John Flanagan
@johnflanagan.bsky.social
Brit immigrant in Germany glad to have escaped the Other Place. Pro-EU; married to a wonderful man; BIR fanatic with ridiculously full spice cupboard.
Happily blocked by Ian Dunt and proud member of the ‘FBPE NAFO boomer cohort’.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Just what we need, politicians running.
January 27, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Just what we need, politicians running.
Or this act of depravity.
January 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Or this act of depravity.
It’s good to be muted by racists.
January 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It’s good to be muted by racists.
Morning Bluesky.
December 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Morning Bluesky.
People seem to have forgotten this atrocity, here in a pic from a 2022 Guardian article which lauded her imaginary personality whilst simultaneously pretending that Liz Truss was a normal human being.
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
People seem to have forgotten this atrocity, here in a pic from a 2022 Guardian article which lauded her imaginary personality whilst simultaneously pretending that Liz Truss was a normal human being.
Such a delicate flower…
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Such a delicate flower…
One couple - she works the land and he for a health authority - are doing everything they can to give their child an independent education ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
One couple - she works the land and he for a health authority - are doing everything they can to give their child an independent education ⬇️
The most honest thing this fool has done in the last two days.
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The most honest thing this fool has done in the last two days.
I think it‘s supposed to be the Durham Miners‘ Hall at Redhills in the City of Durham.
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I think it‘s supposed to be the Durham Miners‘ Hall at Redhills in the City of Durham.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A hard-fought win today for the Leipzig IceFighters. A lot of joy here in the wonderfully named Kohlrabi Cirkus.
October 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A hard-fought win today for the Leipzig IceFighters. A lot of joy here in the wonderfully named Kohlrabi Cirkus.
Unsolicited ricks pic.
October 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Unsolicited ricks pic.
#MosaicMonday
Wandering around Ravenna on a hot September day feels like a distant memory back in Leipzig with autumn looming.
San Vitale, grumpy Justinian and let’s not forget the floor ducks.
Wandering around Ravenna on a hot September day feels like a distant memory back in Leipzig with autumn looming.
San Vitale, grumpy Justinian and let’s not forget the floor ducks.
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#MosaicMonday
Wandering around Ravenna on a hot September day feels like a distant memory back in Leipzig with autumn looming.
San Vitale, grumpy Justinian and let’s not forget the floor ducks.
Wandering around Ravenna on a hot September day feels like a distant memory back in Leipzig with autumn looming.
San Vitale, grumpy Justinian and let’s not forget the floor ducks.
Empty-headed yet never silent, the archetypal rebel without a clue. Lovingly curated by the BBC, the same auntie Beeb that brought you Saville, Harris and the shouting food man, among others.
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Empty-headed yet never silent, the archetypal rebel without a clue. Lovingly curated by the BBC, the same auntie Beeb that brought you Saville, Harris and the shouting food man, among others.
I think about the HRE a lot, largely due to Peter Wilson. I’m not sure where it sits in pop culture on account of appropriation by bad political actors currently, but the maps for Europa Universalis 5 are quite something. No wonder Charles V retired. Here he is in Palermo, looking stick-thin.
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I think about the HRE a lot, largely due to Peter Wilson. I’m not sure where it sits in pop culture on account of appropriation by bad political actors currently, but the maps for Europa Universalis 5 are quite something. No wonder Charles V retired. Here he is in Palermo, looking stick-thin.
I honestly thought Dunt had more to him than this. Suppose a clue was in the gratuitous swearing - guess I’ll let Striking 13 go then - what a prickly pear…
September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I honestly thought Dunt had more to him than this. Suppose a clue was in the gratuitous swearing - guess I’ll let Striking 13 go then - what a prickly pear…
Tree of the day, a beech shaped like a boy’s haircut.
September 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Tree of the day, a beech shaped like a boy’s haircut.
My phone but not my finger! Happy Friday my dears.
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My phone but not my finger! Happy Friday my dears.
A timely article but there may be some way to go in order to dispel the WWII myths, some of which are a result of our own wartime propaganda - eg Low’s ‘Very well, alone’ cartoon from 1940. A glance at 🇬🇧 order of battle in Egypt that same year makes a nonsense of the isolation trope.
May 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A timely article but there may be some way to go in order to dispel the WWII myths, some of which are a result of our own wartime propaganda - eg Low’s ‘Very well, alone’ cartoon from 1940. A glance at 🇬🇧 order of battle in Egypt that same year makes a nonsense of the isolation trope.
Wrong answer. St Bede was born in Northumbria, wrote the first history of England and was somewhat less German than Edmund. Probably gets the Northern vote.
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Wrong answer. St Bede was born in Northumbria, wrote the first history of England and was somewhat less German than Edmund. Probably gets the Northern vote.
That first paragraph reminded me of this. Uncomfortably prescient fiction.
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
That first paragraph reminded me of this. Uncomfortably prescient fiction.