Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social

Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.

“In only a few volumes Alan Allport has become the historian of Britain at war. This is no light accomplishment, since many very good volumes have already told this story. But I think this one is the best.” ☺️ Paul Kennedy on #AdvanceBritannia in the @wsj.com

www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/advance-britannia-review-a-long-road-to-victory-e6f6970a
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I also suspect there’ll be a tendency to understand political change through the lens of climate fragility; Trump and populism will be seen as second-order responses to the looming environmental crisis.
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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social
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I remember @doctorow.pluralistic.net saying something like the only thing people 100 years from now will think about us is why we didn’t do anything about climate change. All of the things we think are important and historic today, they won’t care.
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Robespierre consults with Danton (David, 1792)
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Police unlawfully arrest Elizabeth Morley, aged 80, under the Terrorism Act.

Whilst being taken away for peacefully holding a sign in support of Palestine Action, she says the mass arrests are a "very stupid thing to do".

www.everyoneday.uk
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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org
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Today is National Submarine Day. During WWII, 263 U.S. Navy submarines deployed on war patrols. This image of 52 submarines in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island in 1946 represents the same number of subs that went on eternal patrol after being lost in the war.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social
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You've posted a very droll fictional scenario. Please select a response:
• A fact about the joke you told, the existence of which forms the premise of it.
• Correction of errors I spotted in your imagination.
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I suppose there is always the option of not doing illegal things
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
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The White House Press Corps does not want to hear that it as an institution has become a bad joke
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While I understand the sentiment, they’re basically getting up there strapped into a souped-up V-2.
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‘Israeli PM running cover for Hitler’ is the timeline we deserve
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Iran can’t find its mines, I can’t find my keys, can relate
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This is the #Arsenal we all know and love
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Literary writing famously attracts well-adjusted extroverted people who just love spending large amounts of time in the public eye.
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Re #ForAllMankind S05E03: a little self indulgently schmaltzy, but not unwarranted given the significance of what happened. But: they need to get the Titan mission going soon. The heart of FAM has always been space exploration, and the soap-opera procedural cycle of recent episodes is getting meh.
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Bye Bob
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#ForAllMankind S05E03 damn
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Jesse Gamble @jessegamble.com
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I have lost
the mines
that were in
the Strait

and which
you were probably
hoping
would go away

Forgive me
there were many
so hidden
and so deep
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The Founders: “don’t worry, the presidential pardon won’t be misused, because OBVIOUSLY Congress will impeach any POTUS who does so.”
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
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“What are the best and worst Morrissey lyrics?”
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When I was in Mexico City recently I didn’t particularly expect to encounter anything WWII related, and yet WWII somehow found me all the same.
In the Bosque de Chapultepec there’s
a memorial to Escuadrón 201, “the Aztec Eagles”, who flew P-47s in support of operations in the Philippines.
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I think she would have made a great POTUS. I also think that particular ship has sailed.
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Being a Democratic pol means never knowing when to read the fucking room and get off the stage
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So a shitty copy of the Arc de Triomphe, gottit
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Old enough to remember when conservatives thought that unmarried 15 year olds getting pregnant was a *bad* thing (and all the fault of liberal society naturally because of ‘permissiveness’)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
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Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
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the pope is not woke. american conservative christianity has spent the last few decades mutating into an evil doppelgänger of itself such that any conservative christian leader who says things like “it’s wrong to incinerate schoolchildren” scans as a titan of superhuman moral fiber.
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Considering how much Trump would exploit American success at the upcoming World Cup I think it’s very commendable of the current USMNT to be as crap as they are.
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She did come within a faulty hand grenade’s worth of blowing up a transatlantic passenger jet full of (presumably some) working class passengers who had been otherwise minding their own business. Still, cool cheekbones and all.
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