James Hanning

Out now - and I'm thrilled with the reviews...

@MarioNawfal Macron’s reply is both élégant and à la hauteur. Hats off. History will struggle to believe the lunacy we are living through.

🚨🇫🇷🇺🇸 Trump said Macron's wife beats him up. Macron's response: "Trump talks too much... his remarks are neither elegant nor up to the standard." Macron told Trump that he has bad manners. In French this is a declaration of war. x.com/LCI/status/203…

Ir is the “uneducated” element that scares me as much as the bigot, Trump simply knows nothing. He is being cheered by too many UK editors who hate our PM more than him…. but these editors have let the country down so many times… they backed Brexit…they created it… and this is the truth. It is a long time since we have editors educated in economics.

Personal View: BBC journalism is disgracefully maligned by my old newspaper world, by Trump and commercially-focussed idealogues, yet here at home I just watched @BowenBBC on Iran, followed by @FrankRGardner, followed by the wonderful @VitalyBBC from Kyiv…. I was in US last week… let me tell you NO news organisation is as good as this, no journalists as clear and free, the new DG needs to fill the newsroom with confidence and….defiance…. it is time to wave the BBC flag.

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Former UK Ambassador drops a massive truth bomb: Iran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal to the letter. Trump sabotaged it purely on Israeli advice, and the claims that Iran was cheating are absolute lies debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

BREAKING: Massive Jeffrey Epstein BOMBSHELL drops as the pedophile's personal accountant reveals that Epstein's estate paid off one of Donald Trump's accusers. This isn't a smoking gun, it's a smoking cannon.... Richard Kahn, who served as Epstein's accountant, testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier today. He worked with the billionaire predator for over a decade, offering him unique insight into his shady operations and business practices. While more details will be released at a later date, Congressman Suhas Subramanyam took to X to share his notes from the deposition. He revealed that Kahn mentioned five "rich and powerful" parties who bankrolled Epstein's operations: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds, and Leon Black. Kahn also mentioned former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as having close financial ties to the pedophile. "A Trump accuser has received $ from the survivor fund managed by Kahn," wrote Subramanyam. "Guys like Kahn enable billionaires like Epstein to get away with crimes the other 99.9% of Americans couldn't," he added. If Trump is innocent like he insists, why would his best friend Epstein being paying out money to his accuser? The answer is obvious. Trump is a serial sexual predator and pedophile. The congressmen went into more detail when speaking with reporters— “Another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. We did confirm that,” he said. When asked for more details, he demurred and said that it would be best to wait for the release of the transcript. “We wanted to confirm that certain accusers had received settlements, and he confirmed that," he explained. We already know that Trump's name is all over the Epstein files and he has been accused of heinous sexual abuse and rape. In one particular case, he was accused by a woman of sexually abusing her when she was only 13-years-old. Her allegation was so credible that the FBI interviewed her four times. Pam Bondi's Justice Department tried to bury the interviews, but they were eventually uncovered. Enough is enough. An exhaustive investigation must be launched immediately and this accountant must be forced to reveal everything that he knows. Please ❤️ and share to demand that Kahn be forced to reveal

If anyone objects to this country’s native wildlife they are welcome to leave

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

Potential to replay the 1970 and 1971 finals in the semis

Poor Sir Keir, his experience of Manhattan limited, is learning how impossible New Yorkers can be if they have taken the hump. Best thing is to leave them to their own devices for a few weeks. They'll be perfectly friendly next time they need a favour.

@LizWebsterSBF @GeorgeMonbiot Of course Monbiot is on the money on this. What is shocking is not (just) what he describes but that this is so little known and understood - including in the White House, one suspects.

Huge moment from @GeorgeMonbiot on #BBCQT. Britain and the US overthrew Iran’s elected leader Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 after he nationalised oil. The Shah followed. Then the 1979 revolution. Decades later the consequences are still unfolding. That’s imperial blowback. Britain defended corporate oil interests abroad and yet at home we let our own resources flow into the global market instead of protecting national wealth. History has consequences. #IranWar

this comp 😂😂. the league needs saving we’re in absolute shambles

There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo XIV: “War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. “Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself, or in the pursuit of the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men and women.” “Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. “This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence.”

@simon_schama @MatthewdAncona I would really, really like to understand why you said that. What am I missing?

One thing that could really be helpful in getting a grip on the situation is not to hear a word from Jeremy Bowen

On the genealogy of Peter Mandelson’s morality The prince of darkness has fallen. But where did his appetite for risk come from? By @GJamesHanning #Echobox=1772113374" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

I know it’s 12:20. But please take your time and listen to this Vincent Kompany statement about the racism incident around Vini Jr. against Benfica. Succinct, differentiated and absolutely on point. Brilliant words.

I hope if Neto is aware of the online abuse he gets (which I'm sure he is) he is also aware that if there was a vote today for this season's POTY he would probably be in the Top 3. True fans know. Mount went through a similar campaign but still won the vote from real fans.

I've just realised you can swap the names Keir Starmer and Thomas Frank in every news and sport report and they all still make total sense #coys

@ARLinklater Just caught up. Wonderful obit. Hugely informative and a delight to read. One of those “why do the rest of us bother trying to write?” pieces.

Times obituaries are meant to be anonymous, but this is so good I need to boast that it was written by my father, Magnus Linklater, who has penned hundreds of such mini-biographies over the years, but few as important to Scottish culture as this one. thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/…

@whitewall618431 Higuain

How many terrible centre forwards have Chelsea had in the last 35 years I don't think I've got enough space to write them all down.