Edward Luce

Would love to hear it! If it’s any consolation I keep getting confused with you.

@jemimajoanna New York Post for sure. Says he reads FT but i very much doubt it.

@EdwardGLuce Yes, that indeed seems to mainly be the case, though I guess he does do some skimming too, no? Is this something you could ask him about during your next Sunday catch-up?

Everyone saying how ridiculous this is but I disagree. She's not talking about books! "He is always reading the papers and watching the TV, he doesn't miss anything anyone says," she goes on to say. I've often been struck by the same thing

@jasdun Near Steyning

@EdwardGLuce High and Over, near Alfriston?

Early spring near Brighton

@EndoraRosenbla1 @marcthiessen ?

@EdwardGLuce @marcthiessen Maybe Thiessen doesn't mind if I call him names today and ask him to do me a favor next week?

So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.

@johnthompson17 So picturesque

@EdwardGLuce Time to revisit?

@TheophilusBurke WTF have your sophomoric questions got to do with my point? Hopefully that's first person active enough you.

"People say?" Grammarians would call this a "passive third-person construction." Historians will call this "yellow journalism." Britain is going to encounter an unscalable, vertical wall of too-long-deferred adjustment to reality. A century past its squandered empire, Britain has very few friends. Their number will soon shrink. Just a few modest questions, if I may: Can Britain defend its own interests around the world, to include...? ■ Its sources of food, energy, and medicine if they were threatened? ■ Its approaches by air and sea? ■ Its cyberspace? ■ The peace on its own streets? The Wall of Adjustment will be painful.

People say Trump’s presidency is dying in Iran but we’re less than a third of the way through. Chances of major power conflict before 2029?

@KristineLogie @marcthiessen Britain attacked the Falklands?

@RobertLusetich a pleasant thought

@EdwardGLuce Everything he touches dies, including his presidency, Ed. He won't finish his term.

@KellerZoe Democrats will tie his hands on wars? Very sceptical

@EdwardGLuce Trump still has 8 months of real power. Then, it's reasonable to imagine his hands will be tied by a Dem Congress.

@RubenThurairaj No. Wounded hyena presidency

@EdwardGLuce Lame duck presidency awaits you mean?

@davidsirota @davidjlynch Agree - and I’m a columnist

I get that this is an unpopular view but: We need more journalists & fewer pundits. We need more original reporting & fewer hot takes riffing off the news. We don't have this because reporting takes work and is difficult & pontificating on YouTube is lazy & easy.

@mattduss Quite.

Cool story bro, we’re all focused on helping the working class not have to die in the wars you and your friends keep lying us into.

@C_Baral88 my ageing iphone 11. need a new one

@EdwardGLuce Oh, beautiful photos! What phone have they been captured by?

@eric_weinberger I used to play cricket against Hurstpierpoint.

@EdwardGLuce That was exactly the other part of it. On my days off, I went to London and saw plays on the West End and NT for less than I have ever paid in my life for theatre. Over five summers I built up my whole canon of Hare, Pinter et al.

@eric_weinberger sounds idyllic and London only 45 mins by rail.

@EdwardGLuce A Swiss-American summer camp rented Hurstpierpoint College and hired lots of recent uni grads as staff (this was the 90s). We discovered Greta Scacchi and Jimmy Hill lived in town, where there was a great pub garden at the New Inn & we could just walk right on to the Downs

@eric_weinberger what took you there?

@EdwardGLuce I spent 5 summers there & would gladly go back forever.

@eric_weinberger Not far!

@EdwardGLuce near Hurstpierpoint?