Dan Rex

Carpe Diem. All views are my own.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@RestIsPolitics Just talking in an echo chamber

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

Thank you for your leadership on this. As you say ‘pure unfettered evil’. Those responsible must be brought to account. This is by some margin the greatest scandal our nation has faced.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

Legends

[Gary Holman @GaryGaryholman]

Fact Slap 👋

Today in 1982, Major General Jeremy Moore flew from HMS FEARLESS to the outskirts of Port Stanley for a meeting that would decide the fate of the Falklands War.

The British commander had arranged to meet General Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Governor of the Falkland Islands and commander of all Argentine forces on the islands.

Escorted by his staff and with the route secured by Royal Marines and Paratroopers, Moore entered Port Stanley to negotiate the surrender of the Argentine garrison.

Waiting for him was a surrender document that had already been prepared.

The meeting was professional and largely cordial, but there was one immediate disagreement.

Menéndez objected to the use of the term “unconditional surrender” in the document. Moore agreed to remove the word “unconditional”, allowing negotiations to proceed.

Further terms were discussed.

Argentine units would surrender their weapons and ammunition at designated collection points. Officers would be permitted to retain their sidearms. Argentine regimental colours and battle flags would not be confiscated. The surrender would be conducted with dignity, behind closed doors, and there would be no public humiliation or victory parade through the streets of Stanley.

Menéndez also requested that Argentine personnel be repatriated aboard Argentine naval and civilian vessels.

The request was refused.

The prisoners would instead be transported back to Argentina aboard British ships under British control.

For both commanders, the priority was now to end the fighting and prevent any further unnecessary loss of life.

After seventy-four days of war, the final details were being negotiated.

The battle for the Falklands was over.

All that remained was for the documents to be signed.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

What an exceptionally brave lady

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

Worth listening to in full

[The Spectator @spectator]

The last Prime Minister to resign over national security was Neville Chamberlain in 1940.

Eighty six years later, Sir Keir Starmer's defence secretary and armed forces minister have resigned because they believe the current PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer are endangering national security through their refusal to fund the armed services properly.

The UK is ranked 31st out of 32 on a database comparing how Nato members are meeting their rearmament promises. The only country below us is Iceland, which has no armed forces.

There could be no worse an accusation by a (now former) Defence Secretary. This should be climactic for Starmer. And yet there is zero possibility of him resigning in shame or, as with Chamberlain, having lost the confidence of his own MPs.

✍️ Stephen Pollard

Article | https://t.co/uIGGAI3x7A

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@ColinBrazierTV @CatharineHoey It has propagated an increasingly dangerous divide between rulers and ruled.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

This is the one I am most proud of. Thank you. I could not have done it without you. 🇬🇧

Every story we have ever told now comes with a free lesson. Plan, sources, quiz, printable worksheet. KS2 to A-Level. Free for every child in Britain, and the world, for ever.

A generation is taught to be ashamed of this country.

This hands them the truth instead.
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[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@Telegraph Why on earth should this be taxpayer funded?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

"Am I not a Man? And a Brother?" 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The most famous image of the fight against slavery was made in a Staffordshire pottery.

Josiah Wedgwood was the most famous potter in England. Born in Burslem in 1730, he turned pottery into an industry: division of labour, costed processes, and a heat gauge for his kilns so good the Royal Society made him a Fellow in 1783.

Then he used all of it for something that mattered.

In 1787 he joined the new Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and commissioned a small jasperware medallion: a kneeling African man in chains, hands raised, and 5 words around the rim.

"Am I not a man and a brother?"

He paid for them himself. He never sold one. He gave away thousands, and shipped a batch across the Atlantic to Benjamin Franklin.

People wore them as brooches, hairpins, and snuff boxes. To wear it was to say, without a word, where you stood. It became the badge of the whole movement.

Arguably the first political logo in history. And every ribbon, wristband and awareness pin since traces back to a potter in Staffordshire who decided to use his kiln for something more than dinner plates.

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He could have stuck to selling china to the rich. He chose to hand a movement its face instead.

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[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@ColinBrazierTV @AllisonPearson Glad Royal suceeded

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@gregbagwell @Steven_Swinford @tnewtondunn A question that has vexed me for sometime now, as I have witnessed the complete hollowing out of Defence, is whether there should be any circumstances under which a CDS and the Chiefs should resign. Would it simply be a pointless sacrifice or worse, considered mutinous?

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@KathrynPorter26 It is not just the stupidity rather the dishonesty, lack of integrity, honour and his all consuming self ambition, that is so repugnant.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@jk_rowling @Dominic2306 This man is so clearly unfit for public office

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

I do like @jk_rowling ! C:

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@LaurenMaeve @bealejonathan Out of genuine curiosity, on what basis did you think the Hammond was a ‘dam good defence secretary’?

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@michaelsavage Good choice

[Dan Rex @DanMRex]

@UKCDS_MOD @DefenceHQ @DanJarvisMBE I am just speechless.