Paul Lever @paul_lever
Former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Former British Ambassador to Germany. Author of Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way. Joined June 2014-
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The Irish government is reportedly planning to deport to the UK any illegal immigrants who have entered Ireland from Britain territory. So what’s to prevent the British government from deporting to Ireland any such immigrants who have entered Britain from the EU?
There has been much comment on the diversity of the Turner prize short list. It is indeed diverse. Only one major category is missing: white British
Whether the Rwanda Act is a good piece of legislation is a matter of opinion. But its critics need to explain whether they accept that without it any illegal immigrant who manages to arrive in Britain is effectively guaranteed the right to remain.
The Staendige Vertretung, one of my favourite kneipes in Berlin, now serves vegan currywurst. I used to think that, having lived there for nearly six years, I had some small understanding of Germany. I clearly don't.
It seems beyond belief that the incompetent (to put it mildly) lawyer who prosecuted the Sub-Postmasters is now responsible at the Post Office for their compensation. Can no-one get a grip on this toxic organisation?
Not easy to understand the argument against banning the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. We have an Embassy in Tehran which is (in theory) capable of talking to the Iranian government. Would it be shut down if we banned the IRGC?
Lord Cameron is wasting his time offering advice to Israel on how to respond to the Iranian attack. He would do better to focus on the appalling behaviour of Israeli settlers on the West Bank and the complicity of the Israeli army in their attacks on Palestinian civilians.
The report on the Indian election on this evening's BBC Ten O'Clock news was poor journalism. It was all about Modi and all the interviews were with supporters of Modi. No mention of any other party and no interview with anyone from the opposition.
Civil servants should indeed, post-Covid, stop working from home and get back to their offices. Providing of course they still have one. Many government departments, for example the Foreign Office, have sold off part of their real estate and don't have desks for all their staff.
Britain is playing a role - not a leading role, but an important secondary role - in the Middle East by helping to defend Israel. Neither the EU itself nor any of its member states are playing any role at all.
Sad to see that Mark Urban is leaving the BBC. He has been one of its most talented journalists and one of the few with a deep understanding of security and defence issues. Good luck with whatever comes next.
In the former AWRE building at Orfordness, which I visited on Easter Monday, an inert WE 177 warhead is on display. How long, I wonder, before the British government realises that, with hindsight, it was a mistake to decommission this series of tactical nuclear weapons.
The European Court of Human Rights ruling that Switzerland has broken international law on climate change will rightly be condemned as an egregious example of judicial activism. But it shows how foolish it is for governments to give legal effect to what are policy decisions.
An interesting snippet of electoral forecasting in today's Times. The projected landslide for Labour in the forthcoming election will be achieved with a vote share pretty much the same as they got in 2017. The vagaries of the British political system.
If diversity is to be a qualification for the next Chancellor of the University of Oxford, then one trend should be reversed. Since Richard Cromwell in 1657 every Chancellor has been a member of the House of Lords.
As a graduate of the university of Oxford I was looking forward to turning up in my MA gown again to vote for the next Chancellor. Alas with postal voting no longer a requirement.
RIP Hella Pick, a great journalist. Always curious, never cynical, intensely competitive, she was a trailblazer who came to the UK on the Kindertransport. Incredible life theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…
The Israeli Defence Forces now defend their killing of the aid workers on the grounds that they believed, mistakenly, there was a Hamas fighter in one of the vehicles. They apparently regarded the murder of six innocent civilians as a price worth paying in order to take him out.
So sad to hear of the death of Hella Pick. An outstanding journalist with a remarkable depth of knowledge about the world and a genuine passion for her profession. For my generation in the Foreign Office she was a great source of wisdom and someone we all hugely admired.
The Israeli Defence Forces still haven't answered the key questions about why they fired misssiles on three separate aid vehicles. Did they know they were aid vehicles? What danger did they think the vehicles posed? Who, and with what authority, authorised the killings?
Nick Timothy @NJ_Timothy
44K Followers 767 Following Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for West Suffolk • Daily Telegraph • Promoted by David Cowan, Conservative Office, Moulton Road, CB8 8DY
David Frost @DavidGHFrost
88K Followers 1K Following Lord Frost of Allenton. Conservative, House of Lords. You don't get something for nothing, you can't have freedom for free.
Helene von Bismarck @HeleneBismarck
44K Followers 2K Following Historian & Writer, Anglophile&European. FRHistS. Sr. Associate Fellow @Rusi_org All views my own. RTs not endorsements.
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Shashank Joshi @shashj
199K Followers 2K Following Defence editor at @TheEconomist, Visiting fellow at @warstudies King's College London.
Harry Cole @MrHarryCole
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Iain Martin @iainmartin1
96K Followers 5K Following Director London Defence Conference. Director Engelsberg Ideas. Publisher of Reaction. Times columnist. Weekly subscriber newsletter via link below
Jonathan Eyal @JEyal_RUSI
17K Followers 9K Following Associate Director, RUSI (@rusi_org). Views expressed here are entirely my own.
Peter Foster @pmdfoster
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alexandra hall hall �.. @alexhallhall
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland
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Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat
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Mind Full 🇺🇦�.. @MindFullOfIt1
1K Followers 3K Following Admirer of Architecture and Art that hasn’t been stolen or blown up by misguided or unguided Russo or Hamas barrages. Be Mindful. #NATO #NAFO #Ukraine #Israel
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Patrick Triglavcanin @p_triglavcanin
550 Followers 414 Following Research Officer @ConGeostrategy | Words elsewhere @ChinaBriefJT @LowyInstitute | Indo-Pacific geopolitics (AU, CN, UK) | Usual caveats | @FulhamFC home & away
Naomi Scherbel-Ball @Naomi_sb
6K Followers 3K Following BBC news journalist curious about the world we live in. Nomad in 🇱🇧 originally from London via 🇳🇬 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇹🇳 🇸🇳. Views are mine alone.
Ipsedixitissimus @Ipsedixitissim1
125 Followers 279 Following "I considered it desirable that he should know nothing about me but it was even better if he knew several things which were quite wrong." (Flann O'Brien)
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Andrew Neil @afneil
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Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ
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Nick Timothy @NJ_Timothy
44K Followers 767 Following Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for West Suffolk • Daily Telegraph • Promoted by David Cowan, Conservative Office, Moulton Road, CB8 8DY
David Frost @DavidGHFrost
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Helene von Bismarck @HeleneBismarck
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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z
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Sam Freedman @Samfr
145K Followers 1K Following Writes the UK's most popular politics Substack (https://t.co/bcjXR0ncfL). New book - "Failed State" - out 29th August https://t.co/uPuWlb39R3.
Shashank Joshi @shashj
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Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson
294K Followers 3K Following Editor of The Spectator, columnist for Daily Telegraph. Take a trial subscription at https://t.co/ecmDFw3tdY
Anand Menon @anandMenon1
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Harry Cole @MrHarryCole
168K Followers 5K Following 🗞️ 📺 Political Editor of @TheSun and host of Never Mind the Ballots every week at https://t.co/RiBV9lh8DY …on YouTube .. socials .. and all over the press 🇬🇧
Iain Martin @iainmartin1
96K Followers 5K Following Director London Defence Conference. Director Engelsberg Ideas. Publisher of Reaction. Times columnist. Weekly subscriber newsletter via link below
Jonathan Eyal @JEyal_RUSI
17K Followers 9K Following Associate Director, RUSI (@rusi_org). Views expressed here are entirely my own.
Peter Foster @pmdfoster
110K Followers 6K Following Public Policy Ed for @ft. DMs open. BOOK: What Went Wrong with Brexit: https://t.co/UP3yuNFih7
Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP
29K Followers 462 Following Former diplomat, Chair @LordsEUCom, Vice-Chair @RUSI_org, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial Trust. Author of ‘Hard Choices’. Views strictly my own!
Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe
58K Followers 890 Following MD Europe @EurasiaGroup. Formerly @hmtreasury @EU_Commission. Senior Research Fellow @LSEEI. @ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
John Duffield @jfwduffield
6K Followers 4K Following Not-so-young fogey. Centre-right. Constitutionalist. Sceptic. Kent cricket.
Julian Jessop FRSA @julianHjessop
29K Followers 2K Following Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Speakers for Schools. Geller Commission. COYG. Own views, etc. I fund myself. See website for more 👇
Gérard Araud @GerardAraud
138K Followers 3K Following Fmr 🇫🇷Amb 🇮🇱,🇺🇳, 🇺🇸 Chroniqueur @LePoint, @LCI Trustee @CrisisGroup. Sen. adv. @PortlandComms. Fel. @AtlanticCouncil. At https://t.co/VZW5rJSP1U
Piritta Asunmaa @PirittaAsunmaa
5K Followers 1K Following Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Finland to NATO. Passion for European foreign and security policy. Views my own. Retweets not endorsements.
Hanna Ojanen @HannaOjanen
4K Followers 2K Following Analyst of European security and international relations; research director, @MAB_TampereUni #STRAXresearch - Change of Strategic Culture @ENGAGE_Europe
Edward Hunter Christi.. @EHunterChristie
31K Followers 2K Following Senior Research Fellow @FIIA_fi. PhD @VUBrussel & Belgian Royal Military Academy. Former @NATO official 2014-2020. Views my own.
Joe Evans @joeevanswrites
950 Followers 999 Following Field producer @ZDF. Rarely at my desk. Kein ZDF-account.
Rasmus Hindren @RasmusHindren
2K Followers 3K Following Director of Defence Policy, Office of the President of Finland. Fmr @DefenceFinland; @HybridCoE; @AtlanticCouncil etc.
Matti Pesu @PesuMatti
11K Followers 3K Following PhD. Leading Researcher, @FIIA_fi. Finnish, Northern European & Euro-Atlantic security. ♠️
Hannu Himanen @Himantero
4K Followers 2K Following Ambassador (ret), author | #Finland #turpo #secpol #Russia | coming in April 2024: Missä enkelitkin pelkäävät (Where Angels Fear to Tread) | RT≠endorsement
Neil O'Brien MP @NeilDotObrien
35K Followers 2K Following MP for Harborough, Oadby & Wigston For constituency issues email [email protected] Local issues mainly on: https://t.co/4l040dMXgb
Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick
65K Followers 2K Following Conservative Member of Parliament for Newark 🇬🇧 Promoted by Robert Jenrick of 29 London Road, Newark, NG24 1TN.
Nicholas Martin @meilaoban
784 Followers 2K Following Political scientist @FraunhoferISI, made by @MITPolisci & a few other places. Little work-related content; instead, mostly my correct views on everything.
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11K Followers 1K Following Leading researcher @FIIA_fi. Formerly @EU_ISS @Ulkoministerio, @EUMMGeorgia; PhD @LSEIRDept. Passionate about ambitious, policy-relevant research.
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35K Followers 844 Following Journalistin | Hier meine ganz persönliche Meinung.
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Nick Ritchie @DrNickRitchie
1K Followers 184 Following Senior Lecturer (International Security), Department of Politics, University of York, UK. Stuff about UK nukes, TPNW, and unacceptability of nuclear violence.
Michael Sharpe @profmsharpe
3K Followers 5K Following Healthcare Integration Consultant. Oxford Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine. Support freedom of enquiry. Enjoy sharing art.
FIIA @FIIA_fi
15K Followers 691 Following The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) produces topical research on international relations and the EU. FIIA also publishes @Ulkopolitiikka.
James Jinks @JamesRJinks
384 Followers 337 Following Author: The Silent Deep: A History of the Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945, with Lord Hennessy (October 2015); A Very British Bomb (forthcoming)
Paul Johnston @PJohnstonFCDO
10K Followers 3K Following UK Ambassador to Ireland: formerly in London, Paris, Stockholm, and UK missions to the UN, NATO and the EU
Gesine Weber @gesine_weber
5K Followers 3K Following European defence & geopolitics. Currently Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Research Scholar @Columbia_SIPA, PhD-ing @DSD_Kings. Also into languages, running, matcha.
James Beaton @jjb3621
2K Followers 4K Following Formerly Librarian, now retired, Gaelic speaker, Bagpipes, Inveraray #haemochromatosis - the venesections work. Germanophile. Own views @[email protected]
Chris S @the_balconyview
48 Followers 155 Following Interested in all things foreign policy. Views my own.
Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay
20K Followers 1K Following Not a believer - give me evidence. Retired NHS Cons. Married to smashing, glass ceiling smashing woman. 2 kids. Satirical. Country before party(ing)
Nick Michaels @nick5michaels
137 Followers 556 Following
John Helferich @JohnHelferich
348 Followers 2K Following Enthusiast for (peaceful) International Relations, the European Union and Unselfish Memes @StAntsCollege, former @PSIASciencesPo, @AcademieNE, @OxfordPolRev
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10K Followers 683 Following unabhängig denkend, kommunikativ arbeitend, strategisch veranlagt, erzliberal, Retweet bedeutet nicht automatisch Zustimmung.
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman
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Stanley Pignal @spignal
48K Followers 2K Following Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist. Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed. Bio 👇. [email protected]
Etain Tannam @EtainTannam
2K Followers 1K Following Associate Professor International Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin, #ARINS
Kristi Raik @KristiRaik
34K Followers 2K Following Deputy Director @ICDS_Tallinn, Adjunct Professor @UniTurku. Passionate about international politics and security, feeling home in Estonia, Finland and at sea.
Dan Neidle @DanNeidle
158K Followers 1K Following Founder, Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. More boring on LinkedIn https://t.co/Cm5n2PhqrD
elleotz @elleotz
668 Followers 1K Following senior journalist @BBCNewshour, from Denmark and Malawi, now London E17. Am also Spike's mum. Spike is human. That's Winston in the picture.
Sam @si1774
813 Followers 716 Following Father to 5 children husband and animal lover. I do a bit of running but nothing much to shout about. Former store manager at Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant.
Horstmann @Horstma57054493
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Emily Lawford @emilylawford
2K Followers 2K Following Assistant editor @prospect_uk | Previously @EveningStandard | [email protected]
Caroline Gurney @cmgurney
886 Followers 252 Following Historian, qualified genealogist, international speaker. History PGR @BristolUni. Former diplomat & Cabinet Office civil servant.
Elke Ritt @ElkeRitt
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Andrew Riley @AndrewRiley_
853 Followers 3K Following Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.)
Liz Galvez @LizGalvezUK
973 Followers 1K Following Foreign affairs, public diplomacy and diplomatic communication, training for diplomats, e-diplomacy, e-learning, social media. Northampton Saints fan.
Dr Pauline Blistène @PBlistene
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Roger Boyes @rogerboyes
6K Followers 2K Following Diplomatic Editor and columnist,The Times, foreign correspondent for 35 years.Increasingly anxious. Weltschmerz
Ruth Dudley Edwards @RuthDE
18K Followers 3K Following Historian, journalist, biographer & crime novelist. I'm pro-free speech so retweets should not be assumed to be endorsements. https://t.co/EmqjMD4dTvKeir Starmer: “I will always put country before party.” Also Keir Starmer: “I want Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister.”
Patriotism is more than just respecting a shared symbol, it is about service to your country, its people and its values. As Labour leader, I will always put country before party. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…
For those of us who had the privilege to meet him while serving, the Duke of Kent was always kind and demonstrated an interest and understanding of soldiering that gave many the comfort that wherever duty took them, he cared. Thank you for your service, sir.
“Serving as Colonel of the Scots Guards since 1974, the longest anyone has spent in this role, has been a true honour and one which will forever fill me with great joy.” - The Duke of Kent
So sad. The BBC has lost the best of the best. I always turned to Mark for the truth. For when he said it was true, it was. Hugely informed, impartial, impeccable.
🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant…
Wow, this is incredibly poor. He's relying on a script, and the script is pure legospeak. His main criticism is that the FCDO is focussed on "this idea of the national interest" ... and only idea is to change the building. Shesh, hope rest of senior FCDO aren't so hopeless.
Should the Foreign Office be abolished? Moazzam Malik, its former director general, is among a group of senior diplomats and officials calling for the FCO to be replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with 'fewer colonial era pictures on the wall'. #R4Today
When Robin Cook was Foreign Secretary, he had a huge portrait of an oriental ruler removed from his office because it had the wrong vibe for New Labour Britain. He then welcomed a Nepalese delegation, who were very offended that Cook removed a portrait of their prime minister.
RIP Hella Pick, a great journalist. Always curious, never cynical, intensely competitive, she was a trailblazer who came to the UK on the Kindertransport. Incredible life theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…
No. I’m already a long-standing member of the RAC which is just down the road from the Reform on Pall Mall. And it has better facilities. So I see no need to join another club.
Just brilliant. Truly.
We’re celebrating the #EntenteCordiale120. Below, the 🇫🇷 Embassy in 1904, led by Amb. Cambon, who signed the agreements. 120 years later, @FranceintheUK, led by @AmbDuchene. On this #InternationalWomensDay, #feministdiplomacy has progressed, but there’s still further to go.
History has taught us that the road from number 10 to Munich could be tragically direct. Glad that Dominic Cummings was prevented from travelling it
Impossible to know whether commitment to permanently exclude Ukraine from NATO would've averted war. But 1/ impossible to bind future leaders 2/ on 19th Jan '22 Ru rejected idea of 20-year moratorium 3/ Ru concerns were more about Ukr's pol-mil integration than formal membership.
@jillongovt @irishagreement @Jacobbe79601492 @StevePeers @hayward_katy @Con_Soc @CRGMurray @EmmaCDeSouza @DUPleader .@hayward_katy offers one perspective on the meaning of “rigorous impartiality” in the GFA. I have to say I do not read it as a sign a UKG has to be neutral on the Constitutional position of NI or could take no role in a future border poll but would be interested if a UK minister…
As usual, Finland shows the way in terms of seriousness in European defence preparations
Finland has quietly filled its wartime stockpiles and is activating some of the so-called “production reservation agreements” which means that companies produce at the armed forces’ request what is needed for logistics - basically wartime economy light hs.fi/kotimaa/art-20…
If I were Prime Minister I would appoint a troubleshooter in Downing Street whose job it would be to spot scandals like the Post Office early on, and stop them. One duty would be to read Private Eye every issue, and the trade press.
Public discourse on Post Office scandal has been too selective on who should be held to account or blamed. There's not been enough focus on Fujitsu; or to other CEOs apart from Paula Vennells, such as Adam Crozier; or to the many postal services ministers other than Ed Davey.
6 January 1955. Comedy actor, Rowan Atkinson, was born in Consett, County Durham. He starred in Not The Nine O’Clock News, then as Blackadder (pictured), and Mr Bean. He’s regarded as one of the most original British comic talents.
Given Fujitsu's role in creating the deeply flawed Horizon computer system at the heart if the postmasters' scandal, it would be interesting to know if the British government is still awarding them contracts. If so, why?
Sad news in Germany: Wolfgang Schäuble, architect of German Unity, a committed European, former Christian Democratic Minister and President of the Bundestag has passed away at the age of 81 years. For decades he played a defining role in German politics.
David Omand: “The former head of GCHQ has called for an end to the government handling crises over WhatsApp, saying the platform might suit gossip and informal exchanges but is inappropriate for important decision-making.” theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
Mit John Kornblum verlieren wir einen kritischen Partner und intimen Deutschlandkenner. Karsten Voigt sagte mal, Kornblum kenne uns zu gut. Das machte ihn vor und nach der Wiedervereinigung manchmal unbequem, aber stets unverzichtbar. Wir trauern um einen Freund und Ratgeber
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The IDF shot and killed 3 unarmed Israelis wearing civilian clothes and waving a white flag because it mistook them for 3 unarmed Palestinians wearing civilian clothes and waving a white flag.
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