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The MoD felt the need to deny the tanker raid was staged. Ask yourself why. Because in the same breath they accidentally confirmed everything people were saying Their own spokesman admitted footage was taken at multiple points and compiled together. Different takes. Edited into one seamless video. A voice can be heard saying ROLLING. And telling a soldier to HOLD THAT during a live search of the vessel. Those are not military commands. Those are film production commands. And the MoD just told us that themselves. The policy to seize shadow fleet ships was announced in MARCH. Three months. Not one tanker touched. The Smyrtos sailed from the Russian oil terminal Ust-Luga on June 4. They tracked it for ten days as it crossed the North Sea and entered the Channel. They did not stumble upon this ship on the night of June 14. They chose the night before the G7 to act. That is not a military decision. That is a scheduling decision. World leaders arriving the next morning specifically to discuss standing up to Russia. Starmer needed something to walk into that room with. 3am operation. Tweet before breakfast. Video uploaded before the world woke up. The man Trump publicly called not Winston Churchill needed to walk into the G7 looking like one. So he produced a film the night before the G7 to prove he is still relevant. As DPP he volunteered to go after British soldiers. Did not have to. Was not asked to. Chose it. For free. Here’s is what makes this truly obscene. The man now wrapping himself in the Armed Forces spent years pursuing British soldiers through the courts. Nobody asked him. Nobody paid him. He chose to prosecute them. Worked for free to do it. That is not a lawyer doing his job. That is a man with an agenda. Armed Forces shrinking by 300 a month. Lowest since the Napoleonic Wars. Eleven days before this three Royal Marines were killed when a Merlin Mk4 crashed in Devon. Same aircraft. Investigation open. Not grounded. Used anyway. Chris Gayson. Lily-Mae Fisher. Owen Green. Lily-Mae never got her wings. They were due this month. He spent years trying to destroy soldiers like them. Then used what is left of them to save himself. Our soldiers deserved better than being props in his political survival film.

There are serious and legitimate questions about the authenticity of the footage released by the MOD of the interdiction of the Russian Shadow Fleet vessel this morning. How is the cameraman ahead of the Marines clearing the stairwell to be able to film them coming towards him. How has the cameraman gone past the open doors of rooms that haven’t yet been cleared? How much of this has been staged for the cameras? I don’t doubt that a Russian tanker was seized and that the operation carried significant risk. I do question the PR and the desperate need for a win by the Government at the Royal Marines’ expense.

My cartoon @thetimes Saturday. Prints available to buy from timescartoons.co.uk

“The White Star Line is delighted to appoint a new purser for its flagship vessel The Titanic”

Far cry from the first structured marketing package for FIFA 1982. The full story on how the sports business grew from cottage industry to $billion business in my new blockbuster Fast Tracks & Dark Deals, a racy spy thriller at times, except it's not fiction. @chiselbury

Utter utter bollocks. Britain was not defeated in 1940. This is tiresome non-history. Read a decent book, rather than making stuff up Peter. Here’s one I’d recommend: amzn.eu/d/06CO30xI

The real falsehood here is the belief that we are morally superior to our forebears.

I wonder how long it will take until these labels are, themselves, museum pieces, illustrative of a vanished and not-much-lamented cultural moment?

Out now! The new episode of The Forgotten War Podcast has landed. Join Jack Bowsher and Rob Lyman as they interview author Caroline Alexander about the staggering, heroic scale of the WWII Hump Airlift operation. Hear this incredible tale right now! #WWII #Podcast #History

Out on its travels again is my author's copy of 'Martin's Eyes', which will get more and more battered as time goes. But, where be it now?

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

A Royal Navy officer veteran at the Ranville war cemetery, Normandy, June 2004. Taken by my late friend and colleague Tony Carney during our third trip across the water to visit D-Day locations at a time of milestone commemorations. We went aboard HMS Campbeltown, which acted as flagship for RN involvement, the ship contributing an honour guard for an event at Ouistreham on 6 June that year, attended by the then Prince Charles and also the First Sea Lord. Tony's dream was to take a camper van across and tour the sites one day, but sadly it never happened and he crossed the bar a fortnight or so ago.

The True Story behind the Murder of Henry Nowak. The week's Brazier, with @ColinBrazierTV. Only on @OutpostStudios.

There are five parts to my novel 'Martin's Eyes' @chiselbury and the deeper readers get into the narrative - spread across WW2 and the early Cold War - the closer they get to discovering the secrets at the heart of it all. Reflecting that structure, I happen to have three Matryoshka dolls - two of them bought in the Soviet Union as it collapsed into chaos in 1991. Both procured from a street vendor - one in Moscow (the forlorn-looking young lady) and the other in Sevastopol (which included Stalin, seen here, and he yields a tiny Lenin). The pirate one was made in China and I have no idea where he came from. They all have their counterparts in the story...sort of - innocent civilian victims of war, brigands (pirates ashore), while Stalin even puts in an appearance.

British actor Percy Herbert was a standard on so many films in the 1950s/60s/70s. Yet before becoming an actor he had survived one of the most brutal episodes of WW2. His incredible story is finally published. Available wherever you get your books. @drkatrina #Fepow #ww2

Back in Blighty & straight to the pub. What do I see: 'Boutinot Wines' They were launched by the son of Roger (pic), one of the Original French SAS. Had the pleasure of meeting Roger in 2003 For many years he ran a French restaurant in Manchester. Pint first. Then a Boutinot wine

🪂Three FANYs have completed the tough two-week French Paratroopers Course in ETAP (@ecoledestap), Pau, and have earned their ‘brevet’ (wings). fany.org.uk/News/fanys-compl…

Great to see this important #WW2 memoir in print. "We surely owe it to the thousands we left behind, to remember always..."

De Gaulle's Battle opened in France today. I'm just out of the cinema. A good, nuanced film. It teases out exquisitely the complex relationship between CDG & Churchill. How desperately sad that France & Britain are today saddled with leaders who are weak, indecisive & inept.