Writer and media consultant. Former media editor of @thetimes and @FT, and presenter of @newswatchbbc. Now a free agent.
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Raymond Snoddy retweeted
Utter and complete US strategic failure. The US started this war not knowing what it was doing, made things worse by fighting the war with no plan or awareness of strategic consequences. And here we are, 9 months later and all there is left to do is blame the rest of the world.
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《普京：俄罗斯历史上最大的败家子》
俄罗斯经济学家都看不下去了：再打下去，炼油业2-3周就能被打没，财富基金见底，黄金卖光。
这就是普京的“伟大成就”！
他用俄罗斯的家底，去赌自己一个人的帝国梦。钱打光了，油打没了，国家打穷了，他还在装大帝。
普京不是在救俄罗斯，他就是在毁俄罗斯。乌克兰保家卫国，天经地义；发动侵略还死不认输的，才是真正的罪人！
然后我想说：
这一切是谁造成的？就是普京！
一个独裁者为了自己的权力欲和帝国梦，把一个本来能过好日子的国家，硬生生拖进了一场打不赢、停不下来的战争。
他嘴上说“为了俄罗斯”，实际上是在卖俄罗斯！财富基金被他打光了，黄金被他快卖光了，炼油厂快被打烂了，汽油都快加不上了，老百姓的日子越过越穷，他还在克里姆林宫里做他的大帝梦！
他不是在保卫俄罗斯，他是在掏空俄罗斯，是在毁掉俄罗斯的未来！
一个把国家家底当成自己战争赌注的领导人，不配叫什么“总统”，他就是俄罗斯历史上最大的败家子、最大的罪人！
乌克兰人保卫自己的国家有什么错？错就错在普京发动了这场侵略，错就错在他到现在还不肯认输、不肯停手！
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Absolutely spot on. Russell Brand's embrace of right-wing conspiracy culture was very, very calcuated. It enabled him to pose as an outsider victim while continuing to make very large amounts of money from the terminally gullible.
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BREAKING: Democrats have hit 258 seats in the United States House of Representatives.
The largest majority in 100 years.
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Shocking, but unsurprising.
Walliams is a nasty piece of work.
A joint three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian reveals allegations David Walliams preyed on teenage girls as young as 15
Walliams denies all allegations including criminal activity
Read and watch the full investigation here: itv.com/news/2026-11-10/davi…
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JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
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Today is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the horrific sacrifices of war made on our behalf by the generations that came before. Donald the draft dodger has demanded that we do not use that name. As with so much else, he should be ignored.
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Don't think I'd let this one slip by in the whole Russell Brand sentencing -
But Reform Councillor Glenn Gibbons was found GUILTY in court today too!! He thought melting down Nigerians was "just a joke"
A good day for justice all round.
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After the Ukraine-Russia-US talks in Abu Dhabi, Jared Kushner says he & Steve Witkoff will fly to Moscow tomorrow to meet with Vladimir Putin "to try to make more progress...we see some openings and opportunities there."
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Russell Brand moved from left wing politics to the right wing anti vax Covid conspiracy theories
Cynically shifted political opinions for convenience as often as the rest of us change clothes
Didn't help him when justice came calling
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🇷🇺 Putin’s madness is destroying Russia.
Russian war deaths are already at over 400,000.
Moscow has depleted over half its sovereign wealth fund’s liquid reserves.
All to finance a deficit above 3% with no economic growth.
Now he is going to steal $40bn in pension savings to keep paying for the war.
Apart from energy and weapons, every other sector is dying.
Some Russian bankers warned about this, and they were all dismissed.
Hundreds of thousands of young people have fled, and thousands more soldiers die every month.
Putin’s imperial ambitions are killing Russia and its future.
renaissanceeurope.org/insigh…
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Not only Reform dropping in the polls but Farage too
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🚨 BREAKING: Senate Democrats just introduced a bill that bans Trump from pardoning himself for corruption.
This corrupt clown could finally go to jail for a long time.
Thumbs up 👍 if you’re ready to see this grifter behind bars where he belongs
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MTG: "I would vote to impeach. Congress needs to reclaim its authority over war .. I also agree with the articles about the deaths at the children's school. That's something that Hegseth and the the entire department of war has not been transparent on ... this is war crimes"
Raymond Snoddy retweeted
❗️سارة نتنياهو تدخل في معركة بالأصوات والصراخ داخل الكنيست مع خصمهم السياسي نفتالي بينيت بينما زوجها رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي يلقي كلمته!
بينيت صرخ:"ماذا عن مستشاريك القطريين؟ هل هم بخير؟"
بن غفير:"يا لك من وقح! أنت تجلس مع القائمة [العربية] المشتركة وتريد أن تتكلم؟! يا لك من تافه لا قيمة لك!"
أمير أوحنا (رئيس الكنيست يحاول التهدئة):"يكفي، هذا السلوك غير محترم."
بينيت:"هو (نتنياهو) من لا يحترم أحداً!"
سارة تصرخ: "أنت تجلس مع المشتركين العرب! يا لك من تافه! إخجل على نفسك! يا لك من وقح!"
وخلال خطاب نتنياهو بالكامل كان بينيت آيزكونت يتحدثون مع بعضهم ويضحكون.
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אני מציעה שבתגובה לנאום ההסתה של נתניהו נגד ערביי ישראל, מנסור עבאס יפרסם הערב סוף סוף את ההקלטות שבהן נתניהו נשמע מתחנן בפניו שיקים איתו ממשלה.
בתמונה: האויב הכי גדול של מדינת ישראל.
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"Ho spiegato tante volte a Kushner e Witkoff che il Donbass non è una mia proprietà, non posso decidere di cedere due km in più o in meno, né un affare immobiliare. Parliamo di argomenti molto sensibili per la gente, provate a ragionare come se i russi fossero entrati in Florida"
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Not a good decision…. And while Michael Foot was a man of great decency, it’s culpable that he overrode his initial instincts & decided to stand. Denis Healey was the obvious choice, who would have presented a formidable challenge to Mrs Thatcher despite Labour’s dreadful state.
On this day in 1980, Michael Foot was elected Labour leader, beating Denis Healey by 139 votes to 129 in the final ballot of Labour MPs.
Healey, chancellor from 1974 to 1979, had led the first ballot by 112 votes to 83. Foot, then 67 and the party’s deputy leader, was seen by many MPs as the candidate best placed to unite the party.
It was later alleged that at least four Labour MPs who were planning to form a new party deliberately voted for Foot. Their aim was to maximise the political space available for an emerging centrist party.
Upon his election as Labour leader, Foot told a press conference that the party would “unite on the matters of supreme importance to us – economic policy, domestic policy – to attack the outrages and infamies which this government is inflicting on our people”.
He insisted that he was as “strong in my socialist convictions as I have ever been”.
Conservative MP Kenneth Baker welcomed Foot’s victory with the remark: “Labour was led by Dixon of Dock Green under Jim Callaghan. Now it is led by Worzel Gummidge.”
One Labour MP commented: “A lot of us voted for Michael because we thought he was the most likely peacemaker. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to work.
“I fear that there’s still a good deal of bloodletting ahead.”
#onthisday #OTD
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Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”
Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”
