Mark Banning
@MGBTours
Ex battlefield guide, but still interested in the topic.
I think the adjutant of 8th Buffs was getting a bit hacked off in November 1916...
Nice bit of Major Tom playing in the background, Gary, @BBCRadio2 #soundsofthe80s
It seems that all the good folk are heading to @bluesky ,so I thought I'd head there as well. Still here, but only for the sleaze...
Tried to send a book to a friend in Ireland. It has just come back (over a month later) with a label on it saying it's 'non-compliant to customs regulations'. Brexit never stops giving, does it?
As @MGBTours just messaged me on WhatsApp, ‘Got to be honest, one of your greatest bits of research and ultimate remembrance.’ It was a wonderful thing to have descendants of William Hackett & Thomas Collins at Givenchy where their relatives still lie 40 ft below ground
I’m not buying this line of argument. Johnson knew, as everybody in the Conservative Party knew, that the Brexit referendum was about heading off the (over-stated) electoral threat from UKIP and simultaneously dealing with a fringe group of MPs in the party who were a distraction…
On #Brexit. ITV: You told us that we should do this and you hadn't devoted any serious thought to what came next. BJ: I wanted to win an argument... What we expected was that the Cameron gov't would deliver it. ~AA
I never understood why people voted for Brexit, I never understood why people voted for Trump but last night at dinner a Doctor explained it to me, he said, "They're stupid Robert, simply very stupid"
I know he's been with the BBC Olympics team for many years, but how cool to have Michael Johnson as a specialist athletics commentator. #Paris #OlympicGames Bet the American networks wish they had him.
RT if you think the Greens quadrupling their seats should have as much media attention as Reform!
Bye, bye, @SarahAthertonMP PS...don't forget to change your Twitter name....
This is hilarious...has it taken her that long to realise... A second Reform UK candidate, Georgie David, has defected to the Conservatives, saying the "vast majority" of party nominees are "racist, misogynistic and bigoted"
One of my group from last week is now in Albania and sent me a photo of WW2 graves in Tirana. I noticed one had the George Cross so looked him up. He displayed utterly extraordinary bravery and duty. Please do read all about Brigadier Arthur Nicholls cwgc.org/find-records/f…
As Donald Trump is found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records for hush money payments, a reminder of what our two most recent Prime Ministers have been saying about him
What a surprise... God awful individual Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts. bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl… via @BBCNews
Hoo bloody ray... BBC News - General election latest: Rishi Sunak announces 4 July vote in Downing Street statement - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p…
The day before the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Telegraph published a long editorial explaining why its readers should vote Leave: "20 reasons you should vote to leave the European Union" Cast your eye down this list of topic headings, and see how quickly the wheels come off...…