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Rye Barcott

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Author of Courage Can Save US
CEO & Co-founder @with_honoraction
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Courage Can Save Us crosses the Atlantic today. Now on release in the UK 🇬🇧

The UK book tour begins on 13 October at the Tower of London with @alcarns MP, @tomtugendhat MP, Lionel Barber, and Admiral Tony Radakin.

Published by @headofzeus
All author proceeds go to @with_honoraction

Visit the link in bio for more info by @ryebarcott.official

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Few writers have chronicled Scotland, and Britain, with the depth and grace of Magnus Linklater. From Lockerbie to the Falklands, from editing The Scotsman to decades at @thetimes, his reporting has set a standard for honest, humane journalism.

It was an honor to sit with him at the Reform Club on Pall Mall, the grand street near Buckingham Palace that has been home to London’s private clubs for two centuries. Founded in 1836 out of a fight to expand the vote, the club was the first of London’s traditional clubs to admit women on equal terms, in 1981, and is where the French novelist Jules Verne set the wager in Around the World in Eighty Days.

A fitting place to talk about courage.

Magnus’s piece in The Sunday Times today is about my friend @alcarns, MP for Birmingham Selly Oak. Al is one of only two sitting Members of Parliament to hold the Military Cross, his for actions leading @royalmarines in Afghanistan, which he steadfastly refuses to discuss. What he does reflect on is courage itself: what it demanded in uniform, and what it demands now in the political arena.

Magnus recalls the murders of Jo Cox, a Labour MP, and Sir David Amess, a Conservative—a sobering reminder that political violence respects no party line, and that it is on the rise across our democracies.

Two Scots—one born in Orkney, the other in Aberdeen—on what it means to serve. Magnus ends on service itself, and on the cross-party effort to give more young Britons a way into it. Great piece, grateful to both.

(and love the amazing photo by @parsonsphotog)

Link in Bio. by @ryebarcott.official

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One teacher saw a spark of leadership in a 14 year old troublemaker.

Head boy. Sword of Honour. Military Cross. Commanding officer of the Scots Guards. Now a member of the UK Parliament.

@ryebarcott.official and @LincolnJopp on the teachers who set us on the path to service. by @ryebarcott.official

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Young Britons are ready to serve. The enthusiasm is cross-party.

Six in ten 18–24-year-olds say they'd sign up for a paid year of service with charities, schools, the emergency services or the armed forces.

53% see it as an opportunity, not an obligation.

A national year of service shouldn't belong to one party. Veterans sit on every bench in Parliament. They could lead the way.

New Focaldata polling, commissioned by With Honor, in @TheTimes today. 🇬🇧

Read the article at the link in bio. by @ryebarcott.official

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Service is an opportunity, not an obligation.

Courage Can Save Us profiles American leaders who served in uniform and then ran for office. Two of them went to university in the UK: Maryland @govwesmoore, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and Indiana @sentoddyoung, who studied at the University of London and was a student representative to Margaret Thatcher.

I wrote this book for students on both sides of the Atlantic. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 by @ryebarcott.official

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Service means putting something back into an issue or a subject that is bigger than yourself.

That was one of the messages at @therivercafelondon last night, from a room of Americans and Brits across party lines who want to rebuild unity around the common good. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 by @ryebarcott.official

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Try the pork scratchings, they said… by @ryebarcott.official

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The Tower of London has seen nearly a thousand years of history. Last night it hosted the UK launch of Courage Can Save Us, with two veterans now serving in Parliament on opposite benches: Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary @TomTugendhat and Labour's former Armed Forces Minister @AlCarns. They were joined by Admiral Sir Tony Radakin and former @financialtimes editor @barber_lionel.

Officer cadets from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst came with their Commandant, Major-General Nick Crowley, and @CityYearUK service members came with their UK leadership. They are the readers Rye wrote this book for; young people choosing to serve, in uniform and out.

Allies across the pond and across party lines 🇺🇸🇬🇧 by @ryebarcott.official

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Day two in London ✅

☕ Sunrise on the @skynews sofa with @sophyridge & @wilfredfrost
📰 Talking courage with @alcarns and Magnus Linklater for @thetimes
🏛️ College Green, Parliament behind us, @gbnews and Oliver Trapnell in front
🏰 And tonight we launched Courage Can Save Us at the Tower of London

Thank you @tomtugendhat, Lionel Barber, Al Carns, General Gordon Messenger, and Admiral Sir Tony Radakin for hosting, and every cadet and student who joined us and asked questions tonight. You are why this book exists.

And a final thank you to everyone who came. by @ryebarcott.official

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It might not be a great hair day. But damn the torpedoes. Today is the day: Courage Can Save Us is now out in the UK. OohRah 🇬🇧🇺🇸 by @ryebarcott.official

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Great to join @sophyridge and Wilfred Frost on @skynews this morning.

Sophy wrote a superb book on British women breaking into politics across party lines, The Women Who Shaped Politics. Before going on air we talked about Mikie Sherrill, the first woman veteran ever elected governor in the United States and one of the ten leaders profiled in Courage Can Save Us.

Wilf's father, David Frost, famously conducted the Frost/Nixon interviews that drew the former president's first public admission of regret.

Courage Can Save Us launches tonight at the Tower of London. by @ryebarcott.official

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