Guy Walters 🇺🇦
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Mulling over your 2025 hols? Well, you can't do better than join me and @WeAreTripsmiths for the best part of a week at the end of April on a tour of the Great Escape and Colditz! All welcome for tunnels, castles, Gestapo HQs, museums and local cuisine.
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Of all the letters I've unearthed in archives, this is by far the best. It's a model of how to say no to someone you loathe.
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Dashcam footage of driving over the Baltimore Bridge truly reveals the scale of what has collapsed, and collapsed so quickly and completely.
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I've discovered that if you leave a joint of beef out overnight to defrost with two dogs in the room, your Sunday lunch just consists of vegetables.
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If Aldi is now attracting customers like this, then it's all over for Waitrose.
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I am deeply – DEEPLY – suspicious of people who arrange their books by the colours of the spines.
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What a horrible horrible thing to do to your father, to tell him in public that he was a bad father. Sorry, but what a truly nasty thing to say. Everything about #PrinceHarry reeks of being a subject of coercive control. This is loathsome.
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Finland's prime minister in 1922 vs Finland's prime minister in 2022.
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"In. Fire thirty percent of the workforce. New logo. Booom. Out."
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If the UK really wants to hit the Russians where it hurts, remove the visas from the 2,300 Russian pupils at British private schools.
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Often and rightly recognised as the finest paragraph on the whole of Wikipedia.
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My son has just finished a painting that is called, "The Consequences of Showing Watership Down to Your Young Children". I am both proud and ashamed.
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Thank God we didn't have Twitter during the Second World War.
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My dogs have formed a band. They think the Rolling Bones is a good name, but I'm sure they could think of something better.
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I don't see the outrage in the UK that at least seventeen of our fellow citizens have been killed or kidnapped by a terrorist group. This is nearly equivalent to the Manchester Arena attack. Why is there no outrage?.
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Johnson should be struck off the Privy Council. There is precedent for this from exactly sixty years ago, when a minister was struck off in June 1963 because he had misled the House. It would mean he would no longer be allowed to use the prefix 'The Right Honourable'.
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Annual figures of costs to taxpayers:.Monarchy: £102.4 million.White House operations: £1.2 billion.Royal travel: £3.2 million.Air Force One: £425 million.
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which will involve elaborate processions, vigils and rituals, will be paid for by British taxpayers as they deal with soaring energy prices and high inflation. The British government has not yet said how much it will cost.
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The wedding photos of Alan and Jane Clark never fail to shock. He was 30, she had just turned 16. Clark had identified her as a potential 'victim' when she was 14.
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A narwhal tusk is not a cheap weapon. One sold in auction for £36,000 a few years ago. Elizabeth I so valued the one presented to her by privateer Martin Frobisher that she placed it in the Royal Wardrobe & Treasury. It was valued at £10,000 in 1598 -- some £2 million today.
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FFS. This is PRECISELY what makes me want to flip from Remain to Leave. How can any fellow Remainer defend this?.
"I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council." @vonderleyen . #QualifiedMajority
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I wasn't going to share this, but thanks to my brand new printer f***ing up already, I now have no self-control when it comes to expressing my contempt for these detestable devices. Enjoy.
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I was at Bicester Village station yesterday, and felt I'd entered into some unreal Englandland theme park. I'm told that there are Chinese who'll fly to Heathrow, bus to Bicester, shop, and then fly back. I've yet to visit the village itself. Quite want to go out of fascination.
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I don't normally approve of dog shaming, but in this instance I feel it is fully justifiable.
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After watching All Quiet on the Western Front, I wondered how many were killed on Armistice Day. It turns out there were some 11,000 casualties, of whom nearly 2,800 were killed. That's not far off D-Day. All sides ordered attacks, despite knowing peace was only hours away.
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I'm going to issue ONE MILLION visas for lorry drivers and they'll all come here tomorrow and everything will be fine and I'll win the election.
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So brave.
This man is a winner… wearing custom Stella because he chooses to make choices for the future of the planet. He has also chosen to wear this same Tux for the entire award season to reduce waste. I am proud to join forces with you. x Stella. #JoaquinPhoenix .#GoldenGlobes
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Five years ago, Dominic Troulan was awarded the George Cross. Read the citation and then doff your cap.
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Finland cabinet 1922 vs Finland cabinet 2022. The habit of wearing black seems to remain unchanged.
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This interview is fascinating not just because of the content, but also because it shows quite how impoverished public discourse has become as a result of an editorial obsession with polarisation and conflict. Editors, directors, presenters, producers – please, please take note.
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"Whoops, I've stayed friends with someone who trafficked minors. I'm so silly. Heigh-ho!". Which utter, utter cretin sanctioned this interview?.
"It was not something that was becoming of a member of the Royal family. I let the side down.". Prince Andrew speaks exclusively to #Newsnight about his decision to stay with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein WATCH: Saturday 21:00 @BBCTwo @maitlis
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Is it just me, or does Brexit week feel utterly anticlimactic? No final demonstration, no significant celebration. Just weariness on both sides.
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Yes, birdsong is lovely. But those who venerate it probably don't live in the countryside. At this time of year, you're woken at 4 a.m. by little leftover dinosaurs screaming for sex.
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Brave decision to open a restaurant with a Boris Johnson theme.
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Thank you, Kevin from Gresford in @vizcomic for successfully distilling my entire televisual output.
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The statement by the #skripal suspects is glorious. The city was so 'covered in snow' that they couldn't walk 0.7 miles to Salisbury Cathedral, but they could walk over a mile to Christie Miller road, in completely the opposite direction. Poor lambs, they clearly got really lost!
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Oh look, here's Liz Truss clearly NOT meeting the Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth at the UN on 21 Sept 2022 and clearly NOT having a "useful discussion about the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory, covering the ongoing dispute over sovereignty"!
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I am disgusted to hear that the @achrisevans show is offering historians neither a fee nor travel reimbursement to appear on the programme for 3½ hours during the Royal Wedding. While it pays Evans £2.5 million p.a., it is repugnant that the BBC expects experts to work for free.
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Here's why Patel's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is akin to Eichmann's plan to send Jews to Madagascar. The answer lies in statistics.
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The Americans are right. Russian wealth has perniciously wormed its way into British society. It has had a corrupting influence on politics, finance, law, property, sport, and education, and it needs to be removed. That needs to start now.
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WW2 & Third Reich historians. I've been approached by @LeftRightTV who are making a series for @CNN on Hitler. Despite being 'a major, marquee project', the channel is refusing to pay contributors. I'm therefore asking colleagues to boycott the show. Please RT & spread the word!.
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If you are not social distancing:. - You are helping the virus spread wider.- You are helping the virus spread quicker.- You are helping the virus infect more people, more quickly.- You are helping to kill more people. Your call.
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This looks awesome. Am definitely having a pint here later.
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Lessons learned from sharing a couple of bottles of wine with a 91-year-old neighbour:.1) Aim to be a 91-year-old who is drinking two bottles of wine with someone half his age on a Tuesday evening.
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Broad point is that wealthy Russians, many of whom are cosy with Putin, have access to the best that UK offers – education, financial services, culture, property, sporting events and clubs, lawyers – and yet despite the behaviour of the regime, their access remains in place.
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Gourmet breakfast. Essential that bacon is as posh as possible, while bread should be pure junk.
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OK. Here's an idea. What if everybody wore blue and yellow on Tuesday 1 March to show that we #StandWithUkraine? It's the very least we can do. Retweet if you're up for it! PLEASE let's make this happen. #blueyellowTuesday.
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I note that he is suitably equipped to deal with his printer.
This is the new head of the Afghani central bank. Do you think he is long or short duration?
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Julio Iglesias washing down a KFC family bucket with a bottle of Lafite Rothschild on a PJ.
What, in your opinion, is the single greatest celebrity photograph in history?.
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I found the committal service very moving, especially when the regalia were stripped away. At that point, they were no longer burying a monarch, but just a person. You could see it in her son's eyes.
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Hang on. Didn't someone else invade Poland in 1939?.
Thanks to London & Paris, Nazi #Germany managed to defeat #Poland in a flash & redeploy its main forces to the West without meeting any resistance. Following a campaign in 1940, #France was occupied, while #Britain came under a threat of German invasion▶️
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I've written to @OliverDowden, Sec of State at @DCMS, asking him to look into the appalling access restrictions at @UkNatArchives. De facto closure is having a catastrophic effect on the production of historical works. If you care about history and agree with me, then please RT.
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I actually believed this.
Meghan Markle reveals she gifted Prince Charles a ‘Suits’ DVD boxset but when she and Harry visited three months later it was still in its cellophane wrapping
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Delighted to announce that I've signed a two-book deal with @TransworldBooks. The first book, published in Jan 2022, is a biography of Josef Mengele. The second, for 2023, is a history of the Gestapo. Thank you to Bill Scott-Kerr & his team, and @James1940 for helping it happen.
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Sanctions against Russia should not just be financial, but also cultural and social. The sophistication of London – and other global cities – should be denied to them.
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The whole exam fiasco doesn't just reveal flaws in Johnson's administration, but a major flaw in our whole system of governance – we entrust increasingly complicated managerial roles to people with no proven managerial competence.
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Frog meets scorpion to discuss exciting river-crossing project.
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This is the most brutal paragraph I've ever read in an obituary. (From:
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Somewhat buried in the @nytimes story about Russians offering bounties for the killing of US troops is that British troops were also targeted.
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Possibly suicidal. Imprisoned. Subjected to false accusations. Let down by those who should have helped.
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Will channels such as the BBC keep inviting the likes of Blakeley, Jones, Bastani, Sarkar onto their politics and news programmes? I'm not really sure they speak for anybody apart from their own coterie. Time for more exposure for more moderate voices of commentary from the Left.
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The heroic chef 'Luckasz' who used the narwhal tusk yesterday was not the first to wield such a tusk as a weapon. In Greenland, narwhal tusks had wooden handles attached to them to make a weapon called a 'nuguit'. See this extract from The Book of the Sword by Richard Burton:
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Michael Aspel, 90, his son Edward, 59. Yup, you're thinking the same thing as I am.
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Under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998 – which is not yet in force – King Charles is allowed to cause a nuclear explosion, so long as it is in a private capacity. It's all right for some.
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It's the polarisation that gets me. It's possible to find the killing of George Floyd horrific and yet not regard all coppers as bastards. It's possible to feel uneasy at the presence of Colston's statue, and yet also uneasy at the way it has been torn down.
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If the Prime Minister emerges from this morning's Cobra meeting with any balls, he will announce the start of the total dismantlement of Russian oligarchic involvement in Britain's social, cultural, and financial sectors.
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For the convenience of any GRU employees thinking of paying a visit to Salisbury, I've produced this handy guide showing how tricky the cathedral is to find from the railway station.
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In loving memory of my great friend and neighbour, Ray Gallop, who died this morning at the age of 94. He was a lovely man and I cherished not only his long memory, kindness, and decency, but also his capacity for never saying no to a midweek bottle. We shall miss him enormously.
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But Lee, nobody thinks this is wrong. Why the need to start an argument?.
My Weekend. I won't be travelling to foreign shores. Tomorrow I will start a weekend break with my 2 boys on a canal boat in North Wales. I cannot wait & anyone who thinks that this is wrong needs to have a reality check. Love your country. It's not that difficult. Happy Easter
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Can't she be placed somewhere more visible and iconic rather than ignominiously tucked away behind some sheds? There was a plan to suspend her from the ceiling of Terminal 5 which would have been fantastic.
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That moment when you're trying to look statesman-like with your red box and union flags but you just look desperate.
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All of her days in Downing Street were final days, to be fair.
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Your face when you realise that your identity as a gay, cathedral-loving, health supplements salesman has been blown, and the world now knows that you're a highly-decorated senior officer in Russian military intelligence. That face.
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You can't overestimate how important the site of Babyn Yar is for the history of the Holocaust. If the Russians have destroyed the memorial, then they have laid waste to something that is as sacred for Jews as the Thiepval Memorial is for the British. So much for denazifying.
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My excellent, excellent 91-year-old neighbour, Ray, has been infected, not by Covid, but by ludicrous shirts and rosé. Poor chap.
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In mourning for Sir Clive Sinclair. The ZX Spectrum was the best computer ever made. I still have mine, bought by my parents for Christmas 1982.
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Initially surprised that some don't know who Alan Clark was. But then realised fair enough. If you're under the age of 40 and not into politics or diaries, it's quite possible you wouldn't have heard of an MP who died nearly a quarter of a century ago.
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