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I'm a professor of politics with a special interest in intelligence-led security policies and practices http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-anthony-glees/

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The analysis in The Sunday Times by Katy Balls, is terrific

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Crikey.
Will it lead to regime change? Hard to see how.

28.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Putin 'biting his nails' as US on brink of all out war with 'key ally' | World | News | Express.co.uk EXCLUSIVE: If Iran's ayatollahs go, Putin will lose a 'vital military partner', a security expert says.

My take on the days every via The Daily Express

www.express.co.uk/news/world/2... and www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

28.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His trip from Paris to Teheran on 1 Feb 1979 was the perhaps the most fateful Air France flight ever taken - & the most significant political journey since Lenin arrived at the Finland Station in 1917.

28.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The West wasted Ukraine’s years of sacrifice Instead of preparing for war like Russia’s neighbours, we have fallen behind as Putin rearms

The West wasted Ukraine’s years of sacrifice

A compelling piece, a depressing piece. But had Ukraine & Georgia joined NATO by 2010, Navalny might now be president & Putin in gaol for corruption.

www.thetimes.com/article/69b8...

26.02.2026 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hvor brutal er Vladimir Putins tilgang i Rusland for at sikre sin magt? Britiske historiker Antony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social er sikker i sin sag: Kreml-lederen har flere ligheder med den sovjetiske diktator Josef Stalin. Ligesom er Putin parat til at dræbe for at intimidere sine modstandere.

24.02.2026 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Matt Goodwin has stated that British-born people from ethnic minority backgrounds β€˜may not necessarily be British’.That’s self-evidently racist. His final video shows he’s after the white vote, full stop.

26.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The USA is vile right now, in the grip of a deeply vicious & sinister regime. On no account should Sir Keir require King Charles to grease up to Trump & MAGA Americans with a State Visit.

26.02.2026 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nary a word in this long @Telegraph piece, rightly excoriating the Greens, about REF Matt Goodwin’s insistence that β€˜UK born people from ethnic minority backgrounds are not necessarily British’. As his last video makes plain he’s going all out for white votes

26.02.2026 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We shall see…Badenoch’s Tories on just 6% is not good optics. Clearly many Tory supporters are now REF

25.02.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every which way Mandelson’s arrest is a national security nightmare for the UK. I continue to think Starmer is actually a decent bloke & probably more so than Badenoch or Farage. But really.,.

23.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Unpredictable' Trump's 'impossible' Iran dream is threatening a bloodbath: expert Donald Trump's long-term plan for Iran may not be as achievable as the president wants it to be, according to a political analyst. Professor Anthony Glees believes the Trump administration is looking ...

An attack on Iran as a re-run of the attack on Iraq. It can’t end well for anyone. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

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We see how Farage has consistently claimed he's not a racist (probably correctly these days) and we should thank him for ensuring the far right vote REF and not NF etc but his obvious support for Goodwin's racist ideas implies he wants it both ways. Like Enoch Powell, any votes will do.

23.02.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I truly couldn't agree with you more. Whatever they taught Matt Goodwin at @salforduni.bsky.social the history of the Third Reich does not appear to have been offer. Some 50m killed by the Nazis to support crazy ideas of racism. Nauseating.

23.02.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ex-prΓ­ncipe britΓ’nico ligado a pedΓ³filo cai nas garras da JustiΓ§a Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, irmΓ£o caΓ§ula do rei Charles III, Γ© detido sob a acusaΓ§Γ£o de vazar dados sensΓ­veis do Reino Unido para traficante sexual. Especialistas britΓ’nicos veem desastre para a famΓ­l...

www.correiobraziliense.com.br/mundo/2026/0... For any Portugese speakers or followers in Brazil I might have: my take on the Andrew crisis

23.02.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve often thought: someone should write a PhD on these folk. Oddly many academics supported β€˜the Full Brexit’ yet REF claim all academic are Remainers who witch hunt them.

22.02.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He could win. Tomorrow’s poll will allow voters inclined to vote tactically to know whom to back to keep him out.

22.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A member of the human race, the only race.

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Indeed

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? Jew?

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I very much hope you’re right. Goodwin has been asked to explain his views by many of us. He doesn’t reply.

22.02.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To those who study or reflect on politics the β€˜horseshoe’ is a source of great puzzlement. One imagines that individual psychological neediness to make an impact on the world trumps any genuine desire to serve others. God protect us from politicos.

22.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is totally inexplicable is that REF lectures us on the importance of the family whilst its own leaders demonstrate their total disregard for it & cuddly Muslim Zia Yusuf says he’s going to make the UK Christian again. Are voters really that gullible? Yes.

22.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Axel Springer buys them as is mooted today, they're possibly in for a shock. Actually I rather like the paper (not its Brexit nonsense of course, nor the Brexit columnists it employs) but it's a good read, and it's open about its drift, unlike weasely Times.

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@Telegraph views ex-prof Goodwin through a very soft lens. He & they (conveniently) forget he began his activist journey as a founder of β€˜The Full Brexit’, a para-Trotskyite group promising a Brexit-enabled permanent revolution in the UK.

22.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 7
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Camilla Long has been all over the place during the post year & was recently demoted to restaurant critic. But this piece (for which @thetimes has turned β€˜off’ reader comments) is as sharp as s scalpel

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