A 19-year-old son of the Bishop of Exeter and future Tory MP Patrick Mercer remembers his first day at Sandhurst
Round at the colonel's for a bonfire dinner - it's hot
Wonderful by @afneil on @bbcthisweek against #IS: "In a thousand years Paris will still shine while you'll be dust"
Never say "you're a funny guy" to an Italian-American hood
Discipline and aggression - what it takes to be a Para http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00k7vwv/the-paras-7-down-to-earth
This was their finest hour
Brilliant! @TristramHuntMP confronted by 12-yr-old UKIP fan who wants to get all the foreigners out of the country
My favourite @bbcthisweek end credits too - Big Bad John #bbctw
“The Soviet Union has no wish to interfere in the affairs of any country” Sir Stafford Cripps
“That’s what the fighting was like at Kohima” - Lord Louis Mountbatten  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00785mg
Tory PM Stanley Baldwin’s general election address 1935 … a gangster in the East threatens world peace #Hitler #Putin
I knew Churchill beat Nazi Grrmany, but not that he pissed on it! Let’s have a pee on the Siegfried Line
Bob Hope being very cheeky about Winston Churchill’s special relationship with the US #Churchill2015
The Prophet Mohammed must not be represented in any shape or form: BBC editorial guidelines #bbcqt
The reality of war was brought home by the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather: The Great War (1964) BBC @BBairnsfather
Flash #GordonBrown Via @BBCNewsnight
A very happy and a very efficient ship #InWhichWeServe
Watching BBC’s Great War on iPlayer for first time since I was a boy: chilling opening titles & music like yesterday
I remember watching Sir John Betjeman's Metroland as a young boy - still terrific http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cyyqw/metroland
You're a funny guy! Great tribute to Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas in Lilyhammer http://t.co/InWtNQG23r
Can't say enough how proud it made me to hear God Save The Queen sung to Her Majesty at Celtic Park  #Glasgow2014
Scotland arrived in Argentina on a wave of over-optimism. MacLeod stoked the fires of nationalism & overconfidence
If only they’d knocked more spots off the leopard at the start! Scotland out of #WorldCup 1974 as only unbeaten team
We've got more pandas in Edinburgh zoo than Tory MPs! Brilliant line from @AlexSalmond

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Late Night Editor of The Times, very tired dad-of-two still fighting WWII and expounder of views which are all my own. RT not necessarily an endorsement

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