Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

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Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns Stockholm’s military intelligence head says Moscow is manipulating data to make its economy look better

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

Another way this is kind of like Covid is that we are in the stage where official bodies are clearly saying something different in private vs public. A fun example is ECB projections. Their severe scenario for 2026 has inflation from 1.9-> 4.4, $140 oil persistently, and this only takes 0.5% off gdp

“Stunning”… it’s a running robot?

Disraeli famously didn't use a lectern, preferring to use an autocue whenever he needed to do a televised statement outside No.10.

Anyone else get that uk gov emergency text message?

No one reads it anymore

There certainly is a sizeable cohort of voters who "passionately dislike this country and the society they live in" but I'm pretty sure they aren't young female Green voters

🇺🇸🇮🇷👀

Is the best defence of Starmer that a whole committee of MPs was told by Robbins that the security vetting was "conducted to the usual standard", and none of them thought to ask: just to check, he did pass, right?

What a total creep

The best thing about Brexit is it sold the EU to the rest of Europe.

This has reduced me almost to tears

Firework sellers 😭 why are they in it

Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.

I often think of this section of @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's classic description of Hungary as a 'Frankenstate' when it comes to the issues that might face a non Fidesz government.

RUTTE: Russia is losing a massive number of people every month — 30,000 to 35,000 dead or seriously wounded. Can you imagine? The Soviets in the 1980s lost fewer than 20,000 troops over ten years in Afghanistan, and now Russia is losing that many in just three weeks.

When Zarah Sultana eventually joins the Greens and deposes Zack Polanski as leader, you just know that his subsequent one-man play about it will be insufferable

A reporter asked Trump about Iran charging fees literally yesterday -- and his response was that we were going to get a cut of the action!

Oh mate just leave already

Headline: "My autism means I cannot cope with lying politicians – that’s why I back Farage"

Oh mate...

Actually crying this is perfect

a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him

I DECLARE CEASEFIRE!

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Ok it’s like actually warm today

Life and Fate is such an incredible book because what do you mean this chapter was written in Soviet Russia in the 50s when it could be written about AI today 🫨

Iran ceasefire deal a partial win for Trump - but at a high cost The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

Odd that this piece can’t tell you what the partial win is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day

BREAKING: The Doomsday Clock has been set to WINE O’CLOCK