Brian Williams
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Random tweeting on history, politics, policing, Westerns and war films 'A weird, geeky, reclusive, historian'
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"Why only one warning?"
"Why didn't she shoot him in the arm or leg?
"Why couldn't she have shot the machete out of his hand?"
Hokey pokey bollocks from people who have watched too many films. The Australian police officer faced realities, not fantasy.
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Appointing Sean Bean as honorary colonel in chief of The Rifles should be the Army's response.
Actor Daniel Craig has been made an honorary Commander in the Royal Navy – matching the on-screen rank of
#JamesBond
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Katherine Maura Williams
29th January 2004- 28th March 2006
Forever in our hearts
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@Otto_English
I thought it was weird at the time. Looking back now it was a grotesque exploitation of an old man.
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Still in bed recovering from nights. Zulu is on Channel 4.
One of the greatest "Men in Battle" films ever made.
"Why us?"
"Because we're here lad and nobody else. Because we're here"
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I am putting 50p each way on Second Wave in the 14:30 at Aintree.
Thanks to the nation’s resolve, horseracing is back from Monday
Wonderful news for our wonderful sport
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Fan walks by me "Can't find a guy with acid on his face can you?"
No, because I am here because you and wands like you are incapable of travelling to watch a football game without causing nuisance to anyone else around.
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When the Crown Prosecution Service request a statement from a police dog......
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What a good boy.
I think ‘another brick in the balls’ fuckwit is facing competition from ‘police dog bit me in the arse’ moron
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"I see the porn advert girls are still coming on in the old style"
"Then we'll have to meet them in the old style"
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This morning Mum went in for an operation on her eye. Basically there was a cancer. Original idea was to use radiation. Then a professor examined it and said "Its too big, the eye has to come out
Mum "Well, if it has to come out then it has to come out"
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Beyond my understanding how a police officer- let alone a superintendent- should expect to remain serving after a criminal conviction, a conviction upheld on appeal and being on the sex offenders register.
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@HannahAlOthman
I am reminded of Johnny Cash's response to concerns that his fanbase being Christian would not approve of him visiting prisons and prisoners
"Then I guess they aren't very Christian then are they?"
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A travesty that this flopped.
Movies that flopped at the box office but are actually great.
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Style over substance. Inferior to the 1958 film.
Christopher Nolan's "DUNKIRK" starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles in his feature film debut, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Hardy had it's world premiere
#OnThisDay
in 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square, London
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Heard a colleague screaming on the radio today. Screaming for urgent assistance then cutting out. Units all 10 minutes away or more. Minutes passed with nothing heard. Finally the news that she was safe and a prisoner secured.
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@Otto_English
The Germans had a trove of BEF and French equipment after Dunkirk. They took it into Russia for Barbarossa.
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Okay who else wanted to see the children appear?
"A lot of people are going to change their behaviour."
Professor Robert Kelly tells Sky News he thinks South Korea will keep the
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Strangely all the shouty "Why are you on top of him?!" or earnest
"Are you are safe?" types
either move on or go quiet when you display the steel.
Police found a full length sword down a males trouser leg in Hammersmith after tasering him on the high street. Full story and footage :
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We hadn't been able to visit before the lockdown so it was good to cut back the grass and weeds.
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Well, all in all, I think my first day working in Met police communications went ok.
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Walked down the road to the shops. Whole road stank of skunk which may as well be legalised now. Because after today no officer to going to stop and search anyone even they are walking around in a cloud of it. Not worth the candle anymore.
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Charlotte got three straight A's and a place at York University studying politics.
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@DPJHodges
Three things that have stopped various protests in London dead in terms of wider support
(1) Vandalism of the Cenotaph
(2) Vandalism of Churchill's statue
(3) Attacking police horses.
People really don't like it
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@CollegeofPolice
"So stay close to your desk and never go to sea and you may become rulers of the Queen's Navy!"
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My favourite film aged 12: Where Eagles Dare One of the best "Men on a Mission" films ever made.
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@paulmasonnews
@novaramedia
@AyoCaesar
@AaronBastani
The Paris Commune who alienated the wider French population, executed their prisoners and were themselves annihilated? Outstanding..........
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Des O'Connor frequently said that being mocked by Morecambe and Wise made him. People would buy tickets to judge for themselves if he was bad as they said he was.
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Moore shared with David Niven the distinction of being adored by anyone they were in contact with: actors, crew, fans.
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Operation was a success. Mum is now in the recovery ward having a cup of tea.
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The opening battle in Gladiator. The best screen depiction of the Roman Army in action since Spartacus.
The influence of The Fall of the Roman Empire was strong in Ridley Scott.
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Spray failed.
Baton failed.
Taser failed.
At that point I would have considered running away.
They did not. Honour them.
'I was concerned for members of the public and knew we had to stop him.'
PC Gerrard and PC Mulhall reflect on how they instinctively confronted a knife-wielding man in Leicester Square last year, sustaining serious injuries.
Today, their attacker has been jailed for a minimum
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@ClaudiaWebbe
If there is one thing that will definitely win Labour the next general election it is that kind of toytown revolutionary bollocks.
Outstanding.
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"Then they can't be very Christian can they?"
Cash when told that his fanbase were Christians who wouldn't approve of mixing with prisoners.
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1969).
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@Urban_Pictures
In France that rabble would have been dispersed with volleys of CS gas and rubber bullets.
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Met officer assaulted woman in wrongful bus fare evasion arrest *Sighs*
Well, you can forget police officers doing anything to assist bus revenue ever again. Smile and wave boys. Smile and wave.
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Story I have always liked about Sean Connery. He was doing a film with Lana Turner whose boyfriend was an enforcer for the Los Angeles mob. He came on set drunk, assaulted Turner & threatened the crew with a pistol.
Connery laid him out with one punch.
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Dutch riot police do not muck about. At all.
Antivax clowns in Amsterdam. Who’d have thought a polis dug chewing a human arm could be so heartwarming?
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There is a lesson there.
My portrait of Sir Philip Green taken on his Arcadia office balcony on Oxford Street. He was unpleasant and rude to me and my assistant when we arrived to photograph him so I thought.. well if it’s ok for you to act like a prick, it must be ok to make you look like one. So I did.
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@GreenRupertRead
If you truly believe that such Toytown revolutionary posturing is aiding your cause then I have a bridge over the Thames to sell you at a very reasonable price.
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Never ceases to amuse when people from the UK confuse "Our" style of public order policing with "Their" style of public order policing
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Youngest daughter is on a school trip to Iceland. This is a church.
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Apparently there are people who believe that the RNLI- the very best of volunteers- should let other men, women and children drown in the Channel. I find this attitude incomprehensible. Incomprehensible.
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The Cruel Sea on BBC2. Jack Hawkins was a towering presence in everything he appeared in. This I think was his finest role as the captain of a corvette during the Battle of the Atlantic.
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@PriyamvadaGopal
Why don't you just come straight out with it and call Pritti Patel a coconut?
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I work with those officers pictured. They patrol proactively, they prevent crime and anti social behaviour and arrest offenders. They deserve better than be pilloried for being approachable and friendly.
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@JJSharpers
The juries in these Bristol cases have rejected all the usual pleadings you see in public disorder trials by the defense barristers. The judge is hammering them sentencing wise.
Refreshing.
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19 years ago today I walked into the old British Transport Police training centre at Tadworth. I must say it has flown by.
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