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Historian of France and French Politics
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It was an honor to talk to @united24media.com about Putin's goals and why any future peace deal without solid guarantees could lead to even greater risks for Ukraine. Recorded 10 days ago. Some things here the White House should but doesn't know. www.youtube.com/live/N1H_75I...

Brian Glenn (of the Zelenskyy suit question) is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend, if that gives some indication of his gravitas and sound judgment.

Ben Rhodes captures the gravity of the situation in all its horror

We all made fun of "Somehow, Palpatine returned," but here we fucking are.

Fair play to her

@explodingheads.bsky.social he's got the club in his DNA

Syrie : « On est face à un mouvement qui s’est déradicalisé par le haut »

@explodingheads.bsky.social Don't get me wrong, but he had to go. Tbh, I'd appoint Sir Trevor

Good grief. 😂

Faute de budget, des enseignants contractuels non reconduits et des classes laissées sans remplaçant

Right. I'm off back down the hill to my storm ravaged house, but if I came back out later and the post below has gone viral and sold thousands of copies of my new book, The Tories, A Tragedy, I'll buy you all a pint* *To share

La RATP « en négociations exclusives » pour vendre ses trois réseaux de bus londoniens au géant local FirstGroup

£28 for 10 stamps for Europe. I can have a decent evening in the pub for that. Well done Royal Mail.

If you thought the vestments for Saturday's gig at Notre Dame were a bit iffy, check out this lot. The ceremony also reminded me that David's work was not only a conceit, but impossible.

That's not Albert of Monaco

The situation in France is the fault of the Communist Fabien Roussel. In 2022, he took 2.3% of the vote. Had he not stood, they would have voted Mélenchon and Le Pen would have been eliminated. Mélenchon would then have lost to Macron, who would then have secured an absolute majority.

I see Ségolène has written to Macron to let him know she's got no other commitments at the moment...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

Who, in the name of God, invited Trump to the reopening ceremony at Notre Dame?

Oh so she rang around the 11 million? Pffff

Ah, now then...

The Mail hasn’t failed! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Pour son dernier discours comme président, Laurent Fabius rappelle le rôle du Conseil constitutionnel

Oh blimey, article 45 of the organic law on LOLFs...

Hello there. Would you mind awfully helping us get to 25k followers here this weekend, please? We’re trying to break away from Twitter, you see. Thank you very much x

And the best photo they had of him was with Val's election poster?

This could get very interesting

Education à la sexualité : la Ciivise et le Planning familial répliquent à la fronde conservatrice, après les propos du ministre délégué Alexandre Portier

@rafluton.bsky.social will you tell them or shall I?

So, Barnier loses a vote of confidence and goes, then we get a Green-PS-Macroniste-centre-right coalition (No LR)? Have I got that right? Genius

L’écrivain franco-algérien Boualem Sansal, accusé d’« atteinte à l’intégrité du territoire national », placé en détention en Algérie

Are you a champagne socialist?

'Your order has been shipped' Mate, you stuck it in the post.