One reason why this argument is nonsense is that in Feb 2022 there was zero prospect of Ukraine joining NATO or the EU, as Putin and everyone else knew.

...pretty sure this isn't far off the plan coming from a lot of UK VCs

One point to make before all the Tory post mortems start. They are going to lose on competence. They have lost support from blue walls, red walls, old, young, urban, rural, coastal. Everyone. Economic and social failure hits everyone.

Yeah, okay, Labour could have done better on vote share, but consider the massive progress of the Lib Dems and the Greens. Whether you like them or not, they're also Left of centre parties. You can't write this up as a victory of Right Populism. #GeneralElection2024

First graduation ceremony as a lecturer Aston Politics and International Relations at the end of my first full semester. Congratulations to our graduating students, you were great, and thank you to my colleagues for such welcoming first semester. Academics might complain a lot, but it is a great job!

…which plenty of people will be absolutely fine with, right up until it’s *their* child that can’t actually go to a good uni, *their* country that doesn’t actually produce leading scientific research, *their* town that loses all the jobs/investment/spending the uni brought.

Lies spread on here by accounts that in many cases are clearly fake and/or foreign-based have now triggered a race riot in Southport. This is psychological warfare aimed at dividing and destabilising our society. For our own sake, something must be done about this poisonous site.

People are rightly observing how much this platform now seems to amplify really awful, extreme, content since Musk purchased Twitter. However, it’s worth noting that Facebook and TikTok have also become hotbeds for sharing brain rotting, far right, conspiratorial content.

I mean god knows lots of us are still here, I'm still here, but it's getting a bit harder to justify isn't it

Anyone who puts Goodwin on their TV or radio show is now a supporter of explicit racism. There is no excuse anymore, it's not even slightly hidden.

Colm Murphy It's another mark of the vertiginous decline of twitter, that every post like this is now spray-painted with a blizzard of promoted tweets by Musk's blue-tick army, spraying out yet more hatred & disinformation. The case for staying on here is getting harder and harder to sustain

Fascinating that the author doesn't suggest Russia should give up its seat, with 10% of the population of India, much smaller economy than UK, and far less contribution to global diplomacy. Autocracies can grift, but we don't have to give them the oxygen of FT opeds

Let me be as clear as I can about “Stop The War Coalition” without being misunderstood, STWC are a pro-Russian fifth column in the United Kingdom that have fascist appeasement as their primary motivation in any and all global conflicts.

I’ve decided to follow the crowd and join 🦋sky. Will (probably slowly) try to move away from Twitter. The volume of far right content and the moderation choices of the owner make this platform intolerable at the moment.

Diane Abbot, with quite a strong record of denying genocide, now attacking her party leader with false claims that the UK are planning to attack Russia. She doesn’t belong in the Labour Party, restoring the whip was a mistake.