Graham Addison
@grahamaddison.bsky.social
Author of Raiders of the Hidden Ark. The true story of the Parker expedition to Jerusalem, the first expedition to try and find the Ark of the Covenant. http://amzn.to/3KJAsCQ 'British businessman turned history writer' - NY Times. Reading FC Supporter
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Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.
March 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.
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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
It appears that the US has abandoned its allies and switched sides. It is hardly new but often (but not always) ends badly from Hitler breaking the Ribbentrop Molotov pact, Italy switching sides in both WWI & WWII, Russia after the Treaty of Tilsit, Thebes' endless changes.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It appears that the US has abandoned its allies and switched sides. It is hardly new but often (but not always) ends badly from Hitler breaking the Ribbentrop Molotov pact, Italy switching sides in both WWI & WWII, Russia after the Treaty of Tilsit, Thebes' endless changes.
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Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart's memoir looks set to put firecrackers under Westminster... 🧨🧨
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
February 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart's memoir looks set to put firecrackers under Westminster... 🧨🧨
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone
A terrifying video of the rockfall which caused so many problems to skiers heading up the N90 to the French Alps a week ago, in my case Les Arcs. If the rockfall had been two hours later the road would have been packed and rhe outcome very different www.ledauphine.com/videos/video...
Vidéo exclusive : sa caméra embarquée a filmé l'éboulement sur la RN90 en Savoie
Le Dauphiné Libéré s'est procuré les images de l'éboulement qui a fait un blessé et a totalement coupé la RN90 samedi 1er ...
www.ledauphine.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A terrifying video of the rockfall which caused so many problems to skiers heading up the N90 to the French Alps a week ago, in my case Les Arcs. If the rockfall had been two hours later the road would have been packed and rhe outcome very different www.ledauphine.com/videos/video...
Just finishing watching the excellent Number 24 on Netflix. It was thought provoking and gripping. Definitely worth a watch.
January 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just finishing watching the excellent Number 24 on Netflix. It was thought provoking and gripping. Definitely worth a watch.
When I visited Monreale a few years ago I thought it was the most beautiful church interior I had ever seen. The mosaics are a testament to the incredible art during the Norman rule of Sicily. Now they have been restored to ‘pure beauty’. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'It's pure beauty' - Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored
The mosaics in Monreale cathedral, in Sicily, span over 6,400 square meters and contain 2.2 kilos of solid gold.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:11 AM
When I visited Monreale a few years ago I thought it was the most beautiful church interior I had ever seen. The mosaics are a testament to the incredible art during the Norman rule of Sicily. Now they have been restored to ‘pure beauty’. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Looking forward to seeing Paul Weller, Woking’s greatest export at the Eventim Apollo
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Looking forward to seeing Paul Weller, Woking’s greatest export at the Eventim Apollo
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It’s been apparent where Tucker’s politics (a lot of aggressive *nationalism* plus a modicum of pseudo *socialism* for “the real Americans”) has been headed for quite a while now. John Ganz on the latest episode in this sadly predictable story. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
We're So Back
Tucker Carlson "Goes There"
open.substack.com
September 5, 2024 at 3:11 PM
It’s been apparent where Tucker’s politics (a lot of aggressive *nationalism* plus a modicum of pseudo *socialism* for “the real Americans”) has been headed for quite a while now. John Ganz on the latest episode in this sadly predictable story. open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
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🔥“Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo ID”
- his own law too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- his own law too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo ID
Former prime minister Boris Johnson was caught out by a law his own government introduced as he went to vote on Thursday
www.independent.co.uk
May 2, 2024 at 7:32 PM
🔥“Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo ID”
- his own law too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- his own law too.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Wednesday’s The Times cartoon www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mort...
April 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Wednesday’s The Times cartoon www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mort...
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In Liz Truss’s head, only one thing had absolutely nothing to do with bringing down Liz Truss, and that thing is: Liz Truss
February 23, 2024 at 10:57 AM
In Liz Truss’s head, only one thing had absolutely nothing to do with bringing down Liz Truss, and that thing is: Liz Truss
I went to see the Napoleon movie yesterday & wanted to like it & was OK to forgive some historical errors but it just wasn't a good film. It failed to explain in any way his brilliance & faults or even his relationship with Josephine which was Scott's explanation of Napoleon. Let's take Egypt 1/
December 1, 2023 at 11:39 AM
I went to see the Napoleon movie yesterday & wanted to like it & was OK to forgive some historical errors but it just wasn't a good film. It failed to explain in any way his brilliance & faults or even his relationship with Josephine which was Scott's explanation of Napoleon. Let's take Egypt 1/
In 1815 Lady Hester Stanhope the niece of British PM William Pitt the Younger uncovered the first archaeological treasure in Palestine and blew it up because she believed what happened with the Elgin Marbles was wrong, not sure her answer right but what Elgin did was seen as wrong for 200 yrs1/
November 28, 2023 at 3:02 PM
In 1815 Lady Hester Stanhope the niece of British PM William Pitt the Younger uncovered the first archaeological treasure in Palestine and blew it up because she believed what happened with the Elgin Marbles was wrong, not sure her answer right but what Elgin did was seen as wrong for 200 yrs1/
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Britain’s last “stop the boats” campaign: I wrote about the Exodus affair in 1947 and its implications
Stopping the Exodus: an impossible task
The voyage in 1947 of the Exodus, a ship chartered by a Zionist militia, piled pressure on the British government to relax the limits it had imposed on Jewish immigration to Palestine. It demonstrated...
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November 23, 2023 at 7:35 AM
Britain’s last “stop the boats” campaign: I wrote about the Exodus affair in 1947 and its implications
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My piece on the odd relevance of the Exodus affair to our current immigration debate
Stopping the Exodus: an impossible task
The voyage in 1947 of the Exodus, a ship chartered by a Zionist militia, piled pressure on the British government to relax the limits it had imposed on Jewish immigration to Palestine. It demonstrated...
engelsbergideas.com
November 22, 2023 at 7:46 AM
My piece on the odd relevance of the Exodus affair to our current immigration debate
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British policy in Palestine 1945-47 was to "stop the boats" and it failed miserably.
November 15, 2023 at 11:53 AM
British policy in Palestine 1945-47 was to "stop the boats" and it failed miserably.
A fascinating tale of how Rudolf Höss the commander of Auschwitz was caught after the war by a British officer #WWII
The Northampton shoemaker who caught the Auschwitz commander
The Northampton shoemaker who caught the Auschwitz commander
A Northampton leather worker fluent in German was key to capturing a Nazi commander.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2023 at 9:38 AM
A fascinating tale of how Rudolf Höss the commander of Auschwitz was caught after the war by a British officer #WWII
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On this day 400 years ago, Shakespeare's First Folio was published!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
November 8, 2023 at 12:11 PM
On this day 400 years ago, Shakespeare's First Folio was published!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves.
But here's something unique.
We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!
Toe-curling footage shows 'nuclear' Matt Hancock playing cricket in his Department of Health office just months before he aped hitting boundaries while telling civil servants everything was 'fine' on Covid trib.al/RjQ3zMw 1/
Matt Hancock 'played cricket' and said he was 'loving' Covid crisis
A former top official this week revealed how, in early 2020, the then health secretary claimed he was 'loving' the responsibility of leading the NHS during its worst crisis for decades.
trib.al
November 2, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Toe-curling footage shows 'nuclear' Matt Hancock playing cricket in his Department of Health office just months before he aped hitting boundaries while telling civil servants everything was 'fine' on Covid trib.al/RjQ3zMw 1/
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Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/west-bank-palestinians-israel-settlers.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/west-bank-palestinians-israel-settlers.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
How a Campaign of Extremist Violence Is Pushing the West Bank to the Brink
Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/west-bank-palestinians-israel-settlers.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/west-bank-palestinians-israel-settlers.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I watched this last night and it was proof, if it were needed, that truth is the first casualty of war. The fact that on both sides even official bodies tried to deny the killing of Omar and Omer
Omer and Omar: How two 4-year-olds were killed and social media denied it
Omer and Omar: How two 4-year-olds were killed and social media denied it
Two young boys in Gaza and Israel became victims of war - and then victims of social media disinformation.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2023 at 8:03 AM
I watched this last night and it was proof, if it were needed, that truth is the first casualty of war. The fact that on both sides even official bodies tried to deny the killing of Omar and Omer