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Alan Allport
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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.
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#AdvanceBritannia is released in North America today. The NYT review says (ahem): “Elegant and unsparing … Allport is a fluid writer, a conjurer with the rare ability to sustain a gripping narrative without resorting to Vaseline-lensed sentimentality.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
Why the British Were Afraid of Winning World War II
www.nytimes.com
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Pete Hegseth (Princeton/ Harvard) and Brett Kavanaugh (Yale/ Yale) exemplify a standard type of elite-educated Likes Beer guy.
February 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow
🚨 PICTURED: Liz Truss meets with Donald Trump at his golf course in Palm Beach
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
From an expository sense this scene is important because up to this point in the movie Victor has been, frankly, a bit of a bore, and it’s hard to understand what Ilsa ever saw in him.

But as he’s leading the crowd in song the camera cuts to her adoring face with her “that’s so hot” look.
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Normalize starting a war because you blew up your own ship
REMEMBER THE MAINE
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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don’t do me like that dawg
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Bad POTUS
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Explaining the plot of Scooby-Doo to my daughter and realizing the central irony of the show is that the gang cruises around looking for magic and mysteries that never pan out, while the only truly supernatural element is the talking dog they all ignore.
February 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
This is an irresponsible headline.

Overall, veterans are less likely to have criminal records.

Mass shooters are overwhelmingly younger white men and that’s where the correlation with veterans is.

Veteran mass shooters are usually those with *failed* military careers who were discharged early.
February 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Icebergs can’t melt steel beams
Case closed. They finally arrested the iceberg.
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
My local Barnes and Noble gives #AdvanceBtitannia the old red carpet treatment
February 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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I feel you, overhead locker
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
From Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of Berlin 1930-1933, Defying Hitler. Posted without comment.
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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This is so spot on
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Well, happy 13th birthday to this immaculately timed headline
February 14, 2026 at 10:49 AM
“The couple who instigated the fight fled the club for their gated condominium” in least surprising detail ever.
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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An Aussie and his Bren gun. (1943, New Guinea. #WW2 #HISTORY)
February 14, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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RFK Jr. sniffed cocaine off toilets the right way.

By Ezra Klein
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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"Enchanted suits of armor punch Nazis" is definitely top tier
What’s your favourite Disney movie?
February 13, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Chuck Schumer is verb and subject
February 13, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM