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RT @NickCohen4: Brexit cover-up is killing UK politics My latest Lowdown podcast interview with the former Conservative minister and MP @Dr….

RT @arthistorynews: The BBC’s 1995 film of Persuasion is on iPlayer. Probably the best Austen adaptation I’ve seen. Every shot a thing of b….

RT @Kasparov63: No. In chess, the players are on opposite sides, not the same side.

RT @policecommander: Every word of this from @lewis_goodall .I’ve lived in London for over 40 years. I policed it for over 25 years. Mrs S….

RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Just sent this briefing note about tomorrow's Alaska/Russia summit. The USA is now an agent to transfer Ukrainian terr….

RT @jk_rowling: The Twilight of Nicola Sturgeon.My review of Frankly.

RT @OliverKamm: It’s far from a bad idea is obviously not costless. Note however the views of those aged 65 and over: not only a cosseted &….

RT @DrMatthewSweet: More antisemitism spread by @thecoastguy. Macron is a “Manchurian candidate” programmed by Rothschilds & other Jewish b….

RT @Dan4Barnet: It's official: in the first half of 2025 the UK economy has already beaten the OBR's forecast for the whole year. However….

RT @Parody_PM: Excellent work by the BBC in finding a way to avoid saying growth recovered strongly in June, or the economy grew faster tha….

RT @PhillipsPOBrien: The initial reporting and analysis of the Russian infiltration exercise north of Pokrovsk was bizarrely one sided--the….

RT @ianrich15813274: Politics aside, I see two very decent men here. The very opposite of the two narcissists meeting in Alaska tomorrow. h….

RT @JohnRentoul: Non-dom exodus anecdotage overdone, reports FT

RT @CathyYoung63: A reminder that left-wing illiberalism is real even if the right-wing kind is far more powerful and more toxic right now.

RT @anneapplebaum: As I have been saying: Russia has not publicly retreated from its goal, which remains the destruction of Ukraine.

RT @McFaul: If Trump were serious about ending the war in Ukraine, he should be discussing with Zelenskyy security guarantees for Ukraine,….

RT @Billbrowder: Perfect logic from one of the most successful European leaders on how to stand up against Putin and for Ukraine.

RT @simon_schama: pretty much the way Mussolini spoke about Adolf coming to Rome in 1938 though.

RT @berlin_bridge: Europe could have ended this war in 2022. Our leaders’ denialism & impotent handwringing are a choice they’ve willfully….

It's spooky. It's almost as if our local bad guys were determined to ensure that they could keep their grift going.