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Lins Rumbold

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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.

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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

A picture of my Cold War novel, Banshee, next to a Vulcan bomber soaring through the air. The text is an endorsement by crime novelist Fiona Veitch Smith which says “A sophisticated Cold War mystery with fine attention to historical detail. Rumbold knows the world of aviation and it shows. Highly recommended.”

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 39m

Who would have guessed

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like I should add this isn’t because of anything bad. In fact, it’s all good stuff that I’m actually grateful for (family and friends and time together). It’s just … why does it all have to happen at once?! 🤣

Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 3d

Having nailed down the plots for Book 2, my head is filled with ideas and I have that burning urge to sit and type for HOURS.

So of course, Life has decided that I will absolutely not have more than 5 minutes to do so between now and probably next Tuesday 🙄

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

New post just out:

"Never again?"

On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.

And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...

Never again?

Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order

open.substack.com

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13d

I have prints!

Fine art print of Donald Campbell with Bluebird CN7

Fine art print of Bluebird K7 at speed on Coniston Water in 1956

Fine art print of Bluebird K7 on Ullswater in 1955

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 13d

#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀

On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it.

#Wales #History

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13d

One benchmark of a democracy is whether it is willing to hold those who have served at the very highest levels to account.

Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?

CNN @cnn.com · 13d

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence https://cnn.it/4hvGEiD

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 13d

After bashing out the skeleton of my 1955 plot over the last couple of weeks, I’m now turning my attention back to the 2024 plot and making sure it lines up.

This is the fun bit. I feel like I actually know what I’m doing now 😁

(It won’t last.)

#WriterSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19d

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges

The Labour government has already delivered or is making progress towards around two thirds of its manifesto pledges.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 21d

Aww 🥺 I’m sorry.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22d

I completely missed this story, so sharing it in case you missed it too
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

www.theguardian.com

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Newark Air Museum @newarkairmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Our #WeepingLancaster commemoration has been re-installed in #LancasterCorner in #NAMHangar1
www.newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar...
#LestWeForget
Photo credit #DTEParchive

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 22d

It means a lot to me to be able to support the preservation of such an iconic aircraft - not to mention it was one of the inspirations behind the novel.

It’s still available in all the other usual places and free on KU.

Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · 22d

Super proud and pleased to announce you can now support Vulcan XH558 and Vulcan To The Sky by buying Banshee from their web shop!

All copies are signed, too.

vulcantothesky.org/product/bans...

Screenshot of the Vulcan To The Sky web shop page for signed paperback copies of Banshee. It features the front cover image, which has a Vulcan bomber flying away on it. A black banner with white text at the bottom says “you can now buy Banshee AND support Vulcan XH558!”

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Oct 4

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 30

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.

One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 29

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.

Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.

And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

The Secret Labuor MP🥀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social · Sep 29

Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.

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Jeff @jeffm2018.bsky.social · Sep 26

I keep this handy in the book marks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...

Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda

Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · Sep 26

For anyone wishing to follow up the story: it's carried in a couple of non-right-wing news media ... but not exactly pursued as the conclusive damning indictment of Farage & Farageist politics it is

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · Sep 26

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · Sep 27

I would love to say we’re going to enjoy a weekend at home not having to rush around and do anything, however, we seem to have contracted whatever lurgy is going around 🤧

At least the salt water gargle is keeping tonsillitis at bay …

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Sep 24

A reminder that Farage supports and platforms Dr Malhotra, a dangerous UK anti-vaxxer and COVID conspiracist 👀
goodlawproject.org/update/when-...

LBC @lbc.co.uk · Sep 24

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Lins Rumbold @linsrumbold.bsky.social · Sep 23

I’d love to say I’ve been working on Book 2, but instead I’ve been knee deep in boring-but-essential-admin, and something super exciting in the wings I can’t share yet …

Oh, and housework. That, along with death and taxes, is a certainty.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · Sep 23

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Sep 23

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Sep 22

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children

Paracetamol should be taken as directed in the patient information leaflet

www.gov.uk

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