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From the team behind The Daily Tism and A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs comes the first ever sitcom by and for autistic people. Wait, surely that’s illegal? It’s a Superpower?? follows Norah, Sophie, Pix, Wilder and Bums, five strangers who meet at...

Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

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Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

In 2000, an unusual motion was passed in the House of Commons. It noted the inaccuracies in the new Hollywood movie U-571, recognised the true history of the capture of an Enigma machine by HMS Bul…

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AI should be AS… There is nothing at all intelligent about AI. But the name ARTIFICIAL STUPID fits perfectly. AS for short. Now, please don’t try to explain to me what AI (or AS) is, I understand it. And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell me about some threat that Harlan imagined over fifty years ago…

I’ve had a chance to try using my Palm m505 and folding keyboard several times now. I’ve found that it works well when I’m writing something that doesn’t require frequent reference to sources. The keyboard is large enough for comfortable typing. The Palm screen is…

You may have noticed that my website is now looking very different. I've just migrated from WordPress to a static…

This is a very good account of the Able Archer war scare in 1983. It's unusual, though, in that it includes scans of thirteen important primary source documents. I read the ebook, and I was surprised when the main narrative ended at about the 42%…

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic A Witness to the Spanish Civil War By Henry Buckley Published by I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd ISBN: 978...

I bought Save the last bullet after hearing about it on The WW2 Podcast. It's a memoir by a teenager that was conscripted to fight against the Allies at the end of the Second World War. I had expected the bulk of it to he…

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LibreOffice extensions are optional, third-party addons for the suite, that add extra functionality. Bora Yarkın has been working on a new extension for LibreOffice Impress, so let’s hear from him about it… Tell us about it! The extension lets you control a LibreOffice Impress presentation from your phone or any other device with a modern web browser. When you start the remote, LibreOffice displays a QR code. Scan it with your phone and the presentation starts from the first slide. The phone interface then shows the current slide, presenter notes, elapsed time and navigation controls. I tried to make the process as simple as possible: no separate mobile application and no manual pairing codes. The remote can be opened from the Slide Show menu in LibreOffice’s top application menu bar—the menu alongside File, Edit, View and the other main menus. This should not be confused with the Slide Show tab inside LibreOffice’s Tabbed user interface. LibreOffice’s UNO extension API does not currently let me add commands to that built-in tab. When using the Tabbed interface, the remote commands are therefore available under the Extensions tab instead. The extension currently provides several connection modes: Local network: The phone connects directly to

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Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

I’ve been using Ubuntu on my desktop machines since 2004. At some point, I can’t remember when, I switched from standard Ubuntu to Ubuntu Mate. Until recently, I had no complaints. I know some people hate snaps, but I’ve never had much of an issue…

The surprising history of how women’s pockets fell in and out of fashion over time.

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I’ve finally finished the first draft of my next military history book, Daring and determined: The first British paratroop raid. I started researching this in 2021 or 2022, and I’ve published two RPG books since then. My most recent military history book, A Strange Campaign:…

Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: ⧉ HTML<!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB> There's a reason for that. It is more than t…

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Why do people queue for political ghost rides that feed them fear instead of truth?

I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.

Britain is trying to build a new tank. But they're doing it with a gun that entered service in the 1970s and re-tread hulls that ended production a quarter century ago. And they're building fewer than 150, which for a completely orphan fleet is a "courageous" approach. Our halft

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