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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 15h

Quite a coup for Zurich, a dark sign for America, and perhaps a missed opportunity for the UK.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 19h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 8h

‘How we can screw our political enemies’…

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 8h

Very fascinating www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | A Perilous Difference Between the Trump and Nixon Eras

www.nytimes.com

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 8h

Are the Cathedral authorities off their heads??
mol.im/a/15181045

Graffiti exhibition makes Canterbury cathedral 'look like a car park'

The art installation at Canterbury Cathedral allows people to pose questions to God, and they are then plastered on pillars around the ancient building in Kent.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 9h

Melania Trump secures release of children abducted from Ukraine
This could be a very significant development. Very.

www.thetimes.com/article/0d10...

Melania Trump secures release of children abducted from Ukraine

The first lady said she was working ‘directly’ with President Putin to release more children that were brought to Russia

www.thetimes.com

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Jenkins supported Brexit.

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 20h

👏 Simon Jenkins gives first major mainstream call for parliamentary leadership to reverse Brexit, not just reset it.

🇪🇺Steel collapse immediate trigger: 80% 🇬🇧 steel 👉EU, now face 50% tariffs - terminal.

🇬🇧 The cause: thank you Brexit

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Had you heard of this lady from Venezuela? Me neither. Have you heard of Trump’s Gaza peace deal? The Nobel Peace Prize would have been a win-win all round: good for Gazans, good for the region, good for UKR’s chances, good for Trump & bad for warmongers like Putin & Kim Jong-un. Daft Cmtee.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Come on, Ms Cooper, you’re a British Foreign Secretary. Speak up! Trump deserves this whatever one feels about his domestic policies (horrible imho).

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Ms Elzinga is absolutely bang to rights in this. The Govt’s attack on the IB (doubtless to burnish its Brexit credentials) is outrageous. Come on Yvette Cooper, stick your head above the parapet for once & challenge Ms Philipson.

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Trump deserved it.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

Donald Trump DIDNT win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

I’m not sure it’s a PM’s job to provide moral leadership, tbh. That’s the Archbishop of Canterbury’s job.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 18h

Ms Elzinga is absolutely bang to rights in this. The Govt’s attack on the IB (doubtless to burnish its Brexit credentials) is outrageous. Come on Yvette Cooper, stick your head above the parapet for once & challenge Ms Philipson.

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20h

mol.im/a/15178675 Erhem.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20h

Indeed. Charisma is a key political asset but you either have it, or you don’t. It can’t be acquired, however decent you are - as Starmer seems to be. What is so perplexing is that Starmer is doing silly things (eg China’s spying) that don’t compensate for his lack of charisma. We don’t get it.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 21h

Blair had education education education. The current Labour government needs charisma charisma charisma.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21h

Bravo Joanna Lumley.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21h

My take on Trump’s Gaza deal & why we should honour him for it, despite many of his domestic policies which are horrible, the NZ Herald. Like it or loathe it, it is indeed the era of Trump. Let’s hope he now gets tough on Putin. www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald...

Can the Israel-Hamas ceasefire hold?

Security and intelligence expert Anthony Glees joins Herald Now from the UK to assess the fragile truce in the Middle East. Video / Herald NOW

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. But the abolition of Stamp Duty (a daft tax invented by Gordon Brown & vastly increased by George Osborne) looks like a positive & transformational policy to many of us. It could kickstart the housing market & keep the wolves away from Badenoch.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

My take on the day's events, via The Daily Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

Israel's PM and his two 'evil crackpots' will 'fight on' after Gaza ceasefire

As the world fixes its gaze on the long-awaited Israel and Hamas ceasefire, an expert has shared his concerns as the troubled region looks beyond the two-year conflict that has left tens of thousands ...

www.mirror.co.uk

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
A Must-Read.

Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

If Ms Badenoch had greater respect for the Arts & Humanities she’d be a weightier leader (Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath &Thatcher had a deep interest in history); apart from Heath they also had mastery of spoken & rhetorical English. Unlike Badenoch.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting comments

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

My take on the Chinese spying fiasco
metro.co.uk/2025/10/08/g...

Government's China spy row 'refusal' is branded 'preposterous'

The government's role in the collapse of the China spy case has come under scrutiny.

metro.co.uk

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

Her comment on Poland ('it is growing twice as fast as the UK' begging the q. how?) and our being 'addicted to immigration' also deserved to raise eyebrows. However, she has an infectious chuckle, heard many times today and her speech may be enough to halt REF. Except I doubt it.

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch's speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLB9... was better than feared but worse than one hoped. Some bad slips ('since Brexit and Covid the size of the civil service has fallen by 1/3' - she meant the opposite - 'we were brave enough to take Britain out of the EU' - why 'brave'?
And...

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch's speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLB9... was better than feared but worse than one hoped. Some bad slips ('since Brexit and Covid the size of the civil service has fallen by 1/3' - she meant the opposite - 'we were brave enough to take Britain out of the EU' - why 'brave'?
And...

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

The first conviction under the 1911 OSA was in 1913 (of a German spy) one year before we went to war with Germany. During the Cold War the OSA was repeatedly used in Russian espionage cases (e.g Prime the GCHQ spy) but we were never at war with the USSR. Who's our enemy is our decision, not China's.

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