Robert Tait

Robert Tait

@rstait.bsky.social

Guardian journalist in Washington DC. Used to be Tehran, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Prague and a few other places. Tired but not yet clapped out.

2,421 Followers 70 Following 46 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 weeks ago

@alirezanader.bsky.social Can you follow me back please? I would like to direct message you.

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1 month ago

@goftaniha.bsky.social Can you follow me back please. I would like to send you a personal message.

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2 months ago

I don’t recognise the background despite my local knowledge. Where is this?

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2 months ago

The full term was “brazenly audacious.” Which might equally describe your demand for an apology given that I don’t know who you are. You may consider that to be a final answer to your question.

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3 months ago
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They Killed My Source A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... This is an incredible piece about the thrill and deadly dangers of espionage and betrayal.

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3 months ago

Whole thing an embarrassment.

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4 months ago

But it’s not one-way. I’m struck by the many Britishisms now commonplace here that were never heard when I first visited these shores.

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6 months ago

Lordy.

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9 months ago

And track two. It’s not a “track” in the sense that it would be recognised on hearing.

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9 months ago

There’s no tack called “tubular bells”? It’s the album itself that has that title and is his best known work.

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9 months ago

Break On Through is far from being the best known Doors track. On the contrary, at risk of being overlooked in any compilation of their highlights. And Tubular Bells wasn’t a “first track” but the title of an entire concept album, so really shouldn’t be considered as part of such a list.

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10 months ago

I doubt that but I do my best.

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10 months ago

Don’t think it was very well circulated. I went to the forum and told them I was surprised that it hadn’t been sent to me beforehand. I had to ask them to email it to me.

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11 months ago

Is this a metaphor for events in certain other parts of the world?

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11 months ago

Way better than his Live Aid performance.

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1 year ago

Yep. Americans totally spooked. It’s the mood of the times here.

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1 year ago

Correct. But the whole thing was surely a set up in advance.

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1 year ago

The perfectly timed social media post.

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1 year ago
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Four essentials for the press right now If we have any hope of preventing a full slide into permanent autocracy, these must happen

"Big Journalism’s leaders need to think hard — and fast — about whether they are just presenting facts or actually getting the nightmarish reality across." @sulliview.bsky.social

MUST READ. ⬇️

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

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1 year ago

It’s the “and Germany” bit that has my eyes popping. Stuck in a cultural stereotype time warp surely.

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1 year ago
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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-... Tim Snyder on the need Stand Up Now.

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1 year ago

“This is likely a lie” is not a line you ever see in news journalism - a discipline with which you clearly have scant familiarity. Now kindly acquire a life - or go for a walk in the traffic. Journalists didn’t cause Trump.

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1 year ago

Absolutely. I’ve written such things many times. Obviously, Mr/Ms Anonymous.

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1 year ago

Let me help you. The word you’re grasping for is “sorry.” Save your rage for where it’s needed. Or maybe put some of your professional successes on display to let us see your qualifications to judge.

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1 year ago

I merely report. Neither stupid nor naive. And less inclined than you to be insulting towards total strangers.

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1 year ago

Don’t be triumphalist. Some of us are in distant lands.

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1 year ago

Frustrating? It’s terrifying. Like a scene from Hitchcock.

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1 year ago

I wasn’t reporting on his speech but on his earlier farewell letter, in which he made no comments on oligarchy, etc. Those comments were reserved for the speech, which was covered in a later report by another journalist.

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1 year ago
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Iran hostages reflect on a crisis that defined Jimmy Carter’s presidency: ‘A fine man that did his best’ When revolutionary students seized the US embassy in Tehran, they initiated a 444-day ordeal that had a huge impact on Carter in both political and human terms

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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1 year ago

Your basis of knowledge and expertise is zero and opinion worthless and devoid of validity. Delete your account and leave the platform. And perhaps spend some time searching for a better purpose in life - though that’s up to you. Your funeral.

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