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Arthur Snell

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Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.

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🚨🚨Emergency episode 🚨🚨

I spoke to Jason Pack about the fallout from the first presidential debate.

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Those are very good excuses! Jason thinks it’s likely.

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🚨🚨Emergency episode 🚨🚨

I spoke to Jason Pack about the fallout from the first presidential debate.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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If you can tear your eyes away from the collapse of Tory Britain, there's a rather important election happening even sooner in France. And who better to talk to about this than Peter Ricketts, former UK Ambassador in France, former head of Diplomatic Service and much more besides?

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I spoke to the brilliant Christina Keßler of @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social about the European Parliament elections.

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Starting to think that this election is just a fever dream I’m having rather than real events that are actually happening

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An inspiring conversation with Marika Mikiashvili of 🇬🇪 about the current protests, why they’re happening and the significance of her country to the global struggle against authoritarianism.

open.spotify.com/episode/58qL...

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It continues to be a) genuinely staggering and b)bad that the BBC is an institution which thinks this is an appropriate thing for them to commission and run, let alone push to the best part of eight million people on their app.

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The second episode will come out later in the week and focuses on the UK's relationship in the future, including the messy question of #Rejoin 2/2

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🚨🚨NEW EPISODE: ISRAEL-IRAN🚨🚨
In the light of escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, I spoke to Iran expert, historian and former diplomat Charlie Gammell about the situation and where it's headed.
shows.acast.com/65196b0b1488...

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So likely developments Schengen for parts of the UK, closer military collaboration with the EU and we are already participating Macrons european political community project "But we only wanted to be in a trading bloc" Lols.

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Hi Chris. Great questions. On 1 - Moscow has links to Taliban so not surprising if there’s already some kind of channel. But this is also an issue for which the CIA shd be working back channels. Mutual interest. Re yr qu 2, the attempt to draw Ukraine into the story could be the Kremlin objective.

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Tonight I honour victims of Russian terror and those that died exposing it. RIP Alexander Litvinenko Sergei Yushenkov Yuri Shchekochikhin Otto Latsis Sergei Kovalyov Sergei Yushenkov Boris Nemtsov Artyom Borovik Anna Politovskaya Vladimir Pribylovsky And others I cannot name.

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Fascinating. Typically corrupt. Key question is why does this hedge fund want better UK/Ven relationship (in itself not a bad thing) but lack of transparency is v problematic.

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Arthur, There is a piece in today's Sunday Times about Johnson's trip and its funding by a hedge fund. As the piece is behind a paywall, I've archived it at: archive.ph/j6V6F Very best wishes, Chris

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Thanks! I updated the post when I saw this.

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On Johnson missing a meeting with Lavrov post-orgy at Lebedev’s castle: ‘[Johnson] overslept, no doubt exhausted by a night of strenuous social intercourse.’ Brilliant

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🚨🚨I had an absolutely lovely time recording this with brilliant and very friendly Arthur Snell. Short pointers for our talk 🧵

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The evidence I’ve seen is that Ukraine will struggle with its next mobilisation round.

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Just watched: very interesting. But the 3:1 advantage was only at one limited point. It also seems to be comparing apples and pears: deployed Russian troops fighting in Ukraine versus total number of Ukrainian military.

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How does Ukraine have a manpower advantage?

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I don’t agree. I think he was against *invasion*, specifically.

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Ian Bond's avatar Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social
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Nicely balanced judgement. Navalny had some unsavoury friends & said some unsavoury things, particularly earlier in his political career. But he offered a vision of a better Russia - probably a country we wd often have disagreed with, but not an authoritarian kleptocracy that invades its neighbours.

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András Forgács W's avatar András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social
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"Dumitru Calota, a bus driver and Romanian national who has been working in the UK since 2016, was told his application for settled status could be refused on grounds of "false documentation"." Abolish the Home Office

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We're all blocked. We must have transgressed the Unwritten Law

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