@LordRickettsP @BBCr4today You did so very coherently. Thank you
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Edward Bickham
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Edward Bickham
@BickhamEdward
Anti-Brexit; interested natural resources governance; development; business ethics. Trustee: Edward Heath Foundation. Cyanide Management Institute. Views my own
Katılım Şubat 2016
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The dizzying overnight developments on Iran make it a bracing morning to be on @BBCr4today. Will do my best to decrypt the situation at 0730.
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and c. 60 million people laughed. What an absolutely un-self aware woman. Clearly deranged
alexmassie@alexmassie
Jesus wept.
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Edward Bickham retweetledi
Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170 million building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night.
Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.
#ReformUK #NigelFarage #GBNews
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Yeah, @Nigel_Farage wouldn’t want this video to be shared over and over of him lavishing poodle-like praise on Donald Trump.
He’s trying to disassociate from him, so every time it’s shared it ruins that.
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A welcome buttressing of democracy, trannsparency and British 'soft power'
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Government increases BBC World Service funding by £33m over three years bbc.in/4sV8fON
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The regulator seems to have been asleep at the wheel on this. Time to wake up!
Peter Oborne@OborneTweets
A massively consequential investigation by Alan Rusbridger into GB News: how "one political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station". Raises deep questions about hi-jacking of British media/political culture: thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…
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If the latter does it display any sense of a sense of obligation, if you have political ambitions, to avoid overly-aggressive means of avoiding tax
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges
I never understand these stories. Is what he’s done against the law, or is it legal. If it’s the former prosecute. If it’s the latter what’s the issue.
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Why is there such muted media attention to this scandal?
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell
Richard Tice: - engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax - did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters thetimes.com/article/6f5522…
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German Chancellor Merz: Six out of seven G7 countries were clearly of the opinion that sanctions against Russia should not be lifted.
We were somewhat surprised to hear this morning that the American government had decided differently.
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This is hugely important - thank you @FraserNelson
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
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Edward Bickham retweetledi
Delighted to host Simon Gass, former U.K. ambassador to Iran and then head of UK Intelligence committee, on the podcast. He calmly analyses what Iran will do-next; and why this will be a turning point in relations between the US and the Gulf ft.com/content/acd879…
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In which case we must make it blatantly clear that for Europe stopping Russia from being able to claim a 'win' from its aggression is existential for us - and that we will do whatever it takes
marydejevsky@marydejevsky
what #EU etc fail to understand is that #Ukraine means far, far more to #Russia than it means to the rest of Europe. Russia will do 'whatever it takes' to end what it sees as a @Nato-aligned #Ukraine. That's it.
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A true landmark day - a modern masterpiece
Science girl@sciencegirl
After 144 years of construction, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona has reached its full height with the placement of the final piece atop its central tower. 📹davidcantor
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Edward Bickham retweetledi
Russia thought moving their prized $1.2 billion hypersonic missile convoy deep inside their territory was safe... big mistake!
Ukraine patiently tracked every mile using thermal signatures, jammed radars with electronic warfare, and unleashed massive drone swarms to overwhelm S-400, Pantsir, and TOR defenses. Decoy waves exhausted interceptors first—then the real FPV killers struck the climate-controlled trucks! A single precision hit ignited solid rocket fuel, setting off a domino explosion that wiped out 120 Kalibr missiles in seconds. The blast lit up the Volga highway like fireworks, registered as a 2.3 magnitude quake, and crippled Russia's hypersonic arsenal for years! This masterclass in asymmetric warfare just proved billion-dollar weapons can fall to smart, low-cost drones. Game-changing moment—Ukraine strikes back harder! What do you think: total humiliation for Putin?
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