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Another strong piece from @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/86ec...

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Trump pitch to Ukraine could not be clearer.....Sure we'll help, but only if we can rape you first.

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I have been quite sanguine about Starmer's government....my confidence is badly shaken when I see the PM has surrounded himself with idiots like this....

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Very true. Every premier from Suez on wrestled with the relationship with the US. Thatcher thought she had found the answer by balancing between the US and Europe. Unfortunately her disciples proved to be idiots (what a surprise) and their craven stupidity may have now doomed the UK.

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Oh, my Lord....ST on British ambassador's grand plan to fix everything with Trump..."Mandelson is... mapping out a plan for the UK to become America’s main foreign hub for AI and critical technologies. .... a new economic partnership or “Mega deal”, short for “Make our Economies Great Again”.

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Something for Starmer to ponder en route to Washington www.ft.com/content/762c...

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Householder threatened with death by intruder. Neighbour drops by. "Sure, we'll help but only if we can rape you first"....US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's plan for Ukraine.

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Hmmm 😂

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Thank you!

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We need to sign up to whatever the French have pronto.

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Trump blackmails Ukraine into paying the US reparations for a war in which it was the victim.....Versailles treaty in reverse....

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I hadn’t realised the extent to which Alice Weidel was Nazi royalty. No wonder she and Elon Musk have become ideological bedfellows. Fascinating TIME magazine interview with Weidel about the new alliance between the US and German far right time.com/7260499/alice-…

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I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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US threatens to disable Ukrainian forces fighting Russian invasion by cutting off Starlink satellite access unless Zelensky signs over his country's mineral resources to the US...and we thought we had a problem with Chinese coercion.......

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A question that no-one in Whitehall dare ask. What happens if Trump decides to turn off Britain's nukes? A column in the FT... www.ft.com/content/762c...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

How long before the Republican voters who are losing their jobs, public services, veterans' benefits, medicare/medicaid etc at the hands of the weirdo Musk start complaining?

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The Editor of the Spectator and darling of much of the Westminster media Michael Gove and his best pal..

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Only upside of Trumps betrayal is that he has created one of those defining moments - when people in all sorts of areas - feel the need to make it clear where they stand.

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I'd say "Peak Spectator" ..but I'm sure that under Michael Gove there will always be new depths to plumb.. [and yes, the headline is a fair summary of the article]

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Merz gets it on Trump. Thank goodness

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Bannon’s denunciations of Musk had made me begin to think better of him. And then he ruins it all by giving a Nazi salute.

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“As for the nuclear deterrent, it has never been truly independent. That’s why generations of British politicians have insisted on always referring to it as such.” Not to mention um we only have 1/2 subs at sea at a time and recently have had issues testing the missiles

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French insistence on making and controlling all parts of its nuclear weapons capacity, and the capacity to make basically all weapons, is looking wiser all the time …

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A veteran & sharp country risk economist (who 30 years ago christened Trident Avis Rentacar) pointed this out to me on whichever day this week Trump went full Tonto. Now a senior journalist & analyst has it in the edition of the FT with the biggest readership:

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It will be hard..very hard..for the present generation of military types in Whitehall to admit, but a system shared with France and providing nuclear cover for European allies is one long term option.

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A question that no-one in Whitehall dare ask. What happens if Trump decides to turn off Britain's nukes? A column in the FT... www.ft.com/content/762c...

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If the OBR/Treasury think the right response to slower-than-expected growth is to depress the economy further by cutting spending or raising taxes there are only two options. 1. The country is finished, or 2. I blow up the OBR and Treasury.

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Pity but it’s no longer possible to trust anything in WP…

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sure Davos is dreadful but have you considered attending.... right wing Davos? [[drinks bleach]] on.ft.com/3Qrozpa

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There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

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The last week has underlined the urgency of building a strong European Pillar in NATO. Here is a blueprint (based on a new task force report—link in the piece) on getting it done as soon as possible. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

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France marched into Hitler’s Germany, the Americans bombed Pearl Harbour and Ukraine invaded Russia ….

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Even for supine republicans of the GOP must a bit uncomfortable watching a president infatuated with Putin waving the white flag in Moscow ….

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First Brexit, and then Trump.. to think Johnson was once prime minister........

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It starts with book burning....

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The most humiliating thing to happen to the Washington Post yet. Not being on this list.

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If like Trump you believe the US should run Canada, Greenland and Panama it is not a big leap to agree with Putin that Russia should control Ukraine ….

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