Simon Watson

Retired Metropolitan Police officer & ex (long time ago!) Soldier Current affairs, Military History, Reading, Music.

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@DailyTPodcast @timothy_stanley @CamillaTominey @FraserNelson He talks a good job as they say, but can’t be the ‘best’ when as far as I’m aware he’s not even organised an event in a brewery!

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@JJSharpers Absolutly, incredible bravery. Old can of worms and I know and it won’t happen, but it’s clear from footage that all officers should carry sidearms to enable an individual to be stopped at the first opportunity.

[Ukraine 4 Freedom @uawarinfo]

https://t.co/HA9dKxggnH
😡 russia has increased production of Iskander missiles thanks to the import of machine tools from China, - media investigation

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Podcast "The Beginnings of Auschwitz"

The German Nazi camp Auschwitz was established by the SS in the spring of 1940 in the occupied town of Oświęcim (renamed to Auschwitz).

Listen to our #podcast about the decision-making process that led to the creation of the camp and the story of its first prisoners.

Spotify: https://t.co/jJTqFMaBba

ApplePodcast: https://t.co/WaB6jrpbVz

On YouTube you can switch on sub-title translation mode to be able to follow the podcast in different languages: https://t.co/LVBpnn5eOv

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[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

24 June 1928 | Czech Jewish boy Zděnek Vohryzek was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

The UK is returning to national planning for homeland defence for the first time in 35 years. This is a major move, and will take many years to develop properly. Quick thread on history of UK resilience planning in this space.

[Margo Gontar 🔱 @MargoGontar]

This is the train Russia hit in Dnipro, Ukraine today. 500 passengers were there. At least 5 train cars were damaged. Some were hit directly, passengers said. This is what Russia does while world leaders discuss what to do as if it’s some mystery

Russia does it because it can

[Pippa Ettore @pettore]

FO. Dudley Sandry Garton Honor. DFC.
One of THE FEW.
https://t.co/lNDmLr1QGk

Quite a read in Link above.
What do you expect with a face like that!!

Survived. Retired to Spain. Was dubbed the ‘Lettuce King of Andalusia’.

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@Charlotty @gmhales It’s quite something when we refer to the 00’s as the good old days! 😉

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@authordlewis I read the the Ray Mears book Real Heroes of Telemark (not seen doc yet) recently. The environmental conditions the Norwegian commandos endured are astonishing, truly resilient super human stuff!

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 A Russian Lancet drone strike killed 2 civilians and injured 11—including four teens—in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region.

Officials say the drone deliberately targeted a group of residents after being spotted by Russian reconnaissance.
https://t.co/CUbLzKR2tt

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@nicolelampert Interesting tactic, sort of proving the point that the air strikes were necessary! 🤔

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

While Trump and his team are lording in their own greatness at their decision to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arachchi lands in Moscow where he is expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding current events in the Middle East.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 BREAKING: Russia bombed Kyiv and nearby districts. At least 5 killed.

Apartment building hit, entire section destroyed. Rescuers pulled 10 from rubble, more trapped.

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@SandwichZero1 Good point, always been minimum wage I suspect! Store detectives (do they still exist?) a little more I would think.

[Simon Watson @simon13bs]

@SandwichZero1 Store detectives and security used to be a lot more proactive 80-90s. But as mentioned supermarkets & other shops have become risk averse to danger of litigation and weakness of courts. But also security guards are also poorly trained, poorly paid and poorly supported.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Tattooed numbers were used only in one German Nazi camp — Auschwitz. These tattoos were assigned exclusively to prisoners who were registered in the camp. Out of approximately 1.3 million people deported to Auschwitz, only about 400,000 were registered as prisoners and given numbers.

The vast majority of Jews murdered in Auschwitz — around one million people — were never registered; they were murdered in gas chambers right upon arrival and received no tattooed number.

Moreover, tattoos were not exclusive to Jewish prisoners. Others — including Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, and others — were also registered and tattooed at Auschwitz. Other concentration camps had entirely different systems for identifying prisoners and did not use tattoos at all.

To suggest that every Jewish victim of the Holocaust received a tattooed number — and to use the limited length of those numbers to cast doubt on the scale of the genocide — is not only factually false. This kind of distortion is a deliberate tactic used by Holocaust deniers to insult the memory of victims.

In the world of deniers, the suffering of real human beings is reduced to cynical wordplay and harassment. Denying is an assault on memory, truth, and human dignity.

Learn about strategies employed by Holocaust deniers to spread misinformation and falsehoods.

Online lesson: https://t.co/Gp1iuaHSSW

Podcast: https://t.co/WG6F1S7A3C

[Pippa Ettore @pettore]

Lost his life this day 22nd. June 1941.

FO. Philip Selwyn Covey Pollard.
One of THE FEW.
https://t.co/koIKWPHdJF
His Spitfire was shot down by Me109s and he was killed.
He was 21 and is buried in Dunkirk Cemetery.

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Barrage Balloons at Sea, Eric Ravilious, 1940. It dates from his early years as an Official War Artist in #WW2. The original artwork is in the collection of @PotteriesMuseum.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

https://t.co/k5ERihkl1q