Fairly sizeable drop for CDU/CSU. Whilst I’ve definitely seen excitement at a Green rebound. I think this is more to do with the attention Laschet has had in recent days regarding plagiarism allegations. Polls will probs move back to hi-20s for Union & ~20 for Greens fairly soon.

The irony is that rather than being the second coming of European Fascism, Viktor Orban has a lot more in common with the populist authoritarianism and grifting of federal funds that defined quintessentially American demagogues like Boss Tweed, Huey Long or George Wallace

The Western Left spent 20 years calling for an exit from Afghanistan, now that we are seeing the immediate impacts of that, suddenly the voices that were the loudest in calling for an exit for "peace" & to "end the forever wars" are nowhere to be found as the Taliban rampage on.

Of course the SPD rebounds far beyond all expectations just after I completed my dissertation on the SPD’s electoral collapse on a Federal level.

This proper looks like one of those random British newspaper articles where a local complains about rubbish left outside their house

Richard Nixon, just before the first televised debate with JFK:

Exclusive: Hezbollah has appointed Masatsugu Nagato, former CEO of Japan Post Holdings, as new Secretary General. Nagato is expected to continue the rocket campaigns against Israel and broaden investment from East Asian markets.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Chines there for enormous refugee crisis if war broke out. Russia to stop any overspill into their territory. S Korea trying to keep calm.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Would be pretty horrendous. Hilly terrain stops any thunder run by AFVs & large no. of artillery in hardened positions.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Maybe a flight of typhoons and a frigate?

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond A place that really shouldn't concern us, unless they don't complete the RFA's Tide class order.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Not that I'm aware of, think its just the FPDA that we have in the East.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond We have occasional low key exercises, but I can't find much else.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Guess that means you won't have any roads, decent schools, NHS and a continuously worsening armed forces. Tell me how that is once I move.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Corbyn might be an idiot, but Labour are the only ones that actually fund anything decently. It will get really bad if we keep with Tories.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond If you need an ambulance, it will take too long, once you're at hospital, there'll be blood on the floor & you'll be on a bed in a corridor.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Actually that's just from actual experience now. They'll all look like the hospital in Threads in a decade.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond It's an issue that's being ignored and within a decade may bring the country onto it's knees. Like the strikes of the 1970s, but non stop.

@Hagar62lufc Nicholas Drummond Instead of the Abrams, which is $6-7 million, we should get the Merkava IV, $4.5 million a unit. Could be more effective in most scenarios.

@ssanjayfcb Lauren Southern Yes, it isn't just white soldiers protecting Parisians, but as you can see, black soldiers and people of numerous other backgrounds.