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Ian Kearns @ianpkearns.bsky.social · 2h
A great tour d’horizon piece here from Gideon Rachman. It also exposes the failure of our political leadership to find effective ways of communicating the gravity of the situation to the public. The public is not convinced. Until they are, we can’t properly mobilise. www.ft.com/content/3a56...
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Are we sleepwalking into World War III?
As regional conflicts rage and revisionist powers challenge the established order, warnings of a new global conflagration are growing louder
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2h
The Lindsey Graham Act would have imposed significant new sanctions on Russia from 18 October, but allowed the President to issue waivers. He just did. To avoid screaming, I went through every provision explaining them and indicating which he waived. Spoiler: All the ones that did anything.
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Explaining the Russian Sanctions Trump just Cancelled
A section by section breakdown of what each provision of the Graham Act would have done, and what Trump waived.
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 3h
Latest post looks at the consequences of Trump’s disastrous war with Iran. Not only is Iran keeping oil prices high, but Saudi Arabia now faces a strategic predicament as it struggles to cope with the resurgent Houthis without much help from the US. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/trumps-gul...?
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Trump’s Gulf chaos
The Saudi strategic dilemma
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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 5h
Good piece by Max Hastings on the torrent of lies that pour out of the White House: www.thetimes.com/article/2325...
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 4h
this is the worst buzzball i’ve ever tasted
Me holding a ball of DYLON intense black frabric dye, basically shaped like a hand grenade or something.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4h
Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”
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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 4h
The chaotic bit at the end where a row suddenly erupts between him and Faiza Shaheen with Chorley commanding “that’s enough!” and Patrick Maguire putting his head in his hands as the camera drew back and the credits started rolling was comedy gold though
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump: "Maybe I won't have a news conference santamataldum"
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19h
Journalist to Hegseth: “Mr. Secretary, are you Vladimir Putin’s puppet on Ukraine? Mr. Secretary, is Vladimir Putin playing you like a fiddle?” Good job, Britain! That’s how it’s done. Video: Sky News
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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 6h
Daily Mail quotes one Reform insider as suggesting that “senior party figures now believe they could be heading to just 15 per cent in the polls as soon as next month”: “It’s like being on a coach trip to Portugal, but we’ve run out of petrol in Dover.”
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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 4h
*“Can’t talk,” says Elon. “I’m in Texas, busy reinventing humanity’s future in a way that isn’t gimmicky at all.” “Get here now,” I say. “Nip over in your new flying car!” “As if,” says Elon. “I’m not getting in that.”* www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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My Week: Donald Trump*
*according to Hugo Rifkind
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 18h
Trump is telling us as loudly and clearly as he can: he’s not our friend and he won’t protect us. Time we got the message - and acted accordingly. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Of course Trump is helping Russia in Ukraine – he’s a master of the art of betrayal | Jonathan Freedland
The old certainties have gone. We will have to spend whatever it takes to protect ourselves in this new and dangerous world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17h
⚡️️️️️️️Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports. Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.
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Musk asked Trump to restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports
Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16h
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 17h
Katie Zacharia seems to be speed running the stages of White House employment.
FIVE STAGES OF WHITE HOUSE EMPLOYMENT. New Yorker cartoon by Kuper.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h
Zacharia is the metric unit, Scaramucci is imperial
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h
I think technically Zacharia lasted a Scara.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 17h
New book forthcoming:
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 20h
next time they could try asking Trump why Trump is blaming Zelenskyy for Trump’s problems. Revolutionary concept, I know.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21h
I have no doubt that a bunch of Zelensky's epic responses are going into the history books and this one might make the cut. Still, I wish Western journalists didn’t use him as a foil to express their criticism of Trump. Speak bravely to Trump, ask HIM this same question.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 23h
Is Trump is using you as a scapegoat for his own problem? Zelensky: [Smiles] "This is my answer."
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23h
These businesses leaders backed Trump, knowing full well what he was like. ‘Oh, this wasn’t what we expected is a lame excuse.’ What they mean is, ‘Damn, he’s a bastard but we thought he’d be OUR bastard!’
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It's a weaker version of that argument because it's trying to say 'the EU is changing in the ways we have always supported, therefore you shouldn't want to join'. Trying to tell people they believe something for the wrong reasons is not especially convincing because you have to contradict yourself
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
One argument I am expecting is a 'the EU will soon be taken apart by Le Pen and the AfD, let us not join that', a variant of the 'shackled to a corpse' argument refering to the Eurozone crisis
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: “They have said I only took questions from conservative outlets. However, The Daily Mail is not known to be a conservative outlet or friendly to conservatives.” Brits everywhere: *hysterical laughter*
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...
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These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine
Some of them are fascist collaborators. Some of them are self-interested Machiavellians. Some are merely cowards. All of them have blood on their hands.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
UNDER AND OVER DIAGNOSIS ARENT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AAAAAAAAAH
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 16/10/2026
Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war
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Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war
The head of the army says the UK's political leaders are about to start a "frank conversation" with the public about the need to prepare for war.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The issue with racism in Britain is the pattern of shock, surprise and disgust. When we platform racists at the highest level, fail to call them out at dinner tables and in pubs, what do we expect?
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“Defibrillator” in ten languages: 1. Defibrillator (German) 2. Defibrillator (Dutch) 3. Defibrillator (Hindi) 4. Defibrillator (Igbo) 5. Defibrillator (Indonesian) 6. Defibrillator (Samoan) 7. Defibrillator (Swahili) 8. Defibrillator (Yoruba) 9. Defibrillator (Afrikaans) 10. Hjertestarter (Danish)
Keith Flint of the Prodigy sticks out his tongue while holding a pair of hjertestarters. Next to him are written the classic lyrics "I'm the hjerterstarter, twisted hjerterstarter" taken from their well-known song "Hjertestarter"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Al Jazeera: “Since January of last year, the US has not contributed a single cent to the defence of Ukraine. “We are doing it, Europe.”
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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“He’s defeated the far right in much the same way as Andy Burnham wants to defeat rough sleeping. Which is to say, by providing it with a nice warm home, a purpose in life and the promise of a brighter tomorrow” Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Another week, another batch of bad apples at Reform UK
It’s not easy defending a party where candidates rant about the King’s secret prayer mat, but Nigel Farage has had a lot of practice
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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“The die is cast. The Greens are heading down a less consensual, nastier, far-left path than the one its old leaders chose. And the party they once knew is disappearing in front of them” @robertshrimsley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b76d...
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How the Greens lost their party to the hard left
The drift from climate politics towards becoming a portmanteau party of the left heralds a nastier, less consensual era
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Evolved". Another NYTimes classic.
A New York Times headline that describes the collapse in US support for Ukraine without defining the collapse in US support for Ukraine. Instead, the reader is told the article looks at "How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved".  "Evolved".
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wes trying not to laugh at the Stars & Stripes belt buckle
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
however badly your day is going at least you're not being challenged to pullups with Pete Hegseth, or whatever hell this is www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – UK politics live
Defence secretary’s meeting comes after Burnham said he would help facilitate reconciliation between Zelenskyy and Trump
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Juli @julijuxtaposed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“A useful rehearsal for what a hung parliament might feel like… neither is behaving like a party needing to beg for coalition partners, whatever the electoral maths says” @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s not the old two-party politics – but Labour and the Tories now know they can shun their populist challengers | Gaby Hinsliff
Though Burnham and Badenoch may still need the votes of Green and Reform supporters, both leaders have drawn clear lines in the sand, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/10/2026
I think this is a good time to remind people that I’m not a lawyer. Just, ya know, for clarity.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
that producer turned the music UP
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Sarah Pochin on the Reform Party leadership: "They are so chauvinistic... they just exclude you if you are a woman."
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
One of Jenrick's responses was to point out that one of the newly exposed racists had only recently joined Reform and had actually spent more time as a member of the Conservatives. Imagine such a thing
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
From the archive
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's amazing how Hunt keeps popping up on the media as the wise old greybeard of the Exchequer, and is absolutely never questioned on his own disastrous - and highly partisan - choices in that job.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/10/2026
The fact that more European allies are staying silent as that happens, even as they ignore their own Trump-like figures at home – just waiting to take their place – is almost as shameful as the USA's inaction on all of this.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/10/2026
One distinctive feature of Trump's second term is that it's become impossible to differentiate when he's being stupid and when he's being mendacious. But on this it hardly even matters—his conduct on Ukraine in the last week alone would be grounds for impeachment in any functioning political system.
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 15/10/2026
Firing squad execution of mass killer will not be livestreamed, Trump says
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Firing squad execution of mass killer will not be livestreamed, Trump says
The firing squad execution of an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in Texas will not be livestreamed, Donald Trump has said.
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