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🧵EXCLUSIVE: The US invasion of Venezuela wasn't just about oil or narcotics. Silicon Valley figures connected to Trump VP JD Vance have for years plotted to exploit this scenario - to turn Venezuela into the first corporate-controlled "Network State" /1 bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/i…
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We've just published another KGB training manual in English, this one from 1968 about the Soviets' use and abuse of compatriots abroad -- a subject quite relevant today. Introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian special services, and a former counterintelligence analyst in the U.S. government. macspaunday.substack.com/p/m…
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RIP our wonderful brother Mani. The greatest bass player and friend we could ever have wished for. X
Hey @grok - can you tell me what jacket @McSolaarBack is wearing on the cover of Geopoetique? Where can I find it?
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The utter irony of Putin and Trump meeting soon in Budapest to jointly seal Ukraine’s fate should not be lost on anybody. This is the very same city where the US, the UK, and Russia came together 31 years ago to give Ukraine ironclad assurances that its territorial integrity would be respected and protected within existing borders in exchange for giving up a third of the world’s nuclear weapons (to Russia!). Ukraine trusted the US, trusted the UK, transferred all its nuclear weapons to Russia, and joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Within 20 years, Putin effectively ripped up the Budapest Memorandum, ignored Russia’s pledge, and invaded and annexed Crimea. In 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine finally removed all remaining doubts about Putin’s imperial greed.
If treaties and agreements between countries are to be trusted, the US and the UK must stand by the original Budapest Memorandum and give the Ukrainians everything they need to push Russia out of Ukraine, as President Trump said he would do before taking Putin’s latest call. It is the only way for Ukraine to get its territory back and put an end to this brutal invasion.
If the US and Russia continue to ignore the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, how on Earth can Ukraine be expected to have any faith in yet another Budapest memorandum signed in the same city between Russia and the United States? They can’t.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy — and how Reform UK’s former Welsh Leader Nathan Gill fits in. 🧵 1/12
Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/17/w…
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Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and in the two months beyond theguardian.com/uk-news/2018…
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As Nathan Gill’s sentencing date approaches for bribery by Russian agents when serving as an elected MEP, it’s worth noting that he wasn’t the then BREXIT party’s only link to Russia. So, the question is how much further did it go? 🧵1/17
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I feel like I am almost certainly going to regret weighing in here (of which more later) but:
I think the language we use vs what we actually mean really really matters here
Do 👏Not👏 Make 👏 Deals 👏With 👏Murderous 👏 Dictators.
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Things to remember and to watch for in Washington today. 1. It is assessed by many Military leaders in Nato , UK & US that for Putin to take by force the 4 Oblasts will take a further 2 million Russian Casualties & 4.4 years. Without Trump , Putin doesn’t hold all the cards 1/9
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Given the number of non-medically qualified persons who claim to be “Reg Level”, I thought it’d be useful to clarify what is expected for the most junior of Reg levels, ST3, and what the job actually entails
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I think we should respect the democracy of London. They don't want growth, so the UK government should stop funding it there. British Library, ARIA, Alan Turing Institute all need moving to somewhere like Manchester with spare capacity. Back growth, stop subsidising decline.
I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow Airport.
My full response to the expansion proposals for a third runway:

ALT I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow Airport because of the severe impact it will have in terms of noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets. Despite progress to make the aviation sector more sustainable, I remain unconvinced that you can have a new runway delivering hundreds of thousands of additional flights every year without a hugely detrimental impact on our environment. I will carefully scrutinise the new Heathrow expansion proposals - including the impact these would have on people living in the area and the huge knock-on effects for our transport infrastructure, which would require a comprehensive and costed plan to manage - and I will keep all options on the table in how we respond.
Really good thread about how the NHS has half moved to Consultant-delivered care without really understanding (or changing) the team and resources around that Consultant. Call me old fashioned but what actually was wrong with “The Firm”?






















