Tony Jackson

Friend Warminster Athenaeum, Hospital, Rugby, Cricket, Wilts Wildlife, Ornithology. Retired military & humanitarian logistician

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Athenaeum presents:

Playboy of the Western World - @NationalTheatre Live

Sat 6 Jun 7pm

Young man enters pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Not shunned, killer becomes local hero until 2nd man unexpectedly arrives on the scene ..

Tickets £15: https://t.co/5fwooC4JRX

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Kurds should not allow themselves to be victims of Treaty of Sevres to which they were not signatory

[Kurds on X @kurdX_]

The Kurdish population is massive, yet historical treaties divided them into different states. Being separated by borders doesn't make the Kurds a minority it simply makes them the largest ethnic group in the world without an officially recognized country.

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

More power to your elbow

[Mir Yar Baloch @miryar_baloch]

The REPUBLIC OF BALOCHISTAN

SARFAROSHI KI TAMANA AB HAMARE DIL MAIN HAI

Until We Are Free"

We were not born to bend our heads,
Nor walk in chains the tyrants spread.
The mountains know, the rivers sing,
That freedom is the right of every living thing.

They built their walls of fear and steel,
But they could never crush our will.
For every voice they tried to silence,
A thousand more rose in defiance.

The night is long, the road is hard,
Many have fallen, standing guard.
Yet through the storm, through fire and pain,
The dream of freedom shall remain.

Let no child inherit fear,
Let no mother shed another tear.
Let justice shine where darkness stood,
And heal the wounds with hope and good.

Raise your voice, let courage lead,
For liberty is more than a creed.
No force on earth can forever bind
A people united in heart and mind.

And when the dawn breaks clear and bright,
After years of struggle and endless night,
The world will hear our solemn plea:

We shall not rest.
We shall not flee.
We shall not surrender.
Until we are free.

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Government policy failure. VAT on independent schools supposedly raises money for new teacher recruitment. Recruitment target woefully missed.

Meanwhile additional 30,000 pupils added to local authority schooling and SEND requirements

@ISC_schools @educationgovuk @hmtreasury

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Happy Wiltshire Day to all.

Disappointed that @ReevetheBaker not offering Wiltshire Pasty at discount.

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

More power to your elbow

[Dr Khalid AbuTayyem 🇬🇧 @KhalidAbuTayyem]

Bangladesh was able to separate from Pakistan in 1971, and now they are two neighboring countries because their people wanted to separate… Now, more than fifty years later, the Baloch are demanding the right to self-determination and separation from Pakistan and the Punjab government…

استطاعت ان تنفصل بنغلاديش من باكستان عام في عام ١٩٧١ و الان هم دولتين متجاورتين لان شعوبهم أرادوا الانفصال … و الان بعد اكثر من خمسين عام يطالب البلوش بحق تقرير المصير و الانفصال عن باكستان و حكومة البنجاب …

إِذا الشَّعْبُ يوماً أرادَ الحياةَ
فلا بُدَّ أنْ يَسْتَجيبَ القدرْ
ولا بُدَّ للَّيْلِ أنْ ينجلي
ولا بُدَّ للقيدِ أن يَنْكَسِرْ

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Free???

Of course they’re not free. They’re paid for by public purse

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Change doesn't happen by chance, it comes with with Labour🌹

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Generous gesture by @LordAshcroft Wise decision by @NAM_London

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

Proud to support the new National Army Museum display that reunites Johnson Beharry’s Victoria Cross and the Warrior vehicle in which he earned it during two acts of incredible bravery in Iraq in 2004. It's a must see @NAM_London @johnsonbeharry

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

@CFOTOCEAN hope that you can facilitate

[UN Ocean Decade @UNOceanDecade]

🌊 World Ocean Day for Schools is connecting students in 121 countries to their local blue spaces. Help add to the map, join the June 8 celebration, or share your blue career with students!

Register at https://t.co/7tTFyQXg5q

#GenOcean #OceanDecade #WorldOceanDay

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Another Sykes Picot oversight which @FCDOGovUK has had plentiful opportunities to correct but continues to fail

[ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ @TodayAssyria]

I am Assyrian Christian. ♥️
I call upon the international community to support a safe and secure homeland for the persecuted Assyrian Christians of the Nineveh Plains—the historic heartland of Assyria.

In 2003, there were an estimated 1.5 million Assyrian Christians living in Iraq. Today, fewer than 150,000 remain. Decades of violence, discrimination, terrorism, and forced displacement have driven our people from the land of our ancestors. 💔

The rise of ISIS brought one of the darkest chapters in our modern history. In 2014, ISIS swept across the Nineveh Plains, forcing entire Assyrian Christian communities to flee. Ancient churches and monasteries were desecrated, homes were seized, and families were given an impossible choice: convert, pay a religious tax, leave, or face death. Entire towns that had been Assyrian Christian for nearly two thousand years were emptied overnight.

For thousands of years, we have lived in Mesopotamia. We are the descendants of one of the world's oldest civilizations, and despite centuries of war, persecution, displacement, and genocide, we have endured.

The ancient stones, inscriptions, and monuments of Assyria bear witness to our story. They remind the world that we are not merely part of history—we are a living people.

🏛️ Our ancestors built the great cities of Ashur, Nineveh, Kalhu (Nimrud), and Dur-Sharrukin, creating one of the most influential civilizations of the ancient world.

📜 Assyria helped shape the history, culture, and development of Mesopotamia and the Near East.

🌍 Long before many modern states existed, Assyrians built thriving cities, libraries, roads, irrigation systems, and monuments that left a lasting mark on human civilization.

✝️ Among the first peoples of Mesopotamia to embrace Christianity, Assyrians carried the Christian faith across the Middle East, Persia, Central Asia, India, and beyond.

🕊️ Through empires, invasions, massacres, and exile, we preserved our language, faith, traditions, and identity.

📚 Our history stretches unbroken from ancient Assyria to the present day.

May the Assyrian people be allowed to live in peace, security, and dignity in their ancestral homeland in the Nineveh Plains.

#Assyrian #Assyrians #AssyrianChristian #AncientAssyria #Mesopotamia #Nineveh #Ashur #AssyrianHeritage #IndigenousPeoples #Christianity #MiddleEast #NinevehPlains #WeAreStillHere #Assyria #HumanRights

[Harry Theocharous @TheocharousH]

KAZAKHSTAN SAYS YES TO CYPRUS, NO TO TURKEY🚨

Kazakhstan publicly backs UN Security Council Resolutions 541 & 550, declaring the Turkish-occupied “TRNC” illegal and invalid.

Despite shared Turkic ties, not only Kazakhstan, but Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan too are refusing to recognize the occupation regime in northern Cyprus.

They continue to recognize only the Republic of Cyprus as the legitimate government of the entire island.
This move has angered Ankara and the occupation leader Tufan Erhurman, especially as President Christodoulides visits Kazakhstan to open a Cyprus embassy in Astana, sign MOUs and bilateral agreements.

A new connection between Cyprus and Kazakhstan started yesterday. Air Astana launched its inaugural direct flight from Astana to Larnaca. The return flight carried President Christodoulides and members of the government, making it the first official visit by a Cypriot president to Kazakhstan.

Cultural brotherhood has its limits, these Turkic states prioritize international law and pragmatic relations over doing Turkey any favors on the Cyprus issue.

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Shame on ZDF

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

BREAKING: Germany's ZDF public television, citing “overbooking” and a “thematic overlap,” refused to broadcast major new documentary that features debate on the role of UNRWA. BILD decided to screen the video for next two weeks: https://t.co/7nr4UBz7T3

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

More power to your elbow

[Mir Yar Baloch @miryar_baloch]

#BalochUprising
The sixty million people of the Republic of Balochistan stand united in their determination to expel the invading and occupying forces of neighboring Pakistan, ending decades of domination, occupation and asserting their right to live in freedom, dignity, and independence.

#PakistanVacateBalochistan

[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

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Good that you had a Sergeant Major Yolanda to keep you on straight and narrow

[HURRY UP & WAiT @Posted_to_BAOR]

For a short while I served with Fusion Force.

It was like a mix of SF, Thunderbirds & the Beverly Hillbillies………..

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

“….recover great power status..” Why oh why should we seek such a position? Better to acknowledge that we’re now a middle ranker and use our best efforts to create alliances to optimise security and economic prosperity

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

Britain has the assets - economic, diplomatic and cultural heft, as well as superb if under-resourced Armed Forces - to recover great power status. We just - currently - lack the leadership to do it.

https://t.co/f24AAGTsjy

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

Not a coffee table book but excellent Tales from the Mess Hall

[HURRY UP & WAiT @Posted_to_BAOR]

Hands up if you were one of the thousands of daft bastards who spent years swanning around NI, former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, risking life & limb for wages so pathetic they made a Big Issue seller think ‘nah, I’m good’.

The ‘Hurry Up & Wait’ trilogy. Out now on Amazon

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

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[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

More power to your elbow

[UN Ocean Decade @UNOceanDecade]

🪸Coral reefs are ocean heroes, but we risk losing up to 90% of them by 2050.

As part of the #OceanDecade, scientists are developing solutions to protect and restore coral reefs.

This #WorldReefDay, discover 4️⃣ of these pioneering initiatives: https://t.co/pHb4xmrjL9

[Tony Jackson @ARNJ47]

RIP

[Dan P @DanielJPhelan_]

Private John Philip Utting, A.I.F. 2/11th Battalion, was killed during the Battle of Crete near Rethymon, where he was originally buried.

His headstone bears the words he once wrote: “I am pleased and proud to belong to the A.I.F.”

📍Suda Bay War Cemetery 🇬🇷