This is an exact quote I received from a Republican party insider who knows the GOP inside and out.

'The damn just broke which is great. We are in a 1938 era - we’ve just swapped Russia/china for Germany/Japan. We have to win this fight.'

This is staggering extension765.com/blogs/soderblo… 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in black-and-white with no dialogue and a different score, put together by Steven Soderbergh

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Hull Libraries and online to hear from Imran Mahmood. A great evening. We're back 15th May to discuss espionage thrillers with Charles Cumming 📚

Public pressure works. Public pressure works. Public pressure works. Public pressure .......

It’s starting to strain the capacity of the human mind to interpret the mess in the politics of the 🇺🇸 with the profoundly disruptive role played by the small but militantly pro-🇷🇺 section of the Republican Party, reinforced by the support of Donald Trump. nationalinterest.org/feature/ukrain…

Brilliant letter from Nick Boles in The Times on the rank hypocrisy of tax-avoiding Tory grandees going after Angela Rayner (via Guy Walters 🇺🇦 )

Thank you Alan Bardos Greatly appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the book.

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Alan Bardos reviews Kennedy 35
By Charles Cumming

'Tense and carefully plotted.'
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Read Kennedy 35
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Some in pro-Trump world argue that by betraying Ukraine, US will conserve resources for other contingencies, eg against China. This is an idea as sound as defaulting on the utility bills to reassure the mortgage company. Credit is credit. Lost anywhere, it's lost everywhere.

The IDF killed 7 aid workers in a 4 car convoy in pursuit of 1 possible armed man. This is the same army that boasts it uses precision strikes to target terrorists/protect civilians like no other force. After six months and 32K deaths, mostly civilians where is the precision?

Russian state television promises that Ukraine will be turned into a place without electricity, light, power, a permanent war zone. That's the plan for 'peace.'

The destruction of Ukraine's energy infrastructure was previously impossible because Ukraine had enough ammunition for its air defense system. Now, thanks to @speakerjohnson and Trump, cities will go dark while the US Congress is on vacation.

Thinking first of the people on the bridge. But the mind wanders to a port city strangling. All the people who rely on ships in and out. The auto-ship imports, Domino Sugar, coal exports, dockwork, whatever container traffic we didn't lose to Norfolk. Industries. Jobs. Families.

under NY state law Donald J. Trump would be allowed to keep one vehicle worth no more than 4000 USD and a BIBLE. Everything else could be seized, including obv the plane and the towers to cover the 450 m USD fines. Thank God he gets to keep his Bible.

Quick note to conspiracy theorists going on about Moscow being full of cops and cameras. Crocus is, crucially, not in Moscow. Its just outside the ring road with easy access to every motorway. Checkpoints are inside the ring road not outside. That's why the attackers chose Crocus

That's devil incarnate. On the same day, Putin put up a candle in memory of the terrorist attack victims and ordered another missile strike on Ukrainian cities, killing innocent civilians. The face of evil.

Going forward, what matters is that Putin will exploit the attack to further radicalize Russian society to embrace his perpetual war against Ukraine and against the free world. That is the only algorithm now, and it will continue until he is defeated and gone.

Graphic video from the Moscow theatre killers has been posted on the Islamic State Amaq platform. They murder people on camera & use religious language. Evidently uploaded before their capture. The perpetrators connection to IS & their ideology are clearly established.

Just 3 days ago, Putin called warnings of terror attacks 'Western blackmail'.

In any normal country, such a statement followed by an actual attack resulting in hundreds of victims would have led to an immediate resignation and criminal investigation for failing to carry out the…

putin’s recent national security incompetence is staggering.

in just two years…

massively overestimating his forces ability to invade ukraine / sweep into kyiv.

allowing former wagner chief prighozin to lead a mutiny up to moscow.

dismissing us intelligence on imminent…