Lisa Haseldine
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Online Commissioning Editor - Foreign Affairs @spectator | Get in touch [email protected] | MHP 30 to watch - International Affairs 2025
Joined September 2013
An increasing number of European countries are introducing temporary border checks to deal with irregular migration. I looked into the phenomenon for this week’s @spectator cover piece! Out online and on news stands tomorrow ✨ 🗞️
🗞️ Border lands: Lisa Haseldine on why Europe is giving up on free movement ✍️ In the mag: • Douglas Murray: Clive of India must not fall • Rod Liddle: Of course shoplifters are scumbags • Jonathan Sumption: What the Quran has to say about slavery https://t.co/iEQKq9dqKl
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V good insight on the BTS of Putin + Trump’s Alaska summit. It was clear at the time that things had not gone as per POTUS’s plans that day (see cancelled lunch/Trump’s early exit) but the White House was tight-lipped on what had actually happened. Now, it seems we know. Any
New: Trump warmly greeted Putin in Alaska. But behind closed doors, the summit quickly went south. Putin flatly rejected Trump’s ceasefire offer and went on a rambling digression about history. Trump raised his voice several times and nearly stormed out: https://t.co/6fVxM0oUSR
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This is really interesting and further sign Reform are serious about getting rid of barnacles. Ukraine comes up often in focus groups on Reform, not as disqualifying but as a question mark over Farage, people can't understand why the Reform leader didn't seem to back Ukraine.
***EXCLUSIVE*** Nigel Farage tells Bloomberg that if he led Britain he: — would support shooting down Russian fighter jets entering NATO airspace — use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine — may even put British troops on the ground there as part of a UN peacekeeping force — he
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Farage’s comments on Russia/Putin are v interesting - is he taking a leaf out of Giorgia Melonj’s playbook? Suggests he is (finally) recognising that soft/sympathetic views towards Russia don’t truck well with the British public - no matter what political alignment, it’s an
***EXCLUSIVE*** Nigel Farage tells Bloomberg that if he led Britain he: — would support shooting down Russian fighter jets entering NATO airspace — use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine — may even put British troops on the ground there as part of a UN peacekeeping force — he
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Leaving north India to embark on part 2 of honeymoon and absolutely flying through this excellent read by @DalrympleWill I picked up in Delhi. And a delightful surprise to see a @spectator review quote on the front cover too!
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Grateful for all the Hong Kongers who spoke to me for this column and over the last four years of coverage. Your stories of uprooting, integrating, and your aspirations for yours and your children's futures have been inspiring. It's a shame that so many in the community now feel
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A very helpful statement from the Estonian govt, hopefully putting to bed the more lurid claims doing the rounds
Reports suggesting that the situation on the Estonian-Russian border is becoming tense are exaggerated. There is a road in South-East Estonia that briefly crosses into Russian territory. Locals are permitted to use it without stopping. On Friday, we observed seven armed Russian
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🎙This week's @spectator out loud 👇 🗣 @ShippersUnbound on Tory conference 🗣 @ianwill on the Westminster spy farce 🗣 Theo Hobson on the CofE's sex muddle 🗣 Lara Prendergast on Spectator USA 🗣 @lisa_haseldine on the Bundeswehr https://t.co/BFaVP88uEl
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Tim Shipman says that the real war for the right is yet to come; Ian Williams examines the farce over the collapses China espionage case; Theo Hobson argues that...
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Pretty timely considering the suspected Russian drone incursions into NATO territory that seem to be becoming evermore widespread and frequent. How Europe (including Britain) deals with this in the next few months may prove crucial for future dealings with Russia
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🪖🇩🇪Two weeks ago I was in Hamburg, Germany to watch the Bundeswehr conduct exercise Red Storm Bravo - rehearsing what would happen if NATO needed to quickly move troops to the Baltics. Here’s my report for @spectator on what I saw: https://t.co/XZ3KmLKuuc
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Hamburg What would happen if Russia was planning an attack on Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia – and the threat was sufficiently great that Nato felt the need to send troops east across Europe to face...
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ISW continues to assess that Russia’s increased covert and overt attacks against Europe indicate that Russia has entered “Phase 0” — the informational and psychological condition-setting phase — of its campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.
NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin remains committed to his theory of victory, which holds that Russia can outlast the West and Ukraine in a war of attrition, and his demand for Ukraine’s full capitulation. Other Key Takeaways: Putin acknowledged Ukraine’s long-range strike
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7 October – Putin’s 73rd birthday. I won’t wish him many happy returns, but let’s just spend a moment pondering the dilemmas that will likely face him in the coming year 1/
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Delighted to say I am now the @spectator Online Commissioning Editor - Foreign Affairs 🥳 As always, please get in touch for chats and coffees around Westminster and beyond ☕️
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So on the nose you wouldn’t believe it in a joke: German government didn’t invite a single East German to mark reunification day
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Oh my god. Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!
I spoke to a few people, including journalists, at Labour conference who had seen and believed claims on this platform that Multiverse – Tony Blair's son's company – had been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme @FullFact have checked this claim and it is untrue
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A new monument honouring the builders of the Moscow Metro has been unveiled in Moscow. But if you look closely... the monument appears to depict Pentagon City station from the Washington DC metro system, not Moscow’s metro.
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Every single map shows the disparity between East and West. A lot of the causes feed into a vicious cycle that politicians in Berlin have allowed to grow stronger over the past three and a half decades. In this context, the growth of the AfD in East Germany makes a lot of sense!
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They are still behind on everything including income levels, GDP, economic investment. They also have proportionally fewer young people and therefore working-age adults. And they have higher unemployment.
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On the eve of the 35th anniversary of German reunification, this is a very interesting article from @derspiegel highlighting the ways in which East Germany still has not equalised with the West https://t.co/biJQ4Ig8p7
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Wirtschaftsforscher ziehen eine ernüchternde Bilanz der Wiedervereinigung: Bei zentralen Kennzahlen gilt eine Angleichung zwischen West und Ost als »wenig realistisch«. Langfristig dürften beide...
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Just left synagogue briefly and read the news in detail. Sickening, surreal. For as long as I recall a fact of Jewish life has been security duty: ordinary lay members standing outside shul to create a physical and psychological deterrent against events like this. One always
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Delighted to have recently joined The Spectator as opinion editor - do email me with ideas, thoughts and possible pieces rhawksley@spectator.co.uk 🗞️📰
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