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@MichaelMalvin78 @its_meegaan I’ll bite.

Going… Going… Gong!

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@PeterDiamandis Some blend of critical thinking and bias awareness. Developing protocols for life long learning habits. First principles…

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PSA Be careful with the eclipse (blindness) and the meteorite shower.

If you’ve read or watched the Day of the Triffids you’ll know what I’m talking about.

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@BasilTheGreat It’s going cheap at the moment.

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@elonmusk I’ve started a small diesel punk movie….

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TIL about Charles Upham 🥝 🇳🇿 🥇 🥇

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧⚓ She was built to outrun the Royal Navy.

She was built to carry people as cargo. The Royal Navy caught her anyway, and sent her back to hunt her own kind. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛓️⚫️

Her name was Henriquetta, a Brazilian slaving ship, built for speed by a captain who wanted one thing: to deliver enslaved people before any patrol could catch him. In 1827, HMS Sybille ran her down.

⚓ The Royal Navy did not sink her. They bought her, armed her, and gave her a new name: Black Joke. A lieutenant took command, and she sailed back to the African coast, this time hunting the ships she once sailed alongside.

Over the next 5 years she became one of the most successful ships of the whole West Africa Squadron. In one year alone she took 11 prizes. Free West African Kroomen served alongside her Royal Navy crew.

🌊 Her most famous chase began in 1829. She ran down the Spanish slaver El Almirante over 31 hours, neither ship able to shake the other, until Black Joke's guns finally found their range. Aboard El Almirante, 466 enslaved people, waiting in the hold. Every single one was freed.

Career totals for people freed across her whole career are less certain, sources vary, and we won't pretend otherwise. What is certain: she was one of the most effective ships the Squadron ever had.

By 1832, 5 hard years had worn her out. Her timbers were too rotten to sail home. She was broken up on the African coast that had made her famous.

A ship built for one purpose became the opposite of it. Britain inherited a fast ship, and a choice about which side it would serve.

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We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it. 👇🙏

If you can afford to support our mission: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

Classical liberalism, Industrial Revolution, slavery no longer the global norm, the ideas behind the American Revolution, saved the free world in 1940, common law, the global lingua franca, literature, art, scientific progress. Greatest country in history.

Etc. etc. etc.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone. So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsNZG1

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

Victory in Santiago del Estero 🌹

A winning finish to England's 2026 Nations Championship away leg.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar]

Is there a chance if FIFA watched this they would disqualify Argentina for cheating or have a replay with another referee

[👑 @Cairnlodge1]

He was not born into privilege. He did not come from Sandhurst nor from a famous military family.

John Clifford Meredith was a young man from Bangor, North Wales, who joined the British Army in 1967 at just 17 years old, earning his place in one of Britain's toughest fighting units — the Parachute Regiment.

Over the next fifteen years, he completed eight tours in Northern Ireland, learning the hard lessons that only soldiers understand: leadership, discipline, and responsibility for the men beside you.

By the time war came to the Falkland Islands in 1982, Sergeant John Meredith was exactly the kind of man every young paratrooper hoped would be standing beside them when things went wrong.

And at Goose Green, things went very wrong.

As 2 PARA fought its way through Argentine positions under relentless fire, confusion erupted during the infamous white flag incident. Meredith's platoon commander and two soldiers were killed within moments.

The attack stalled.

The situation threatened to collapse.

Meredith stepped forward.

Without hesitation, he took command of the platoon, reorganised his men under fire, and launched a devastating counterattack using machine guns and 66mm rockets against the Argentine positions.

His actions saved the lives of five British soldiers.

Those who served alongside him remembered him as "hard as nails" — calm under pressure, impossible to rattle, and always thinking clearly when chaos surrounded him.

Just weeks later, he would again lead from the front during the fierce fighting at Wireless Ridge as British forces closed in on Stanley.

For his outstanding gallantry and leadership throughout the campaign, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, one of only eight awarded during the entire Falklands War.

After Falklands, Meredith continued to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan before eventually retiring in 2010 with the rank of Major, ending a military career that had spanned more than four decades.

Some soldiers are remembered for their rank.

Some for their medals.

John Clifford Meredith is remembered for something far greater.

The men he brought home.

🇬🇧 "Hard as nails. Steady under fire. Airborne to the end."

#JohnCliffordMeredith #JohnMeredith #ParachuteRegiment #2PARA #BritishArmy #FalklandsWar #GooseGreen #WirelessRidge #AirborneForces #MilitaryHistory #DistinguishedConductMedal #LestWeForget #NeverForgotten #BritishMilitaryHistory

[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

It wasn’t a war crime. It was however a Guinness World Record…

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Classless pr*cks.
I hope Spain beat them as badly in the Final as we beat them in the Falklands War.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Still British by the way.

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇫🇰 PICTURED: Argentina’s players hold up a sign saying “Las Malvinas” are Argentine

This is factually inaccurate, as the Malvinas, officially named the Falkland Islands, are British

[beIN SPORTS @beINSPORTS]

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#كأس_العالم2026

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@sajcasm_ That didn’t age well

[England @England]

Into the final four of the @FIFAWorldCup. GET IN THERE! 💪