Edward Luce

A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Weds column

Why Trump is going for Soros The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

read this - on revenge by Trump and backlash against @opensocietybr.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4pVuUtK Why Trump is going for Soros
by @edwardluce.bsky.social in today’s @financialtimes.com

Pretty sure it’s Trump not Starmer

I defer to you on that.

that he's got a poor record on his own I don't doubt. But he was a partner at Soros Fund management for many years

? Bessent's career is well known and on the public record.

Didn’t miss just thought it so obvious no need to repeat.

Hegseth’s a disgrace to any trained soldier: “Comfortable inside our lethality”, “killing is what we do”. WTF play acting is this?

Why Trump is going for Soros The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

"Soros is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon. The very name of his foundation — Open Society — offers a strong hint. Those who prefer closed societies dislike Soros." My column. www.ft.com/content/aa00...

Whenever I have to take the cartoonish primate pose at TSA security, I think of Pete Hegseth.

Thankyou

I hope you're right. hope springs eternal

Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.

Needed some light relief

All that royal flattery and five days later Trump tells the world that Britain's going to hell and London's governed by sharia law. To repeat: the scorpion always stings.

Thankyou Scott.

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

it's a good word

tomorrow I think

Thankyou.

America’s accelerating exit from itself [FREE TO READ] After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

for those requesting a gift link, this is limited to 300 on.ft.com/46gBWBq

Some hard truths about just how fast things are going to Hell here in America from @edwardluce.bsky.social...and some more about how much worse it could get in the months ahead. Well worth your time.

America’s accelerating exit from itself After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

Ed Luce offers a meditation on some remarks by Gov Spencer Cox (R-UT). Is social media a cancer on our society?

Trump and the limits to British flattery Keir Starmer might be tempted to hymn ‘shared values’ but such talk rings increasingly hollow

“Love of British royalty should not be confused with respect for the country’s political system.”
Starmer will talk of shared values. “But that would be a polite fiction. In reality, Trump shares values with Farage, leader of Reform and the man who wants Starmer’s job.”
www.ft.com/content/37b4...

😂

Thanks David!