Lins Rumbold
@linsrumbold.bsky.social
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.
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
#authorsky #booksky
A post about remembrance, from my protagonist Flt Lt Alex Farnsworth.
Lest we forget.
www.lindsayrumbold.com/blog/remembrance
Lest we forget.
www.lindsayrumbold.com/blog/remembrance
Remembrance … — Lindsay Rumbold Writes
Flt Lt Alex Farnsworth, my protagonist in the October 2022 plot of Banshee, has a few thoughts about Remembrance Day …
www.lindsayrumbold.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A post about remembrance, from my protagonist Flt Lt Alex Farnsworth.
Lest we forget.
www.lindsayrumbold.com/blog/remembrance
Lest we forget.
www.lindsayrumbold.com/blog/remembrance
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Today, we honour those who served and those who never came home.
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today, we honour those who served and those who never came home.
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
Thank you to whoever flew the DH Chipmunk over the village war memorial today, as we gathered around it on Remembrance Sunday earlier. It was appreciated (not least by me).
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thank you to whoever flew the DH Chipmunk over the village war memorial today, as we gathered around it on Remembrance Sunday earlier. It was appreciated (not least by me).
I remember seeing it on the news (I was a schoolgirl at the time), and I remember feeling such a sense of hope (the innocence of youth!).
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I remember seeing it on the news (I was a schoolgirl at the time), and I remember feeling such a sense of hope (the innocence of youth!).
When your husband is a book ferret, and finds you complete sets of books he’s pretty sure you’ll find interesting … and he’s correct 😃 #BookSky
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When your husband is a book ferret, and finds you complete sets of books he’s pretty sure you’ll find interesting … and he’s correct 😃 #BookSky
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Who would have guessed
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Who would have guessed
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 🙄
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 🙄
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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 🙄
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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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?"
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
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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?"
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...
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I have prints!
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I have prints!
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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?
Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a prison in Paris on the first day of a five-year sentence https://cnn.it/4hvGEiD
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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?
Can you imagine the United States ever doing something like this?
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
This is the fun bit. I feel like I actually know what I’m doing now 😁
(It won’t last.)
#WriterSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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
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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Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
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
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Labour has already delivered or making progress towards two-thirds of its manifesto pledges
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...
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I completely missed this story, so sharing it in case you missed it too
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I completely missed this story, so sharing it in case you missed it too
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Our #WeepingLancaster commemoration has been re-installed in #LancasterCorner in #NAMHangar1
www.newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar...
#LestWeForget
Photo credit #DTEParchive
www.newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar...
#LestWeForget
Photo credit #DTEParchive
October 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Our #WeepingLancaster commemoration has been re-installed in #LancasterCorner in #NAMHangar1
www.newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar...
#LestWeForget
Photo credit #DTEParchive
www.newarkairmuseum.org/on-the-radar...
#LestWeForget
Photo credit #DTEParchive
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...
All copies are signed, too.
vulcantothesky.org/product/bans...
October 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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...
All copies are signed, too.
vulcantothesky.org/product/bans...
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🔴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
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
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🔴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
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
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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.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
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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.
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.
Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
September 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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.
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.
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I keep this handy in the book marks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
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
September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I keep this handy in the book marks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
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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
September 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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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.
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.