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The chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times shares his views
- A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography.
- Shocking hypocrisy from Vance - lecturing Europe on democracy when he serves as vice president to a man who attempted a coup in the US
- Seventy five percent of people under the age of 25 voted Remain. What a betrayal of them
- Distinctly Soviet vibe in Britain at moment. My son just messaged triumphantly to say he had found last pack of couscous hidden behind an empty supermarket shelf. Neighbour came round to say he’d heard local garage will be getting some petrol tonight
- Musk’s megalomania grows apace. He’s clearly trying to engineer a far-right revolution across the western world. He’s now backed the AfD. Before that Reform. And he’s the dominant figure in Trump world. He’ll clearly get behind Le Pen.
- This is pure Russian propaganda.@joerogan: When did the U.S. government get started with internet censorship? @MikeBenzCyber: "It started in 2014 with the Ukraine coup and the counter-coup. In 2014, we had about 25 years of successful free-speech diplomacy, and then we successfully overthrew the government of
00:00 - The award winning reporter, Andrew Norfolk, who broke the grooming scandal says that far from covering up the problem, Starmer made the prosecutions possible
- Two-thirds of Britons now support future referendum on rejoining the EU after Brexit
- Farage will eventually be remembered in Britain with the same fondness we reserve for Oswald Moseley"In my country can't say anything or you might get put in prison" Patriot Farage denigrating the UK, poisoning minds against his own country for cash.
- I think Asian allies of the US increasingly believe they are dealing with a fundamentally racist administration. Can't imagine how they got that impression. But I've heard similar from Indians1/ S. Korea's entire media establishment across political spectrum has united in unprecedented editorial consensus expressing profound betrayal, outrage, national humiliation, and fundamental breach of US-ROK alliance re: mass arrest of Korean workers at Hyundai's Georgia plant.
- If you lived behind the Iron Curtain you would know that, when the Wall came down, all of the countries there immediately applied to join the EU"If you lived behind the Iron Curtain... then you understand how precious democracy is." Brexit Party candidate, @LauraMK20. RT if you will be voting for The Brexit Party this Thursday!
00:00 - One day historians will marvel at the way the EU continued to shovel billions towards Orban’s Hungary, even as he actively worked to undermine the EU and its values - and boasted about it. (Though if Orban has his way, there won’t actually be independent historians)
- Prediction: in a few months time, Truss resigns as Foreign Sec, accusing Johnson of not being tough enough with the EU; repeating exactly what Johnson did to May & for same reason: to position for a leadership bid, knowing Tories will always chase rainbow of perfect hard Brexit
