Annette Dittert
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Senior Correspondent/Bureau Chief ARD London since 2008 • prev. Warsaw/New York • Also Writer/Speaker/Presenter. @Newstatesman @Prospect_uk @Blaetter
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How to restore a broken democracy after it has been vandalised by populists ? And is it legal to break the law to restore the spirit of the constitution?
Spoiler: Sometimes there is no other way. Here’s my analysis on why Tusk is doing the right thing.👇
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Everyone in Britain still acts as if this was a normal government. Instead it is a project of deliberate destruction, of laws, of institutions, of anything that stands in the way of a PM who just doesn’t want to be held to account.
NEW: Have it from 2 senior sources that Cab Office about to do a write round to all permanent secretaries to ask them to model headcount reductions in their departments of 20% 30% & 40%. This follows calls from PM for 20% reduction in staff -90,000 people - across Whitehall 1/
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So I finally made into the Mail. Thanks to all those lovely people who made this clip go viral and just one thing that needs to be clarified: I didn’t swear myself, I just quoted a Tory in despair.
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How can you possibly think it is a good idea to have Rachel Johnson on a panel when the big story this morning is Boris Johnsons potentially corrupt relationship with the BBCs chair?
It's honestly unbelievable.
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Fascinating. She knew it all. In 1997. And nothing happened.
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Brilliant MacTaggart lecture by
@maitlis
- Why journalism woke up too late to populism and what do to now. A speech absolutely everyone interested in healthy democracy should watch. Here's the link.
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Can't we all just agree that Brexit simply isn't possible?
And then just pretend it never happened, as it was all too awkward?
The British are good at these things. Normally.
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Short and crisp. And true, sadly. The way Scholz handles the Ukraine crisis might turn out to be a historic mistake that destroys European unity at the very moment when it is most needed.
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I’m sorry, but listening to Jeremy Hunt claiming he wants to now make a ‚terrific success‘ of Brexit made me laugh out loud. As long as the problems with it aren‘t acknowledged Britain will not get over this crisis. Brexit is at the heart of all this.
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Prob the most damaging own goal of the day yesterday.
Nadine Dorries tells the world that the donors own the Conservative Party.
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This is really the very last thing Britain needs.
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Interesting to hear Grant Shapps so passionately arguing for the P&O boss to resign, because he deliberately broke the law.
Well.
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What is this, Elon Musk?
The BBC is not government funded.
It is funded by the British public through a system known as the licence fee. Entirely different.
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This doesn’t normally happen in a democracy.
On the day that “noisy” protest becomes unlawful under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, at least 20 police officers have just surrounded anti-Brexit protestor Steve Bray outside the Houses of Parliament and seized his loud speaker.
@LBC
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Finally someone dares to say it. Maybe if the Tory party manages to get rid of Johnson after all there might be some hope for sensible conservatism again in the UK? It's urgently needed.
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Endless queues for British passport holders this morning in Berlin. A very lovely airport employee telling me she feels genuinely sorry for the Brits. So no Schadenfreude here. But what a mess.
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If Tory MPs keep Johnson in office without a proper assessment of how parliament was misled, then any party with a clear majority can basically do as it pleases. The constitution wd mean nothing from now on.
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Kwarteng feebly blaming the Labour Party for the mess the country is in after 12 years of Tory governments. Honestly.
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So now John Oliver as well. Maybe time to retire for good. Not much more one can achieve in life I guess..
The only thing I would like to object to is that he apparently can't distinguish a British from a German accent. But hey, they're Americans. ;-)
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Cummings will announce. So no-one pretends anymore that Johnson is in charge.
Cummings will announce an overhaul of the Cabinet Office and No 10 next Monday.
The adviser has said his intention was to create a “smaller, more focused and more elite centre”, but his critics will suspect an effort to scapegoat the civil service
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For those of my British followers who have asked why I started talking so much about Poland lately.
Three reasons:
1) Poland is the only country in Europe atm where mostly young voters have managed to turn the tide and kicked out an autocratic,corrupt and criminal government.
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After having put the son of an ex KGB agent in the Lords, here we are again. It’s genuinely unbelievable.
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She hasn't been misrepresented. It was in her press release. In black and white.
Post-Truth tactics might get worse with Truss.
"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses. But what I want to be clear about is I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards”
Liz Truss says her policy on regional pay boards has been “misrepresented”
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OMG. This had to happen.
For the
#C4LeaderDebate
Liz Truss has recreated Margaret Thatcher’s appearance from her 1979 election broadcast down to the last detail
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This kind of imagined British exceptionalism is just tiring. It’s the other way round: U.K. is the first country where a Conservative Party has been taken over by them. The Tories have embraced far right policies and Braverman also frequently uses far right rhetoric. So please.
Once again it looks like the UK will be the only major European country where the far right don’t have Parliamentary representation. The liberal (small l) tradition we have is something to be proud of, and distinguishes us from many or most EU members.
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Could someone please pull the plug on all of this. It really has to stop. For the sake of the country, the British ppl and my own mental health.
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For those who’d rather want to read what Maitlis had to say,
@prospect_uk
has been so kind to publish her brilliant lecture in full. (and btw, thanks for quoting me,
@maitlis
)
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So on the morning of this scandalridden day Laura Kuensberg has Ian Duncan Smith and Boris Johnsons sister on her panel.
Really?
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Daily deaths in England remain in three figures. Now basically a footnote on the news. And still no proper tracing in sight. Seems like ppl now have accepted Johnson's death rate.
The ability of the British to endure impossible situations remains a mystery to me.
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Caroline Lucas has more class, integrity and dignity than Braverman will have in her lifetime.
Suella Braverman - "I'll miss Caroline Lucus' doom-mongering when she leaves this house." 😬
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This is hilarious. Finally a reporter who asks the right questions without fear of favour. 👇
“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”
Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol,
@PGMcNamara
asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place?
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The German problem in a nutshell. Endlessly discussing the Pro and Cons of different Vaccines instead of just doing it.
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Theresa May finally has her revenge. What a blow.
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Ich verstehe nicht, wieso jemand wie Alice Schwarzer noch in deutsche Talkshows eingeladen wird. Absurder Auftritt.
Hier das Video von Schwarzer dazu.
#Stellvertreterkrieg
#maischberger
"50 Prozent sind meiner Meinung" - klar, Beweis per Behauptung ;) Tolle Gegenrede von Vasili Golod.
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Not true. It was and is possible to accelerate the process while being a member of the EU. Which Britain did. While still formally being a member of the EU.
The predictable attempts to make this into a big Brexit show are just misleading. Again.
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Liz Truss keeps saying she got things done. She didn’t.
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What nonsense is this? It was a British court that blocked Rwanda today. He is losing me here..
Rishi Sunak: "We will take the extraordinary step of announcing emergency legislation. This will enable Parliament to confirm that with our new treaty Rwanda is safe. I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights to Rwanda."
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They always forget to say that they are taking away the freedom to live and work in Europe from the British as well.
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For those of you who asked what happened yesterday. 😉
Während der Liveschalte in der tagesschau mal kurz auf's Handy schauen? Was war da los
@annettedittert
?
#tagesschau
#cop26
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My take on today's chaos in Westminster and also the first time ever I do swear in English on German TV. ;-)
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Let's keep it simple. It's called corruption.
The Conservative Party is helping donors apply for public roles, with officials offering behind-the-scenes support and directing applicants to a secretive Number 10 unit closed to members of the public
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Impressive. And Berlin wasn’t the only city where this happened today. 👇
This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right.
All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days.
History tells us:
We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power.
We have to stand up to them.
NOW.
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What kind of a party fires their PM for lies, corruption and the total lack of moral integrity and only a few days later gives standing ovations to just that same man ? Sleep well everyone.
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Annalena Baerbock in the Bundestag now: "Putin wanted this war whatever it takes. We now do have the duty to defend the Charta of the UN. We will support the Ukraine with military means."
Again: It is hard to overestimate how big a change this is for Germany. And for the Greens
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The Telegraph explaining how Brexit is damaging Britains economy. Never thought I’d live to see that day.
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Has he ever kept a promise. I mean, ever ?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson committing to building Northern Powerhouse Rail from Manchester to Leeds, July 2019.
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That man killed two people. But yeah, let’s celebrate. Some Tories really going down a dark road now, too.
Hallelujah. Rittenhouse cleared on all counts and shame on you Joe Biden, shame on you.
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On days like this I sometimes wonder whether Habeck wouldn’t have been the better chancellor for Germany. The right words, the right tone.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on the dimension of the terror, Germanys historical responsibility and our deep solidarity with Israel. 🇮🇱
סגן הקנצלר והשר הפדרלי רוברט האבק על ממדי מתקפות הטרור הברבריות, האחריות ההיסטורית הגרמנית והסולידריות העמוקה והבלתי מעורערת שלנו לישראל 🇮🇱
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It’s surreal that she is asked to leave because she refused to lie about Johnson lying to the HoC.
#DawnButler
The moment Labour MP Dawn Butler asked to leave House of Commons after refusing to withdraw claims PM Boris Johnson "lied to the House and the country over and over again"
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Since when is it the job of a Pope to advise people they should surrender to evil ?
Pope Francis in new interview: “Ukraine must have the courage to raise the white flag and to negotiate.”
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This is how Orban is being described in a report on
@BBCr4today
just now. „He is accused by some in the EU of undermining democracy at home.“ As if this was a disputed matter. Astonishing.
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Genuine question: Why is Rachel Johnson sitting on
@bbclaurak
show talking about Ukraine?
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Listening to
@BBCMarkEaston
on
@BBCr4today
reporting there still is no visa application center in Calais and explaining how this is a deliberate policy by the Home Office to make it harder for refugees to come to Britain. Honestly: What has become of this country?
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“A Trumpian effort to mislead that shows a lack of intelligence to understand”.
@Tobias_Ellwood
on Jacob Rees Mogg on
@BBCr4today
. The slow self-destruction of the Tory party is well underway.
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How others see us. The view from a Brit living in Berlin. It's heartbreaking, but yes, every single word.
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So we are now in the midst of a national crisis, army called out, even the right wing press turning against the government this morning. And where's the opposition? Nowhere. Haven’t heard a single soundbyte from Starmer so far. How many open goals can you miss ?
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Braverman insists on saying the Supreme Court might be “thwarting“ her Ruanda policy on
#Radio4
.
Wrong. If the SC decides against it, it means her policy is illegal. So far we still have something called ‘the rule of law’ in this country.
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The worst thing about the immoral and inhumane Rwanda deportation plan is that ppl all over the country are now seriously discussing whether it is ‚value for money‘. What has become of Britain.
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Interesting that
@BBCr4today
dedicates a long slot to the devastating economic damage the pandemic will do without even asking a single question how a hard Brexit will accelerate it.
It will be all Covid's fault eventually.
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I would like to thank everyone for their supportive messages after yesterday's slightly irritating attacks on me here.
Good to see a debate starting in the U.K. about the role of journalists holding government to the account.
The Shipman delusion: Why 'impartial' political journalism is often anything but
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Die bornierte Arroganz mit der Harald Welzer Melnyk belehrt ist einfach nur beschämend.
#justsaying
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That was a resignation speech unlike any other in UK politics. Honest, candid and intelligent. Whatever you make of her latest policies, there goes one of the best politicians Britain had.
#Sturgeon
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Why is this not all over the British media? Another scandal that goes without the public really noticing it.
@GeorgeMonbiot
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@IainDale
You shd know that it’s not mutually exclusive to criticise your own government (which I have done extensively if you had read any of my tweets) and realise what’s going wrong in another one.
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Brilliant as ever.
@fotoole
in Germans weekly DIE ZEIT today: "The EU scapegoat has now been ritually sacrificed to the gods of national identity. When the gods do not respond to the sacrifice, the people often turn their wrath on the high priests."
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Watching Merkel's Good Bye Ceremony and feeling slightly more emotional than I thought.
Her modesty, seriousness and moral integrity.
She will be missed.
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It’s astonishing that so few ppl in the British media are able to see that connection. 👇👇
The "big calls" were Brexit and Covid. Johnson got both of them disgracefully, disgustingly and disastrously wrong.
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Man kann es auch kaum besser sagen.
Man kann es nicht oft genug sagen
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Just hearing on
@BBCr4today
that Haribo is finding it hard to keep British shops supplied after Brexit.
I've put up with a lot here, but if there is no more Gummibärchen I might have to seriously think about moving back to Berlin.
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Beyond satire.
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It's called Brexit and it was the
@Telegraph
who promoted it most.
New rules will limit the amount of time Britons can spend in their foreign boltholes
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This is party unity ahead of competence and integrity. Bravermann a massive mistake. Maybe it keeps UKIP/Tory hard right happy but bad signal to Macron and most decent voters in U.K.
#SunakCabinet
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So Raab keeps claiming here that Johnson followed the rules after presenter clearly laid out he wasn’t. Including pics as a proof. This is the justice minister. Surreal.
On
#BBCBreakfast
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab defends PM Boris Johnson’s choice not to wear a mask during part of his visit to Hexham General Hospital.
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Super Idee, wenn man bedenkt was für ein großartiger Erfolg der Brexit ist.
#AfDBPT23
| "Diese EU muss sterben, damit das wahre Europa leben kann", so der Vorsitzende der
@AfD_Thueringen
,
@BjoernHoecke
. Die
#AfD
entscheidet auf ihrer heutigen Europawahlversammlung über ihre Kandidaten für die Europa-Wahl im nächsten Jahr.
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The Luftbrücke in reverse. Never thought it would come to this..
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Macron tonight. "Je ne suis plus le candidat d'un camp mais le president de tous et toutes."
If Johnson would be able to do that just once.
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If true, this should be the end of Sunak.
Excl: Rishi Sunak’s millionaire wife ‘avoided tax through non-dom status’
The Treasury declined to comment. A spokesperson for Rishi Sunak did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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Fire you ?
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Why do journalists still interview Jacob Rees-Mogg. Even with the best and most incisive questions asked, what remains are his constant obfuscations and distortions.
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What an utterly stupid headline.
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Braverman‘s column in the Times today isn’t just highly unusual, it is a clear violation of the constitutional principles British democracy is built on.
Plus a vicious attack on Sunaks authority as PM. If he doesn’t sack her now, he might as well resign.
Tom Winsor, former HM chief inspector of constabulary, is on
@BBCr4today
saying
@SuellaBraverman
has broken the spirit and letter of the convention that Home Secretary should never question the operational integrity of the police.
@RishiSunak
now facing huge pressure to sack her
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The slow demise of the BBC is one of the most depressing acts of self harm when it comes to the general neglect of British soft power in the world over the last years.
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Well done,
@campbellclaret
- This needs to be said again and again. And exactly like that. Not in a confrontative way. But directed towards those who have lied about Brexit.
Again and again.
“You were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsides”
Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were “lied to” and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable
#bbcqt
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.
@campbellclaret
on Today: ‘Starmer has to call out the mess Brexit has become, tell ppl they have been lied to. It’s about telling the truth’ - Couldn’t agree more. Also there is a momentum of ppl getting it now, even in the mythical red wall. Starmer has to grasp it.
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There’s a lot of concern outside the building too.
Senior Downing St source says “there is a lot of concern inside the building about the PM....It’s just not working. Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it’ll keep getting worse. If they don’t insist, he just won’t do anything about it."
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Other than many journalists, who have left Kyiv, the BBC is still there.
A war with no witnesses on the ground is a war where the victims aren't seen anymore.
Thank you, everyone.
Bunker broadcast
@bbcnews
with
@CliveMyrieBBC
and big thanks to
@DeeMcIlveen
Robbie Wright
@OpsBbc
James White & Ian Jonas
@katepeters
#Kyiv
#Ukraine
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There is something surreal about the BBC hosting a leadership race nobody can vote for like a daytime quiz show at 9pm.
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Maybe the BBC shd think twice before putting out nonsense like this as a news oneliner.
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This is how Johnson is going to play this now. Every day a drip of spin to keep himself alive as a hero. Can’t believe the media are -still- playing along as if he hadn’t proved to be totally untrustworthy.
Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike
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The best journalism in Britain comes again and again from the
@financialtimes
lately. This. Fascinating.
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Maybe this has to do with me being in Berlin this weekend. But have rarely felt Britain playing next to no role like now in a situation as important as this one for the future of the whole of Europe. It's sad somehow.
#GlobalBritain
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How is this even legal ?
Well blow me down!
Rishi Sunak's main election strategist Isaac Levido is also a very highly paid lobbyist for Palantir, the dodgy US firm owned by a far-right billionaire that"s just been given a huge NHS data contract.
Small world, isn't it?
#Newsnight
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