Ishaan Varma

Formerly known as Wagner 200. Wagner, Strauss, etc Desperately in love with Greece and Italy

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

🚨 James O’Brien ABSOLUTELY RINSES a Brexit voter live on LBC

Brexit voter Richard: “You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?”

James: “I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.”

One year on: GDP hit by 6-8%, trade down 15%, businesses struggling, no sunlit uplands in sight, just excuses.

This level of brutal accountability is what we need back.
Full rinse here 👇👇👇👇

[Ishaan Varma @200Wagner200]

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[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

NEW: Queen Elizabeth II thought Boris Johnson "better suited to the stage" than politics and two days before her death, after he resigned, she told a senior courtier in jest: "At least that idiot won't be organising my funeral." 1/ https://t.co/VoXvjib8BN

[Brendan May @bmay]

Never has this been truer. Labour needs to step up, wake up, show up, and get us back on the path to EU membership, in whatever form can be agreed. Blair was right then and is right now. Come on, sort yourselves out. Your economic growth doesn’t exist.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Denying this is a bit like denying gravity.

Not many nations are this dim.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says the UK will remain a member of the ECHR for as long as he is Prime Minister

"We won't withdraw - not now, not ever"

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

The English are swimming in shit, literally. My last film from Whitstable about Britain's scandalous water privatisation now with English subtitles. Met some fabulous ppl there who have enough and some who boycott their bills. @SOSWhitstable https://t.co/JZ5nrKb8F7 via @YouTube

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The UK's joke climate minister @grahamstuart has left the #Cop28 talks, on the most important issue of all, to support the stupidest, cruellest and most pointless bill to be forced through Parliament in recent times.
Tells you all you need to know about this fatuous government.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

The mainstream media systematically ignores the racism of the Conservative government when it comes to British Muslims:

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Finally , someone in public life , a #Tory no less , has the guts to say it out loud 👊🏽#racism The colour of our skin , sexuality or religion doesn’t magically enlighten us & mean we aren’t bigoted or self hating & capable of doing terrible things against others & our own 😞

[Pieter Friedrich @FriedrichPieter]

I’ve downloaded both episodes of @BBCWorld’s #TheModiQuestion to my laptop. Honestly, though? I hadn’t watched it yet. I’ve spent 8 years working against #Modi. Now, just 20 minutes into the first episode, I’m shaking with anger and can barely tolerate it. This man is evil.

[Christopher Steele @Chris_D_Steele]

In 35 years of observing HMG’s Russia policy, I’ve never seen anything as shocking as HMT’s reported granting of a special licence allowing sanctioned Russian war criminal Prigozhin to sue investigator Eliot Higgins for libel in London. Parliament must investigate this urgently.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The Russia Report is about to explode on Rishi Sunak’s Government

Probably the most shocking report you will watch this week

[TheChelseaFishmonger @rexgoldsmith]

Top drawer turbot!

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

If the goal is to liberate Ukrainians then the lives of innocent civilians must not be sacrificed. Who rescues hostages by attacking them and causing blackouts, depriving people of electricity, heat, and water? The truth is that Putin never wanted freedom for Ukraine 11/12

[Fitzcarraldo Editions @FitzcarraldoEds]

This is everything we published in 2022.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“I’m a 16-year-old orphan from an East African country escaping a warzone and religious persecution... What is the safe and legal route for me?"

Conservative MP Tim Loughton asks Home Secretary Suella Braverman to explain how a refugee could reach the UK to claim asylum.

[Ishaan Varma @200Wagner200]

@paulmasonnews Sunak’s in laws support the RSS (alt right) in India. I think this is important and we should be having a serious discussion about it in the UK. Now that we know how awful the riots were in Leicester back in September https://t.co/jBDKq5F40R

[David Sanderson @dmcstimes]

ACE funding cuts are devastating for London: Gate, Hampstead and Donmar Warehouse theatres cut entirely. Its orchestras are all losing cash, Royal Opera loses £3m annually, National Theatre £1m, South Bank nearly £2m, Camden Arts Centre, ICA ... a dark day for arts in the capital