil saved the Sperm whale from extinction

This whole "you're not mentally ill you're just weak" bollocks being pumped out by the BBC this morning is really really dangerous.
If you're finding life hard to handle, please please please seek help.
Your GP won't be one of the anonymous wankers telling the BBC that you're wasting their time.

A few weeks after he took over SOCOM Holsey met with Hegseth on a secure video conference, and received his marching orders. “You’re either on the team or you’re not,” Hegseth told Holsey, according to notes from a participant. “When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.”

I was looking at the Furious class picture and wondering why you’d have a Gloster Javelin as a Carrier based aircraft😀

Ooh! Who’s read Clauswitz Cliffsnotes?

An amazing feat of airmanship! I was lucky to hit the airfield with a glider!

Sad to hear, loved his talk to the @whwnorthernic.bsky.social when we visited, and I remember him bringing the Vulcan into Catterick for the fire school.

What’s with the orthodox beard?🤣

YouTube video by Essential RC HIGHLY DETAILED RC Blackburn R-1 RECON aircraft AMAZING INTERNAL DETAIL [*UltraHD and 4K*]

Whilst on the subject of the Blackburn R.1, I'll treat you all a bit more with this.
If I owned it, it would be hanging from my living room ceiling when not being flown. A fantastic model.
#Blackburn #Aviation #AvGeeks #HistScaleModels #RC
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At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email gwgfreetalks@gmail.com for zoom logins

A section of The Times obituary of Clive Dunn describing his teenage involvement with the British Union of Fascists, and reason for leaving them, as he would not stand for antisemitism.

How to deal with accusations of teenage fascism, by Clive Dunn.
1. Admit that you were attracted by fascism as a teenager and give a brief explanation.
2. ⁠Recognise fascism for what it is and leave.
3. (the key bit) Spend the rest of your life not being a fascist.
N. Farage take note.

Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, has revealed that she no longer believes in God.

Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this.

Pretty brazen...

When Americans Shoot Down Their Own Planes, The Fiery Story of Q-Birds The Warplanes That Lived to Die Another Day

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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Agreed, I think it was one of the best things I’ve done to improve my pictures.

Saw you on the COAP course the other week, looking forward to next years aviation pictures!

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

This quote? bsky.app/profile/rutg...

A street sign for the village of Wank in Austria

Also in Austria is

OK - pie discourse - best pie story:

In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*

The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.

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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today in 1944, at Roermond in the Netherlands, sound recordist Lt Peter Handford points his microphone at 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, and captures their singing at an open air church service. 🔊 #history #ww2

Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Andrew Tate @Cobratate X.com Let me make this loud and clear. If you're a straight man with a girlfriend in 2025, you're gay.

These schmucks are approaching what I like to call a "reverse Afghanistan" sexuality here:

YB-58 (aircraft № 1). Cover of Aviation Week magazine. Issue February 25, 1957.

Convair B-58 Нustlеr 🧵

The B-58 was the most technologically advanced aircraft of its time. A Mach 2 capable, wasp-waisted war chariot, drawn by four J79s, that included silver brazed stainless steel honeycomb sandwich panels in its design.

In case you missed it: our investigation into how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of thing is often reported as "perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken".

But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.

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I wrote a few words about Mani for The Sunday Times - I didn’t know it would be behind a paywall, so here it is if you would like to read it:

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Grasping at their opportunity to wield prime ministerial power without prime ministerial responsibility, whilst also being supremely incompetent and complacent as I recall.