𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典

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amonck 🦋 | anmonck 🧵

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Rubio is the “grown-up” remember.

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark?”

Rubio: “For now.”

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Saying it, doesn’t make it.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

THE CASUAL COUP by @PronouncedAlva

On the campaign trail with Andy Burnham:

This is a campaign on several levels. Burnham has “a tough fight” against Reform, as I hear him say repeatedly while watching him door-knocking. But he’s also fighting two other implied contests: with a Labour selectorate of MPs and members, who soon may well have to decide whether to nominate or vote for him to replace Keir Starmer; and with the electorate at large, who soon could find themselves choosing between Burnham and Nigel Farage in a general election. This is a tight by-election against Farage’s Reform, but Burnham is already being scrutinised as a prospective prime minister.

With three weeks to go until polling day, Burnham has allowed me to accompany him while campaigning in Makerfield, an invitation extended only to the New Statesman.

He says this by-election is the last chance to stop Reform. “If I just put it in the terms of Greater Manchester, I feel we’re on the cusp. If we don’t pull it back now, I think something changes.” On Wigan Council, Labour lost all of the seats it was defending to Reform in May. “That’s a very big statement. You can’t just see that and minimise it.” When people ask him “Why this moment?” results like that are why.

As one of Andy Burnham’s closest allies put it to me: “Whatever happens, this will be in the history books.”

Cover photo by Niall Hodson for the New Statesman

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

@peterallenparis He’ll be out on apero-ole

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

That @nickbilton team talk

[New York Post @nypost]

New '60 Minutes' boss Nick Bilton storms out of staff meeting after explosive clash with Scott Pelley: 'Enjoy the bagels' https://t.co/vFSbYmgEa8

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

TL; DR Bluff and bluster go a long way in politics

[Financial Times @FT]

Eight things we learnt from the latest Mandelson files https://t.co/7hplC06WP5

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Shocked to discover that Peter Mandelson was a 🐍

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Tragic that Labour lost the huge farming constituency that historically made up their base. And after letting them off inheritance tax…

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“I don’t think there’s a farmer alive who’s Labour anymore.”

Jeremy Clarkson tells Times Radio there’s only one party doing very well with young farmers and it's Reform UK.

@JeremyClarkson | @KateEMcCann

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

@peterallenparis Thank goodness Céline is a journalist!

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

The museum of false equivalence. America really reeling under the threat from *checks notes* communism.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Fascism on the right. Communism on the left. Ancient antisemitic conspiracies seemingly everywhere. Tariffs. War in Europe. Gilded Age corruption. So many bad ideas re-emerging all at once.

Why? https://t.co/pwzZJWBe5J

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Imagine being an Arsenal fan caught in possession.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police have released a statement on X confirming arrests at Arsenal's parade.

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Someone pretending to an English Admiral QTed by someone pretending to be an Anglo-Saxon king. Both talking about Tony Blair.

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Impressive, but this is not how you say “wavering”

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro, a graduate of Columbia University, spoke in English at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
He told Pete Hegseth that he feels US security commitments to the region are "unwavering."

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

A great day!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Let’s make tomorrow’s historic parade fun, memorable and inclusive for everybody.

Enjoy the moment, look after one another, and please take your litter home!

Thank you to all the workers who are making the parade possible. See you there! #COYG

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Arsenal really treating neutrals with their out-of-possession, defensive joy-sponging.

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Battle of the Substack-writing interns

[Purav Menon @profavi_]

Even those who disagree vehemently with Sir Tony Blair must admit that his ability to force, single-handedly, detailed policy-driven essays out of the three likely candidates of a Labour leadership election is beyond impressive

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

You were in power. Your heartlessness and incompetence are now confined to opposition, and if we are not all happy with of the current government’s record, we can at least be grateful for that.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

If @Conservatives were in power, these strikes simply wouldn’t be happening.

That’s because we'll add doctors to the list of professions banned from striking. Just like police officers and members of the Armed Forces.

Our health should never be held ransom by unions.

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

We are only one internal leadership battle from victory!

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Labour won’t win Britain’s future by fighting old wars or recycling old orthodoxies.

Nor will it do so through technocratic detachment from the lives people actually live.

The answers must be new, but they must also be Labour.

Response to Tony Blair 👇🏻
https://t.co/Et4SKHmsHw

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Nearly choked on my Granita salad.

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

It's hard to argue with this from Tony Blair:

"Governments which succeed don't start with a personality contest. Or a political question - as in how do we "save the country" from Reform. They start with an idea, a project, a governing purpose"

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Great to hear from the old gas lobbyist.

[Tony Blair Institute for Global Change @InstituteGC]

https://t.co/27lbhXTsjk

[𝚊𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 孟安典 @amonck]

Unforgiving from the unforgiven.

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

"Back to the 70s?"

Former PM Sir Tony Blair questions Andy Burnham's comments on '40 years of neoliberalism', and says there 'wasn't enough explanation' by Sir Keir Starmer why Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership was wrong.