This is the time for the EU to stand up. Russia is weak - very weak. Billionaire - presumptive dictator of Georgia - Ivanishvili is relying fully on Putin. The EU should put down its foot. It can so do in many ways. Declare full support for Georgia's democratic opposition!

President Salome Zourabichvili gave Europe a staggering tale of what is happening in Georgia. It should make the blood of every European run cold. And it is not only about Georgia. It is also about Europe. Georgians need new, free and fair elections. There is no other way around.

This is the AFD - of which Elon Musk says “only the AFD can save Germany” 👇 When are people going to wake up to direction in which Musk is pushing things? The Rest Is Politics

Please join me and Rory Stewart tomorrow 11am 🇬🇧 3pm 🇬🇪 for a The Rest Is Politics LIVESTREAM interview with Salome Zourabichvili the president of Georgia. Both she and her country are in the middle of a fight between two very different futures … to go with Europe, or with Russia.

Salome Zourabichvili The Rest Is Politics Salome Zourabichvili is the only legitimate President of Georgia! Not backing her is a betrayal of our people!

The protesting Georgian student from Batumi State University of Arts sings so enchantingly that she should become world-famous, and it is highly likely that she will. 1/3 Video by Batumelebi.ge

Free world leaders need friends, autocrats need enemies. I formulated that regarding Putin's evolution into a dictator who needed to pick domestic and foreign fights to distract and rally support. Trump immediately antagonizing allies fits the pattern well.

The idea that the UK should go cap in hand to Trump hoping he will play “fair” seems a little optimistic. Trump wants individual countries to plead for special treatment. Instead they should form a united front and respond together.

Trump is treating • US contracts + treaties as opportunities for extortion • US allies as clients to be fleeced • US security guarantees as protection rackets. He is not forming alliances for a more stable + prosperous world. His is introducing the code of the mafia.

We must stand with the people of Georgia and their fight for democracy. The UK must act now. This weekend’s violence in Georgia proves why transatlantic cooperation matters. Joe Wilson and I have urged the Foreign Secretary to sanction Ivanishvili - Putin's oligarch puppet.

Trump sees Foreign Policy only as deals between strongmen. He could not care less about the wishes of the people who live in Greenland, Gaza or Ukraine. He will have no international law, no self-determination, no development, no international order. And soon no allies.

When the PM visits the White House next week, he must challenge Trump on his Ukraine lies in the strongest possible terms. It's alarming to see the leader of the free world parroting Putin's propaganda. Trump spoke in Mar-a-Lago but his words could have been written in Moscow.

An emotional moment from Germany's Left Party leading candidate Heidi Reichinnek. The Left Party is projected to take over 8% according to early results, an exceptional comeback for a party that had polled below the 5% threshold for months.

If we think of LD and Grn as a progressive left bloc (somewhat of a simplification but both draw from progressives unhappy with Labour), then right now the electorate is split into four almost equally sized slices: radical right, traditional right, traditional left, prog left

Thread: how Die Linke almost died in its efforts to escape a demographic trap — and was vindicated in the end. 1/

NEW: Just 6% of Gen Z say they actually want a dictator – not over half, as has been recently claimed. Our study finds only a very small minority of 13-27-yr-olds really feel this way, when their views and interpretations are tested with different questioning approaches 🧵⬇️

Holy cow! Elon Musk’s Grok AI literally thinks Trump is a Russia asset. “I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.” — Grok x.com/i/grok/share/W…

#Serbia: largest protest in history, est. 5% the pop, despite the authorities having closed down all rail traffic for 2 days & coerced bus companies to cancel all regular&chartered services. Student organisers kept peace & order, despite the regime trying to instigate violence.