Lins Rumbold
@linsrumbold.bsky.social
Cold War thriller author, part-time engineer. History buff. Big fan of things with engines & wheels, but also baking. And tea. All views my own.
http://bio.site/lins_rumbold for books and my blog.
http://bio.site/lins_rumbold for books and my blog.
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Lins Rumbold
@linsrumbold.bsky.social
· Sep 14
It’s HERE! My Cold War novel, Banshee, is now officially out on Kindle and paperback! Preorders should be landing on people’s doorsteps today and in the next few days.
#authorsky #booksky
#authorsky #booksky
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Anyway, here’s the book www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/book/fleet-a...
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Fairey Swordfish | at Mortons Books
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Fairey Swordfish | at Mortons Books
www.mortonsbooks.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Anyway, here’s the book www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/book/fleet-a...
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Annoyance time
This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op
But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…
This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op
But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Annoyance time
This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op
But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…
This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op
But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…
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We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM
We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...
Lesson learned: my writing brain cannot focus on two different projects at once. I’ve been pushing to get a short story done (for an anthology later this year). That has taken up ALL my writing run time for the last 6 weeks.
Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖
Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖
January 18, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Lesson learned: my writing brain cannot focus on two different projects at once. I’ve been pushing to get a short story done (for an anthology later this year). That has taken up ALL my writing run time for the last 6 weeks.
Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖
Despite itching to get on with Book 2, I just couldn’t switch tracks 😖
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This notion of 'politics as drama or entertainment', and then the chase for audience numbers, rather than 'how our society is structured' is where things went wrong at the BBC.
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM
This notion of 'politics as drama or entertainment', and then the chase for audience numbers, rather than 'how our society is structured' is where things went wrong at the BBC.
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If you have any doubt that Farage is the British pro-consul for Trump’s Dark Empire, read this story about the rehabilitated Putin stooge Manafort
🔴Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked With Russia Operative Paul Manafort
The Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/n...
The Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/n...
Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked With Russia Operative Paul Manafort
The Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal
bylinetimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If you have any doubt that Farage is the British pro-consul for Trump’s Dark Empire, read this story about the rehabilitated Putin stooge Manafort
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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You cannot back Donald Trump and support Ukraine. Trump has helped Putin by starving Ukraine of air defense (which the Russians understand). Trump is helping Putin freeze Ukrainian cities, turn off Ukrainian lights and, ultimately, kill Ukrainians.
And he has been doing this for almost one year.
And he has been doing this for almost one year.
January 15, 2026 at 12:45 PM
You cannot back Donald Trump and support Ukraine. Trump has helped Putin by starving Ukraine of air defense (which the Russians understand). Trump is helping Putin freeze Ukrainian cities, turn off Ukrainian lights and, ultimately, kill Ukrainians.
And he has been doing this for almost one year.
And he has been doing this for almost one year.
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Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Given all the other recent Conservative defections he's accepted, "I've always thought Robert Jenrick was a fraud" reads more like a recommendation than a criticism
A few pics from a New Year’s trip to IWM Duxford 😄
It’s fair to say things are being reorganised there at the moment. Here we have a Tornado, a Lysander, raspberry ripple Javelin, and the VC-10
It’s fair to say things are being reorganised there at the moment. Here we have a Tornado, a Lysander, raspberry ripple Javelin, and the VC-10
January 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
A few pics from a New Year’s trip to IWM Duxford 😄
It’s fair to say things are being reorganised there at the moment. Here we have a Tornado, a Lysander, raspberry ripple Javelin, and the VC-10
It’s fair to say things are being reorganised there at the moment. Here we have a Tornado, a Lysander, raspberry ripple Javelin, and the VC-10
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If I wanted to permanently cripple NATO, divide the USA and help Russia and China, I could think of nothing better than the US using military force to seize Greenland.
January 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM
If I wanted to permanently cripple NATO, divide the USA and help Russia and China, I could think of nothing better than the US using military force to seize Greenland.
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This is not exercising freedom of speech. This is misogynistic intimidation.
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
This is not exercising freedom of speech. This is misogynistic intimidation.
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The episode is now here! coldwarconversations.com/episode437/
When Terrorism Went Global: Plane Hijackings and Violence in the 1970s
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on Amazon MusicListen on Podcast AddictBecome a Patron!In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West wit
coldwarconversations.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The episode is now here! coldwarconversations.com/episode437/
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Great chat with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his new book The #Revolutionists | The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s | It's Baillie Gifford Shortlisted!
Episode coming soon. Buy the book & support @ColdWarPod here uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97818...
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Episode coming soon. Buy the book & support @ColdWarPod here uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97818...
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
uk.bookshop.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Great chat with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his new book The #Revolutionists | The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s | It's Baillie Gifford Shortlisted!
Episode coming soon. Buy the book & support @ColdWarPod here uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97818...
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Episode coming soon. Buy the book & support @ColdWarPod here uk.bookshop.org/a/1549/97818...
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9
January 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9
Fancy a Christmas Kindle bargain that blends past and present and features the iconic Avro Vulcan? My Cold War novel Banshee is 99p (in ebook form) from now until New Year’s Eve! It’s still free on Kindle Unlimited amzn.to/41N1ELW
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
December 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Well. 2025. Good to see you off with a pleasant afternoon walk through the chilly, sunny countryside.
Happy New Year everyone! Crossing fingers that 2026 will be kind to us …
Happy New Year everyone! Crossing fingers that 2026 will be kind to us …
December 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Well. 2025. Good to see you off with a pleasant afternoon walk through the chilly, sunny countryside.
Happy New Year everyone! Crossing fingers that 2026 will be kind to us …
Happy New Year everyone! Crossing fingers that 2026 will be kind to us …
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Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential.
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Munitions worker very carefully and very gently fills a shell. From clip Reel 8 of IWM 580, released #OTD Dec 29 1915. Note the powder in air, TNT poisoning caused skin to turn yellow and was fatal in about 100 cases. Link to partial list of victims below en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential.
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?
Feeling absurdly pleased at ordering a new (artificial) Christmas tree in the sales 🤣
You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take Yorkshire out of the girl …
You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take Yorkshire out of the girl …
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Feeling absurdly pleased at ordering a new (artificial) Christmas tree in the sales 🤣
You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take Yorkshire out of the girl …
You can take the girl out of Yorkshire, but you can’t take Yorkshire out of the girl …
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Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️
Fancy a Christmas Kindle bargain that blends past and present and features the iconic Avro Vulcan? My Cold War novel Banshee is 99p (in ebook form) from now until New Year’s Eve! It’s still free on Kindle Unlimited amzn.to/41N1ELW
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fancy a Christmas Kindle bargain that blends past and present and features the iconic Avro Vulcan? My Cold War novel Banshee is 99p (in ebook form) from now until New Year’s Eve! It’s still free on Kindle Unlimited amzn.to/41N1ELW
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
#BookSky #WriterSky #HistFic #ChristmasBooks
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas - and that however the day comes, you get to spend some time with those you love, and I hope you get at least a bit of what you need and want 😊
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas - and that however the day comes, you get to spend some time with those you love, and I hope you get at least a bit of what you need and want 😊
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The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
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