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Anthony Glees

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I'm a professor of politics with a special interest in intelligence-led security policies and practices www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/prof…

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My thoughts on the urgent danger that is Frontier AI; if the NCSC is doing enough to alert us (I think so) and come up with viable working solutions (I don't think so). www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-...
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AI poses increasing risks to security, could bring institutions 'closer to collapse'
Five Eyes agencies have issued a warning for business and government leaders that Artificial Intelligence could overwhelm defences within months, not years
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero
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As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers'
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Not sure I agree; but it's maybe worth making two points. 1: What you can't do as a takeover PM is rule out an early election and then call one (Theresa May's mistake). 2: What you can't do as a takeover PM is allow people to believe that you might and then not do it (Gordon Brown's mistake).
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Don’t be a bottler, Burnham
The next PM should learn from Gordon Brown’s mistake and call an early election
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My thoughts for a GER audience on the impact of Makerfield & why I think Starmer has had it. web.de/magazine/pol...
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"Makerfield verändert alles": Britischer Politologe sieht Starmer vor dem Aus
Sie galt als richtungsweisend: Die Nachwahl im englischen Wahlkreis Makerfield hat Andy Burnham gewonnen – der Labour-interne Konkurrent von Premierminister Starmer. Damit hat er nun einen Sitz im Unt...
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I am very excited to be returning to LSE and joining @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social. Eager to help develop this already fantastic policy school, co-teach with @alicirone.bsky.social, and launch a new course on "Designing Democracy”.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
That’s who he chums up with
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Who is Robert Kenyon, Reform UK candidate in Makerfield by-election? www.thetimes.com/article/ff1e...
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Who is Robert Kenyon, Reform UK candidate in Makerfield by-election?
Who is Robert Kenyon, the Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election?
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My take www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
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Trump 'humiliated by Iran' with long-lasting and profound consequences
Donald Trump is reportedly looking for an off-ramp to end the war in Iran amid collapsing approval ratings and no clear sign the US can score a decisive victory in the Middle East
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is horrifying. We note that the gang of terrorist tried to pull down the victim's trousers. Those with a knowledge of the actions Nazi Einsatzgruppen in eastern Europe during WW2 know exactly why this was attempted. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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‘Antisemitic attack by six masked men’ on Israeli Golders Green visitor
The 22-year-old man was speaking Hebrew on the phone in front of his Airbnb in London when six masked men began their ‘traumatic assault’
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My thoughts on Trump's appalling errors in attacking Iran, leaving it stronger rather than weaker, and conspiring with Israel to destabilise not just the Middle East and Gulf, but the entire global economy. The USS Alaska in the Med won't change Iranian minds www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-nuclear-s...
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Nuclear Subs in Europe, Ridicule in Beijing: Inside Donald Trump's Chaotic Week of Foreign Policy
A US nuclear submarine's presence in Gibraltar has prompted UK risk warnings amid escalating tensions over Donald Trump's Iran strategy, while in Beijing Chinese social media is mocking him as 'Trump ...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
In case you missed it 👇
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sour Danny Kruger inspires the shrieky, panicky front page of The Express. A puzzled UK asks: what exactly is there to ‘wreck’?
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u... Erhem, Mr Hegseth
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U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My take today via The Daily Mirror on Trump’s Waterloo www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
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Iran 'calls Trump's bluff over nonsense' as US plan 'melts like snow in summer'
A security and defence expert dubbed the war in Iran a 'defeat' for Trump and said Tehran 'called his bluff' as the US President pauses 'Project Freedom' just two days af...
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you believe this rubbish you shouldn’t be voting, let alone for this fraud
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My take today via The Mirror
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A Green voter has just claimed Israel attacked itself on 7 Oct. No one serious can vote Green unless they actually want Farage to be PM.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Reform will place migrant detention centres in Green strongholds This is what happens when the two party system disintegrates into a multi party one. Fringe extremists rule. www.thetimes.com/article/80b1...
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Reform will place migrant detention centres in Green strongholds
Nigel Farage’s party claims this will help ensure ‘democratic consent’ as it prepares its mass deportation programme
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today’s most meaningless headline. Created by AI??
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Face of Things to Come. Brill pic in @thetimes History buffs will recall a certain person saying to Albert Speer in 1933 ‘I’m the most popular German since Martin Luther; people came from all over everywhere just to see him. And me’.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Edith Eger A harrowing, matter of fact obit. Let’s hope odious Mr Polanski reads about how hatred for the Jews rotted Fascist Europe. www.thetimes.com/article/e293...
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Edith Eger
Ballerina who danced for Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, survived the horrors of the death marches and became a world-renowned trauma psychologist
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
‘But especially by decent…
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is an absolutely brilliant piece. It must be read by everyone but by decent potential Green voters.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As so often, MI5/JTAC increase the Terror Level after an attack, rather than before one. It should have been raised after the Manchester synagogue attack. mol.im/a/15780171
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UK terror threat level is raised to 'severe' in wake of the stabbings
Officials have announced today that the threat to the UK from all forms of terrorism has moved from 'substantial' to 'severe', meaning an attack is now highly likely.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
She was not required to pay compensation for her brazen £2.5k shoplifting & congratulated by the chief magistrate
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Moment middle class shoplifter stuffs trendy Jellycat toy in handbag
Leanne Crawley (pictured) stole some £2,528 worth of the upmarket plushies from a garden centre in Buckland, Surrey, on April 22, 2024.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The same thuggish mentality that concretes over wells and burns down Palestinian olive groves. Israelis should stop this from happening, it is the reputation of their nation that is now at stake.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My take via @telegraph.co.uk on the attempted assassination of president Trump last Saturday, the Secret Service response & mayhem at the event. Disconcerting. To put it mildly. www.youtube.com/shorts/nJ3Uv...
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Trump dinner: the security failures behind President 'assassination attempt'
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
‘The majority for rejoining the EU is real, but could fade’ Yet another key read from the mighty Kellner. open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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The majority for rejoining the EU is real, but could fade
Ministers should heed St Paul's warning about trumpets giving an uncertain sound
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Don’t forget this from 2017
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 25/04/2026
I have no idea how many times we have to dance this dance. It really isn’t high risk, high opportunity at all. Trump will probably be on his best behaviour. Everyone will gush. Praise as a triumph. Then a few days later Trump will forget about it. And go back to normal.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
And a compelling case to LAB MPs
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A compelling case to voters
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Looks like the ‘wolf’ has finally cornered his prey
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Well.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Imo this letter nails it. Sir Olly thought he was doing exactly what the PM wanted (perhaps he was, who knows - there’s no paper trail). And sacking him was folly. Starmer did not lie, for sure. However in politics you can lose despite winning.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Via The Mirror my thoughts on Putin’s murderous policy of drone bombing Chernobyl. This evil man must be bright down. www.themirror.com/news/world-n...
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Vladimir Putin's Chernobyl attacks 'will have deadly impact on children'
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that drone impacts have degraded the Chernobyl steel protective structure so it no longer blocks radiation, sparking fears of a second Chernobyl...
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hmm
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sir Olly will say ‘he did not see the UKSV’s formal recommendation’. You couldn’t make it up if you tried. - But did our civil servants? He’ll also say it was an ‘amber’ warning. We’ve been told it was ‘red’. Fgs.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Exactly so
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Everyone gets that ministers can’t be involved in the vetting *process. But the result of the DV should, indeed must, be made known to them, both in principle (not to would facilitate corruption) & in practice (a UK ambo to DC needs the highest security clearance).
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Keir Starmer’s clash with the civil service exposes three ironies Today’s Must-Read. However… www.thetimes.com/article/d68e...
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Keir Starmer’s clash with the civil service exposes three ironies
The sacking of Sir Olly Robbins has cost Britain one great reformer seeking to improve the system and could prevent others from ever trying
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Putin will be pleased
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w... Disturbing news from Bulgaria tonight.
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Bulgarian Voters, Worn Down by Corruption, Back New Coalition
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Dog’s Gaze by Thomas Laqueur review – the art of the canine, from Velázquez to Picasso This review by the rather special Kathryn Hughes is a total delight.
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Tory spouting this rubbish is, appropriately, called Bhatti
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Saturday declared it was closing the Strait of Hormuz, just a day after the Iranian foreign minister said it was reopened, according to state media.
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Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A decade on from Brexit, Britain still flounders without a place in the world www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A decade on from Brexit, Britain still flounders without a place in the world | Letters
Letters: Raj Parkash and Chris Manners on the lasting impact of the UK’s decision in 2016 to leave the EU
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