Anna Politkovskaya saw Putin clearer than anyone. She’s being proved horrifically right all over again: https://t.co/AHXSbjOWS4

Ok that’s me done. Time to leave the fashy milkfloat man’s opinion sewer for good. Joining the X-odus. #Xodus

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The former head of MI5, head of the US National Intelligence Council and others have some pretty clear views on this: https://t.co/Cz0Y6aEJVr

Well, there is certainly one political party that has done nothing about foreign interference in Britain: and it’s not the Labour Party. https://t.co/2YGyxFGPPw

I interviewed Françoise Hardy for The New York Times in 2018. At the end of our long conversation, I asked her what was, in her view, the most perfect song. I wasn't surprised to hear her say: “If I must choose only one song in the whole world, I would choose Charles Trenet’s Que

“We shall slight them on the beaches”.

A real journalist.

My article last week explaining why nationalist anti European Polish nationalist bigots would lose. Poland’s election is a battle for the country’s soul https://t.co/ZOGszy6mo5 @JayElwes @sanglesey Now let’s remove PiS sister party from power in 🇬🇧

Very powerful interview with Max Hastings. Well done ⁦@JayElwes⁩ and well done MH for speaking truth to power aka the rabble that the governing party has become.

Robert De Niro’s father could easily have passed for an Austrian philosopher.

Thanks to all who came to our event in London's Union Chapel last night - especially our panellists @MatthewdAncona @campbellclaret @Bonn1eGreer @tanit and Patience Wheatcroft 🙏

A ludicrous, deluded and superficial party came up with a ludicrous, deluded and superficial policy that didn’t survive its brush with reality, writes @JayElwes

"The Rwanda plan distils into policy form the pure spirit of the new-Tory Culture War era. It was a gesture, a signal, a way of winding up the “lefty lawyers”, nothing more than a wedge issue, designed to manufacture a garish point of political difference." @TheNewEuropean

"But it couldn’t be both a deterrent and the promised land all at the same time. Except, of course, to Braverman, who told Tory conference: “I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that’s my dream, it’s my obsession”. @TheNewEuropean

My latest for @TheNewEuropean "On the one hand, sending migrants to Rwanda was meant to be such a nasty prospect that it would put migrants off coming to Britain in the first place... on the other, Rwanda was put forward as vibrant and entirely safe..." https://t.co/j0w4WrryXO

⚡️Very Rock N’ Roll day at House of Frankenstein 🎸 It was an honour to welcome @Slash to our house today, fresh from his incredible Glastonbury headline slot with Guns N’ Roses last night 🎸⚡️ @gunsnroses @GlastoFestFeed #HouseOfFrankenstein #GunsNRoses #Glasto #Glasto23

*Everything. Ffs.

“Everyone that is good in the world started in Britain,” writes a man in a newspaper. Using Roman script.

Not sure that a paranoid, isolated, nuclear-armed state collapsing into civil war is the good news some people seem to think it is.

The man behind Russia’s attempted coup