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Brian Williams
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Author of 'Fall From Glory' a life of Marshal Ney, Napoleon's Bravest of the Brave. As well as random thoughts on policing, politics, Westerns, war films, and history.
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 22d
Interested in the Napoleonic Wars? My book 'Fall From Glory' is a life of Michel Ney, Napoleon's Bravest of Brave. A brilliant soldier of legendary courage who ended his life in front of a firing squad.
Available on Amazon as a paperback and on kindle.
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 1d
How much can a cat shit?
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 2d
Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.
Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates
France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 4d
"That's not necessary, Ney. That's not necessary. Brian has written a book about you"
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 5d
"In retrospect it is difficult to see why MGM kept Angela Lansbury as a featured player while making stars of Lana Turner, June Allyson, or Janet Leigh."
—David Shipman. And I agree! The goddess Angela would have marked 100 years today, and she damn near made it too. Raise a glass! Or a doughnut.
Angela Lansbury in her dressing room during the filming of STATE OF THE UNION, a 1948 Frank Capra film in which she played a woman much older than herself (check the gray streak) and steals the picture. In this publicity photo, she's smiling at the camera and enthusiastically dunking a doughnut.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 6d
"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.
BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10d
www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ma...
‘God, life is so strange’: Diane Keaton interviewed in 2023 on dogs, doors, wine and why she’s ‘really fancy’
The Oscar-winning actor is back for the Book Club sequel. But what she really wants to talk about is big cars, her love for Woody Allen – and her unexpected passion
www.theguardian.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10d
I watch Errol Flynn movies and thoroughly enjoy them. I also know that Errol Flynn himself deserved a thorough horsewhipping before being dumped in the Atlantic with a bullet in the head.
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10d
www.theguardian.com/film/2021/ma...
Diane Keaton’s 10 best performances – ranked!
With the Oscar winner’s romcom Love, Weddings & Other Disasters out next month in the UK, we run through her greatest roles
www.theguardian.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10d
www.thetimes.com/article/dc35...
Diane Keaton was bemused she was a style icon. The rest of us weren’t
The late actress won an Oscar and launched countless fashion trends with her kooky style
www.thetimes.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 10d
www.thetimes.com/article/840d...
Diane Keaton obituary: Oscar winner and symbol of independence
Best known as the muse of Woody Allen, the actress was once described as the most reclusive star since Greta Garbo
www.thetimes.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 11d
Can you swish it?
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 11d
Could you become President of France?
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 11d
"What you need to do now is pivot the way Von Schlieffen planned in World War I"
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 11d
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social My Dad is in hospital. He asked me to bring him your book.
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 12d
The role of the Paris police in the Liberation is historically problematic. The same force commended by De Gaulle were the same force who had rounded up the city's Jews without a recorded protest.
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Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social · 13d
This was so much fun recording and just listening back to …. Thanks @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social for having me along!
warmovietheatre.bsky.social War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.bsky.social · 13d
Zut alors! Sacre bleu! Cette semaine sur Theatre des Movies de la Guerre, nous voyons une filme Francais! Bien sur, c'est "Is Paris Burning?" comme tous les grands stars de la France et aussi les Etats-Unis! Bof.

Partout sur les services de podcast!
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 12d
Available in kindle and paperback from Amazon.
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Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 13d
"Can you make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you have a head like a skull."
"Does not everyone have a head like a skull?"
"No."
Alec Douglas-Home died 30 years ago today.
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2022 Politician of the Year (dead)
He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13d
One of my favourite quotes (and not just because the same applies to me)!
lionunicorn.bsky.social Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social · 13d
"Can you make me look better than I do on television? I look rather scraggy, like a ghost."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you have a head like a skull."
"Does not everyone have a head like a skull?"
"No."
Alec Douglas-Home died 30 years ago today.
thelionandunicorn.com/2022/12/28/2...
2022 Politician of the Year (dead)
He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak.
thelionandunicorn.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 13d
Habeas Corpus, did she die in vain?!
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13d
Question: Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?

Trump: Suspending who?
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 15d
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir
The man who ended up smoking 30 cigars a day after trying to quit cigarettes also comes across in his book as level-headed, self-aware and savagely funny. Here’s what the late rock legend can teach us...
www.theguardian.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 15d
www.thetimes.com/article/3dc7...
Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady
Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun
www.thetimes.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 15d
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
People claim London crime is rising because it suits them, Met commander says
Nigel Farage and right-wing commentators seek to portray capital as ‘lawless’ despite evidence to the contrary
www.theguardian.com
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Brian Williams @briw74.bsky.social · 16d
South Eastern trains have made this weekend a joy........
a man in a suit and tie sitting at a table
ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting at a table
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