#Parliamentary

Khanoisseur 🐶🤦🏻‍♂️🌎

Khanoisseur

“Dictator”? Erdogan won the presidency in 2014 by more than half the vote (21 million). Obama praised Erdogan’s victory, adding that being the first directly elected President of Turkey was

Corey Wallace

CoreyJWallace

There's been some interesting Japanese+English coverage lately about former defense minister Inada Tomomi. Inada has never exactly been popular with the centre/left-end of the spectrum, but over the last two

James Wallbank

accessjames

This is not a normal time. I think we're at the early stages of an attempt to turn the UK into an autocracy. There follows a thread about the military

Robert Falconer

RRFalconer

Reading over @ErinOTooleMP's immigration platform today. Important to consider given his new role as opposition leader. A combination of tweaks to, shifts from, and acceptance of the status quo. Some

cultural terrorist

risguey

comrade swamp was wrong about the gardening thing, but the general point still stands. Huey P. Newton: “In this country the anarchists seem to feel that if they just express

Password Hunter02

BenKTallmadge

Trump berated PM Johnson over Huawei in heated phone chat -Johnson was planning to visit the US but no date has been set. Reports in UK newspapers that the trip

Derek James From

derekjamesfrom

As the cries in the AB media continue to grow for @jkenney to lockdown AB because of ever-growing Covid-19 case counts, so does my frustration. When will those of us

David Shoebridge

ShoebridgeMLC

The second day of the inquiry into One Nation’s Mark Latham’s bill is starting now - warning as per yesterday that there will be some appallingly transphobic rubbish so mute

Johnny Ryan

johnnyryan

A preview of this evening's parliamentary hearing from @ChasTaylor in The Irish Times this morning.https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/ireland-s-data-regulator-failing-to-rein-in-tech-giants-committee-to-hear-1.4548252 Kudos

Barry Sheppard

barry_shep

A number of weeks ago I was asked to review the following book, Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar, which is on sale today from @Gill_Books. The

Jim Whitehouse......................Peace and Love

NibblerRat

Normalisation of a repressive regime? Nothing about this govt is normal - think back 1 year and compare the amount of the following to today HonestyOpennessIntegritySelflessnessObjectivityAccountabilityLeadership (as in leading by

Manisha Kashyap🇮🇳

brawnymanisha

Yes "Bihar" is underratedI am not ashamed of being called myself "Bihari". I am not getting that point why to offend on being yourself, So here is a thread of

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

Today is time for another long thread on Polish and Russian history. This is a story about the contrast between three cultures: Russian, Polish and also German. It is taken

Andy Jolly

andy_jolly

The death of Mercy Baguma is appalling - don't let anyone tell you that it is just a one-off though. This has happened before, and without urgent policy change it

Gernot Wagner

GernotWagner

I wrote a thing for on Biden's climate plan. http://gwagner.com/risky-business-biden-planIt's good. The plan, that is.What I wrote is also squarely addressed at my fellow economists: please don't make this harder

Ben Noble

BenHNoble

There is evidence that the elite in Russia is rallying around Putin, including those who originally expressed misgivings about the invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war.Is this unity durable