Ronald Rolfe

Nobody special. What matters? Thruth, honour, character and love. Committed Centrist & European.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@afneil Many well informed academics and military analysts claim that Iran has done exactly that. They may be wrong.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

President Trump says on Fox News he’s telling Iran’s negotiators about the Strait of Hormuz: “You close it and you won’t have a country. You won’t even make it back to your fucking country.” How diplomacy has moved on.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@truemagic68 The legend that is David Buick once again puts things back in proportion.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

When Charles de Gaulle led France, he treated public money as something untouchable.
At the Élysée Palace, there was a strict rule for him: no personal expense could ever be paid for by the state.
His wife, Yvonne, kept a small notebook in which she meticulously recorded all family expenses — from food and electricity to clothing and even soap.
At the end of each month, she would send a check to the state treasury, reimbursing every last cent.
Once, an accountant remarked that this was not really necessary.
She calmly replied:
“Everything that is not public is personal.
And for personal matters, we pay ourselves.”
This principle applied without exception.
Their children and grandchildren were not allowed to use official cars for private matters.
De Gaulle himself refused any privileges of office: he paid his own bills at the palace — even for the smallest things, such as soap or family meals.
Moreover, he did not use his presidential salary, living only on his military pension.
After his death, there was no wealth or luxury left behind — only a modest house in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, purchased before the war.
It is said that he would sometimes personally send money to the treasury if he suspected that any personal expense might have accidentally been covered by the state budget.
This was not a formality.
It was a principle.
✨ An example of true integrity, honor, and responsibility in public service.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@afneil

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

A critically important piece about the dangerous combination of robber barons and political power.

[Le Monde in English @LeMonde_EN]

Le Monde has decided to stop posting our content on X for as long as it operates in this way.

Read our editorial here 👇
https://t.co/qYJpWXGCoc

[Le Monde in English @LeMonde_EN]

Le Monde has decided to stop posting our content on X for as long as it operates in this way.

Read our editorial here 👇
https://t.co/qYJpWXGCoc

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

The decision of those who run X to remove the chronological order of tweets for those not paying premium is disgraceful.
People like me may well just abandon X.
Who does that help?

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@afneil @TimesRadio X
On a different note, I wonder how many of you who are the big guns of X are concerned that those of us who do not pay a premium have lost the ability to see tweets in chronological order.
It completely destroys the usefulness of X.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@truemagic68 With President Trump’s latest letter to all and sundry about Greenland, you have to say, as if any evidence to the contrary were available, that the dear old gentleman has completely gone off his trolley.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@davidyelland @JohnSimpsonNews Crowdfund the BBC’s defence.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@JohnSimpsonNews I for one, am absolutely delighted that people like John Simpson can be bothered suppose things on this channel.
If only a few more of his stature would do the same.
PS. What about a crowd funding organisation to fund the BBC defence of the ludicrous Trump lawsuit?

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@BBCJLandale If people in the west spent half as much time trying to understand the motivation of Russia, and it’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, than they do sabre rattling and fear mongering we might make some progress.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@truemagic68 You are, as usual, absolutely right to highlight the impossibility of the task Wes Streeting, a decent man, has set himself.
Once again, the reality of Hope over experience.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@truemagic68 British understatement and its absolute best.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@JPonpolitics You hardly have to be a distinguished cabinet secretary to come out with such an obvious observation

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@jwwjnr @truemagic68 Be careful what you wish for.

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

A certain Mr Trump isn’t going to be happy. https://t.co/n9PnGwyndY

[Ronald Rolfe @oldgitinchief]

@truemagic68 Quite right. It will take minds of exceptional ability to get the Palestinian people from living in an open prison for decades to statehood. I cannot imagine how it can be achieved in the current climate.