The emerging/developing world builds relationships while #Trump antagonises allies.

🗳️🌍 New op-ed by Nick Hopkinson @nickhopkinson.bsky.social, former director of @wiltonpark.bsky.social: The urgent need to revive democracy and the power of diplomacy 📖Read the article: fpc.org.uk/op-ed-the-ur...

Anyone who has ever been to a @wiltonpark.bsky.social event knows that it’s a place of quiet diplomacy and soft power. Nick has pulled together a wonderful history of an institution that deserves to have its praises sung more often!

members.nlc.org.uk/membership-f... Great place to be!

www.routledge.com/The-Policies... One of the joys of completing a multi-year project is reconnecting with long term friends such as @christinecheng.bsky.social I hope this survey of higher level discussions on security and global challenges since 1946 published by Routledge proves useful.

www.libdemvoice.org/we-must-be-b... The debate on #immmigration needs to be grounded in reality, not fantasy.

labourlist.org/2025/05/eu-b... where we need to go in UK-EU relations in a nutshell.

Spot on

news.sky.com/story/leaked... This leak rather proves the point that #Brexit has made the UK’s immigration challenge worse, not better.

Zelenskyy: “I’ll be waiting for Putin in Turkey on Thursday—personally. I hope the Russians won’t come up with excuses this time. We expect a full, lasting ceasefire from tomorrow to set the stage for diplomacy. There’s no point dragging out the killing,” the President added.

It’s appalling that @Keir_Starmer is being controlled by Maurice Glasman and McSweeney to disrespect the 7 million voters who weren’t old enough to vote in 2016. It was a marginal result, full of lies and Russian interference and yet we are being forced to live with the rotting corpse of Brexit.

🚨🚨 It has been clear for a while now but #Canada, propelled by the leadership of @mark-carney.bsky.social is becoming a central global player and key alley of Europe both in terms of security, politics and trade in the wake of US abandoning its leadership. www.politico.eu/article/mark...

If you need motivation to vote, this should do it! We will never be the 51st state! Vote #TeamCarney everywhere. We need to stand up to our southern bully! #CanadaStrong 💪❤️🇨🇦 #elxn2025

Bravo these 60 Labour MPs! The letter suggests further Brexit trade barriers could be removed through a Canada-style deal involving a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) on conformity assessment, allowing standards of goods to be tested in the UK before export. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic... Rather than continuing to pay more tax, isn’t it about time we forged closer (cost free) arrangements with the EU customs union and Single Market?

James O’Brien Daily: an hour of all the best bits from my LBC show, every day. Today - why does Trump never do anything to upset Putin? And what does does your Englishness mean to you? tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇

#Trump panicks as investors sell US debt.

www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... The trade deal the #Starmer government should be focusing on is the far larger one with the EU

The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless. He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory. The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel. TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE 🤡

www.routledge.com/The-Policies... Delighted that after three and a half years of researching, writing and editing, my book on post-war international politics and economics is forthcoming from a leading publisher Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Marginal point today, but UK also needs to tread carefully on relations with EU: responses to US tariffs will be seen as a marker of extent of commitment to 'reset', separate from UA support www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The government may be wisely hedging bets and waiting and seeing to allow developments dictate next steps (in the public debate). Today’s #Trump tariffs should prove pivotal (although the need for substantially closer economic ties with the EU are privately recognised as obvious by now).

youtu.be/TcDNXMy4VpA Today it is worth recalling President Regan’s leadership and vision #Trump #tariffs

www.bestforbritain.org/new_eu_deal_... Another excellent poll commissioned by @bestforbritain.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/germ... EU reset gathers pace

macleans.ca/society/cana... If #Trump is thinking of annexing Canada, he should reflect upon Russia’s fiasco in #Ukraine.

www.politico.eu/article/puti... #Trump has to prove he is an honest broker and not playing dishonest poker in #Ukraine

www.politico.eu/article/germ... worth watching whether #Merz can get debt brake relaxation through.

« History will record that in less than 6 weeks a random American president will have made 550 million Europeans stronger than ever. L'histoire retiendra qu'en moins de 6 semaines, un président américain choisi au hasard aura rendu 550 millions d'Européens plus forts que jamais 👀👊🏻 » by G_Yakovleff

archive.ph/2025.03.06-1... #Musk dropped out of the same Canadian university I graduated from. Afterwards I went to a leading US postgrad university. I was regularly asked which part of the states I was from. I answered Quebec. The range of reactions from apologies to bemusement was entertaining!

www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra... #Trump betrayal of #Ukraine will needlessly cost lives.

We imposed economic sanctions on ourself with #Brexit. #Trump tariffs impose sanctions on the US with #Amexit. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

In most countries, this would be called #corruption.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social James this isn’t appeasement, it’s surrender.

Heather Cox Richardson outlines how the #Trump Administration is supporting Russia.

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... #Trump is not an honest broker - he is playing dishonest poker.