Simon James Shephard

Almost Retired Soldier sometime Scholar. Co-authoring ‘The Steps to Glory’ a history of commissioning into the British Army from 1660-2025. All views my own

[Simon James Shephard @ShephardSimon]

https://t.co/oODAH3E3Wh

You can now register interest in Vol 1 of our longitudinal study into officer commissioning in Britain's Land Forces.

If you hold, or have held, a commission, or have taught OCdts and would like to support our research for Vol 2 please comment below.

[Simon James Shephard @ShephardSimon]

@NatashaMDay Take care of you Tash

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

So proud and excited that the first medal groups from my VC and GC collection have gone on display at the National Army Museum. The full collection of 245 VCs will go on display here in due course @NAM_London @johnsonbeharry

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Six years ago the House of Commons & House of Lords held a minute’s silence in memory of George Floyd, a man in America. They then debated race & policing.

As Britain watches the video of Henry it would be nice if our leaders offered him & his family the same courtesy.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I will honestly never understand why so many people seem desperate for men to be able to undress etc in front of women and little girls…. In a female single-sex space.

It blows my mind & alarms me in equal measure.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

There are some stonking memes out there 🤣

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 7
Perhaps a succinct précis of what ails this government, with Keir Starmer the heart of the problem:
Mandelson: ‘They [10 Downing Street] don’t work as a team, they are not led and none of them really know what Keir [Starmer] thinks or wants.
‘In fact most of them don’t think Keir knows what he wants.’
In these 33 words Mandelson sums up why this government , despite its landslide majority, has gone off the rails so quickly and so completely.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Watching a succession of straight MPs like Christine Jardine & Pete Wishart claiming to speak for the “LGBT community”. They don’t speak for me or the many lesbians who have got our rights back thanks to the Supreme Court. Their virtue signalling is extraordinarily ill informed.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Cowardly from the @fbunational turning off reply’s…unions are lost to misogyny. It is not ok to ask female fire fighters to get undressed in front of males! Do better

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

When I did my first Olympics there were three men to every female at the Olympics. There were numerous sports where women couldn’t play or events womens didn’t have a category in. We have fought long & hard to get any sort of parity! We are now going backwards again.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Bye, Ed

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Another man ready willing and able to take away women’s rights… how kind is that???

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Lee Fox @Foxy2Para]

Love this picture, a few of us on day release ready to support local businesses 👀

[Chip Chapman @NotesFASMil]

Hail to Chris Keeble - the architect of this.
War is a dung heap, but it is a dung heap on which grow some remarkable blooms - and his humanity was part of that bloom.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

No one is stopping anyone using a public bathrooms. That is a lie. Gaslighting & emotional blackmail. I do not want this male is my changing room with me, my daughter or especially my little grand daughter. It is up to other men to make it safe for this non conforming male, who will forever remain a male, into their spaces. Safely. Women are not human shields for these males. Or should ever be expected to give up their things including sports, for them.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Funny, isn’t it, how women who’ve been raped or beaten are accused of ‘weaponising’ their trauma when they ask for male-free spaces, but trans-identified men who claim using the Gents has a higher mortality rate than armed combat are met with credulity and simpering concern.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.

[Kieran Wilson 🍁👑 @ksm_wilson]

Shorts are also fine if you're presenting Victoria Crosses at the front.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup