Seems like a good moment to ensure our foreign policy effort is properly funded and staffed rather than cutting FCDO yet again. If you don’t spend in diplomacy, you end up spending on bullets and with lives

Very confused as to why US needs to take over Greenland to defend its interests. Don’t remember it taking over West Germany to do that during the Cold War. I think that’s the point of the Alliance called NATO.

🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Question for the history buffs. Is Trump 2 more like the dissolution of the monasteries or the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1967?

How about we all write Elon a letter suggesting good things he could do with his money and how we much we would appreciate that. Like providing a clean water supply for everyone on Africa? Or funding teachers to make as many people as possible literate?