Harrison Griffiths

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[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

This is Rocío Guijarro, who for nearly 40 years has run Venezuela’s free-market think-tank, @CEDICE. She has been arrested and interrogated, her staff detained and tortured; but she has kept going.
Last night, this brave, cheerful, unfussy grandmother won the Sir Anthony Fisher Achievement Award from @AtlasNetwork. (She made a point of bringing some Venezuelan chocolate, pictured, for our ten-year-old: gracias, Rocío.)
To defend the freedom of other people is a high and pure calling. Millions of Venezuelans who finally look forward to the end of the oppression and poverty owe Rocío more than they will ever know. Not that she will mind. That is her strength.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@jok1cbetta @jakonian The two things are correlated certainly. But no, that’s not accurate in theory or practice. SL’s media proposals are authoritarian, as they would be in Britain, America, Russia, or North Korea. The system and process behind them are irrelevant given their substance.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@jok1cbetta @jakonian Authoritarianism is far more defined by the outcome of state action than the process used to determine it. State media content mandates are authoritarian regardless of whether Stalin, Vucic, a student plenum, or popular referendum decided to impose them.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@CapelLofft This is only a good question if you (a) lazily lump a massive group of diverging worldviews together and call them liberalism and (b) conflate a liberal legal standard (consenting adults) with other categories of moral and ethical standards.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

Depoliticisation of TV and journalism means cutting state privileges and restrictions. This is the opposite of that.

[Ultimora.net - POLITICS @ultimora_pol]

🇷🇸 #Serbia – La Lista Studentesca, vincitrice delle ultime elezioni, ha pubblicato dettagli sulla propria politica sui media. Oltre alla "depoliticizzazione della TV di Stato e del giornalismo", la Lista ha annunciato forti restrizioni ai Reality Show: massimo 45 minuti al giorno, trasmissione solo dopo le 23 e divieto di dirette sulle frequenze nazionali. Prevista inoltre una quota minima del 30% della programmazione televisiva per contenuti educativi, scientifici, culturali e per bambini.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@Vukan22 @burim_kllokoqi This guy’s probably a bot (if he’s not, he might as well be). Don’t waste your time.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

Today marks Remembrance Day across the Allied nations of the First World War.

That includes Serbia, where the conflict began in July 1914. It lost almost 1/4 of its entire population from 1914 to 1918, a higher proportion than even the USSR during the Second World War.

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

Michael Carrick sacked by MUFC.
Top lad, got the team in the Champions League against expectations. Gave it his all, night and day. Protected others, never threw anyone under a bus. Worked in difficult circumstances. Leaves with head held high. I wish him and his staff the very best.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@Dusty_C_Hopper @ZemljaZrak84 Yeah going to have to agree there. Despite the heroics of many individual Croats in both of them, Croatia doesn’t have the best records on world wars…

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@amancalledprak Yes. Not knowing everything about the world is not the same as arrogance.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@amancalledprak Certainly for France, yes. Or Poland. The point is that many people perceive 11 November as a very British/Commonwealth/American holiday, and my point was to say it’s much broader than that.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@amancalledprak Not at all. My Serbian is terrible! But I wouldn’t confidently accuse someone of saying something they didn’t say in Serbian because I know I probably wouldn’t have understood it properly.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@Vavilon2025 Serbia was heroic and couldn’t have won the war without her allies. Both are true. And that’s ok of course! Admitting that truth isn’t weakness and inventing nonsensical history isn’t strength.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@burim_kllokoqi @amancalledprak Oh there’s definitely some truth in that point. Two things can be true at once.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@LjubodragGrujic @Gotovistebando1 I live in Belgrade, who is occupying us? And as incredible as Serbia’s war effort was, the idea that it would have won without the Allies is wild.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@amancalledprak Respectfully, I think your English may not be good enough to accurately grasp that sentence in context.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@burim_kllokoqi @amancalledprak Fair enough, a British guy living in Serbia is a bot red flag. As it happens, I’m not one.

[Harrison Griffiths @RealHarrisonG]

@Gotovistebando1 Yes, I’m aware we won the war.

[Edward Ferguson @EAFergusonUK]

One of the greatest honours of any ambassador: the solemn duty of representing one’s country on #RemembranceDay.

Today, we laid wreaths in honour of the fallen at the Serbian, French and Commonwealth cemeteries in #Belgrade.

Lest we forget.

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

We will remember them.