Roger Boyes

Diplomatic Editor and columnist,The Times, foreign correspondent for 35 years.Increasingly anxious. Weltschmerz

[John Peters @johnthejack]

Criminalising refugees and bending the legal process to send them away “at scale” blurs the distinction between a liberal democracy and even the coolest of dictatorships.
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By @rogerboyes

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

One of the all time great sketches. Anyone watching this knows they are in the presence of true #genius

https://t.co/FtK5hNoWWz

[John Peters @johnthejack]

The talk now is of zastoi, political, economic and social stagnation. Putin’s claim to national respect was that he ended the chaos of the 1990s. Now he seems to be running away from fresh chaos — the sick man of Europe.
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By @rogerboyes

[John Peters @johnthejack]

The isolated madness of rulers.
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By @rogerboyes

[Andrew O'Brien @ADOBrien88]

🚨NEW Conservative Reader! 🚨

@rogerboyes on China
@david_cowan on middle power strategy
@oren_cass on US / China trade
@cjsnowdon on our capitalist command economy
@PaulGoodmanCH on internal national security
@Sherelle_E_J on the rebellion against welfarism

PLUS

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[Andrew Nagorski @AndrewNagorski]

Looking forward to participating in this #Freud panel on Sunday: https://t.co/VBOxx7JRyh

[Roger Boyes @rogerboyes]

Try Denmark?

[Kate Wilton @KateWilton1]

Just wondering where the Lib Dem’s are right now? I was a Lib Dem member for a bit when it seemed they were the only sane party, pro EU and some momentum. Like most people for the main I’m not tied to one party, I’m not especially pro Labour, I just want a sane, stable govt.

[Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org]

“China’s national intelligence law, its counterespionage law, require Chinese companies to cooperate with Chinese intelligence and not disclose that fact to others. That creates espionage risks,” says @RushDoshi, director of CFR’s China Strategy Initiative and assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

“These robots are equipped with LiDAR systems, microphones, and cameras that make them mobile surveillance platforms.”

[Alexander Etkind @Sasha_Etkind]

Ivan Krastev: “the greatest achievement of May 8th was that Europeans collectively found the courage to imagine a future different from the present — and different from the past” Excellent speech: https://t.co/dcpXtVrt0Y.

[Roger Boyes @rogerboyes]

Met him Moscow in the 1970s when I was a rookie reporter, so gutsy wise and funny. Rumor of War a great book, had all those qualities

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

Philip Caputo wrote a best-selling classic about Vietnam, shared a Pulitzer for uncovering Chicago’s voting fraud, was captured by militants in Lebanon & shot by others, covered wars in Afghanistan to Africa, hunted big game & caught bigger fish

RIP dad

https://t.co/BS5tmUzdbB

[John Peters @johnthejack]

Kim’s expertise could involve shrinking nuclear devices to fit on tips of missiles. Shared blueprints and physics data could shave years off Iran’s nuclear development. And there is NK’s proven skill in hardening deeply buried targets.
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By @rogerboyes

[eurotopics [fr] @eurotopics_fr]

🇺🇸 Les Etats-Unis bloquent le détroit d'Ormuz.

@rogerboyes s'inquiète d'un "risque d'affrontement armé réél" avec la Chine ⬇️
https://t.co/5WEtHcwtCJ

[Rafe Fletcher @fletcher_rt]

Important corrective from @rogerboyes on Hungarian elections.

An Orban loss doesn't see return to cosy, pro-European consensus. Orban's social policies still widely supported. But people are fed up with crony capitalisism impairing economy. That's the change Magyar promises.

[John Peters @johnthejack]

There is an obvious intersection point between Trump, Putin and Orban. For the moment its focus is to diminish the geopolitical weight of the EU by highlighting its lack of coherence.
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@rogerboyes on 'Orban the Thwarter'

[Roger Boyes @rogerboyes]

Watch out for The Watchers!

[Michael Dwyer @MikeDwyerMike]

OUT IN NOVEMBER 🗓️

'The Watchers' is a chilling global investigation into how modern surveillance states are built and why they endure— from @rogerboyes, a journalist once spied upon in Cold War Europe.

Pre-order ➡️ https://t.co/cINceFMKLr

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

My colleague @ckasapoglu1 is simply the best military analyst in the world today.

His assessment below:

[Zahid Gishkori @ZahidGishkori]

Ex Iranian President #Ahmedinejad gives public appearance after Iranian media reported he’s pretty much alive refuting previous news of international outlets that he was also among those bombed by USA and Israeli Forces.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

'Putin and Xi Jinping know they can outlast Trump' | ✍️ @rogerboyes https://t.co/7P0ImYuRuo

[Roger Boyes @rogerboyes]

The poet of the spy story…

[Spybrary @spybrary]

Happy 97th Birthday to the Patron Saint of Spybrary, Mr Len Deighton, who is still going strong! #LenDeighton #spybrary