Richard Lloyd Parry

Asia Editor @thetimes. Author IN THE GREEN HEART (Aug), GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI, PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS. Winner @TheWritersPrize. Agent @NatFairweather. My views

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

The UK’s special relationship alliance with the United States is “meaningless” unless it matches American military capabilities, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, has told his British counterpart, John Healey.

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#SLD26 #IISS @thetimes

[The Lowy Institute @LowyInstitute]

The @LowyInstitute's Research Director @MihaiSora spoke with @thetimes' Richard Lloyd Parry about the "Great Game" between Australia and China in the Pacific.
https://t.co/p4ndI0RmgQ

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

@moseley_oscar Hey, thanks for reading - I’m very glad that you found it stimulating.

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

That's fine, of course - carry on attitudinising. But don't confuse it with journalism.

(Call me Nostradamus, but I prophesy that you're going to respond with something about .... the Olympics!)

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

The difference is that one of us has an opinion, now and then, but also gets out of the office sometimes, goes to places and talks to people. Whereas the other, from all visible evidence, works exclusively via a screen, reacting, recycling, sneering, then chuhai tweeting at 1 am.

[Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド @GearoidReidy]

I see you also like Having an Opinion, the difference is my opinions aren’t advocating for things I reported as fact two months earlier

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

3) Address the person you’re sneering at. Apart from being the decent, non-sneaky thing to do, it allows people to Engage. (Not sure how keen you are on that bit. This has been fun, though - hasn’t it?)

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

Since you ask, always (1) read the headline, to the end; (2) read the piece, to the end.

This will put you in the perfect position to Have An Opinion. (I can tell how much you like having those.)

[Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド @GearoidReidy]

I wonder how far into this article I needed to read to discover that Japan had not, in fact, cancelled the Tokyo Olympics

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

@gearoidreidy finally read beyond a headline! After floundering around for all these years, he’s learned something about journalism.

Perhaps next he’ll grow the balls to address people directly when he sneers about them behind their backs. Nah, not much chance of that.

[Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド @GearoidReidy]

Once you get past the headline, even this story admits that “China taking over Japan’s tea dominance” is about as real as that time Japan cancelled the 2021 Olympics.

https://t.co/ry0iMrWIYI

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

“This island has been under outside influence. It’s expressed in the old songs, which are so sad compared to the mainland. Knowing that what they say will have no influence has always been our experience.”

My report from Japan's Yonaguni island.

https://t.co/Z4omjWxsJN

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

@From2193 Thank you for reading Ghosts of the Tsunami. I’m glad to know that it rings true to someone who lived through it all.

[Jack Adamović Davies @jackoozell]

When I first started investigating the Prince Group a little over five years ago it never even crossed my mind that the story would lead anywhere near the White House. But here we are.

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[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

Yang Jian was allegedly part of the Prince Group, described last October by the US government as “one of the largest transnational criminal organisations in Asia”. The UK also sanctioned its members.

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

The Trump family crypto business went into partnership with a company whose“flagship project” was founded by a man later sanctioned by Trump’s own government.

By @jackoozell and me in @thetimes.

https://t.co/wE75UTzN43

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

@grok @Jayzh50 @mog_russEN @grok identify the original posting of the video.

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

“It was unthinkable for a woman to be head of the Tokugawa family. People would say, ‘her brother would be better’, and, ‘wouldn’t her husband be more suitable?’”

My interview in @thetimes with the woman closing down the family of the last shogun.

https://t.co/3QHZPH9Gwn

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Miki Yamagishi, a 57-year-old cellist from Nagoya and a descendant of the 15th and final shogun, says it is time for the family line to bow out https://t.co/cRp4RQX0O1

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

Britain believes that China would negotiate the release of the imprisoned Hong Kong newspaper owner, Jimmy Lai - but only if he agrees to be silent.

Exclusive in @thetimes by @RichardJSpencer and me.

https://t.co/u5zMftCiHs

[John Peters @johnthejack]

The Japanese word oshikatsu is the equivalent of the English term “stanning”, describing devoted support of a pop star or idol. In the past weeks a new term has emerged: “Sana-katsu”, or personal adoration of Sanae Takaichi.

From
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By @dicklp

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

… although I have to admit that I nicked it from Jesper Koll.

[Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp]

‘As Takichi’s idols Deep Purple wrote in her favourite song, Burn: “The woman’s flames are reaching higher/We were fools, we called her liar…”’

I’m I ntensely, almost tearfully, proud that I got a heavy metal lyric into a piece about Japanese politics…

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