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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like stepping into Mordor - ascending out of the mist in the Chedul Valley yesterday

Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well it looks like I can’t escape the FWW even on holiday. Nice little perambulation down Val Gardena involved a disused railway. Turns out it was built in just 5 months by 8000 Russian POW in 1916. Lots of fascinating photos and info boards along the route

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy 40th wedding anniversary to us!! Don’t look a day older!!

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Day 2 - guided perambulation around the Alpe Di Siusi plateau - stunning!

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First day in the Dolomites - you didn’t disappoint!!

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A very different tour this week - exploring Battles in Flanders’ Fields

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s been a great week exploring the mountains of Sierra Tramuntana

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Concluding the End of Western Front Tour at ‘The Mincing Machine’

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Never an easy visit - Natzwiller-Struthof - the only concentration camp in France. An estimated 20,000 people lost their lives here and the associated ‘sub-camps’ including 4 SOE women murdered here…

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fort de Mutzig - 2km, 2hours, 200 steps and still only 10% of the site covered!

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The end of the western front - 0km - or is it the start??🤔

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Exploring the Champagne Battlefields

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And finally the village that’s most dear to me…

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A good tour this week on the Forgotten Battlefields - day one

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Last day of the tour - Meuse-Argonne

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lovely day on the Chemin Des Dames on Tuesday

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Loved this exhibition of art from FWW French doctor Lucien Gaby

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Who knew the Lucozade connection and the FWW? A trip down the pharmaceutical memory lane, more FWW and Ooh er missus - all at Beamish

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Happy 7th Birthday Ralph!! 🐾🐾 Fun, love, frustration and lunacy in equal measures!!

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Can’t beat a good Divisional history - or two! Happy Birthday to me etc etc

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because it’s a lot easier to privatise services that way🚨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 25/11/2025

🔍 Digging into NHS PFI debt wasn’t easy — but we uncovered £21bn still owed. 💸 This debt is a real problem for patients, staff, and the future of the NHS. Read our blog on the fight to expose the truth ➡️ everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 07/11/2025

💥 Private healthcare bosses had a hand in govt 10yr NHS Plan. Executives from UnitedHealth, InHealth and more sat on working groups that helped draft the blueprint. Patients deserve a health plan shaped by public need, not private profit. 👉 Read our full exposé: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I think people would feel much more positive about tax/ tax rises/ the country in general if they knew that none of the money put into public services was being siphoned off into private shareholders’ pockets.💰🚨

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 30/10/2025

It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The BBC is leading all its news bulletins on the escaped criminal asylum seeker. He needs catching and deporting. Its prominence is because -Embarrasses the government -Requires zero analysis by Chris Mason -Pleases the Reform loving management

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Storm Wotsit will not dissuade us hardy souls!

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A beautiful evening sky to finish off a gorgeous afternoon

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

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Andrew Thornton @andrewthornto20.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

That’s last year’s sloe gin bottled and ready for drinking

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