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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
He’d really have learned German ahead of English.
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Probably his third language actually after German
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Brooke-Churchill comedy drama I keep writing in my head (why tf someone won’t commission this I don’t know) includes a scene of Brooke trying to understand WSC’s French.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The three musketeers, Brooke, Pound, and Portal
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Well exactly which is why a residency argument would have a bit more potential traction
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Also I’m going to assume (can’t read the full article, happy to be corrected) that it’s on residency grounds rather than criticism of Musk per se. Hard to see what the legal justification would be otherwise.
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Alan Allport
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I am honored to have received my bill
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
No one on their death bed says I wish I’d gotten less sleep (I expect)
December 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Kipling Road was a typical East End street where people were coming in and out of each other’s houses with each other’s property all day long”
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM