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JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Erron Gordon@errongordon10h
Big fan of @CNN’s brand new election studio and I love the steadicam going through the studio door at the top!
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JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Solidarity with my former colleagues at the BBC in this @NUJofficial ballot
Members at the BBC, we’re balloting for industrial action over two critical issues: compulsory redundancies and rising workloads. Please cast your vote now if you haven’t already.
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JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Members at the BBC, we’re balloting for industrial action over two critical issues: compulsory redundancies and rising workloads. Please cast your vote now if you haven’t already.
Find out more: nuj.org.uk/resource/vote-in-…
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
How far this country has fallen.
A convicted fraudster taking PMQs
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Blood bank sites in France are the latest to be hit by cyber attackers.
trib.al/6etY2eZ
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
PETE HEGSETH: THE FIRST POLITICAL CASUALTY OF TRUMP’S MIDTERM DEFEAT?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could become one of the biggest political casualties of the Republican Party’s 2026 midterm defeat.
His controversial handling of the Iran war, which critics argue was driven by Netanyahu’s influence and a failure to adequately weigh America’s strategic interests, may have helped turn voters against Trump and his administration.
His repeated removal of experienced generals and senior military officials has also raised serious questions about his judgment, leadership and politicization of the military. With reports of growing frustration among White House insiders and calls for personnel changes, Hegseth could become the administration’s first major casualty of the electoral backlash.
As Democrats are poised to take control of both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, he will face a much tougher battle: congressional investigations, subpoenas, public hearings and potentially impeachment proceedings. In many ways, Hegseth could become the face of a costly foreign-policy gamble that Republicans will struggle to defend.
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
BREAKING: SWEET REVENGE! The Navy Admiral who Pete Hegseth fired DEFEATS her MAGA opponent to win a House seat in South Carolina — cementing the blue tsunami with a poetic flourish!
This is just too beautiful...
Democrat Nancy Lacore, a 35-year Navy veteran who rose through the ranks from helicopter pilot to become Chief of Navy Reserve, was fired in August of 2025 amid Hegseth's purging of high-ranking women in the military. While no official reason was given, the deeply misogynistic Hegseth has not been coy about his caveman belief that only testosterone-injecting men should serve.
Lacore has now defeated Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt to seize a seat that was formerly held by MAGA lunatic Nancy Mace who launched a failed bid for the governor's mansion this year.
Lacore has not been shy about criticizing Hegseth's disastrous mismanagement of the Defense Department, particularly his failed Iran War.
"Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense that we have ever had, and he is doing significant damage to our military that it will really take decades to undo," she said, adding that he "needs to go."
The most beautiful irony here? Congresswoman Lacore could soon be voting with the rest of the Democratic majority in the House to impeach Pete Hegseth. We have subpoena power starting in January, so we'll be able to uncover all of the gross negligence and rampant criminality that he's overseen.
Ain't karma grand?
Please ❤️ and share if you support impeaching Pete Hegseth!
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Imagine our surprise to find out that the Man With No Plan has... no plan.
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
John Lewis appointed a DEI CEO who nearly put them out of business.
And last year they lost £80m.
This Christmas, it's put out a truly awful woke/anti-family ad... no doubt created by a woke marketing dept.
This year it looks like they will actually finish themselves off.
Bye John Lewis.
@JohnLewisRetail
Good grief, but the John Lewis Xmas advert is AWFUL.
It's basically an advert for buying gifts for ungrateful kids with terrible parents.
The grandchildren are just plain rude. The parents don't notice or care. So the grandma decides to splash the cash on gifts she thinks they will like - so rewarding their rudeness!
If I had a kid who behaved like that, they wouldn't be getting a single gift on Christmas Day. Not one.
Oh, and of COURSE the ad has to feature a mixed race family (who make up 1.3% of all British families yet about 50% of families appearing in TV adverts) because, y'know, diversity.
It's all so bloody irritating. 🙄
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
🔴'@Helen_Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, has claimed £2 MILLION in expenses in 10 years.
Her boss, @KemiBadenoch, has 3 children, claims £2.7K per month to rent a 6 bed farmhouse and tried to claim expenses for a family holiday.
The country can't afford @Conservatives.'
- @TyrelWallace
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Of it was a Arab buy out would be everything dandy
Lisa Nandy orders review of Sky’s £1.6bn ITV takeover telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
The UK Culture Secretary has taken her examination of the £1.6B ($2.2B) Sky–ITV acquisition to the next stage by asking competition bodies Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to formally scrutinize the deal deadline.com/2026/11/sky-itv…
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
My late mum had dementia. While sorting her estate,I found EE had been taking monthly payments for years despite no account activity.She reported her phone lost & believed the matter was resolved.Your bereavement team says nothing. How is this fair to a vulnerable customer?
@EE
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
Apart from the extremely annoying seemingly endless TV commercials and CNN stings aimed at an African Nigerian audience. Have to commend the CNN MidTerms coverage and noted that all the make presenters were smartly dressed wearing dark well cut suit and ties. Unlike the scruffs you get on UK television news channels these days. Lewis Goodall looks as if he's always had a rough night a few hours earlier....
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
New details released of train derailment at London's busiest railway station that sparked rail chaos trib.al/QY1jWG6
JULIAN BRAY UK: Aviation Security Expert retweeted
"Dear Diary,
After last week's fiasco where I gave a press conference to an empty room then skived off from the budget speech, I really need this week to go well.
Fingers crossed we don't have any prominent Reform councillors being charged with 12 counts of rape or anything..."
