Howard Atkinson

grumpy old Carlisle fan & real ale lover

[Howard Atkinson @hatkinson5527]

@ericgreen866 @StagecoachCNL their excuse is they are Stagecoach. I read yesterday they were blaming roadworks on Burgh Rd roundabout for delays to 63 but it doesn’t use that road. Any excuses will do

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[CUSC London Branch @cusclbontour]

London/SE Carlisle fans - if you can't make the play offs semi in Carlisle, join us at the Civil Service Club near Embankment/CharingX. Email: [email protected]

[Carlisle United @officialcufc]

Rewarding them with three points 💙

Huge congratulations again to the Truro or Bust cyclists, and to Graham Moss, who went the distance solo - Carlisle all the way to Cornwall.

A truly inspiring effort from all involved 👏

[BE JUST AND FEAR NOT @Bjafn_cufc]

Unbelievable support

[Shirts Shirts Shirts @JRBulman]

I think it’s worth pointing out that these guys have raised over £15,000 for @mndassoc & @CR_UK #truroorbust
That’s an incredible amount raised for an incredible effort! #cufc

[Carlisle United Supporter Liaison Officer @CUFC_SLO]

@officialcufc Shout out to these lads doing it the hard way!

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Trump has removed this image he posted of himself as Jesus because of the backlash from his own supporters.
Please DO NOT post this far and wide as it’s best to confine it to the dustbin of history in case it causes him ongoing damage.
#TrumpBlasphemy

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Good fucking gawd. 😳👇

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist?

Like if he is.
RT if he is a traitor.

[BE JUST AND FEAR NOT @Bjafn_cufc]

@officialcufc

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

An anti-war ad from a decade ago is going viral. Because the same wars keep happening-for the same interests, at the same cost, with the same lies

[Carlisle United SG @CarlisleUtdSG]

A must see for Blues fans - Free exhibition open 1100-1500 today, Monday and Thursday 👇

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1943, Paris - a woman sits in a Gestapo interrogation room, her feet bleeding, her body broken.

The officers across from her know she's holding secrets. Names of British agents. Locations of resistance safe houses. Intelligence that could dismantle entire networks across France.

They've already started the torture. Her toenails are being removed, one at a time. Soon they'll use heated irons on her back. They'll lock her in darkness for weeks. They'll promise her life in exchange for just one name.

She's a 30-year-old mother of three. Not a soldier. Not a spy by training. Just a French-born housewife who was living quietly in England until Hitler's armies swallowed her homeland.

That's when Odette Sansom made a choice that most of us will never have to make. She left her three daughters behind and volunteered for Britain's Special Operations Executive, the shadow organization built to sabotage Nazi operations from within.

The SOE didn't want career military. They wanted people who could disappear into occupied territory. People who spoke native French. People willing to accept that capture likely meant torture and execution.

Odette knew the odds. She volunteered anyway.

By 1942, she was operating in occupied France under the codename "Lise," coordinating resistance cells, organizing sabotage, funneling intelligence back to London. She worked alongside Captain Peter Churchill, building networks that struck at German supply lines and communications.

For months, they were ghosts. Then a collaborator sold them out.

Now she's in this room. In this chair. Facing men who have perfected the art of breaking human beings.

And here's what they don't understand: Odette Sansom has already decided she won't break. Not for pain. Not for promises. Not even to save her own life.

Because she knows that every name she gives means another agent tortured. Another resistance fighter executed. Another family destroyed.

So she gives them nothing. Through months of interrogation. Through agony most of us can't fathom. Through solitary confinement and death threats.

Nothing.

The Gestapo eventually realizes they can't break her. They send her to Ravensbrück concentration camp, condemned under "Night and Fog" protocol, prisoners meant to vanish without trace.

She survives more than a year there by convincing the commandant she's related to Winston Churchill. It's a complete lie, but it keeps her alive.

When Allied forces arrive in 1945, that same commandant tries using her as a bargaining chip. The moment they reach American lines, Odette identifies him as a war criminal. He's arrested on the spot.

Britain awarded her the George Cross, the highest civilian honor for courage. The citation was clear: for refusing to betray her comrades despite torture that would break nearly anyone.

Then in 1951, someone stole the medal from her home. Months later, it arrived in the mail with an anonymous note. The thief had researched what it represented and couldn't live with keeping it.

Even criminals recognized what that medal meant.

Odette Sansom Hallowes lived to 82, spending decades honoring fallen comrades and embodying quiet strength. She always insisted she'd simply done what anyone should do.

But that's not true. What she did was extraordinary. She proved that the most powerful resistance to tyranny isn't violence. It's the absolute refusal to break, no matter the cost.

📷© Imperial War Museums (Restored & Colorized)

© Daughters of Time

#drthehistories

[CUSC London Branch @cusclbontour]

Tonight's TV game v Scunthorpe at the Civil Service Club is cancelled due to lack of confirmed numbers.

[Howard Atkinson @hatkinson5527]

@James220203 @Jonnyreay @owenjsidge Ryan East said it was their hardest game of season

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @SuellaBraverman fan club - so let me be clear.

This women sows hate, lies and division. She is wrong.

She does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[Josh Babarinde OBE MP @JoshBabarinde]

Just saying it how it is.

[Charlie Herbert @Charlie533080]

Yeah, right @realDonaldTrump - you really think we stayed a little back from the front lines in Afghanistan? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Come say that to the families of the 457 British servicemen and women killed, and the thousands more who suffered life changing injuries.

[Howard Atkinson @hatkinson5527]

@Jonnyreay @cufcdeano He reminds me of Johan Smith. Tremendous pace but bloody clueless what to do with it