PeterBale

Journalism background at Reuters, FT, News, Microsoft, CNN, CPI, Also, and experimentally, on Mastodon at: @[email protected]

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@peterfrankopan Totally agree. So mad and clever.

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@mehdirhasan Nice work.

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@henrycooke I’d say only for pcs.

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@matt_horncastle Is English your first language?

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@matt_horncastle And your punctuation.

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@simon_schama The Conversation

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@KirstieMAllsopp Very good.

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@simonmontefiore @picadorbooks Cripes, another of his to add to my Stalin and Russia collection…

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@KirstieMAllsopp Doing your teeth in the kitchen is appalling!

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@secondzeit Also, this: “This is worse conduct by a plaintiff I have seen by a litigant in a civil case,” Salmon said in a submission he said he didn’t make lightly.

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@secondzeit Brilliant, but what is up with the second and third paragraphs? ‘Something…’ Who
Killed the Great Subs?

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@DAaronovitch You’ll never get anywhere being so reasonable.

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@DAaronovitch Meanwhile, expand the Abraham Accords. Er…

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Trump faces health questions ahead of another Walter Reed trip: ‘Trump has said Jackson told him he was healthier than Trump’s predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush…’ Oh, yes. https://t.co/C24mqmW7Nf

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Saudi Arabia will not join the ‘Abraham Accords’ unless there is a binding plan to establish a Palestinian state. Given that the current Israeli government is occupying territory in Syria and Lebanon and bombing other countries, I do not believe this is a realistic prospect. Netanyahu does not want peace.

As a reminder: the Kingdom 🇸🇦 launched the ‘Lasting Peace’ initiative for a two-state solution and the right of the Palestinians 🇵🇸 to an independent state. This is a consistent position that has not changed.

As for the war on Iran: from the outset, the Kingdom has called for dialogue and warned against threatening the region’s stability under the pretext of war. And after it broke out, it stated clearly on more than one occasion: this is not our war. It will respond to militia attacks at the appropriate time and in a manner that protects its national security.

And since the Kingdom’s warnings regarding the war on Iran were ignored, those who made the decision to go to war must bear the consequences of their failure, not shift the blame onto the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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@Scaramucci No kidding: “it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate.”

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@ianbremmer Doh: “it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate.”

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@ProfJohnCrown My father flew from Alexandria to drop the last bombs on Maleme to try to deny the airfield to German aircraft. His Blenheim crash-landed in the Egyptian desert on the way home. Most of the rest of the squadron was lost.

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@RodneyMarshall1 Very, very good podcast analysis of the Third Man recently on @PPFIdeas

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@JamesHalcrow Everything is new to this Chauncey Gardener manqué.