Anthony Glees @anthonyglees

I'm a professor of politics with a special interest in intelligence-led security policies and practices

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Exactly so. If Badenoch were truly capable of being our PM & a stateswoman she’d invite Single Market Tories back into the party. After 1945 Churchill was quick to make friends with the West Germans: a statesman.

[Edward Bickham @BickhamEdward]

This is nonsense. The Conservatives lost seats to the LibDems in 2024 because we appeared to have vacated the 'centre-right' ground. We didn't lose because of being too pro-Europe or support for Net Zero but because of the corruption of the Johnson era & the Truss chaos

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Just outside Putin's most luxiourous palace in Galenzhik, his slaves grovel for a 20 liter ration of outragrously priced gasoline, queing for days in sweltering heat, killing time before the inevitable point when the Czar feeds them into the corpsegrinder in Ukraine.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

@StephenMossGdn Too near the bone!

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Spot on. This Americanism 'thank you so much for having me' is ridiculous, tells you all you need to know about the interviewee.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

John Humphrys criticises successors on ‘irritating’ Today programme https://t.co/Num6AA2NXv VERY well said, JH

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

We’ve been told a guy who at the time was VC at a celebrated uni in SW England was arrested & convicted for an assault on a fellow VC in New York.

[The Mill @ManchesterMill]

Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes is among those arrested on suspicion of fraud.

It’s the first time a university vice-chancellor has ever been arrested in the UK as part of a criminal investigation.

https://t.co/BureOxrzFN

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Wow.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Worrying story this. The cheekily-named University of Greater Manchester is what was the University of Bolton. It's not the University of Manchester or Manchester Metropolitan University.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Netanyahu & his lunch

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

@pritipatel Priti Patel's comments will cause pain and anger to all those who are able to equally grieve for all victims of terrorism.

Is Patel supporting the IDF's ongoing slaughter of thousands of innocent children in Palestine & Lebanon as being a proportionate response to 7 October?

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

John Humphrys criticises successors on ‘irritating’ Today programme https://t.co/Num6AA2NXv VERY well said, JH

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Erhem
And in The Mail

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

She did one degree at @unibirmingham then another u/g degree in PPE at @UniofOxford bc (she freely admitted) above all things she wanted to be president of the Oxford Union. A big character, big performer, a huge asset to REF, anti-abortion, happily & wrongly imo insulted the European Parliament.

[Andreas Busch @abusch.bsky.social 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧 @anbusch]

Listening to these 12 minutes is well worth it.
Not only are you educated about why free speech is so central to the defence of liberty, you also get to know an impressive conviction politician.
In my years in the UK I don’t think I ever agreed with her. But I respected her. RIP

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇫🇮 Stubb "Ukraine has already won this war"

Russia controls only around 19% of Ukrainian territory

🔸To achieve even this, Moscow has burned through roughly 2/3 of its liquid reserves and devoted around 40% of federal spending to the war.

European military support for Ukraine costs only around 0.1% of GDP annually.

🔸For Europe, the war cost is financially marginal.

Russia is destroying its private sector and has suffered more than one million military casualties for a country it does not and will not control.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

How we laughed to hear @TimesRadio yday Tice say ‘the Cottrells are old chums aristocrats & like the Heskeths’. The current Duke of Marlborough is another Trotskyite anti-establishment REF chum. And the Brexit newspaper bosses. ‘Take on the Establishment’ my aunt Fanny.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

We shouldn’t forget the Brexit lies but also not that some people made a lot of money through Brexit. Farage says ‘take on the Establishment’ but that’s now him, his rich backers & chums in the Lords.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

We shouldn’t forget the Brexit lies but also not that some people made a lot of money through Brexit. Farage says ‘take on the Establishment’ but that’s now him, his rich backers & chums in the Lords.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Nick Clegg is right.

A 52–48 referendum was never a mandate for the hardest possible Brexit.

A country split almost down the middle needed compromise, not triumphalism.

Treating a wafer-thin majority as if it were a landslide is one reason Britain is still living with the political and economic fallout a decade later.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

Words fail one. For generations to come, ‘Trump’ will serve as a warning against the mortal danger that is populist politics.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

It reminds us that the theoretical Brexit promises of 2016 were largely fictional but, as important, that the arguments involved are highly complex and involve big tradeoffs which 'yes/no' answers don't and can't capture.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

British voters remain convinced by 'cakeism', that we have wonderful trade with the EU and others - on our terms. To do this, ironically, we need a vast internal market like the USA has. We can't do it ourselves alone.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

It reminds us that the theoretical Brexit promises of 2016 were largely fictional but, as important, that the arguments involved are highly complex and involve big tradeoffs which 'yes/no' answers don't and can't capture.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

It reminds us that the theoretical Brexit promises of 2016 were largely fictional but, as important, that the arguments involved are highly complex and involve big tradeoffs which 'yes/no' answers don't and can't capture.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

This poll makes key reading (it was seized on by Lord Frost to show Brits would not wish to rejoin the EU, however much they might dislike Brexit) https://t.co/okWmARGz3E However, almost all the things Brits want to do by themselves alone are things they can't do on their own.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

This poll makes key reading (it was seized on by Lord Frost to show Brits would not wish to rejoin the EU, however much they might dislike Brexit) https://t.co/okWmARGz3E However, almost all the things Brits want to do by themselves alone are things they can't do on their own.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

@cathydonnelly6 The police now say this is not being treated as an act of terror - which implies there was no political motive.

[Anthony Glees @anthonyglees @AnthonyGlees]

If there is a political motive here, it will impact on our national security position. Ann Widdecombe was instantly recognisable & this should have protected her from a direct personal violent attack unless the attacker had a political motive.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Devon and Cornwall Police say a 26 year old man, a white British national, has been arrested for the murder of Ann Widdecombe.

It is not being treated as terrorism.