Will Iredale @WIredale

Author of Sunday Times top ten bestsellers The Kamikaze Hunters and The Pathfinders. Former Sunday Times staff news reporter. Founder of Iredale Communications. davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/wil… England Joined February 2009

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 days ago

@radioriley Terrifying.

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2 days ago

@SeaSpitfires Right! I've got in my acknowledgements: "Any errors that do remain are, of course, entirely my own", but perhaps for the next book I'll just get a couple of researchers and write: "Any errors that do remain are, of course, down to others. The bastards."

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4 days ago

@SteveRDunn @SeaforthPub @penswordbooks Bravo! I hugely rate (and enjoyed) your book on British naval trawlers and drifters which was very helpful when researching my latest.

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4 days ago

@MotoClark @markchristie I can't think of anything more apt... youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaeb…

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4 days ago

@eileentso @HadleyFreeman Excellent!

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a week ago

For anyone who loves Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, this is an absolutely joyful read by @HadleyFreeman — just brilliant. thetimes.com/culture/film/a…

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BabelColour @StuartHumphryes

5 days ago

Travel back with me 120 years to the Edwardian summer of 1906. I have cleaned-up this remarkable time capsule of British holidaymakers on Brighton beach in August 1906. The photo is an incredibly rare example of genuine colour Edwardian photos in England. It pre-dates the commercial release of Autochromes and was taken using a 3-filter glass-plate process invented by the Swiss photographer Otto Pfenninger, who had settled to live in the Sussex seaside town. His invention was a tri-colour, single exposure camera, and this remarkable image from 1906 is not colourised.

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5 days ago

Good. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/2…

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a week ago

@BeaverWestminst @spectator Reminds me of a tale a WW2 naval aviator told me for my first book.Walking into church one Sunday morning a cadet absent mindedly left his cap on. As he was sitting down, a CPO whispered in his ear, 'Fleet Air Arm officers do not keep their ’ats on in the ’ouse of God. You c*nt!'

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 weeks ago

"Nobody can flee the thousand digital Mrs Grundys who dwell in our pockets, peering at us through our phone screens, watching, commenting and condemning... the whole world is a kind of suburbia now." Great column from @j_amesmarriott in today's Times.

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Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray

2 weeks ago

Yesterday in the French House, Soho, Marching for Finley @FinleysTouch justgiving.com/page/al-murray…

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Saul David @sauldavid66

2 weeks ago

13 months since I first tapped out the opening sentence, and 214k words later, my most ambitious book yet is finished. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: The Battle for Europe 1944-1945' covers the last 11 months of fighting on the continent, from the Fall of Rome on 4 June 1944 to V-E Day, 8/9 May 1945. It includes all three fronts - Western, Eastern and Italian (never been done before) - and provides an answer to the big questions: Why did the Germans keep fighting long after the war was clearly lost? How were the Red Army able to absorb such huge casualties and keep fighting? Were there opportunities missed to end the war earlier? And what, ultimately, played a bigger role in Germany's defeat: Soviet mass of Western (chiefly American) economic and military power? Publication slated for autumn 2027. Can't wait @WmCollinsBooks @ArabellaPike

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Scott Bryan @scottygb

2 weeks ago

BBC: “What advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Enjoy life and fuck everyone.”

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 weeks ago

@phewwwwww @penguinrandom @WeHaveWaysPod Thanks Graham. I hope so — but yet to be sorted! Will keep you posted.

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 weeks ago

Huge thanks to @penguinrandom for a great job on the jacket for my new book, Churchill's Pirates, which will be published on August 6th. I will be doing a series of talks around the UK, including at @WeHaveWaysPod festival on Friday 11 September. Hopefully see some of you there!

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 weeks ago

@maureenwrig @penguinrandom @WeHaveWaysPod We're on at noon, so maybe a bit early for you, but hopefully I'll meet you later, as I'm there for the rest of Friday!

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2 weeks ago

@sauldavid66 Thanks Saul!

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2 weeks ago

"The strategic myopia displayed by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is a condition shared by a parliamentary Labour Party that is the most unserious and most intellectually arid ever to attain power." A withering leader in today's Times.

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Will Iredale @WIredale

2 weeks ago

I am so sick of hearing this useless government trot out these soft soap statements which are blatantly bollocks. What on earth will it take for them to take defence more seriously and give it the proper funding required?

Beth Rigby @BethRigby

2 weeks ago

Govt source in wake of Healey resignation: “This country is safer because of the decisions Keir Starmer has made and we will continue to act in our national interest. “It is this Labour government and this Labour Prime Minister that is delivering the largest sustained boost to

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Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah

2 weeks ago

Defence Investment Plan (yet another DIP update): - discussions between Treasury, MOD and No10 still “live” as of last night despite earlier claims that a long-running disagreement over a proposed ~£13bn additional uplift in funding was largely resolved (this figure is much less than the military say they need and is regarded - to put it mildly - as “not enough”) - Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton has written to the Prime Minister amid concerns that the funding boost proposed by the Treasury is not enough. I don’t know what the content of the letter was. But clearly this highly unusual move is a signal of the seriousness of the moment and the challenge that Sir Keir Starmer faces to get a credible and affordable Defence Investment Plan over the line. It is worth adding that it’s perfectly legitimate for a CDS to write to a PM but not the kind of action he would take regularly - expectations valiantly hanging in there for an announcement of a vast new defence drone testing centre to happen in Swindon on Friday. Various start-ups were as of yesterday still making plans to go (me too - was there last week, could make this a regular commute). The talk last night had been about this drone testing moment being something that could take place to coincide with some words from the PM announcing top line figures of the funding for defence and some of the key programmes in the DIP. But this clearly can’t happen until there is a firm agreement on the settlement - DIP then unveiled in full on Monday before the PM heads off to the G7 (though again this presumably can’t happen unless the money is green lit) (It is worth saying that this extraordinary display of confusion and paralysis at the heart of government over what is meant to be a strategic priority – the defence of the nation – has left officials inside the MoD, the military and defence industry slack-jawed)