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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

❗️👀 Mexican cartels are increasingly sending operatives to Russia’s war against Ukraine to learn drone technology and recruiting returning soldiers, primarily Colombians, - WP Groups are closely studying radio-frequency switching and techniques for bypassing EW countermeasures against drones.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Abraham Lincoln: “I hated being killed at the Donald J. Trump Theater but at least I didn’t have to live to see his presidency.”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All of this ends in one of those deadly nightclub fires, am I right?

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Kathryn Schoon @kathrynschoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Check out my latest video with the fabulous @isabelh.bsky.social on how we can harness the sun on an EPIC scale

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Israel’s defence minister bragging about his illegal invasion of Lebanon: “Twenty-four Lebanese villages, hundreds of years old, we destroyed all the buildings,” he said, boasting that up to 20,000 homes had been demolished. “Not house by house, but entire villages.” Ft.com

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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's difficult to solve a problem is your refuse to admit it is there: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am one of the few people in the UK who is not a regular Strictly viewer so I never caught the lovable crowd-pleasing side of the late Anne Widdecombe who is being remembered today as a kind of national pet.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Simon Romero of the New York Times reports that the Trump administration has taken an estimated $8 billion in oil revenue out of Venezuela. In the wake of the devastating earthquakes that hit on June 24, the U.S. has so far pledged only $300 million in aid.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

These people are seriously evil: Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

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Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The ever solipsistic Nigel Farage described himself as the “most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician in modern times. “. Quite a claim. I wonder if he knows the names Jo Cox and David Arness?

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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

With unclear intention, Russia’s satellites have been placed curiously close to a commercial satellite that provides essential intelligence for the Ukrainian armed forces. Read the latest RUSI Commentary by @julianasuess.bsky.social.

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Checkmate? Russian Orbital Manoeuvring Threatens Ukraine’s Space Capability

With unclear intention, Russia’s satellites have been placed curiously close to a commercial satellite that provides essential intelligence for the Ukrainian armed forces.

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Why do we have to keep correcting this, year after year, story after story? When does it stop? The US "acknowledges" but DOES NOT recognize the PRC claim to Taiwan. AP is wrong here (and in the next sentence as well). apnews.com/article/taiw...

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ft on space x A very successful but fairly small satellite launch company, bolted onto a stagnant money-losing social media company (X) and a money-incinerating AI company [xAI, operator of the widely despised model Grok], and then sprinkled with a lot of hype about humankind going interplanetary.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Chatham House Asia-Pacific Programme @chasiapacific.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Last chance to register for Thursday's debate: Is China the primary threat to global stability in the next decade? Now with @isabelh.bsky.social and Desmond Shum added to the bill. Register ⬇️ www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/m...

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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🎙️This morning @isabelh.bsky.social and I spoke to Monocle Radio about #Putin's visiting to #China, what #Russia is hoping to get out of it and how that relationship might develop. The segment starts about 3 minutes into the recording monocle.com/player/?uuid...

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Monocle radio - listen now

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 13/05/2026

“Xi’s wishlist is likely to include the hope that the Trump administration will stop behaving like a drunken elephant at a wedding and refrain from bringing down the global economy”, writes Isabel Hilton

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Trump’s China visit will expose America’s weakness

The balance of power between Beijing and Washington has shifted—to Xi’s advantage

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 13/05/2026

With Orbán in power in Hungary, Russians refrained from targeting Ukraine’s Transcarpathia that hosts a sizeable Hungarian ethnic community. But after the regime change in Hungary, Russians are no longer restrained, hence the most dramatic Russian strike on Transcarpathia today since February 2022.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Our new issue is out and our paywall is down, which means you can read it all for free. Including great reads from @ethanz.bsky.social @tom-clark.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @isabelh.bsky.social @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Distressed that the great @Reuters editorial standards seem to be slipping. Viz this claim that a group of UK mps about to visit China are the first in 7 years..apart of course, from the group that visited 2 years ago.Better "sources" perhaps? Check a fact or 2? www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/05/2026

China is now America’s main rival in the stratosphere—and the two superpowers are increasingly viewing each other’s space programs with suspicion, writes @isabelh.bsky.social: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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The new race for space

China, not Russia, is now the US’s main rival in space. Whoever wins there holds the key to power on Earth

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Peter Williams @petermwilliams.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New Prospect out now! With @ethanz.bsky.social on the US court judgments threatening the future of social media; @isabelh.bsky.social on the new star wars; @duncanweldon.bsky.social on price shocks and the Iran war; and @mrhenrymorris.substack.com joins Reform on the Welsh campaign trail

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In an astonishing development in the World Four Dimensional Chess Championship, a player who checkmated himself insists on claiming the title.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We don’t have the budgets of corporations or lobbyists – but we are committed to exposing the forces behind the rise of climate misinformation in the UK This Earth Day, we’re launching a crowdfunder to keep that work going

The text reads: "Your support could fund: Investigations into politicians blocking UK climate action, legal protection for our journalists against strategic lawsuits that try to silence us, action beyond the page: briefings for MPs, policymakers and activists on lobbying and disinformation tactics.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And thank you Reuters for reminding us where our realy sympathies should lie in this disordered world:second-hand Lamborghinis and Ferraris, bound for Dubai from Japan, are stranded at a port in Sri Lanka because ships are unable to dock in the Middle East..

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

There has been a striking lack of news about the US airman since Trump's announcement of his rescue from Iran. Clearly the operation was messy and became a long firefight in which he and others were wounded. Since then, silence.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Ever wonder where the money goes that the US spends on the military? In September an awful lot goes on furniture and king crab "The Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab in September. It’s the fifth time the Pentagon under Trump has spent $2 million or more on king crab in a single month

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Peter Williams @petermwilliams.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New Prospect out now! Daron Acemoglu, @isabelh.bsky.social , Kim Darroch and Arash Azizi feature in our Iran symposium, plus @sophie-neiman.bsky.social reports from Sudan, @imogenwk.bsky.social on Louis Theroux and the manosphere, and @zackpolanski.bsky.social does our Hinterland Q&A...

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Washington Post architecture correspondent describes Donald Trump as the biggest threat to architecture in DC since the war of 1812. (For those w short memories, that was when the Brits burned down the White House) That’s him off the ballroom opening night guest list I expect.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Well there’s a surprise. This loan was agreed last December. Two Putin stooges are trying to sabotage it

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Azul = Blue @azulequalsblue.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

How's everyone else's scams going? My scam is parked in the driveway and just started charging off solar power for $0.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Global ramifications of the war in Iran, with Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, former US NATO ambassador Kurt Volker, @isabelh.bsky.social and @markhleonard.bsky.social of @ecfr.eu. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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The war in Iran: the global fallout - Monocle

The consequences of the US-Israel war in Iran are rippling around the world. Can Volodymyr Zelensky retain focus on the...

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Does this remind anyone of another recent election? To aid Viktor Orban in his upcoming election Russian operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters. Catherine Belton The Washington Post apple.news/Avq4Ozfy3SUu...

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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt — The Washington Post

To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach. “One Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🇺🇸 John Bolton on U.S. easing sanctions on Russia for lower oil prices: "I think they drank a lot of vodka in the Kremlin when they heard that news. This is an absolute gift to the Russians."

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