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Gabriel Milland

@gabrielmilland.bsky.social

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Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 13m

Even by the intellectually-debased standards of the current GOP, awarding someone a Nobel Prize that you made at home is pretty special.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 32m

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social · 2h

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“For years, Netanyahu manipulated American Presidents. He tricked Bill Clinton; he swindled Obama; he took Biden for a ride. Now he is trying to con you on Gaza, President Trump.”

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

It's not the most important thing about all of this, of course. But Gaza being less salient in three years time might be worth 15-20 seats to Labour.

Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 1h

APNewsAlert: TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli military says its forces have withdrawn to agreed deployment lines for first stage of Gaza ceasefire.

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 1h

APNewsAlert: TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli military says its forces have withdrawn to agreed deployment lines for first stage of Gaza ceasefire.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2h

Half a million highly-motivated opponents, distributed evenly across the country into every single community, many of them highly able, all of them with access to reprographic equipment and an ability to bend the ear of parents at will.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2h

This is the MAGA version of "we'll take the high road, prove we're the better person". It won't last.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2h

Totally normal official response.

Steven Cheung

President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.

He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.

The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.

Quoting The Nobel Prize:

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly. Uppity members of *particular* minorities especially.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3h

August company.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3h

Trump could just claim to have won a peace prize that no one had ever heard of before. It worked for Corbyn.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h

Not everyone aspires to being a prole-whisperer and nor should they. Here's to the rootless-cosmopolitans-with-attitude.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h

To put it in slightly-Janan terms, obvs.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h

"Ganesh is self-evidently witty, erudite and always interesting. Lots of people seem to resent the fact that he appears entirely at ease with that characterisation."

Janan grinds peoples' gears because he is an unashamed boulevardier and people mistake that for being a flâneur.

Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 5h

Nor my obsession with *other people's* sometimes lively reactions to the FT's Janan Ganesh, who I think is great btw

What is it about Janan Ganesh?

I'm a Janan fan — but the FT columnist sure divides opinion

www.linestotake.com

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump posted this about María Corina Machado back in January 2025.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h

The nation-state equivalent of "eff-you money".

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4h

I suppose it's times like these when Norwegians are jolly glad they have one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. #nobel

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 5h

Film at 11.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 6h

Exactly.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure Robert Jenrick must be concerned to discover that his latest video is being amplified by dubious pro Russian propaganda accounts. Perhaps even more so to learn they think he’s a mere journalist.

A pro Russia account shares a Jenrick video

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 18h

But he's not *the government*. He has strictly limited powers. And he's PiS. Whuch does contain antisemites, of course.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 18h

Don't think they have cages in Devon where Ollie Watkins grew up.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 18h

And West London.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 18h

They're not remotely accurate when it comes to people like Donald Tusk and Radek Sikorski.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 19h

Mebbe.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 19h

Cages of South London, innit.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine 30 years ago describing what Marc Guehi was capable of doing as an England centre-back. Terry Butcher had many attributes but he never did stuff like *that*.

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