Royal Navy 32-year veteran Clearance Diving and Bomb & Mine Disposal officer, MBA, author and historian. Don't expect a response if you skulk behind an alias
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This was a cracking weekend in Gibraltar to commemorate the pioneers of the Royal Navy’s Clearance Diving branch.
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#RoyalNavy #WWII #NavalDiving #SecondWorldWar
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As ever, I am grateful to @PeterGHore for his tribute to my old boss, friend and golfing companion John Coggins in yesterday’s Telegraph.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/98bf9f3…
#RoyalNavy
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Inhumane facilities like this are banned in the EU and UK, as is the sale of any meat reared in such barbarous conditions.
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Rob Hoole 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 retweeted
ZULU Sqn have completed accuracy trials on their Seacat MUUV, confirming the sensor performance needed for modern mine warfare. Launching from civilian infrastructure means it can be deployed quickly wherever operations demand. #RoyalNavy #HybridNavy
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So hilarious I had to re-post it.
MAGA at its most typical.
Jason Selvig: “What’s Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year and a half?”
Trump supporter: “Trump’s done a lot of things. Number one, a lot of people don’t realize, he got our country back because we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain the last 125 years, they destroyed the evidence”
JS: “Wait, we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain?”
TS: “That’s why King Charles come here, he thought he was going to manipulate Donald Trump. And Trump went along with him cause that’s who he is. But that’s what the 250 years was really about was we got our country back. You just gon have to research just like I did. It’s true”
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Much of the UK news media seems to have swallowed and sensationalised talk by Conservative MP Chris Philp of a French patrol ship firing “warning shots” in French territorial waters whereas it was simply routine small arms practice against a towed target.
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Rob Hoole 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 retweeted
2 men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing anyone about family values.
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The highlight of Trump’s speech at yesterday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Excruciatingly cringeworthy.
Trump: "The other day a senator I knew got a text from his wife. She said, 'When you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.' And he said, 'I can't do both.' You know? Haha. In other words, haha, you can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?…In other words, he can't go up the stairs and make love. Too old. You know?…Does anybody understand this stuff?"
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Congratulations to Spain although I still think our 10-goal semi-final against France had the edge.
Overall, third place out of the 205 national teams that started the tournament in September 2023 ain’t that bad, is it?
Made with AI
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So good to see the warm camaraderie between the managers and players of both sides after the match. What a shame we didn’t field this team in the second half of the semi-final against Argentina.
The Spain-Argentina final will be an anticlimax after this goal fest.
What an extraordinary game 😱
Our @FIFAWorldCup campaign ends with a 6-4 win over France 💪
ALT Full-time: France 4-6 England
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At least we beat ‘em at a proper sport.
Small consolation, but England’s rugby team have just battered Argentina, who played in 1986 World Cup Maradona jerseys.
Seven players sent to the sin bin, England prop Ellis Genge hitting the Enzo Fernandez celebration, stadium mostly dead silent. Thanks for coming lads 👍
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Wow!
Josh Kerr has become the seventh British athlete to hold the world record for the mile. It had previously stood for 27 years.
Dr Roger Bannister, of course, was the first to break the four-minute mile.
History made 🔥
Great Britain's Josh Kerr roars to a world record in the men's mile, snapping a 27-year record in 3:42.66 at the London #DiamondLeague.
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