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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

2 years

In last few hours YouTube and Meta have banned RT from their sites, Abramovitch has ceded control of Chelsea FC, Zelensky has added 1m followers and Kremlin website has site crashed due to cyberattacks. Nice work everybody.

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Entire McCain memorial - from the words of Lieberman, Kissinger, Bush, Obama & others, to the applause they receive - is a giant subtweet against Trump. There has never been quite such a spectacle against a sitting president.

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6 years

The most effective thing Americans can do is boycott companies that advertise on Fox. They bankroll the poison that goes from the studio into Trump’s head. The second is vote.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

No one should have the slightest doubt that Trump-Pence are trying to kill the European Union - and that Putin is the chief beneficiary.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

small but significant detail: Kim Darroch went to a grammar school and grew up in a council house. Those who accused him of elitist bias (Boris, Piers Morgan, Steve Hilton and the other demagogues) went to expensive private schools. How stupid has Britain become?

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4 years

In his first sentence Biden says something Trump hasn't yet uttered: "First of all my heart goes out to all those suffering from the coronavirus.."

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2 years

Suspect history will brutally reappraise those who voted not to convict Trump over Ukraine.

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@EdwardGLuce

1 year

If that imbecile Lauren Boebert loses I might run outside and hug strangers.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

Never ever let a Trump-supporting Republican wave America’s flag, or claim to defend US national security. The damage Trump is doing to America’s place in the world is incalculable and will be enduring.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Just finished reading Mary Trump's book - a modern day Bleak House. Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family is quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps. Disturbing book.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 months

Feel sick to the stomach that one of America's two parties is rooting for an autocrat who leaves no rival alive.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

Hope very much America - and Britain - will reappraise their cynicism about the European Union. It's reacting with breathtaking speed, unity and resolve to Putin's barbarism. In doing so it's restoring some vitality to the west.

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2 years

Remarkable statement from President Macron. Hard to imagine a contemporary British prime minister being as gracious about a great French figure passing.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Service dog stared into owner’s eyes for entire two hour flight

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5 years

Still digesting the fact that the US President has publicly asked America’s biggest geopolitical rival to investigate his main domestic opponent. Can’t wrap my head around it.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

Worth elaborating on the level of incompetence Trump showed today on Kashmir. Those unfamiliar with Indo-Pak situation may not realise that his offer to mediate on Kashmir dispute ranks among the most consequential mistakes he has made. But that's the least of it (1).

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Stated plainly: Republicans are using pandemic as cover to launch a major injection of wealth into the best connected companies of which the Trump Organization is first. It is the duty of reporters to report this not to regurgitate nonsense about "partisan bickering".

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

6 years

Increasingly clear that if U.K. can somehow reverse Brexit, it would be hammer blow to western populist-nationalism in general. Not just Britain’s future at stake.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Anyone - Muslim, Hindu, Christian or atheist - who values the rule of law, democracy, freedom from group identity and the world their children will inherit should strongly back the protests against Narendra Modi's dark new citizenship law. It's not just India's soul at stake.

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2 months

The contrast between the journalists who chronicled Navalny's poisoning, particularly @bellingcat , taking huge risks to expose the truth, and @TuckerCarlson 's craven, whimpering, regime propaganda was never starker than today.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

A system that can arrest and detain @Ram_Guha , Gandhi’s biographer, for peacefully protesting to uphold its constitution is not a liberal democracy. I fear for India. Stand with Ram!

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

5 years

There's no historic, or moral, precedent for this. We've never seen a US president horribly slander an American hero recently buried with state honours.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!

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5 years

Worth emphasising the scale of the disaster Trump has wrought in the week since his call with Erdogan. 1. Revived Isis. 2. Cemented Assad’s grip on Syria. 3. Handed Russia yet another geopolitical windfall. 4. Betrayed the Kurds. 5. Immeasurably harmed US power. Thread 1.

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2 years

The more Rittenhouse sinks in, the more unhinged today's America seems. Leave aside the debate over race narrative. No other democratic system would let teenagers, or citizens of any age, go where they please with ultra-lethal weapons, discharge, then claim self-defence. Thread

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2 years

Cannot be stated strongly enough: If the west - chiefly America, but also Britain - doesn't burn its financial ties to Russia's oligarchy then Putin will prevail. This means taking on Wall Street, the City, law firms realtors, the prep schools and western laundering outfits.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Worth stating starkly: Trump is a menace to world peace. He’s made it abundantly clear he sees no legal or moral limit to what he can do, up to and including war crimes. This is a time of acute danger both to global stability and US democracy.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Fairly sure it’s Trump’s America.

Boris Epshteyn

@BorisEP

4 years

This would be @JoeBiden ’s America. It’s a very scary place.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

Worth stressing that at every juncture over last 20 years the America “alarmists” have been right. Downplaying the enormity of what’s happening, or reassuring us that it’s not that bad, is the same as surrender.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

For the nth time Republicans, the reason Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was president was because he was getting everything he wanted without firing a shot, or risking an oligarch. War is the last resort. Trump was a gift to Putin that kept on giving.

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3 years

Whatever the final result - and I still think Biden will squeak it - American democracy is in a chronically bad state. Trump remains competitive, and possibly victorious, after having given the middle finger every day for four years to basic competence and decency.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

By offering to mediate on Kashmir, Trump said something deeply provocative to India, which has always refused 3rd party mediation. India is America's most important "natural ally" in its rivalry with China. Hard to overstate the stupidity and ignorance of what Trump said.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 months

Still digesting the brazenness of the Supreme Court's decision. They've pulled Trump's hottest iron out of the fire. It's political obstruction of potentially historic significance.

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4 years

White House is insisting on zero money for testing & contact tracing in Congress stimulus bill - zero. Trump would rather America flies blind on pandemic than register a rising infection rate. This is way worse than negligence. He knows exactly what he's doing.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

I suspect that was the single worst - and most counter-productive - presidential address in history

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@EdwardGLuce

3 years

Biden comes out stronger from this summit. Look how much smaller Putin seems today than in Helsinki in 2018.

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1 year

One hour passport queue for non EU citizens to leave Brussels. Thanks @BorisJohnson 🖕

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

Is there any theoretical ceiling of deaths from guns and mass shootings that would cause Republicans - and Supreme Court radicals - to reconsider?

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2 years

As a public servant Mark Carney declines to offer a 'value judgement' on Brexit. He's happy to give a neutral valuation though: “Put it this way, in 2016 the British economy was 90 per cent the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70 per cent." Boom.

Mark Carney: ‘Doubling down on inequality was a surprising choice’

The former BoE chief on where Brexit has left Britain and the chaotic aftermath of Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini’ Budget

www.ft.com

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@EdwardGLuce

2 months

Kate's picture story prominently there on NYT & Wapo home pages but Trump saying Hitler did good things isn't. Do we have our priorities straight?

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

It is uniquely unfortunate that America's president at this time is Trump. Any time would be awful. But now is catastrophic.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Been covering US elections for longer than I care to admit. The speed of Biden's turnaround is the most extraordinary thing I've seen.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

Jesus wept. Ivanka is now the Brexit point person? We are just extras in a pantomime.

David Head

@DavidHeadViews

5 years

Liam Fox tells @BBCr4today that he is off to Washington DC for #Brexit -related talks with (wait for it) Ivanka. And you thought things couldn't get any worse.

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21 days

If Trump can scare the Gerald Ford Foundation from giving an award to @Liz_Cheney six months before the election, imagine the spinelessness we'd see after he won. Really terrible foretaste what would be in store.

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@EdwardGLuce

6 years

Best line from the Trump 60 minutes interview: "Washington DC is a vicious, vicious place. The attacks, the bad mouthing, the speaking behind your back, but you know, and in my way, I feel very comfortable here."

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1 year

Only just saw that @TuckerCarlson called Zelensky "Biden's Ukrainian pimp". No money or thrill of celebrity could possibly make up for the shame that will forever be associated with Tucker Carlson's name. He's America's Tokyo Rose.

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5 years

He is the vainest leader on the planet; and he is profoundly ignorant. He thinks he can solve any crisis - his own genius is all that is missing. Therefore he does not need to know anything about said crisis. The only knowledge worth knowing is that Trump's skills are absent (5)

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

If Putin loses this war, he'll probably lose power - and he can't bet on a peaceful Black Sea retirement. The coming days will be an incredibly dangerous moment for the world. I dread to think what he is capable of doing to Ukraine.

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@EdwardGLuce

3 years

Elon Musk's net worth now greater than Pakistan's gross domestic product - a country with 220 million people.

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3 years

Hourly reminder: if America had a simple national voting system, Biden would already have won. The electoral college is a burst appendix that haemorrhages worse with each cycle.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

Every major western leader - Merkel, May, Trudeau, Macron - has condemned Trump’s racial invective. Can’t think of a parallel when America’s leading allies all censored US president.

Tilo Jung

@TiloJung

5 years

German chancellor Merkel on Trump's racist attacks on female members of Congress: "I firmly distance myself from that and declare my solidarity with these attacked women." @aoc @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @AyannaPressley

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4 years

Still digesting the scale of India's nationwide lockdown. Largest quarantine in human history (1.3bn people) and a massive live experiment. India has just 519 infections.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Take him seriously not literally, they said; Adults will take over they said. Stop this Trump derangement syndrome they said. Never too late for the Trump reassurers to grasp what’s been obvious for 5 years: Trump is a mortal threat to US democracy .

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4 years

Pompeo gave a speech last week in which he elevated two rights - property and religious liberty - above all others. His Christian nationalist presidential ambitions and confederate whitewashing pose a threat to the US republic. says @djrothkopf . I agree.

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5 years

The only way America can stop this ghastly spiral into dystopia is by defeating the white nationalist in the White House. Then bringing him to justice. That’s the bare minimum.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 months

Jimmy Carter was the US president who did the most for Israel's security with his tireless & heroic Camp David talks. He was pilloried for it then & since. Reupping my reminder in waning moments of his life that Carter has been wronged by history.

Jimmy Carter has been wronged by history

Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, benefits from an eternal free pass

www.ft.com

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21 days

"Trump's Republican Party treats Ukraine as the enemy and Russia as a friend. Defining that stance as isolationist is lazy and wrong. It is actively pro-Russian." My column on America's moment of truth in Ukraine.

America’s moment of truth on Ukraine

Republicans have a stark choice: help Zelenskyy or pay fealty to Trump

www.ft.com

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

We’re watching the tragicomic dying moments of Trump’s presidency. Tragic because so many more lives will be needlessly lost - and a great nation’s reputation shredded. Comic because Trump must constantly out-buffoon himself to grab the vanishing limelight. He’s history’s fool.

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2 years

Unusual tweet by me but we're fortunate Biden is president. His handling of this barbaric war has been practical & principled. Gives confidence it won't escalate into Nato-Russia war or end in Putin's victory. Biden has character, which in these times is worth its weight in gold.

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3 years

India badly needs global help. But let's not forget that its prime minister, Narendra Modi, recently permitted a holy gathering of up to 3m Hindus, held mass campaign rallies, and has a health minister who thinks cow's urine is a cure for Covid. Modi is damaging India's health.

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“When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before. It’s Groundhog Day. I feel like Bill Murray.” My fave Zelensky line from this excellent @JeffreyGoldberg @anneapplebaum interview.

Liberation Without Victory

In a wide-ranging conversation at his compound in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells The Atlantic what Ukraine needs to survive—and describes the price it has paid.

www.theatlantic.com

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Trump is openly gunning for a no-deal Brexit and for a populist like Boris Johnson or Rees-Mogg to finish off Theresa May. This is full Bannonism. Not the behavior of an ally.

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Steve, your Fox show rails against "elitists".You were at a private school, then Oxford, then part of Cameron's austerity-imposing government, now live in a Silicon Valley home worth more than $20m. Did you agree to some kind of a dare to see how long you could pull this off?

steve hilton

@SteveHiltonx

5 years

what legitimacy does @EmmanuelMacron have to put anything other than his own nation's "interests first"? he was elected with French, not "global" votes but why take his 'argument' seriously? he's just deflecting domestic woes with cheap shots @POTUS what an elitist pipsqueak!

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Cruz says the fact that 39 per cent of Americans believe election was rigged is "a profound threat to our country". . Classic case of the arsonist posing as a firefighter.

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Til this week I thought prosecution of Trump could backfire. Now I'm convinced that failure to prosecute him on all fronts would pose a far larger risk to the US republic. HIs actions must have consequences - or the next attempted coup will succeed.

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10 months

This man is a close Hindu nationalist ally of Modi.

Himanta Biswa Sarma (Modi Ka Parivar)

@himantabiswa

10 months

There are many Hussain Obama in India itself. We should prioritize taking care of them before considering going to Washington. The Assam police will act according to our own priorities.

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What’s most chilling about Trump’s backing of Putin - along with Mike Pompeo, Tucker Carlson and other Fox demagogues - is how logical it seems. If you can’t see the 2024 implications you’re either blind or brainwashed. Much more than Ukraine’s survival is at stake.

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Dollar value of British economy has dropped 13 per cent since Truss became prime minister…three weeks ago.

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Bleak week both sides of Atlantic. Most UK media is in pocket of Boris's Conservatives, who look set to win on outrageous false premise of "getting Brexit done". Half of America from Trump down lying thru teeth about his conduct. Two once great democracies awash in self-deception

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Whatever happens next, Putin's Ukraine invasion already ranks as one of the most epic blunders in modern history - up there with Bush's Iraq war. Almost every assumption Putin made has been wrong.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

The optics of Putin's billionaires super-yachting the world in search of havens while Russian conscripts meet their muddy graves is cinematically dystopic.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

There's a brutal kinetic war on the ground in Ukraine. There's also a dark information war. Putin is losing both at the moment. People like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson have been key tools of Putin's infodemic. They should not be allowed to escape accountability.

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

Within an hour India declared that what Trump said was false: The slightest knowledge of India would have told Trump that this is the kind of lie that would a) immediately be shut down and b) cause material harm to a critical US diplomatic relationship (3)

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@EdwardGLuce

6 years

Am awaiting with bateless breath a White House statement in defense of press freedom. Two journalists have been brutally murdered by US allies in past 48 hours - Bulgaria and Saudi Arabia. Will there be any diplomatic consequences at all?

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4 years

Though I've lived here for 15 years, am still shocked by association of guns with God. "Biden is against God, he's against guns..." People, Jesus was not into bump stocks, silencers, semi-automatics or no-liability clauses. His weapon was the other cheek.

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

@feliciasonmez Here’s the clip:

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The one time I took LSD was as a student in 1989 at Glastonbury. The tabs were printed with Gorbachev’s face and called Gorby’s. Terrifying never-to-be repeated experience but Gorby’s face somehow made it feel benign.

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@EdwardGLuce

6 years

How you respond to the murder of Khashoggi is a litmus test of whether you can be taken credibly on anything. If you swallow this bullshit, you will swallow anything.

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“India is being led by a man whose political career is marked by the blood of innocents”. The fearless @RanaAyyub on the strongman Trump so admires.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

More Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine in the last six days than total British combat fatalities in Afghanistan in twenty years - that's just Russia's official numbers.

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"Ivanka has never had to find a job in her life. After graduating, she worked for her father. Then she set up a paternally-funded fashion line. Finally, she landed a job as senior White House advisor." Me on First Daughter's "find something new" job advice

Ivanka Trump’s ‘let them eat cake’ economics

The First Daughter channels Marie Antoinette as she lectures unemployed Americans

www.ft.com

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@EdwardGLuce

4 years

Orban has just shut down democracy in Hungary. Suspends elections; up to five years jail for spreading "misinformation"; rule by decree. This is a red alert moment for liberal democracy. Will the EU penalise Hungary? Will Trump and Pompeo condemn?

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5 years

I don't believe in coincidences. As Mueller's probe tightens, Putin's leverage on Trump intensifies. Hard to read the Deripaska sanctions move & pulling out of Syria as anything other than Trump's Christmas gifts to his handler.

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3 years

Tourists visit Reichstag in 1933

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4 years

"Zuckerberg appears to be engaged in some kind of mutual assistance arrangement with Donald Trump that will help him to get re-elected," says George Soros in a pointed letter to the FT. He has a point...

George Soros: Remove Zuckerberg and Sandberg from their posts

Letter to FT calls for Facebook to stop accepting political advertising

www.ft.com

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5 years

Bush funeral prediction: If Trump doesn't heckle, spontaneously combust or wander out of the cathedral at the wrong moment, pundits will proclaim how presidential he is becoming.

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@EdwardGLuce

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Trump has pulled off the extraordinary at the G20 - uniting Europe, China, India and the world against America. That takes some doing.

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@EdwardGLuce

6 months

Owner of this platform is now explicitly pushing the great replacement theory - that Jews seek to outnumber whites with immigration. A rubicon has been crossed by the world's richest man. Anti-semitic charge has been misused & leveled at many who aren't. @elonmusk is.

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Finally, it emboldens Pakistan in its belief that it can play America for a sucker. Imran Khan, Pakistan's PM, could not believe his luck. The question remains why Trump would conduct such an act of self-harm. Sadly, the answer his simple. It involves two core Trump traits (4)

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@EdwardGLuce

2 years

Please everybody: this isn't a war against Russian people. Show some sense.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Russian restaurants in New York City are being hit by cancellations, social media campaigns and bad reviews online after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite most owners being openly antiwar and many coming from Ukraine.

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For anyone still confused: a country whose people voted by over 90 per cent for independence thirty years ago, is now threatened with extinction by a nuclear-armed kleptocrat. There's not much room for nuance here.

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@EdwardGLuce

2 months

Superb: clinical and irrefutable. Everyone should see this.

Mujtaba Rahman

@Mij_Europe

2 months

. @radeksikorski on 🔥. The kind of diplomacy I can get behind. Everyone should watch this clip today

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law students must be regretting all those years studying originalism, textualism, constructivism etc...Turns out the key is "make shit up as you go along" to serve your party.

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Will this be India's last democratic election? The degree to which Modi has used pliable judges, tax authorities & other forms of coercion to silence critical journalists, imprison opposition leaders, close down pesky NGOs, and bring civil society to heel is massively…

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4 years

"Trump has built himself a maze. He wants Americans to fear something that does not seem particularly lethal — the radical left — yet be unafraid of a disease that has claimed more than 212,000 lives. It doesn't feel like a winning strategy." My column.

Donald Trump is risking a Covid election blowout

If the race stays focused on the pandemic, polls suggest Joe Biden will win

www.ft.com

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@EdwardGLuce

6 years

Hard to overstate importance of #Kashoggi case. Saudi Arabia was the first country Trump visited as president. He and MBS - and Kushner - share a taste for dictator chic. If US allows Saudis to get away with murder, it will embolden thugs everywhere.

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4 years

Turns out people do value competent and intelligent leadership. Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party gets almost 50 per cent of the vote - a massive landslide in a parliamentary system.

Jacinda Ardern wins New Zealand election by a landslide

Voters back Labour prime minister’s empathetic leadership and decisive action during Covid-19 crisis

www.ft.com

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@EdwardGLuce

5 years

The Kremlin says Putin and Trump are meeting for lunch in Paris this Sunday. Whitehouse says they're not. On balance, I'd trust the Kremlin.

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

21 days

This isn't an interview. It's stenography.

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

21 days

Do read my interview with @Newsweek , in which I have shared my thoughts on various issues, both domestic and international. @NancyCooperNYC @TellDM

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

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Don’t forget to honor Hindus in their holy month of Ramadan.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

Today, we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world. Hundreds of millions of people have gathered with family & friends to light the Diya and to mark the beginning of a New Year.

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

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Should have added that 2004 was when assault weapon ban ended. This isn't rocket science.

Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

2 years

Plot of rising US mass killings looks like one of those deadly rainbow jelly fish. Great @FT curtain raiser on the NRA's upcoming "freedom-filled weekend for the entire family".

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Edward Luce

@EdwardGLuce

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In Ukraine’s (and the west’s) response to his barbarism, Putin is actively strengthening the spirit of liberal democracy. This is among the most potent instances of the law of unintended consequences I can recall. No wonder China is anxious.

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