What we are now seeing in Ukraine is a result of delayed US military aid, lack of political will to mobilize enough manpower, and insufficient engineering (fortifications) in what was once rear areas. It's not just one and it's not just the other or the other. It's all three.

You've inspired me Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson - found that Joe Biden has a copy of Hitler's American Gamble too! Wonder if anyone has any pictures of the President's stacks?! Basic Books

The numbers are astonishing. That’s 4.2 million people directly affected, and so many more whose wider families have been impacted. If only for political reasons alone, you’d think that Conservatives would make resolving this scandal one of their highest priorities.

By agne 🤍💙🎗️ of Trinity College Dublin's Jewish Soc to TCD Students' Union 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈
'It is fair not to want to be associated with a movement that has been praised by Hamas, the PFLP & the Ayatollah Khamenei, all of whom have expressed approval of the anti-Israel protests sweeping US college campuses'

Jews have a right to feel safe on college campuses.

You are not a “peace protestor” nor are you “anti-war” if you’re waving a Hezbollah flag or chanting “we are Hamas” or “globalize the intifada.”

This is at Columbia.

They first chant that Abbas, President of the PA, is a spy & they will step on his head (bc of his comments acknowledging Israel’s right to exist) & then chant Palestine should only be Arab.

Don’t let anyone gaslight you about the nature of these protests.

China's enablement of Russia's defence industry is stark: economist.com/graphic-detail…

In which I portray one of the most remarkable - and transgressive - figures of 17th-century England: Henry Stubbe. For @engelsbergideas.

Not so much humiliation as a symptom of just how foolish and clumsy Chinese diplomacy can be. They make adversaries when they don't need to, alienate others when it suits them, but assume they will always, somehow, get their way. Like Russia, they rely on fear over friendship.

100%

The importance of understanding capability
AND
intention

BUT
Also how intention is so difficult to ascertain and can be misperceived. In the case of the Iraq War there was no HUMINT on Saddam intentions because of police state and tight elite circle

There were not many steps missing - Sweden 🇸🇪 is now a fully integrated #NATO ally - after 8 weeks of membership. #WeAreNATO #föpol #turpo

Thank you Claire Fox for raising this. I expressed similar fears last week at an event to launch Theo Zenou’s excellent report on Anti-Semitism at the Lords. We need to keep a close eye on these baleful trends on US campuses as unfortunately we’re downstream from them in the UK.

“Six months after the attack on Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis & others aren’t merely cheering those protesting in the streets. They are working with & grooming activists in the U.S. & the West, through meetings, online interviews & podcasts.”

“What is most discouraging

Very fortunate to have joannalewis here for our monthly Emerging Research Seninar to serve as discussant for our The Ax:son Johnson Institute (AJI) fellow Harriet Aldrich’s presentation on exiles, global opposition and Ghana between 1957 to 1993.

Absolutely. Brendan Simms and I argued similarly The New Statesman in November.

New York Times tomorrow: 'Hopeless British Surrender to Equine Revolt: (London) Starving Londoners watched with gormless expressions as two horses staged a coup. One was bleeding due to Brexit-related wounds. The other had been driven mad by threats to the Good Friday Agreement'

I know these kids don’t know much history so I’ll help them out.

I’m a citizen of Poland. My mother was born in postwar Poland. Her father was the only survivor in his extended family.

Poland is our killing field and graveyard and we won’t be moving back. Thanks for the tip.

I try to be understanding of at least some of the anti-Israel protestors, but I keep coming back to the same point. In the immediate aftermath of 10/7, Students for Justice in Palestine campus groups celebrated 10/7 (as at my university), as did other radicals.
This was a time

A youthful run-in with Attlee, & a wonderful piece drawing on long memories and independent judgements sceptically reassessing his role newstatesman.com/culture/2016/0…

Underlines what we’ve lost with David Marquand

With thanks to Richard Johnson for promoting me to look it up

One of our The Ax:son Johnson Institute (AJI) fellows, William D. James, shares his thoughts on liberal interventionism through the prism of Tony Blair.