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James Fennell

@jamesfennell.bsky.social
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Stabilisation Practitioner, Honourary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, MBE, Defence & History, Literature, Tech - work 130 warzones so far. Have dog.

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Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 25/02/2025
Rearming Britain and Europe — The Task Ahead | "The road to a rearmed Europe will be perilous and expensive. There’s no time to waste." @jamesfennell.bsky.social
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Rearming Britain and Europe — The Task Ahead
The road to a rearmed Britain and Europe will be perilous and expensive. There’s no time to waste on the task ahead.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My plan for Britain and European rearmament as Trump takes America to the dark side.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My piece fo CEPA on Britains strategic challenges now we can no longer subcontract our security to the USA.
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Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 19/02/2025
Defending Britain Without the US | "The UK has subcontracted grand strategy to the US and NATO since the 1960s. Now it’s coming home and urgent work is needed to make it credible." @jamesfennell.bsky.social
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Defending Britain Without the US
Britain has subcontracted its defense strategy to the US and NATO since the 1960s. Now it’s coming home and urgent work is needed.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
❗️🇩🇪Germany has decided to purchase 🇫🇮Finnish Patria 6×6 APCs as the main armored personnel carrier for the army. It is reported that Germany wants to buy a total of 1,000 of these APCs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
One of these things is not like the others.
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The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 10/01/2025
Expert calls for NATO collaboration to lower tank costs defence-blog.com/expert-calls...
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Expert calls for NATO collaboration to lower tank costs
Defense analyst Nicholas Drummond has highlighted the escalating costs of main battle tanks, warning that current procurement practices are unsustainable. In a post shared on social media, Drummond st...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The radicalised billionaire Elon Musk is Just Amplifying Questions [The question is whether successive UK governments have pursued a treasonable agenda of great replacement + White Genocide and so are responsible for an inevitable coming inter-ethnic civil war]
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Setup my new writing station on my boat ‘Marianne’. Lord Byron enjoying his new perch. Dewinterisation nearly done. New Bimini to fit then off into the wild blue.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I used this app You need a little familiarity with GitHub and computers, but works after trial and error.. github.com/marcomaroni-...
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GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Am importing my full set of threads from X.... wouldbe great if they are shared so I can build up following on Blue Sky too. Thank you (don't feel obliged!)
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Just discovered that my ancestor (4th great grandfather) Richard Anderson was Master of HMS Phaeton, Excellent and Captain during the Napoleonic wars (1797-1801). How cool is that! @kejamieson_
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Very interested in the future of Loyal Wingman projects. RAF and RN have programmes of record. Australia, Sweden and BAe have interesting programmes with connection to UK requirement through AUKUS and GCAP.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
DAF manufactures trucks in Leyland, pretty much every DAF truck registered in the UK is built in Lancashire. They also have a military CF series - and MV make armoured cabs for them in Scotland. They could be built here. Do we think about DAF as a supplier? @thinkdefence
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Here a few things which are being produced, or could rapidly be so, in UK and should be useful. HMT hardtop variants..
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
A quick look at the British workboat buliding sector... Joshua Preston build aluminum workboats and landing craft in Cornwall
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
If you followed your childhood dream job, what would you be right now? x.com/Mr_A_McSquiffy/status/1758505…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
First of an occasional series on boats. I own a river cruiser currently in Burgundy, France (this is not her, but same place) - it’s my escape from Ukraine where work takes me.. planning to do Flanders battlefields in Marianne soon.. 1/
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
What a beauty spotted this morning
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Memorial to the defence of the town during the Franco-Prussian war -a couple of bronze 6 pounder Napoleons, also used in ACW.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Was in Kharkiv yesterday - there is a Mk V tank there! - from 1919 Russian Civil War British Army deployment. This is not my photo, but tank on memorial in city centre, a T34-85 on next plinth.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
Saturday at last
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Reading the British Army Review summer edition on 'how we will fight' - some nuggets 1⃣ loitering munitions (lots of them) 2⃣ C-UAS on Boxer 3⃣ enhancement to Boxer RWS (30mm?) 4⃣ 30mm armed UGV for light forces forces issuu.com/chacr_camberley/docs/brit…
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The British Army Review – Summer 2023
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Good luck Mark x.com/TheHillTimes/status/187736606…
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Amid intense debate over whether there should be a new national inquiry into abuse by grooming gangs, the chair of IICSA Alexis Jay - who also conducted the Rotherham inquiry that reported in 2014 (which I also reported on) - has called for action rather than further “consultations and discussions”
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Patrick Sanders? x.com/larisamlbrown/status/18770887…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Imagine if Trump got excited about the Antarctic, and demanded we sell him the Falklands or he will considerusing force. How would the right wing press spin that?
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great cartoon in the Times today.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Brilliant take on the famous cartoon of Napoleon and Nelson slicing up the globe. x.com/shashj/status/187709948721195…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I see Liz Truss is standing up for free speech - clearly only applies if its in her favour.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Truss's desperation for power at any cost and very limited social skills has led her to shift her politcal ideals with the wind and fail to own or learn from her myriad mistakes.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Liz Truss has a very weak prospect of success via legal means here
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Many of those cheering him on have no sense of shame that they spent large parts of the last decade banging on about sovereignty. www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
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Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
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Vmaxpax @vmaxpax.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As telegraphed by Moscow insiders last year after IMO resolution on Illegal Activities in Maritime Sector should "unfriendly" nations physically embargo Russian tankers in Baltics or Danish Straits. Russian military stalking now in play ⚠️
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.eurosky.social · 09/01/2025
"Greenland is important for the United States' national security, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz said on Wednesday, following comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump suggesting the U.S. should take control of the island." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/greenl...
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Greenland important for the US, says Trump's pick for national security adviser
Greenland is important for the United States' national security, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz said on Wednesday, following comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump suggesting the U.S. should take control of the island.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Trump is delivering political insanity, or fascism, or both www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Trump is pushing politics into unknown territory unless, that is, you look at the rise of fascist empires, where the precedents are easy to find.
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Trump is delivering political insanity, or fascism, or both
Headlines in the Guardian and elsewhere make it obvious how instance politics is becoming at this moment. Just look at those that follow. First, there is a threat to annex Canada: Trump is not the...
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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 08/01/2025
The UK Government has reaffirmed its commitment to increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, with a target to outline the path to this goal in the coming months. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=55829
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Government questioned over defence spending target
The UK Government has reaffirmed its commitment to increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, with a target to outline the path to this goal in the coming months.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2025
Idiocracy was a documentary
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Am trying to move my tweets on mil stuff over to BlueSky- bear with me and they willappear here soon.. Will move over for good shortly.
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The reason why Badenoch and the tories did not implement the Jay report is that the compensation bill is likely to hit £10 bn for victims of child abuse. www.ft.com/content/cef1aaa6-31b4-4f…
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Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn
Keir Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for failing to implement 2022 Jay review recommendations
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨🚨 in case you’re wondering why the Tories didn’t implement the Alexis Jay report into child sex abuse we reveal tonight that her proposal for a compensation scheme for victims would cost £5-10bn according to preliminary Whitehall estimates www.ft.com/content/cef1...
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Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn
Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for not implementing recommendations of 2022 Jay review
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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 09/01/2025
The idea of establishing a British-led naval task force in the Black Sea, headed by Type 31 Frigates, has been put forward as a critical response to Russian aggression. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=55895
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A British naval task force in the Black Sea?
The idea of establishing a British-led naval task force in the Black Sea, headed by Type 31 Frigates, has been put forward as a critical response to Russian aggression.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Trump is on the march youtu.be/qb_jfCFs0mw?... Trump is revealing that he has the type of imperialist plans for geographic expansion of the USA that we thought had departed Western thinking long ago, and such desires have never ended well.
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Trump is on the march
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Time we started making cheaper and more effective weapons which help small armies defend large frontlines - like landmines, cluster munitions, tactical nuclear weaponss well as cheap drones and missiles. The formerweere standard issue to UK armed forces during the Cold War. t.co/E6KTLw0DWg
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is very interesting - AI learning from a range of data sources (including OSINT) to detect unusual behaviours by commercial shipping near critical infrastructure. Russian intel ships have been hard at work these past months gathering targeting data, so none too soon. t.co/hZB7exBRwx
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excellent news. It was tricky for Healey with HMT opposing any backdating of civil service pay rises. x.com/NavyLookout/status/1876908650…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Great thread from Sunder showing that it was Kier Starmer that did most to break up the gangs, bringing prosecutions in 2009-11, and raising it as a national issue in 2011. x.com/sundersays/status/18768996807…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New cold war exhibition as Bovington by the look of it.. Very nice. x.com/TankMuseum/status/18765848732…
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James Fennell @jamesfennell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
There is a pattern here with other ultra nationalist populists - Orban shared images of a greater Hungary, and Putin has tried to occupy Georgia and Ukraine. If anyone thought sane people were joking about a new facism, then this surely tells the world that we were not wrong. t.co/aUOha...
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