Maxwell

Pro EU, woke, exhausted mum who’d quite like a usable planet for her kids future. Also a wife, psychologist, yogi and Milo the Patterdale’s walking parter.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@Owen_de_Visser @JohnWest_JAWS Happening all the time. This one was on the market for ages, then https://t.co/0dtD73Wb2x

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@JohnMcHugh1878 @MrChris07929358 @withnailjones Daddy's firm?

[steve richards @steverichards14]

There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public services are in crisis and the post Brexit economy is stagnant. Shines much light on a prime minister hopelessly out of his depth, a Tory party gripped by fantasy with their newspapers screaming them on..it’s like a dark modern Monty Python sketch.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@JamesCleverly Just take a breath. You are trying to score political points off the death of a child.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@David_Cameron David, making the move to Foreign Sec seems to have rehabilitated your reputation. Why tarnish it again publicly supporting this repugnant nonsense?

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

Hearing Michael Tomlinson MP on @BBCr4today, his stance seemed to be that we should be impressed just by the bill itself. Sounded annoyed to be q further. I wonder if the rest of the Tories feel the same. They may be disappointed if they think performative cruelty is enough.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@HeathertheHeron @hewitson10 He does come across as very childish. I thought that from hearing him on #radio4today just now. He sounds annoyed to be challenged.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

Goodness, Michael Tomlinson MP on @r4Today just now will be disappointed with that interview. He sounded petulant, rattled, and kind of childish next to the measured questioning.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@Conservatives Thank you for highlighting how hard Labour (and, to be fair, many Conservative and cross bench peers) tried to stop this terrible bill. You managing to push it through means the UK should hang its head in shame.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

So the Rwanda bill becomes law, with Britain an inspiration to the extreme right across Europe. Summary deportation with no right of appeal, some manacled in 21st century convict flights. If the ECHR dares to challenge, we leave that. All to reflect “ the people’s will”. Not mine

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

He has utterly shamed himself out there, denigrating the very values he spent the last few years of his life defending and for which I always rather admired him. I hope it was worth it, to keep his ministerial position in a dying administration.

[DW @DwWork2]

@SquibbmeisterUK @sturdyAlex @ClaireCoutinho Or
Phillips: "@ClaireCoutinho, what's the square root of 64?"

Coutinho: "What Labour want to do is get rid of square roots"

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@stratfordmark @lewis_goodall https://t.co/gWxWpN3OJb

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Feng Yujun, one of the China's leading Russianists and a professor at Peking University: Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine – The Economist

Four reasons why Russian Federation will lose to Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun:

🔹 The first is the level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary.

🔹 The second is international support for Ukraine, which, though recently falling short of the country’s expectations, remains broad.

🔹 The third factor is the nature of modern warfare, a contest that turns on a combination of industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems. One reason Russia has struggled in this war is that it is yet to recover from the dramatic deindustrialisation it suffered after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

🔹 The final factor is information. When it comes to decision-making, Vladimir Putin is trapped in an information cocoon, thanks to his having been in power so long. The Russian president and his national-security team lack access to accurate intelligence. The system they operate lacks an efficient mechanism for correcting errors. Their Ukrainian counterparts are more flexible and effective.

His conclusion is as follows:

🔸 Russia will be forced to withdraw from all occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.

🔸 Russia's nuclear capability is no guarantee of success. Feng Yujun gives the example of the United States, which left Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan with no less nuclear potential than the Russian Federation has today.

🔸 Kyiv has proven that Moscow is not invincible, so a ceasefire under the "Korean" scenario is ruled out.

🔸 The war is a turning-point for Russia. It has consigned Putin’s regime to broad international isolation. He has also had to deal with difficult domestic political undercurrents, from the rebellion by the mercenaries of the Wagner Group and other pockets of the military — for instance in Belgorod — to ethnic tensions in several Russian regions and the recent terrorist attack in Moscow. These show that political risk in Russia is very high. Mr Putin may recently have been re-elected, but he faces all kinds of possible black-swan events.

🔸 After the war, Ukraine will have the chance join both the EU and NATO, while Russia will lose its former Soviet republics because they see Putin's aggression there as a threat to their sovereignty and territorial integrity.

According to Feng Yujun, the war, meanwhile, has made Europe wake up to the enormous threat that Russia’s military aggression poses to the continent’s security and the international order, bringing post-cold-war EU-Russia detente to an end. Many European countries have given up their illusions about Mr Putin’s Russia.

Source: https://t.co/hod0Ch4wmZ

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

I confess I’m slightly flummoxed to learn that GPs can’t objectively assess health.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

You could sort out the state of NHS mental health services - or you could tell people needing them that they’re the problem.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@pantsofperil @TheNewsAgents @maitlis @jonsopel Raynor allegation is admin

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@implausibleblog @ledredman Climate change deniers in 2024. Ffs.

[Maxwell @mattersofpersp]

@ZaleskiLuke @Laura__Fox @elonmusk Didn't get buy it with Saudi support. Apparently its very popular in Saudi Arabia and Bin Salman likes some control.

[Mat CT @matchristiantho]

@sturdyAlex Someone needs to tell Dan Hodges that Menzies once sold a former council house. We'll have headlines for months.