This is the first detail paragraph of this first summary statement listed in the very first report of the Steel Dossier. Read it and share it to show how on point Christopher Steele was. Especially the very end about disunity.

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Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this. Here's an excerpt: In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,”

A letter from today’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…

My monologue on Trump’s Greenland climbdown from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil: So it’s peace in our time after all. Trump marched his ego to the top of the hill then marched it down again.  After numerous demands that he be allowed to annex Greenland coupled with

Reflection from Pope Leo XIV "Today, the meaning of words is ever more fluid, and the concepts they represent are increasingly ambiguous. Language is no longer the preferred means by which human beings come to know and encounter one another. Moreover, in the contortions of

Mark Tully was a giant among journalists and the greatest Indophile of his generation. He was also a uniquely warm, generous, gentle, kind and helpful man, at whose feet I was honoured to sit for many years as he patiently explained the subtleties & nuances of India. As the

Congratulations on Burns Night!! 👏👏👏 In 🇯🇵, everyone sings Auld Lang Syne in Japanese at graduation ceremony!

Exactly. Rather than push Ukraine to give up unconquered Donbas, the US should push Russia to give up its demand for territory it has failed to conquer in 4 years of war. The US is sitting on leverage, including seizing shadow fleet tankers.

This might be controversial but from what I’ve seen of Pearson internationally, I much prefer her in WA and would start her over Metcalf & Shaw any day #RSAvENG

helen i love ya but we needed you in GA and pearson in WA then tchine in GS #RSAvENG

Three cheers for Mr Bacon !!

Maia Sandu - President of Moldova to Zelensky🇺🇦: "President Zelensky, I thank you on behalf of the people of Moldova for the huge sacrifice that your soldiers make on the battlefield... Without your resistance, our country would be the next to be occupied by Russia." Wow🫡

From “defecating squirrels”, White Parrots and 4-hour Putin press conferences to racing round the globe, being questioned by Russian police and repeatedly harassed by state TV crews, Our Man In Moscow charts 12 months in the life of the BBC’s Moscow team and Russia Editor Steve

Obiks Thanks so much for following my posts. Good to have you here.

I love that the Guardian reported Peter Mandelson's career as being over for the "final time" 25 years ago.

In late November, I decided to hold off writing further about Epstein until this file dump was released, as it would provide the best possible picture for enduring reporting. I (and everybody else) are still waiting to obtain 80GB of data which is proving annoyingly difficult to

Foreign Minister Sikorski: For us, Russian aggression against Ukraine is fundamental, existential. We feel threatened by Russia. Russia has waged war, occupied us, wiped us off the map for over a century. So when they threaten us, we believe them. And they've now spent longer

Foreign Minister Sikorski: We as Europe have already contributed much more to the efforts of sustaining Ukraine, and now we are financing the war entirely. The US financing ended in January last year. We've spent roughly 200 billion euros, and we've extended 90 billion to

We need one more signature to vote on a discharge petition to force a vote for more weapons to Ukraine and tough sanctions on Russia. I’ve signed and have been working to get the 218th signature needed.