Connor

Lived in Russia 2020-24. Now meandering elsewhere. Believer in choice, freedom and fairness. Politics, planes, prose.

[Connor @AnyonebutConnor]

After 4 years, tonight is my final night in Moscow.

I am incredibly grateful to all my Russian friends and to those I’ve worked with. Moscow will always have a place in my heart.

Russia is a huge, complex country and I am grateful to have lived here at such a tumultuous time.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Not a fan of Reeves, but quite nice to see a politician shouting something back rather than immediately defaulting to cry-bullying and claiming they were abused.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

This is pathetic. The man’s spend his life shovelling people’s shit. Let him crack a joke about it, FFS.

[Connor @AnyonebutConnor]

“mr speaker, i am a gooner” 💀

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Teachers striking days before the GCSE and A Level exams.😱

Kids protesting opposite them, demanding to be taught! Poor kids.

This is the state of our country.

God help us. 😳

[Connor @AnyonebutConnor]

@RishiSunak miss you please come back

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Excellent.

[Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @ChountisFabbri]

This is remarkable, old-fashioned parliamentary oratory at its best, regardless of one’s agreement or disagreement. Observe the rhetorical tropes, the voice, the movement, and the vocabulary. A vanishing art in the Commons.

[Centre for Policy Studies @CPSThinkTank]

'No one writes thank you on their tax forms' - @PierrePoilievre on why the free market is the only system where everyone benefits ⬇️

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

This is really causing a cultural schism between the US and UK. To them, the Bad Word is just such an unforgivable sin. To us, a bunch of rich and famous people being a dick to a disabled man is actually far worse.

[Orwells Burner @OrwellsBurner]

Iranians are celebrating in the street while the dumbest most anti American liberal you know is pissed off lmao

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Perhaps those who says 'Hands off Iran' and mourn the Supreme Leader might actually listen to how Iranians are reacting, rather than just wallowing in their ideological purity.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Wonderful scenes - and yet the reaction of many on the left is outrage, pearl clutching and cries of “it’s illegal”

[Salman Anwar @_SalmanAnwar]

Silver lining to the BAFTA incident is the UK public - people of all races - have been mostly pretty sympathetic and understanding to John Davidson and Tourette’s

Meanwhile Americans have generally been quite abusive, I’ve found the culture divide pretty heartening for us Brits

[affe @alfosn]

Deeply fascinated by this distinctively British genre of photography

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Sounds familiar

[Connor @AnyonebutConnor]

Lots of bitching about Reform’s shadow cabinet.

While the only official shadow cabinet is of course the Tories’, I think Reform are being shrewd.

It’s likely they will be in government in the next 2 years. The Civil Service needs to know who will be running big ministries.

[Connor @AnyonebutConnor]

the gorgeous bar on the 79th floor of shenzhen’s mandarin oriental

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Catherine O’Hara. My goodness. Hard to explain the impact she had on comedy. For me, no one better. She was generational. Since SCTV she has been brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant. Funniest ever. Man. We lost a great. A true great. Sending love to Bo Welch and her family. So sad we lost her incredible presence among us. Will always look up to her. Man.