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Chris Baker

@fourteeneighteen.co.uk

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I run The Long, Long Trail and I research soldiers for a living. Brummie then Lichfeldian and then whatever people who live in Leamington Spa are called.

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Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 15m

Lots here in Warwickshire too

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 2d

Pathetic, isn't it.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Did he continue his running after the army, Dave?

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Is it that you only get a bit sooty?

Don't waste your time. A ludicrous AI generated advert for cremations

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Oh undoubtedly.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

She will be gone before next GE even if one was called now. Even her own party hates her.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Not much to anyone else but a great deal to me: my granddad's boot brush from his fourth and last period of military service, 1917. #ww1 #genealogy

Side view of British WW1 army boot cleaning brush. Dense black horsehair, blackened wood, number stamped on side

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Yesterday I submitted a request via EConsult at 9am and a GP came to my house to see my wife at 12.20pm. Wow!

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

All of which could have been predicted to have been in power. Even Truss. Who in their right mind considers this to be a serious possibility for Bad Enoch?

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Who cares what she says? She'll never be near power.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

Where else would she get a job? Or him, for that matter.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 4d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 4d

Agree. Had a week there recently. Lovely town, well worth seeing.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 4d

Moonrise behind my house tonight

Silver glow of harvest moon rising behind darkened trees. Warwickshire, UK

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5d

1 week ago Nathan Gill pled guilty to 8 charges of Russian bribery.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull and Paul Nuttall, all senior Reform UK leadership, all colleagues of Gill’s through UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK.

All have done what guilty people do.

Silence.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 5d

The photo is of Leicester.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 6d

Does she not grasp that she would be one of the disappeared?

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 6d

Interesting that the Conservative Party wishes to introduce an armed, masked, non-uniformed, untrained, violent force that ignores the law and disappears people based on the way they look. Noted.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 6d

As they date from early 1800s she has a very good memory.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 7d

Very special for you, Clare. Had you been there before?

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 7d

No, and the army numbering system changed completely in 1920 anyway.

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 8d

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 8d

Of all the things I don't care much about this week, the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury comes top of the list.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9d

Morning.

Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 9d

Thanks. His service record exists. It does not appear that he had any connection himself with the North Midland Royal Engineers, so the badge was not his own. Perhaps a family member?