.@OnChairs on the Battle of Ideas “it is crucial that those who care about women are in the room, making their voices heard and participating in public life as fully as possible." https://t.co/VKrKiFxt1e
The Two Women Who Cracked the Abwehr Enigma: How Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock Helped Secure D-Day
(a long-form post)
Ahead of D-Day, Mavis Batey and Margaret Rock played a leading role in cracking the complex Enigma code of the Abwehr, the German Secret Service. Unlike other machines it had four rotors instead of the standard three, and they rotated randomly, with no predictable pattern. Hut 6 had been unable to break it.
On 8 December 1941 Mavis Batey broke a message on the link between Belgrade and Berlin, allowing the reconstruction of one of the rotors. Within days Knox and his team had broken into the Abwehr Enigma, and shortly afterwards Mavis broke a second Abwehr machine.
The significance of their work cannot be overestimated. MI5 and MI6 were running double agents as part of the ‘Double Cross System’ and feeding deception and fake intelligence to the Germans. Being able to decode the messages between the Abwehr and their agents ensured that the double agents were really working for the Allies. It also provided a way to monitor whether the Germans had accepted the deception.
It ensured the success of the D-Day landings because the Double Cross agents fed information to the Germans that the invasion was to occur at Pas de Calais and not at the real landing points in Normandy. Brigadier Bill Williams, Montgomery’s chief intelligence officer, said that without cracking the Abwehr Enigma, the deception operation could not have been mounted as the Germans would have moved their reinforcements from Calais to Normandy. The successes of D-Day would have had a very different outcome.
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How to submit evidence to the parliamentary commitee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill.
Step 1: Put the deadline in your diary - 16th November 2026
Step 2: Read this guidance from Sex Matters
https://t.co/QFQkyxa0TW
Closing much of Oxford Street to traffic may be a good thing in principle, but yesterday I watched buses struggling to navigate turning off, causing gridlock. I think of people with disabilities who rely on buses&can’t walk long distances. Where is their public transport access?
🚨 BOMBSHELL: The taxpayer-funded ABC is now INVESTIGATING whether it hired a HAMAS TERRORIST to help produce its Gaza coverage.
The alleged Hamas operative, Roshdi Sarraj, was even mourned ON AIR by ABC’s Sarah Ferguson after he was killed in Gaza.
You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.
DEFUND THE ABC.
Oh dear.
Reason why professional rules prohibit barristers from coaching witnesses is that questioning involves a search for truth and professional coaching in how to respond can serve as a vehicle for (a) deflection from or (b) obfuscation of truth.
This is a paradigm example.
تا ساعتی دیگر، پیام تصویری شاهزاده رضا پهلوی خطاب به ملت ایران منتشر میشود.
این پیام را از حسابهای رسمی شاهزاده رضا پهلوی، تلویزیون انقلاب ملی ایران و دیگر رسانههای فارسیزبان میتوانید تماشا کنید.
Albo's so-called 'Digital Duty of Care' is really just about more censorship of ordinary Australians!
Please tell the Senate today that this is not on by making a submission!
The Sunday Times story about Samantha and the “fixated persons”/FTAC angle ran on 30 December 2018 and was picked up widely in the US over the next few days.
The Met says it received the letter in January 2019.
Did the circulating coverage give Loveless the idea to write to the Met instead of the FBI?
@according2_taz Where’s the ENVELOPE?
Postmark and return address are the most basic independent checks on date and sender.
No one’s produced or even described the envelope that supposedly arrived at the Met.
For a letter this serious, that’s a pretty glaring hole in the chain of custody.
This is @RichardMarlesMP, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister describing his plan to sell off a seminal part of Australia’s military heritage because his @AustralianLabor Party despise the military, whatever they may say publicly. As my first platoon sergeant would have described it “he’s talking through his arse”.
Dear @andyburnham
Thanks for the advice to stock up on tinned goods.
Most helpful for the 34hr power cut we’ve just been thru rurally.
Bossed it with the power packs too ⚡️🔌
However my meat processing business lost a day’s production and staff morale is on the floor 1/2
My 92 y o mother and I are both wheelchair users only now she can’t work a power chair & I can’t push her in a manual chair. The hoops I have jumped through to get her patient transport for her hospital appt today, then I must get there on TriRide as she can’t do appt without me. #DisabledCarers