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A second frontline F-35B Lightning stealth fighter squadron has been stood up by the UK.
809 Naval Air Squadron, known as the Immortals, has a long and distinguished history and has been recommissioned as the nation’s second front-line fighter squadron operating the F-35B Lightning stealth fighter.
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In true grognard fashion my final thoughts on Napoleon will just be a thread of screenshots of Sergei Bondarchuk's 1970 epic "Waterloo."
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“There is not an industrialised country in the world that has cut their carbon emissions faster than Britain”
The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson says Britain has made great progress toward Net Zero, adding “we’re incredibly down on ourselves”
#bbcqt bit.ly/3Zt4wZF
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NEW: The first generation of #AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines will be built in the UK, based on the UK’s world-leading submarine design.
Great news for British jobs and great news for global security.
A brilliant sounding idea. I've signed up and ready to hear more. The dearth of history documentaries on the BBC and elsewhere is scandalous. But it has led to huge amounts of home made content on places like YouTube where you can find a history documentary on almost anything.
Read my piece in @Telegraph on mainstream TV's abandonment of history and what the crack team @ContentClub_ is doing about it. @Sarah_Jobling @CCJKFarren @joefarren4 telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/mainstr…
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Why did the UK destroy and replace so many of its old Victorian buildings?
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Poland has had enough of Germany’s nonsense.
On supplying Leopard 2 tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Consent is of secondary importance here. We will either obtain this consent quickly, or we will do the right thing ourselves.”
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The launch window for the first orbital satellite launch from the UK opens on Monday, from 22:16 GMT. ✈️🛰️
The mission's name is #StartMeUp - in tribute to the iconic British band @RollingStones. 👅
Read more 👉 gov.uk/government/case-studi…
#LaunchUK | #CountdownToCornwall
ALT Mission patch for Start Me Up mission, featuring LauncherOne rocket and satellite partner information in stylised badge graphic, overlaid on image of Newquay Spaceport from above.
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30 November 1874.
To Lord Randolph, 3rd son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough
& Lady Jennie Spencer-Churchill (nee Jerome)
At Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire
Born prematurely (he would later say, in a hurry)
A son
Winston Leonard
Humanity gives thanks for his birth and service
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#OnThisDay 1920 the destroyer HMS VERDUN sailed from Boulogne with the body of Britain's Unknown Warrior. The Unknown Warrior was buried in
@wabbey the following day to remember the unknown British dead from #WW1 (The war to end all wars) #Remember
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The Atlantic Future Forum on board the UK’s Aircraft Carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. The Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines flash-mobbing Grand Central Station (spontaneous, but carefully planned). What a spectacular week! @HMSQNLZ @FirstSeaLord
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We are rejoicing in our history, in a 1,000-year-old hall built before most nations existed.
Because we probably could do it all in flip-flops and t-shirts…on Teams.
But we’ve learned, over centuries, that ceremony tells stories about people and places we prefer not to forget.
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Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian mechanized forces utilizing British-donated FV103 Spartans in the latest offensive.
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1st female PM Tory
2nd female PM Tory
3rd female PM Tory
1st Jewish PM Tory
1st minority Chancellor Tory
2nd minority Chancellor Tory
1st minority Home Sec Tory
2nd minority Home Sec Tory
1st minority Health Sec Tory
1st nonwhite Foreign Sec Tory
1st minority in PM run off Tory
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Boris Johnson and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will attend HMS Anson's commissioning ceremony being held in Barrow today with 🇦🇺Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. #AUKUS
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BRITISH SHIPBUILDING: BAE Systems is set to build a new £200 million assembly hall at its Govan site on the Clyde. The facility will enable the British engineering giant to build at least two ships simultaneously under cover and in single hull format for the first time.#UKmfg🇬🇧
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£36bn added to the recent £21bn already spent on subsidising energy bills is enough to have built three 3.5 Gigawatt nuclear power stations, enough to meet a third of our energy needs. Maybe Davey should have thought more long term when he was Energy Secretary a decade ago.
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