Jon Manning

University of Bristol; International Relations specialist; special focus Asia; committed China-watcher Please follow/follow-back

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

@campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK
Would love to see you both discuss on @RestIsPolitics the decision by a Labour government to ban political figures from attending political events in the UK https://t.co/NZWcHYT1tO

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Is this really a UK government banning political figures they disagree with from entering the country to speak at political events? What happened to free speech? https://t.co/NZWcHYT1tO

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Video posted by @tparsi is shocking. Read my article for @MDiplomacyWORLD on Radicalisation of Israeli Society and Dangerous Path to Isolation https://t.co/mfQofrHuut

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This video of Israel soldiers casually throwing what appears to be a Palestinian youth off from the roof of a building has shocked the world.

Look how comfortable they walk away after throwing the youth to his death.

As if they have done it 100s of times before.

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

As with surveillance flights providing intelligence for Gaza campaign, is UK providing same in Lebanon? https://t.co/vkKqIkabH5

[The Independent @Independent]

Medical firm paid millions of pounds in public money to carry out assessments on vulnerable people without ever meeting them https://t.co/e0W3P7Wf8s

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

China GDP growth falls to lowest rate in 30 years @FT - https://t.co/lrFJvF698l

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Some experts have expressed fears that Turkey could seize US nuclear weapons if relations sour further between these NATO allies - https://t.co/7cb8Ynbh4J

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Richard Haass, President of Council on Foreign Relations, outlines how the Trump decision to abandon Kurds in Syria is a result of his aversion to US global leadership and conflict fatigue - https://t.co/mg1F7ZdKxr

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Torturing detainees brutalises the captors, as well as the captives. Institutionalised torture has a corrosive impact on society - https://t.co/iGDqLsArM0

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

India has almost certainly re-elected Prime Minister Modi, providing electoral mandate for BJP’s aggressive Hindu nationalism - https://t.co/3K9wNktFhc

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Wow. @ConHome advises its readers not to vote Conervative tomorrow unless May is gone by the end of the day.

https://t.co/RVuUhnkdiQ

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

@GwynneMP @labourpress That's literally the 1 decent minute in an otherwise pretty poor performance. And politicians wonder why young people are cynical and apathetic, when you cut 1 minute that distorts the entire interview.

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

@GwynneMP @labourpress I wouldn't draw attention to that performance. Was pretty unimpressive

[Andrew Fisher @FisherAndrew79]

As @RLong_Bailey writes in today's Observer, "tackling the environment and climate emergency will require the UK to reimagine its energy system, transport, agriculture, housing – its entire economy – so that it works for the many, not the few"
https://t.co/FVz22syRX6

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

leading Brexiter suddenly notices that, when inside the EU, the UK has quite a lot of power....

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Nigel Farage on #r4today unchallenged over his claim that "a very, very clear majority" now support No Deal.

YouGov's poll yesterday showed Remain would beat No Deal 57 - 43.

This man's lies have done enough damage to this country. We don't need any more of them now.

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

@NinaDSchick @RossjournoClark @WillardFoxton Those things may have been bigger humiliations - but it’s hard to think of one decision/event that has had a more momentous impact on the whole spectrum of areas in public life, than brexit will.

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

Must Read @guardian editorial on possibly worst human rights abuses “since 1930s”, an estimated 1 million Uighur muslims and other ethnic minorities in detention centres branded as “re-education training centres”, these are reality concentration camps - https://t.co/t9FFyriReo

[Jon Manning @JonManning1990]

US State department has described Chinese detention camps for Uighur Muslims as “the worse human rights violations since the 1930s”. The “re-education camps” are estimated to hold approximately 1 million people - https://t.co/2aGEtQYYvF