"But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours." Simon Sebag Montefiore The first of my Moscow Trilogy of novels, Sashenka

When it comes to inciting violence Elon Musk is as great a danger as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Why can’t the government treat Musk as a hostile force and Tommy Robinson and all others who take Musk’s money as threats to national security? Piece from me via link below

As David Edgerton notes, Thatcher inherited an economy & infrastructure made successful by post-war mass state investment and nationalisation which she and her cabal proceeded to destroy with privatisation, the destruction of industry and the embedment of the spiv casino economy.

Our Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is absolutely right. We can’t demand open access to global markets while hiding behind tariff walls at home. Competitiveness comes from exposure and courage, not protection. Time for Indian industry to drop the crutches and start running. 🇮🇳💪

"You want to open foreign markets but don't want the Indian market opened up. It won't work" Piyush Goyal isn't wrong.  If protectionist tariffs were corrected prices of cars, gadgets, food, and fashion would fall 15–40%. Tax payers subsidize inefficient businesses.

Indians were building Europe while their own home was put on fire by same Europeans..sigh!

Farage again blames “the endless eastward expansion of NATO” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Even when he’s playacting at being tough on Putin, he can’t resist repeating Kremlin talking points.

Christopher Clary Reality is stranger than fiction. President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office in 1983.

Devesh Kapur & Arvind Subramanian spoke to me about their forthcoming book on independent India's political economy. Link in the next tweet

Farage is still repeating Putin's key argument that the eastward expansion of NATO and the EU caused the war. Either you believe the countries of eastern Europe are sovereign and free to choose their own destiny or you don't. Farage thinks Putin should have a veto on their future

Australia's most sensible economist Leith van Onselen on housing (un-) affordability: macrobusiness.com.au/2025/10/austra…

The fascists want to ban being bilingual now! 😂😂😂 They just hate intelligence.

China loves its economic model because it has been successful beyond their wildest imaginations. Economist interns can't understand this because they are stuck in the undergrad toy models of "overcapacity" and "underconsumption".

🚨 BIG STATEMENT 🚨 Brazilian President Lula da Silva: “Brazil seeks a STRATEGIC ALLIANCE with India.” 🇧🇷🤝🇮🇳

It’s telling that even Tony Blair admits what Conservatives have long understood: that punitive tax rates don’t raise revenue - they repel it. While Blair recognises the dangers of overtaxing success, Rachel Reeves ploughs on with the highest tax burden in 70 years - with more

As a once proud American, I am embarrassed the any US citizen would post such a video, let alone the president of our country.

She accepts retrospective changes seem "unfair" so would have "great personal sympathy" In principle, she believes the UK state should not treat past promises made to foreigners as binding. (It has a "sacred duty" to reserve considerations of fairness to British people "alone")

There's a very strong argument that the failures of Democrats and liberals to halt the authoritarian takeover comes down to them spending 25 years building an ideology & media infrastructure designed to avoid accepting or even acknowledging the truth of this one FDR quote.

Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) That's what the Spanish think about the Costa del Greasy Spoon Cafes. Bilingual children have huge neural advantages over monolinguals, as well as access to other cultural thinking. It's such a shame that a child of immigrants feels she has to say that to appease white people.

Marcus Walker Celia Listening to Nigel Farage with anything other than complete contempt is entirely explicable. It means there is something wrong with you.