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Britain is allowed to be proud of itself. 🇬🇧
The Italians are proud of Italy. The Jamaicans are proud of Jamaica. The Polish are proud of Poland. As they should be.
And so should we.
Proud of the miners. Whose pennies built the NHS, decades before Whitehall had the idea. The nurses who ran it.
The shipbuilders of Belfast. The engineers who threw a bridge across the Forth.
The men who wired the world from a Greenwich wharf.
The mothers who kept this country standing when the men were gone.
A small, wet island that gave the world its language, its laws and its football. 🇬🇧
That isn't against anyone. Pride isn't hate. It never was. It's just gratitude, said out loud.
Somewhere along the way, you were told to be quiet about it. We're done being quiet.
Because people who know their history stand a little taller. And once we know how this country was made great in the first place, together, we can do it again.
Everything we make is free to learn from: proudofus.co.uk/teach
If you can afford to, help us write the next chapter: proudofus.co.uk/support
Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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On this day 45 years ago Avro Anson G-AHKX restoration begins at Woodford. #Avro #Aviation #Avgeek #Manchester #Stockport #Anson
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Nothing its shape and size had flown before it, and it was only eleven years since the Lancaster had made its first flight. It had all-electric flight controls.
Wing Commander Roly Falk is about to take the Avro Vulcan up for the first time.
I am sorry, but anyone else's demonstration of cool and class is irrelevant.
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Thrilled to announce that the @AvroHeriMuseum now has full Arts Council England Museum Accreditation. @BBCRadioManc @BBCNWT @themancuk @MENnewsdesk @visit_mcr #Avro #Aviation
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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is
Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?
And somehow that is the whole point
I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it
From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again
When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak
The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them
But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus
Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it
A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it
And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care
And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off
He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard
That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show
We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product
That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was
And that is exactly why we keep watching
Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!
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Amazing. Another huge retweet! 🩵
I have seen a lot of negative comments about the hashtag, so let me remind people what it actually means...
#OneMoreYearGuardiola is not just begging Pep to stay. It is a symbol.
A symbol of love, appreciation and respect for the man who changed Manchester City forever. The man who made so many people fall in love with this club in the first place.
The man who has given this club everything for the last decade. Blood, sweat, tears, passion, emotion... everything.
Centurions. Domestic quadruple. Four in a row. A treble. History that many of us never thought we would see in our lifetime.
Whether you want Pep to stay, think his time is up, or even strangely dislike him, this goes beyond all of that.
This is about one fanbase coming together to show appreciation to a man who gave us memories we can never repay him for.
Every time you use the hashtag, it might only seem like a small thank you. But when thousands of City fans do it together, that thank you becomes a lot bigger.
#OneMoreYearGuardiola
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On this day 83 years ago 19 special Lancasters took off on the most daring raid of WW2 – The Dambusters. In my book I describe the events focussing on the Flight Engineer of Z-Zebra who sadly lost his life that night. #dambusters #Chastise #Lancaster #WW2 pleszak.blog/2022/02/12/the-…
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Darren Cann ex palace trainee, Var assistant at last years cup final who allowed Henderson to handball outside the area, absolutely useless.
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If you freeze frame it’s just hilarious, 3 WHU players being grabbed by the waist so they can’t get to the ball, including Pablo who was trying to wrestle himself out of Trossard’s grip and hence ended up getting an arm on Raya 😂
Shameful from Man City, paid PGMOL to disallow that goal
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Every time a snivelling 'public servant' says something like 'lessons have been learned', someone in the press pack should sound an air horn.
This arse-covering corporate bullshit needs calling out. Loudly.
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Never in the field of human conflict will so many refuse to fight for such a worthless gang of shite
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Mr Starmer,
The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones.
You are not Britain’s Prime Minister.
You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected.
If you will not stand down, the British people will make you.
Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy:
1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.”
Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing.
2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.”
Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers.
3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.”
It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy.
4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.”
Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce.
5. “I held meetings with business leaders…”
Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless.
6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.”
A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion.
7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast.
8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.”
Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR.
9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.”
Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth.
10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…”
Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive.
You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse.
The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor.
The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline.
The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country.
History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause.
Britain did not vote for this.
Britain does not want this.
And Britain will not tolerate this forever.
The reckoning is coming.
And it will not be kind.
Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧
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My latest Dambuster talk in Chapel-en-le-frith just a few miles from where two of the Dambusters lived. Sadly both lost their lives that night. Flight engineer Jack Marriot in Z-Zebra and pilot Bill Astell in B-Baker. @derbyshire_live @VisitNewMills @ChinleyHighPeak #Dambuster
