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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

2 years

My new book - out on April 7th.

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

8 years

Seventy five percent of people under the age of 25 voted Remain. What a betrayal of them

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3 years

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

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Two-thirds of Britons now support future referendum on rejoining the EU after Brexit

Exclusive: Results suggest Leave voters disillusioned with the ‘taking back of control they were promised’

www.independent.co.uk

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5 years

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

Reform UK

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5 years

"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!

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2 years

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)

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2 years

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

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

The inability to trade freely within your own country (ie between Britain and N.Ireland) is a far more humiliating and stark loss of sovereignty than anything the UK experienced as a member of the EU. Ironically, it is a consequence of Brexit - or of the Brexit deal Johnson chose

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3 years

Tories sudden decision to argue that point of Brexit is to create a labour market that prioritises workers over bosses is a head-spinning reversal. Their main gripe with EU used to be its alleged over-regulation of labour. Remember all the fuss about the working time directive?

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

The great charm of Penny Mordaunt seems to be that few people know much about her. But her voters and the British people may get (another) nasty surprise. She is strikingly unqualified to be prime minister. There is no there, there.

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

In the UK we’ve reached the end point of Johnson “cake and eat it” era. Truss was peak cakeism: tax cuts, but no spending cuts, ignore inflation, ignore the markets - make the problems go away with patriotic rhetoric and fantasies about future growth. Painful reality begins today

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1 year

Incredible & depressing how standards in British public life have slipped. A few years ago it would have been inconceivable this guy could stay on. The idea that the deeply conservative, William Shawcross is the right man to hold him to account is absurd

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman says he will not quit over Boris Johnson loan row

Richard Sharp says he is confident there was no conflict of interest and he welcomed an inquiry.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

Odd that Cummings himself is exactly the kind of person he claims to despise: an Oxbridge arts graduate, with no scientific training and no real-life experience outside politics and the public sector

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Gideon Rachman

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6 months

Gaza is very bad news for Biden’s re-election prospects. Young voters and progressives are a key part of the Democratic coalition. Many are furious about the administration’s support for Israel. If they stay home or vote for Cornel West, Biden is in big trouble

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Gideon Rachman

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7 years

Gibraltar row shows why we have the EU in first place: to get countries to drop nationalist grievances. Without EU, it all pops back up

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2 years

When the Russians blame the west for the global food shortage - remember these are the same people who deny invading Ukraine, poisoning Navalny, committing war crimes, shooting down MH17. They lie all the time. It’s state policy

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

So, in recent months, the Perm Secs at the Foreign Office, Home Office, Dept of Education and the head of the Cabinet office have all been forced out of their jobs. Must be doing wonders for morale at the top of the civil service. A bit like being one of Stalin's generals...

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Gideon Rachman

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6 years

If Germany deports Puigdemont to Spain, it will be a very bad look. But if, having detained him, they let him go, it will be a tacit condemnation of Spanish democracy and the rule of law there.

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

Tariff free trade is more important for the EU since they have a big surplus in manufactured goods. Meanwhile on services, where the U.K. is a big net exporter, there are big new barriers. Triumph!

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

When the monarchy faced a crisis after the death of Diana, Tony Blair helped them respond. Not sure how much help Boris Johnson’s advice will be in this situation

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2 years

It’s central to Brexiter thinking that Britain’s economic fortunes were transformed after Thatcher came to power in 1979. But Britain also joined the EU in the 1970s. Maybe Thatcherism without single market access - the Truss formula - is not such a great idea

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

My latest column is on how the West's desperation to build up India as a strategic and ideological counter-weight to China, is leading to them turning a blind eye to disturbing developments in Modi's India via @financialtimes

India’s Narendra Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long

Threats to minority rights and democratic norms are ignored to preserve a comforting illusion

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

This debate on Russian TV is extraordinarily open compared to some of the other stuff we’ve seen. People openly saying the war is unwinnable, that it was based on illusions and that Ukrainian identity is real

Shaun Walker

@shaunwalker7

2 years

Russian chat shows always had the “NATO shill guest” who said relatively sensible things and could then be torn down by the others. But Boris Nadezhdin here speaking some dangerous truths, you wonder if he might simply get arrested soon.

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4 years

I have some sympathy for the personal dilemma Cummings found himself in. But zero sympathy with him complaining about false stories in the press. This guy built his career on false stories: £350m, Turkey about to join the EU, we'll just join an existing free-trade area etc etc

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

Amidst all Putin’s breast-beating about Nato and Ukraine, its worth remembering the original 2013/14 crisis was triggered by Ukraine seeking closer relations with the EU, not Nato. This is not about Russian security; it’s about Putin’s refusal to let Ukraine orient itself West

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1 year

Soros hatred is an authentic sign of a far-right nut job

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@krassenstein You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.

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6 months

One of the dismal aspects of the way this conflict is playing out in the west is that “Palestine” is becoming the cause of the far-left and “Israel” is becoming the cause of the far right. Neither side deserves that fate

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2 years

The fact that Marine Le Pen has a diploma in cat breeding is meant to make her more cuddly. But I find it faintly sinister that she says that one of the attractions is studying their “genetic characteristics” to allow for “the perfection of the race” (as quoted in Le Monde).

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6 months

Extraordinary detail in @Freedland piece in the Guardian

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5 years

In a strange inversion of history, China has agreed to clamp down on sales of opium to the West

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2 years

With the departure of Frost, Brexiters are soon going to be falling back on the Communist defence: it was a great idea, but executed badly.

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2 years

Liz Truss said the ⁦ @FT ⁩ embodies failed economic orthodoxy and then crashed the economy. Our economics editor ⁦ @ChrisGiles_ ⁩ explains why “orthodoxy” is just a word for knowledge, experience and an ability to understand trade offs

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

Pin drop moment at Munich: Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev, tells Blinken/ Baerbock: “We need defensive weapons. We face one of strongest armies in world. We are ready to fight, to defend our families”. Added pathos; this plea comes from huge guy, former heavyweight boxing champ

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

I bet they’re loving this in Moscow and Beijing

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Gideon Rachman

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7 months

My latest argues that turning a blind eye to an alleged Indian role in an assassination would be dangerous for national security and social stability in multicultural countries like Canada, the UK, Australia and the US

Why the west cannot turn a blind eye to a murder in Canada

Ignoring the possible role of foreign governments in assassinations would pose major risks to national security and social stability

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

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7 years

True believers in Brexit will end up like Communists; arguing it was a great idea that was never properly tried

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1 year

My latest argues that it is far too fatalistic to say that Brexit is irreversible: 58% of Brits already say they want to rejoin the EU. Those figures will rise as economic damage mounts & the young enter the electorate. Politicians will have to catch up

Brexit could be reversed — here’s how

Opinion is shifting but the public are running ahead of the politicians

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

10 months

A coup by Wagner is not so much the lunatics taking over the asylum as the convicts taking control of the prison

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

4 years

Rutnam v Patel is much more than a Westminster story. Watching global politics- an independent, uncorrupt civil service, that serves politicians but is not completely at their mercy is very rare and a crucial shield against corruption and incompetence. This battle really matters.

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

Spoken like a former official at DG Trade and the WTO - which she is. She actually understands this stuff

Alex Andreou

@sturdyAlex

3 years

This, by Spanish Foreign minister @AranchaGlezLaya , is absolutely superb. The clearest expression of the problem I've heard. The UK is trying to use a trade deal to do something it's not designed to do. This, fundamentally, is why negotiations have failed. Well worth sharing.

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

Funny - I met him several times when he was director of policy planning at the Foreign Office and he seemed totally cool with EU membership. Enthusiastic even.

Peter Foster

@pmdfoster

3 years

David Frost speaking to a pretty empty hall at #CPC21 …lot of EU diplomats blanching at his “The long bad dream of our EU membership is over”. 50 years that never happened…

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

Isn’t it funny how Sweden has become the pin-up for libertarians, after decades of being denigrated as a nightmare nanny state.

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

Do watch this. Extraordinary that Lukashenko agreed to the interview. He is a cornered dictator, full of anger, menace and self-delusion . The calm and persistent questioning from @BBCSteveR is masterful. The BBC at its very best.

Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

2 years

Trying to press Alexander Lukashenko on human rights in Belarus. You can watch a 24-min version of our interview today on @BBCWorld at 0930, 1530 & 1830 GMT. Also here Camera/edit @mattgodtv Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @BBCWillVernon @BBCNews

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1 year

This was always part of Australian thinking. One of their officials said to me they were worried that, in a crisis with China, the French might decide to launch some peace initiative that would make it difficult for Australia to deploy its subs

Ulrich Speck

@ulrichspeck

1 year

What Macron says about Taiwan -- the core security theme in the Indo-Pacific -- vindicates the Australian decision to cancel the submarine deal with France and to create AUKUS with the UK and the US.

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

Great suggestion by Prof John Edmunds on R4 that understanding & assessing data should be part of the school curriculum. He says the pandemic reveals that people aren’t taught to understand figures in context or read graphs properly. You see this problem all the time in politics

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7 years

Discussing Britain's global influence with ex White House official. He says - "Brexit really closed the lid on the coffin." Nice

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5 years

These people really are morons

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1 year

Macron says the reception he’s given in China shows that France is “not just a country like any other.” Xi expertly playing on Macron’s vanity - this will end as badly as his Russia reset

Stuart Lau

@StuartKLau

1 year

Macron invited von der Leyen to Beijing in hopes of showcasing EU unity. The optics painted a very different story, with the EU chief sidelined by officials and vilified on social media. W/ @cleacaulcutt @suzannelynch1 @JamilAnderlini on @POLITICOEurope

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2 years

I have been banned from visiting Russia - which is a shame since I’ve always learned from my trips there and enjoyed them. I hope I can return to the country when it has a civilised government that no longer attacks its neighbours and murders its opponents

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

The sticking point for the withdrawal deal in 2019 was N.Ireland. For the final trade deal in 2020 it was fish. In both cases we were told U.K. was bargaining so hard it would risk no deal. But both Ulster and the fishing industry have been screwed. Great work Team GB!

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

This is scandalous

CSPAN

@cspan

3 years

. @SecPompeo : "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration." Full video here:

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1 year

If the IMF is right that the U.K. economy will actually grow slower than Russia next year that really is a remarkable achievement. Congratulations to all involved

UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, predicts IMF

It is predicted to be the worst performing out of the G20 nations in 2023, including Russia.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gideon Rachman

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"Polycrisis" - now adopted by Davos - is rapidly becoming one of my least favourite cliches. Does it actually mean anything? Other than - "there's lots of bad stuff happening simultaneously and one thing can affect another"

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2 years

Putin was clearly planning on peace talks in Minsk. Friend in the talks business told me on Friday his organisation had just been asked by Russia to go to Minsk. Putin planned to announce it today but cancelled TV address because Zelensky won’t agree to talks hosted by Belarus

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Gideon Rachman

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5 years

As Bolton’s trade comments make clear, his keenness to offer the UK trade deals stem not from fondness for Britain, but from a desire to destroy the EU - a desire he shares with Putin, Salvini, Le Pen etc

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

The best news tonight is that the defence Secretary consulted Pence and Pelosi - not Trump. There can be no coup now

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1 year

My latest lays out three big reasons for keeping Taiwan out of Beijing’s clutches: support for democracy; preventing CCP domination of Asia; and Taiwan’s crucial role in the world economy. Pace Macron this is not irrelevant for Europe

Why Taiwan matters to the world

A dangerous rise in tensions with Beijing is a price worth paying to protect a flourishing Asian democracy

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

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11 months

Given that Erdogan had huge state resources at his disposal and a compliant media and had imprisoned some of his main political opponents - I don’t think 52% is such a triumph.

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Gideon Rachman

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8 years

Maybe if I stop checking Twitter all the time, crazy things will stop happening.

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Gideon Rachman

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3 years

This cat gets it

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Gideon Rachman

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2 years

My latest is on shift in mood on the war. Russia advancing. Ukrainians nervous about western support. West looking more divided and uncertain. But - big picture - things still going really badly for Putin. West needs to keep its nerve and concentration

The west must hold its nerve on Ukraine

If support for Kyiv is stepped up, time will not be on Russia’s side

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

4 months

Excellent by ⁦ @adam_tooze ⁩ on how wars in Ukraine, Middle East and potential conflict with China all expose failed bets by the west that increased commerce would decrease conflict. Sometimes economic growth generates the means to make war…

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

7 years

This production of Watergate is remarkably faithful to the original

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

7 years

Spicer refuses to say if the president is recording conversations that take place in the Oval Office. Stunning.

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Gideon Rachman

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8 years

Striking thing about May speech in retrospect is that it had nothing to say to 48% who voted Remain, except "get over it, you elitist snobs"

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

Theresa May had a point when she said that no PM could accept customs checks within the U.K. Johnson accepted it so as to lever May out of power and win an election. Now he’s trying to demagogue his way out of a trap created by his own dishonesty

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Starmer’s refusal to make Brexit an issue, ahead of an election reminds me of a football team defending a 2-0 lead with 10 minutes to go. He doesn’t want to give his opponents the tiniest opening or rile up their fans. Uninspiring tactics & bad for the country. But understandable

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Gideon Rachman

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1 year

Here is Ukraine’s deputy pm, in charge of EU integration ⁦ @StefanishynaO ⁩ with the homework she had to present to Brussels to get EU candidate status

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@gideonrachman

2 years

Sad to see the Spectator pushing the "Biden is senile" line developed by Trump. Talking to foreigners who have actually been in recent meetings with Biden, at G20 etc, they found him sharp and focused.

The Spectator

@spectator

2 years

'Biden is pushing 80, has had two brain aneurysms, and often seems to have no idea where he is or what he is doing.' ✍️ Freddy Gray

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Gideon Rachman

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6 years

Boris cites the surge in UK exports to South Korea as a sign that the big opportunities lie outside Europe. Could that surge be because the EU recently signed a free trade agreement with S.Korea?

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Gideon Rachman

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4 years

Let's have a national government of all the talents - bring in Labourites like Cooper, Reeves, Benn; bring back Tories like Gauke, Julien Smith; get Nicola Sturgeon to attend cabinet. Drop Williamson, Truss, Patel etc. Fate of Boris himself can wait a while

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3 years

Surely Trump has to be removed before the inauguration. We can’t have him in charge for the next 14 days

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@gideonrachman

7 years

Just imagine how Trump would be behaving now if he had won popular vote by 2m, but lost bcos of wafer-thin defeats in 3 states

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7 months

Extraordinary that Biden has spoken with families of hostages held in Gaza and that Netanyahu hasn’t. @AnshelPfeffer says Netanyahu is scared of the families. I wonder also if Israel has written off the chances of getting them back alive

Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר

@AnshelPfeffer

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One very important dynamic in Israel that could influence how the country goes to the war, is already worrying the government & will certainly have a huge impact once the war is over, is the protest movement now forming around the families of the (at least) 126 prisoners in Gaza>

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4 years

Just imagine how nuts we would all be going if Beijing was under curfew and there were military vehicles rolling through the streets

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7 months

This guy is apparently a “senior adviser” to the Indian government…Lucky them

Kanchan Gupta (Hindu Bengali Refugee)🇮🇳

@KanchanGupta

7 months

Well @FT does what it does best when it comes to India — pour racist scorn and invent everything that can be possibly wrong and some more. It has been doing so for decades. The White man’s pink paper is of no consequence to either India or Indians. It mimics itself every day.

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4 years

The Tory Party chose Theresa May as leader hoping that she was Margaret Thatcher. Then they chose Boris Johnson hoping he was Winston Churchill. Wrong - both times

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A school play is said to insult India’s pm; so the teachers are jailed and the kids interrogated. Amazing tale from ⁦ @AmyKazmin ⁩

Sedition accusations in India take a dramatic turn

A school skit on a new citizenship law has been the target of a police investigation

www.ft.com

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@gideonrachman

2 months

Remind me - which one is going senile? (I keep forgetting)

Acyn

@Acyn

2 months

Wow the crowd goes silent as a confused Trump says: And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he's starting to throw around the nuclear word

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Gideon Rachman

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5 years

To me, most shocking bit about Corbyn/Hobson is not what Corbs fails to say about H's anti-semitism, but his argument in the preface (as quoted by @Dannythefink ) that Nato represented US military occupation of Europe and that Soviet allies had greater independence. Our future PM!

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5 years

Netanyahu just referred to meeting Boris Yeltsin in Britain. How could he confuse our pm with a hapless leader who presided over the break-up of his country, a catastrophic fall in living-standards; then became an international laughing stock - before giving way to a dictator

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When Boris came in his advisers let it be known that he wouldn’t emulate May by touring European capitals. Instead, to change the symbolism, other EU leaders could come to see him in Britain. Now he’s off to Berlin for his first meeting with Merkel. Then Paris to see Macron.

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UK ambassadors in Beijing and Delhi both called in for reprimands in 24 hours: 1 for writing about press freedom; the other because U.K. parliament debated India. Balancing trade ambitions of “Global Britain” and values is getting harder

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

7 months

Depressing how they adopt some of the ugliest and nastiest aspects of the west with such enthusiasm

Ian Hall

@DrIanHall

7 months

This might play well in India (and perhaps also on this platform) but elsewhere this looks really ugly and straightforwardly antisemitic.

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Boris says he is "humbled" to make it through to the last round. I think he will discover the true meaning of that word, once he starts trying to negotiate with the EU

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3 years

Australian government having simultaneous showdowns with the Chinese Communist Party and Facebook. Brave.

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2 years

Interesting factoid: Joe Biden's birthdate (1942) is closer to the assassination of Lincoln than it is to today.

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2 years

Can't see Boris stepping down. He doesn't strike me as somebody who wants to spend more time with his family

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8 months

He’s really going to go down in history isn’t he? Alongside such figures as Father Coughlin and Lord Haw Haw

Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

8 months

Tucker Carlson’s a familiar face now on Russian TV. Tonight’s flagship news show plays more than a dozen extracts from Carlson’s recent Adam Corolla interview in which he says Biden will plunge US into a war with Russia. Expect a lot more TC on Russian TV in run-up to US election

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I have a feeling “this is a work event” is going to become a comedy catch-phrase in Britain - applied to all forms of drunken debauchery. It could be Boris Johnson’s most lasting legacy

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

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I think Canada has a lot of diplomats in. India to handle all the applications from Indians who want to move to Canada. More than 100,000 were given settled status in Canada last year

Brahma Chellaney

@Chellaney

7 months

Reuters: “India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct. 10.” Canada has more than twice as many diplomats in India as India has in Canada. After Trudeau’s evidence-free allegations, India wants parity in diplomatic staff strength.

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@gideonrachman

7 years

So the son-in-law purges the fat guy from Jersey who imprisoned his Dad, while everybody fights for the boss's ear. The Sopranos comes to DC

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

2 months

But I thought South Africa was now the moral conscience of the world. How confusing!

African National Congress

@MYANC

2 months

Today the ANC delegation, led by the Secretary-General, Comrade Fikile Mbalula and the SACP participated in day 2 of The Forum Of Supporters Of The Struggle Against Modern Day Practices Of Neocolonialism “For The Freedom Of Nations”, which is taking place in Moscow, Russia. The…

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

2 years

The Peng Shuai affair shows how China’s instinct to control information backfires when something unscripted happens. They cannot shut it down or deny responsibility or fall back on an independent process. It’s now turning into a scandal which may soon threaten the Winter Olympics

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

7 years

Uneasy feeling we're reliving the 1930s, is not helped by fact Spain now seems to be flirting with civil war

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

4 years

Oil and gas account for 70% of Russian exports and over 50% of government revenues. With oil prices at this level, Putin goes bust

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

3 months

A former president of Mongolia weighs in

Mongol Tsakhia ELBEGDORJ

@elbegdorj

3 months

After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation🌏

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

3 years

One of the more devastating verdicts I've read about Boris Johnson. Every word rings true, alas via @financialtimes

Boris Johnson has secured a questionable legacy

The UK prime minister will be remembered for ‘getting Brexit done’ and his mismanagement of Covid

www.ft.com

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

3 years

It's true. This would never happen in China!

Hu Xijin 胡锡进

@HuXijin_GT

3 years

Ahead of the election, some businesses in the US are boarding up their store windows fearing post-election unrest. This kind of unrest is usually complication of elections in poor countries, but people are worried it may appear in the US. The US is in degradation.

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

8 years

If we're going to make ourselves an international laughing stock, we might as well go all in.

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Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

5 years

Opening speakers for tomorrow’s UN General Assembly debate in order: Bolsonaro, Trump, Sisi, Erdogan. That’s the zeitgeist right there

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