A good day to read up on the great Roger Carstens and his team. “The bottom line for my office and this president and secretary of state is that if you have a blue passport and you are wrongfully detained or held hostage, your country’s coming to get you.” vanityfair.com/news/story/ame…

“The whole world has changed overnight . I… thought there was a reasonably high probability he would die in custody" Hermitage Capital's @billbrowder on the release of his friend Vladimir Kara-Murza as part of the historic #prisonerswap with #Russia "The

This entire video is incredible. "Thanks for bringing us home."

Starmer can and should take the fight to Farage, Reform and others giving dog whistle succour to the rioting thugs. The ordinary Reform voter does not back rioting, looting and thuggery. Time to confront Faragism with its rhetoric.

The far right have been preparing to seize on a moment like this for some time and too often we’ve looked the other way. See our The News Agents report from last February on their growth.

Not main point, but do those on populist right not realise they are doing more than *anyone* to stigmatise ‘ordinary people’ who have concerns about migration by conflating them with riots & thugs? When vast majority will be appalled & not dream of legitimising what’s happening

And I hope media bookers including at the BBC, LBC, Talk TV etc recall who these people were and desist from constantly putting them on Question Time, Politics Live etc. They have had quite enough airtime.

Must read 🧵 on Robinson’s links to Russia

These mindless riots are doing untold damage to the UK’s reputation right across the world. And yet the secret sympathisers still say ‘Of course I disapprove of what’s happening, but…’ And then they make the racists’ case for them.

Brilliant Kim Ghattas thread on “choreography of death that needs to be stopped” & the agony of personal decision making in the Middle East

It’s frustrating that many of those who have inflamed tensions online will never be held accountable for their rhetoric. They will continue writing their columns, presenting their shows and spouting nonsense whilst the rest of society suffers.

Well judged leader from ⁦The Economist⁩ economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Excellent by ⁦John Harris⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“I was absolutely certain I would die in Putin’s prison.” Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian dissident released last week in the prisoner swap, was reunited with his family this weekend in Germany and sat down with Sarah Rainsford to reflect on his experience bbc.com/news/articles/…

There is a third way, which is to condemn the riots, and say the they have nothing to do with the Southport murders and are not the result of immigration, integration or asylum policy.

That Harris/Walz rally was 🔥

Great speech by Walz. Funny, effective, nicely pitched. The next 91 days are going to be interesting…

Spot-on from Peter Foster (although don't hold your breath, obvs). ft.com/content/b1ed74…

This is great

A long read but a brilliant piece of journalism from ⁦Heidi Blake Well worth a read. ⁩ newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…