Annette Dittert

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

Russia says ready to ship 9.5 million oil barrels to India amid supply crisis India has witnessed a vulnerability in terms of its crude reserves, following the breakout of the Middle East crisis. At present, it has crude stocks covering 25 days of demand along with low inventor...

Remember when Trump promised that India would stop buying Russian oil? Well it turns out that Trump's decision to bomb Iran has had the exact opposite effect, leading to a surge of Russian oil being sent to India. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...

“Hanging on to President Trump’s latest words is not the special relationship” …a useful message there from Starmer for the BBC’s hyperbolic political reporting as well as for Badenoch.

Die Grünen in UK zeigen vor allem auch, dass die extreme Rechte nicht die populärste Partei bei jungen Wähler_innen sein muss.

Sie sind das Antidot zu Reform.

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Wholly unprepared for the consequences. As the whole operation was from the start.

The King’s visit in America could be yet more damaging for the Royal Family. His own son’s war contribution insulted, our PM insulted. It might be wiser to cancel it.

It’s getting ridiculous.

This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination Killing anyone without a trial, let alone a foreign leader, involves a moral choice.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing shatters “a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, and logistical concerns,” Tim Naftali argues:

🚨 Rachel Reeves rightly points out the damage Brexit has done to our economy:

"Brexit cut us off from our closest trading partners."

Yep.

To some extent, the Trump/MAGA camp seems to treat the UK and other European allies like internal politics - where Trump is commenting on Starmer not like an equal national leader, but like a state governor from an opposing party.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I fear for Iran and my family She dreamt of a free Iran during her six-year incarceration. Then when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe heard America had attacked she was worried for her relatives. She reveals why sitting for a portrait wa...

Thinking of those with Iranian links in the UK, worrying about family and friends.

"There is every chance the regime will get tougher on Iranians to cover its vulnerability. I worry that ordinary people in Iran and beyond will be in harm’s way.”
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SCRIPTED REALITY
Eine Krypto-Influencerin und ein Schönheitschirurg liegen in Dubai am Pool und filmen mit dem Handy, wie Raketen ins Nachbarhotel einschlagen. Es ist Krieg in Nahost, weil sich ein demenzkranker Ex-Reality-TV-Star in den Kopf gesetzt hat, ein Mullah-Regime zu enthaupten.

Ran out of characters. But also consider them as less relevant now.

And it’s not that nobody told them…

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Completely understandable. And it looks like they’re not the only ones.

For now this is just one poll. But if this trend continues the current FPTP voting system makes no sense anymore.

If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.

Excellent episode as so often with this podcast. @snellarthur.bsky.social

It’s a death cult

This will of course affect all of us. But unlike 2022, since then we personally transitioned to a heat pump and an EV, and I can't help but wonder that the direct economic effects on Europe would be smaller if we had been more forceful in the transition away from fossil fuels.

They’ll never learn. And it wasn’t just McSweeney then.

Mir ist durchaus bewusst, dass ich nicht rund um die Uhr die Nachrichten verfolgen muss, aber ich tue es halt trotzdem, weil mein Gehirn mich hasst.

Sánchez und Merz sind in Sachen Iran zu sehr unterschiedlichen Positionen gekommen. Sánchez sagt, der Angriff sei völkerrechtswidrig, deshalb abzulehnen. Merz behauptet, völkerrechtskonform könne man leider nichts machen (was Schwachsinn ist, siehe JCPoA) - und begrüßt den Krieg.

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

Thread. Whatever you think about Danish immigration policy the claims made about its impact on politics are just wrong.

A Danish lesson for Labour on how to stop migrants and start winning Like the home secretary, I visited recently to learn how the centre-left is riding high and reclaiming the asylum debate from the populist right

Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.

Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...