James Mates
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Europe Editor, ITV News
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Ian Birrell
3 days ago
Very sorry to hear about the death of Andy Kershaw, a brilliant broadcaster and fearless journalist with great taste in music. He was always bold, challenging, friendly, generous with advice or help - and a participant in the initial meeting that led to Africa Express. RIP Andy
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Says a man who has repeatedly and recently inserted himself in European politics.
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Everything this administration does encourages countries to get a nuke. Ukraine gives them up in return for US guarantees (Budapest memorandum). 30 years later and the US is boasting about abandoning them. N Korea untouched (fully nuked up) while Iran gets bombed without mercy. What's the lesson?
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Dr. Jack Brown
21 days ago
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray on the street corners, that they may be seen by others." Matthew 6:5
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Mark Copelovitch
21 days ago
Great question. The problem, of course, is that every other journalist in the room didn't keep asking it until they got an answer.
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Gregory Norminton
26 days ago
8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%.
grid.iamkate.com
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Alexander Clarkson
about 1 month ago
Currently the Israelis are systematically killing off anyone the Trump administration could reach out to for a deal that ends this quickly
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Anne Applebaum
about 1 month ago
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
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Nuclear experts undercut White House claims about Iran reactor at heart of case for war
The Trump administration sent negotiators without nuclear expertise to lead talks on Iran’s enrichment program. Now, its public case for war centers on a facility that experts say cannot do what offic...
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-iran-nuclear-reactor-war-evidence
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John Rentoul
about 1 month ago
Great intro to Daniel Finkelstein's column
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Stephen Collins
about 2 months ago
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
about 2 months ago
How does he sleep at night?
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail
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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
. Who’s going to tell them they’re going the wrong way?
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Team GB face uphill task for Olympic medal in four-man bobsleigh
Team GB face an uphill task to win an Olympic medal in the four-man bobsleigh event as they sit seventh at the halfway point in Cortina.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c4g265jn0w7o
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
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James Austin
2 months ago
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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Alex Andreou
2 months ago
This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
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Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoHuoFQyrI
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dag
3 months ago
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
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Matt McDermott
3 months ago
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Milliped
3 months ago
"You'd all be speaking German". In Switzerland.
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Peter Sagal
3 months ago
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
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I’d be prepared to bet quite a lot of money that this man has never been to Greenland
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Kate Bevan
3 months ago
this is a really lovely piece, beautifully presented, about the amazing Voyager probes that left Earth nearly 50 years ago and are still sending data back as they get close to leaving the sun's sphere
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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How Voyagers mapped the solar system — and ventured beyond
As the mission approaches one light day from Earth, we explore a journey like no other, past the planets to interstellar space
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/how-voyager-map-solar-system-space-ntp2wmzvl
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Melissa Chan
4 months ago
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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Kate Klonick
4 months ago
Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.
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Eric Idle
4 months ago
Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.
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Henry Mance
5 months ago
can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
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The Tennessee Holler
5 months ago
Welp!
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Prof Christina Pagel
5 months ago
In response to some of the comments: If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan. This is true regardless of your politics. Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test
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General Boles
5 months ago
BBC really burying the lede there
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Isn’t this the woman who once told Emily Maitliss to “F*** off”? Quite the conversion.
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6 months ago
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Holger Hestermeyer
6 months ago
Not that anyone seems to care, but just a quick reminder that Hungary is still a member state of the ICC and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin still under indictment by the Court and Hungary still under an obligation to arrest him.
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Brian Klaas
7 months ago
So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.
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Uta Staiger
7 months ago
As beautifully written as it is devastating.
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Steve 🏳️🌈🇬🇧
8 months ago
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
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8 months ago
In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content
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amy brown
8 months ago
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Sanho Tree
9 months ago
Try Ozempstein to make you forget.😂
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Not always easy to be optimistic about global developments, but this lifts some of the gloom, both for the climate and for global politics.
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Alan Rusbridger
10 months ago
I imagine all these jobs will go with AI
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Leonardo Carella
10 months ago
You can't understand the behaviour of US elites - Democrats being too timid, Republicans debasing themselves, bureaucrats who behave like pushovers - without reference to the constant threat of political violence that has come with MAGA. Every day is January 6.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Rae Radford
10 months ago
#BookSky
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Jenny Chase
11 months ago
A thing I wish people realized about print media is that outright calling something a scam, a grift, or a bribe in an article carries a really high bar of proof. One's lawyers are unlikely to agree to it unless there is an actual court ruling supporting it.
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Paul Fairie
12 months ago
Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
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Kit Yates
12 months ago
As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making.
#Fibonacci
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12 months ago
“One should call this phenomenon by name: This is incitement to genocide.” ~Gideon Levy Haaretz ☕️
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This is relevant again today on the light of Hungary’s constitutional moves against LGBT and pride.
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How Hungary's ban on LGBT+ marches is part of the Trump effect | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TQP3tkXous
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ITV News (Official)
about 1 year ago
‘No order in the disorder’: Is Europe gearing up to respond to Trump’s tariffs? ITV News Europe Editor James Mates explains
www.itv.com/news/2025-04...
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Marine Le Pen banned from public office for 5 years, effectively immediately.
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Marine Le Pen banned immediately from public office, to take effect even before an appeal is heard. Will almost certainly rule her out of the 2027 Presidential race. Big news
about 1 year ago
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