Tom Petch

🎬 Filmmaker | Writer ᝰ🖋️ | Veteran🪖 Irregular Lives podcast🎙️Books & Podcast link 👇

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

Join me, @BearGrylls and @LouisRuddmbe to explore the stories behind Made by the SAS – adventure, resilience and going a little further.
Royal Geographical Society
28 November, 3pm
Every ticket supports @SASRegtAssn
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[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

“No reward, no recognition, no decorations.”

Lofty Wiseman recalls the characters and camaraderie of the SAS.

His remarkable story launches the new series of my podcast, Irregular Lives, today.

Watch the full here: https://t.co/VeYxZGjmvg

#IrregularLives #LoftyWiseman #SAS #SpecialForcesBiographies

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

The BBC published this on 11 November, continuing the drip-feed from Haddon-Cave. Whatever the photographs’ evidential value, the timing was inappropriate: a day to remember the 457 who died in Afghanistan in a war our elected government sent them to fight.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

New photos are 'essential evidence' of possible SAS war crimes, inquiry told https://t.co/tvJQkGHJTt

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@patrickbaty Amazing!

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“I used to jump no goggles.”

Lofty Wiseman recalls the pioneering days of military freefall with the SAS, when equipment was rudimentary and the risks considerable.

Our full interview launches Irregular Lives on 12 November.
https://t.co/Ja49LbUE1o

#LoftyWiseman #SAS

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

@ForcesNews Their headress is so ally it’s beyond ally - maximal ally.

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@509298 @ArmyCGS @BritishArmy @TheMajor_37 That headdress is so ally it’s beyond ally.

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This is an excellent podcast episode. I would encourage MPs to listen, as it clearly explains why veterans find the government’s current position on Northern Ireland legacy legislation so vexatious. https://t.co/JORmrheoOZ

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Any given Sunday #Remembrance

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Address: 34 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge SW7 1PD

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Honoured to unveil the @EnglishHeritage blue plaque for Dudley Clarke this week.

A master of military deception, Clarke helped create the Commandos and SAS, and provided the blueprint for the US Rangers.

Photo: David Parry / English Heritage

#DudleyClarke #SASHistory

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

@militaryhistori @rawlimark Agreed, top man.

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A box of books arrived from the publisher this week. Rather special to see Made by the SAS finally in print.

The book explores the remarkable lives of former SAS members and what they went on to achieve beyond the Regiment.

Out 19 November.

https://t.co/zJBwtoO84t

#MadeByTheSAS #SAS

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@authordlewis Indeed!

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@SASRegtAssn @_Chris_Coghlan @BritishArmy Agreed

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

Agreed

[Special Air Service Regimental Association @SASRegtAssn]

Great to hear @_Chris_Coghlan standing up for the SAS and UKSF in the House of Parliament. Not just as an MP, but as a reserve soldier. This constant lawfare is eroding the morale of the Special Forces and the greater @BritishArmy What do you think?

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

“He was delighted, and I think he helped me pack.”

Lofty Wiseman on leaving the Paras for the SAS, and the rather misleading sales pitch that persuaded him.

Full interview on Irregular Lives from 12 November.

Subscribe: https://t.co/9Dco0NZbKX

#IrregularLives #LoftyWiseman #SAS

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

Great article from @williams_rje bang on.

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

I led the SAS. The lawfare against our elite troops is self-defeating

https://t.co/Dcf33ArZja

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Zia calls war criminal Alastair @campbellclaret a war criminal.

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

@militaryhistori I think Nostromo from this lot.

[Tom Petch @TomDCPetch]

Thanks @RosieDuffield1 for sharing this. Most veterans consider this government as prejudiced against our veterans and military. This appointment will only reinforce that view.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

I want you all to know this.
There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months.
13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work.
They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace.
And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed...
There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves.
So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?