Pirate Irwin
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- Bugles blare...The mercurial Gaston Lafarge returns. He is plunged into his most complex case, a real life murder of a collaborationist publisher. But as he puffs on Gitanes Rene Bousquet & others plot his end. Available both in book & kindle format. 🎩
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One wonders ever more staring at this youngster's innocent face how anyone could find it in themselves to murder him & millions of others through hate and unspeakable evil....began with populism being voted in & ended with dotes like him being butchered, A warning from history.
22 May 1934 | Guido Veneziani, an Italian Jewish boy, was born in Rome to Piero and Margherita. He was murdered in the
#Auschwitz
camp most probably in 1943.
He was 9 years old.
(Photo:
@yadvashem
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Gaston Lafarge hits the right note with readers receiving triple serving of Cognac, Gitanes, intrigue, betrayal and murder. Review for Omnibus edition 📖 🕵️
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I know it is controversial to some but I find this a very moving tribute to the courageous men who executed Harris’s orders. Over 55,000 paid with their lives.
@RevdPye
@NSoames
@michaelkeegan14
@militaryhistori
@GilesMacDonogh
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- Yes folks he is back Chief Inspector Gaston Lafarge armed with cognac & Gitanes...amazingly still alive he is hunting down those who collaborated and smugly think they are safe, though the complex chap has a price on his head this time. Enjoy the ride!
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@AFP
Armani as I jokingly referred to him when we were working together in London due to his stylish dress sense ‘the man in the red shoes’ was one of the loveliest people one could wish to meet and extremely talented too. Never a dull moment with his infectious laugh. Hugs 🫂 RIP
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Arman Soldin forever young. Born into a war and killed in another European war. He enriched everyone’s lives he came into contact with for 32 years empathetic, angelic and a Gentleman. God bless.
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- 'Boris Johnson leaves only political death or injury in his wake so a return could kill the party and would wound the country.' -- Amazingly the man handler in the lobby
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
and other ERG headbangers think it is worth it.
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So here you go folks....the latest of cognac-soaked Gaston Lafarge adventures is out on Kindle and in book form in a few weeks....
@veroniquelandew
@Oldbrookender
probably especially interested given their more than kind previous reviews....xxx
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Emmanuel Macron announces flags will fly at half mast as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. Her French was impeccable as many have remarked. Her reign covered from even before de Gaulle though Pompidou blotted the copybook by taking her arm.
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Pensioner cannot heat her home via
@MailOnline
- 'Johnson boasted of giving free bus passes to pensioners -- after being told about a 77-year-old widow who travels London all day because she cannot heat her home.' -- He is no One Nation Tory. Unreal.
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The Tortured Detective
@PirateIrwin
'truly enjoyable book' 5*revue
http://t.co/M40Us9Ow9Y
http://t.co/9BLq4ODtNO
#Crime
#Thriller
#Bookplugs
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#GeneralElection
"They saw him
@jeremycorbyn
as grandfather figure in 2017 but now they see he is not a very nice man.," Sir Charles Walker. "
@BorisJohnson
is seen as not very nice either by some in his family even," shoots back Andrew Neil ....sharp as a tack as always
@afneil
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Once described as Phileas T Barnum of racing --
@Goffs1866
, Cartier Million, Phoenix Park, fall-out from Shergar kidnapping -- gave his all to
@JackandJillCF
& 'Horse of Hope' he turned monochrome into technicolour 🙂 go easy into the night Pops -- RIP
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“No president has done so much damage to the country than Donald J Trump. We will be. clearing this mess up for years to come.” — John Brennan fmr CIA chief to Today programme.
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@BBCPolitics
@afneil
Entertaining jousting by two of the dying breed of big beasts of their respective trades
@afneil
and Ken Clarke — sadly such mature debate amid Brexit chaos is the exception not the rule. Could listen to them for a night and a day wit and intellect.
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“How can a country that produces so much beauty spread so much horror…” (spoken to background playing of piano) another excellent balanced report by
@BBCSteveR
in Russia
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- "I stumbled across this gem & these three books are outstanding. Well written & hard to guess the plot as the author is very clever. If you think you have problems in your life you will feel lucky after reading about the chief inspectors life."- Indeed
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Reunited Dad with our youngest brother Sam this morning. Sam’s inscription reads ‘a boy one does not meet often’….could say the same about the old man too. May they enjoy each other’s company. God bless. RIP. 💕🎈🥂
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- "I stumbled across this gem & these three books are outstanding. Well written & hard to guess the plot as the author is very clever. If you think you have problems in your life you will feel lucky after reading about the chief inspectors life." - Indeed
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“I don’t think they are particularly bothered if they hit civilians.” BBC’s great foreign correspondent Jeremy Bowen after coming under fire with a group of civilians in Kyiv.
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Macron at his best. Heartfelt and moving. Delivered in English to boot. Chapeau
To you, she was your Queen.
To us, she was The Queen.
She will be with all of us forever.
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@ESPNFC
Without saying congratulations to his opponents nor consoling his team-mates ...all of whom remained on the pitch,. As ever it is all me me me with him not a thought for his team-mates or gracious in defeat,
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- Yes folks he is back Chief Inspector Gaston Lafarge armed with cognac & Gitanes...amazingly still alive he is hunting down those who collaborated and smugly think they are safe, though the complex chap has a price on his head this time. Enjoy the ride!
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@NSoames
@brhodes
@claytonswisher
Not surprising from a man who had a 'spur' (some would say spurious excuse) in his foot to avoid going to Vietnam..mind you with his method of leadership perhaps just as well
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War Crimes: An Inspector Lafarge Omnibus, by
@pirateirwin
- Cognac, murder, Gitanes and the City of Light plunged into darkness....plus dastardly Sebastian Stuart's Flashmanesque escapades as a bonus
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#ToryLeadership
My grandfather served as Solicitor General under McMillan and Attorney General under Heath & only
@RoryStewartUK
would have fitted his
#onenationtory
ideals certainly not
@BorisJohnson
he would have stood 4 square alongside
@NSoames
@davidgauke
@GillianKeegan
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@LeaveEUOfficial
@GaryLineker
has done more for the UK than
@BorisJohnson
will ever do. Aside from his outstanding performances on the pitch he is much better at his job than the serial lying 🤥 buffoon who is going to ruin the UK and make it a laughing stock.
#etoniansagainstnodealbrexit
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#Tokyo2020
Safely arrived and for those who moan about the long procedure at the airports it may be but my god how lucky to be greeted by the Japanese who are the most courteous people one could meet. Far more preferable than what one would face in other countries.
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So here at last folks and I am rather excited..the complex Gaston Lafarge returns for a fifth case. He is plunged into a real life murder of a collaborationist publisher. But as he huffs and puffs on his Gitanes Rene Bousquet & others plot his end. Kindle now, book later in June.
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Daily reminder till April 24 — A vote for Le Pen is a vote for Putin
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@Nigel_Farage
You are part of the political classes or does the European Parliament not count.
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@TiceRichard
And perhaps you will reveal to the world after your grand gesture on June 10 which charity you have donated your MEP salary to? Been radio silence since then despite several suggestions including from me. Hot air or sincere?
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#ToryLeadershipContest
"I must apologise for the thing in my ear my mother will be very upset," endearing as always
@RoryStewartUK
to BBC. I take my hat off to him and his wonderful supporters who saw such potential
@NSoames
,
@DavidGauke
@GillianKeegan
Ken Clarke
@VictoriaPrentis
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Waow. Extraordinary life is....email last night from a French girl who had been clearing out stuff came across my afp business card & wrote to thank me 15 years after I intervened when she was being harassed late at night in Paris by a chap and gave her safe haven. Very touched.
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Thought this might amuse
@militaryhistori
@RevdPye
(even with the erm colourful language 🙂)
@michaelkeegan14
@guywalters
@GilesMacDonogh
@DangerKidsBooks
etc etc
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Thoroughly recommend this book. How to sacrifice 200,000 courageous men by Hitler & Paulus the latter a pedant who cared more for changing his tunic three times a day than his troops.
@GilesMacDonogh
@militaryhistori
@guywalters
@michaelkeegan14
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#SWEENG
"He looked aggressive the way he ate his steak in the hotel last night," Martin Keown on match referee..."I didn't look at him that closely," - Guy Mowbray..."I did" - Keown.
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Lafarge back for more cognac in The Compromised Detective...'A brilliant detective story' - Tom Kasey
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@RevdPye
@GilesMacDonogh
@militaryhistori
@EdnaKB2
@MargyMayell
@oldtoonloon
@AC_NavalHistory
@AntoineVanner
@MalcolmCGodfrey
@FAB87F
"I die for my fatherland. I have a clear conscience. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler." -- Canaris.
"He hated Hitler, his system & his methods. He hated war. He was a human being..." Abwehr officer Erwin Lahousen & plotter.
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- 'The hero of the Bullingdon Club, Houdini of the boudoir, most implausible prime minister in Britain’s history is at last approaching the end of his piece of string.' - Sir Max in top form.
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#Tokyo2020
Chapeau Japanese taxi drivers! Friend left a sweater in the cab the other night...next morning orders a cab and responder says ah yes we will send you the same driver as last night and he will give you back your sweater....rude shock awaits visitors to Paris in 2024 😀
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Outside the officers club in Lawrence of Arabia…..Seville stepping in for Cairo most adeptly…pretty sure the officer caste would have taken as dim a view of my garb as they did the great TE’s.
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@Conservatives
It’s called acting as the opposition. Says the party who callously voted last night to keep refugee children separated from their parents. Moral high ground is certainly not yours.
#brexit
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@PaulBrandITV
He is beneath contempt. Funny how his diaries coming out is timed so soon after his appearance on Get me out of here garnering untold publicity for him and not once did he talk about dyslexia.
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To the ‘man’ who pretended to be from the tax office and threatened a member of my family earlier today your card is marked dude. I have your number and will post it. Can only imagine the destruction you wreak on the frail and elderly. Cowardly thug.
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As Christmas lights dim for another year this is the present I treasure above all others a photo of myself long hair and all holding youngest brother Samson Fortune — a life-enhancer - who sadly went upstairs aged just 18. DVD’s books etc have a shelf life but these images rest.
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@TiceRichard
And while we are at it before you make wld promises perhaps you will finally answer the question over which charity you are donating your MEP salary to??? I will call you out on it every day till you deliver.....
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Extremely proud 🥲 of my nephew Otis winning relay gold medal not quite sure where his Chariots of Fire speed came from but chapeau 🎩 🍾
How about THAT! 🔥🔭
GB & NI storm to gold in the men’s 4x400m🥇
#Jerusalem2023
#WhereItStarts
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Perhaps this is why I am so hooked on Datca ….caught up with my ancestor and fellow ‘hearty’ the last man hanged in UK for piracy 🏴☠️ ergo my name prior to setting sail back to la Belle France 🇫🇷 he said you are a rum cove I replied well you’re a Turkish delight for sore eyes 👀
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A darker image of Crete the entrance to the former leper colony island of Spinalonga which only closed its doors in 1957. An island that was a Venetian fortress and then occupied by the Ottoman Empire before being taken back by Cretan authorities. It’s an eerie experience
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@RoryStewartUK
True. Plus two generations of well educated women about to be thrust back into medieval ages and slavery. The PM found Kabul a convenient bolt hole to avoid a vote on Heathrow making his behaviour all more shameful over the fate of those Afghans who helped translate for him.
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A force for good, civilised and constructive debate a stark contrast to the puerile contributions from Baron Bombast
@Nigel_Farage
& his personality cult followers
@brexitparty_uk
MEPs
Taking my seat in the
#Strasbourg
plenary chamber for the last time. After nearly 11 years I’m going to really miss being part of this great family of National representatives
@LibDemMEPs
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The for me anyway inestimable
@afneil
signing off on The Week: “Off to Lulus to teach
@BorisJohnson
elocution lessons “the rain in Spain falls on the Shamed.” And then runs through several anti deal phrases the turncoat used about the deal ‘vassal state’ etc bien jouee!
#brexit
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Returned from London to find a new lodger awaiting me …he smokes too so should be perfect 🤩 whether the author can be redeemed is quite another matter…
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@Nigel_Farage
a party that endorses Ann Widdecombe’a views on homosexuality is unfit to be taken seriously— an Irish Govt minister told me the other day her views belong in the 20th century. You badmouth UK in well paid speeches and talk of picking up a gun — democracy? Dictatorship more like.
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@conservative4pv
@heidiallen75
@PhilipHammondUK
@thetimes
Good on him. There are still those willing to expose the deal for being an Emperor without any clothes — well guess in that appearance he would already be exposed but hey ho.
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Kind of figures why I never pursued a modelling career — great voice for radio etc — and perhaps this shot taken in the Wicklow Mountains back in the day….Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid the early years 🙂🤫🍾
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That needs to be fixed and a good start is for teachers to get their pupils to follow
@AuschwitzMuseum
Polls found that majority of young people across the U.S. and Europe are largely ignorant of the Holocaust.
@WSJ
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Farewell shot
@afp
London’s 15th floor eyrie. 6 hugely enjoyable pun-filled years with a cracking team
@stGuyer
@KieranCanning
john Weaver Steve Griffiths & rest of the bureau Franco Anglo & Hispano led by a vibrant bureau chief
@Bidewen
😊 Thank you. 🌹💕
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If anyone is lucky enough to be watching Lawrence of Arabia on Channel 4 Noel Coward's joke after the Premiere regarding Peter O'Toole is worth recalling: “If you had been any prettier, the film would have been called ‘Florence of Arabia.’'
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Thanking
@ahistoryinart
@artinsociety
@RevdPye
@A_AMilne
@AuschwitzMuseum
for posting in various guises interesting, educating and moving tweets. You are the reason I will remain faithful to Twitter. Twitter can be an extremely positive place if one searches around. Toodlepips.
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On thé corner members of a Roma begging gang discuss where to sit. One has been outside the baker for past few weeks and eyeing up the other decent spots. Felt sorry for him initially but when I saw him armed with two mobiles …organised crime at its basic level.
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“I am livid…it’s a shambles and a disgrace …I am fed up with talentless people ticking the right box and getting their seat at Cabinet table…there is nothing more ex than an ex MP.” Eloquent and passionate analysis by influential backbencher and spot on too.
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Remembering youngest brother Samson Fortune a larger than life character, a life enhancer who lit up a room but one that went dark 23 years ago today aged just 18 and with the best to come after shaking off the chains of school ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥
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@RoryFitzESS
@normanlamb
@LibDems
Norman Lamb is one of the most honourable people to have sat in the HOC in recent years his holding his seat in 2015 & 2017 a testament to his loyal electorate— a seat now lost — and quite frankly we could have done with him as leader. His moving speech about mental health 5 ✨.
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Look back in Angers
'Castle at Angers, France.' (1920) Joseph Edward Southall was a leading figure in the 19thC and early 20thC revival of painting in tempera. He was seen as the founder of the Birmingham Group of Artist Craftsmen, one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts.
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@AlexofBrown
@wtfrench76
Horse 🐎 and stable door 🚪 spring to mind….pointless waste of time all for MPs to display sanctimonious pithy phrases, hand wringing and grandstanding and of no succour to the Afghan people. Though perhaps
@DominicRaab
might actually by then have found it on the map?
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@AuschwitzMuseum
The beast Clauberg who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and commit his crimes. Unbelievably he was able to resume his medical career after being released by the Soviets. Thankfully not for long as this brute of a man was Re-arrested and death claimed him in 1957.
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@RevdPye
@militaryhistori
@MarkHay55822123
@nickfshort
@BeaverWestminst
@michaelkeegan14
@JLH_JAN2022
@guywalters
This newsreel clip, IWM IWM 666a, released
#OTD
Jul 8 1918, shows the logistics involved in getting 1 day's worth of 9.2inch shells to one piece of artillery. Each shell had to be manhandled from its creation in the factory to its firing on the front lines
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#CrawleyTown
"It's been a long hard road for me and I am over the moon," 21-year-old Nicholas Tsaroulla...."Getting a bit emotional." -- choking back tears as a promising career with Spurs ended in him being released after injuries suffered in a 2017 car crash. Wonderful story.
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“Painting is the opposite of death it permits one to survive it also permits one to live.” — Joan Mitchell would you concur
@ahistoryinart
@artinsociety
@Ravilious1942
? Wonderful exhibition in Paris of Monet late work and Mitchell. Prefer the latter 😊
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Falling out of a hospital window…..recalls the play Accidental Death of an Anarchist who took a tumble out of a police station window just by chance
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Like The Scarlet Pimpernel they seek him here they seek him there they seek him everywhere….
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#Wimbledon
Chapeau to Andy Murray been in press conference for 20 minutes answered each question thoughtfully and in detail despite the disappointment of going out of Wimbledon. He does the sport proud on and off the court.
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The artist who creates creatures — Holy cow! This is very imaginative
@artinsociety
@ahistoryinart
@militaryhistori
in case you need distraction from your hospital bed Peter. Not suggesting Bor is given the same artistic treatment!
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