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Brian Williams

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Author of 'Fall From Glory' a life of Marshal Ney, Napoleon's Bravest of the Brave. As well as random thoughts on policing, politics, Westerns, war films, and history.

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · Sep 29

Interested in the Napoleonic Wars? My book 'Fall From Glory' is a life of Michel Ney, Napoleon's Bravest of Brave. A brilliant soldier of legendary courage who ended his life in front of a firing squad.
Available on Amazon as a paperback and on kindle.

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10h

They did it with AOC. Republican strategists joked that every time she appeared on television or social media donations would go through the roof.

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"I've had it with those godamned Tudors!"

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He was good. Very good.

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Watkins gone. He was a hugely important filmmaker. Best known for The War Game but his 1964 Culloden film still influences way history TV is made today. It’s not perfect but it’s amazing and on YouTube as a good print. Watch it in his honour! youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA?...

"Culloden" (1964) Scottish Jacobite Rebellion Classic Docu-Drama

YouTube video by LionHeart FilmWorks

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 5d

Average?!

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Paris police have arrested what they described as "a key suspect"

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 5d

If I was that journalist I would probably take up another occupation.

John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 5d

But wine importer Bill DeBlasio did give the reporter what they wanted to hear
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 18d

"That's not necessary, Ney. That's not necessary. Brian has written a book about you"

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 7d

They will just baton charge them instead. Old school.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7d

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."

Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.

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Coventry South needs a by-election soon

Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 15d

How much can a cat shit?

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 16d

Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 18d

"That's not necessary, Ney. That's not necessary. Brian has written a book about you"

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 19d

"In retrospect it is difficult to see why MGM kept Angela Lansbury as a featured player while making stars of Lana Turner, June Allyson, or Janet Leigh."
—David Shipman. And I agree! The goddess Angela would have marked 100 years today, and she damn near made it too. Raise a glass! Or a doughnut.

Angela Lansbury in her dressing room during the filming of STATE OF THE UNION, a 1948 Frank Capra film in which she played a woman much older than herself (check the gray streak) and steals the picture. In this publicity photo, she's smiling at the camera and enthusiastically dunking a doughnut.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 19d

"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.

BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 24d

www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ma...

‘God, life is so strange’: Diane Keaton interviewed in 2023 on dogs, doors, wine and why she’s ‘really fancy’

The Oscar-winning actor is back for the Book Club sequel. But what she really wants to talk about is big cars, her love for Woody Allen – and her unexpected passion

www.theguardian.com

Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 24d

I watch Errol Flynn movies and thoroughly enjoy them. I also know that Errol Flynn himself deserved a thorough horsewhipping before being dumped in the Atlantic with a bullet in the head.