Anthony Glees
@anthonyglees.bsky.social
I'm a professor of politics with a special interest in intelligence-led security policies and practices
http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-anthony-glees/
http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-anthony-glees/
Hard agree. Murdoch wants Farage in No 10 & will strain every sinew to achieve this (at least this is what it looks like). Soundbite politics rule more generally. Badenoch treated us to an earful of them at PMQs. Like Farage, you listen but there’s no policy behind them.
Farage was allowed an extended political broadcast with depressingly little comeback. That matters because he’s a very plausible sounding politician. He’s really vulnerable on his plans for welfare and on defence, but he was allowed to deliver his soundbites.
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Hard agree. Murdoch wants Farage in No 10 & will strain every sinew to achieve this (at least this is what it looks like). Soundbite politics rule more generally. Badenoch treated us to an earful of them at PMQs. Like Farage, you listen but there’s no policy behind them.
Indeed.
What is The Times doing to its reputation?? The two truculent, arms folded Times employees, are also bad optics. They look like bully-boys, not journos.
What is The Times doing to its reputation?? The two truculent, arms folded Times employees, are also bad optics. They look like bully-boys, not journos.
So Farage thinks PMQs is "fixed", biased against smaller parties, Parliament unrepresentative of "the country", and why should he sit and be mentioned by the PM without being able to respond? All straight out of the populist playbook.
I thought that I’d misheard when this was advertised on Times Radio. Clearly I hadn’t. What is going on at The Times?
January 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Indeed.
What is The Times doing to its reputation?? The two truculent, arms folded Times employees, are also bad optics. They look like bully-boys, not journos.
What is The Times doing to its reputation?? The two truculent, arms folded Times employees, are also bad optics. They look like bully-boys, not journos.
No surprises here, then.
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
No surprises here, then.
The president’s mental state must worry all America’s European friends (assuming there are some).
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The president’s mental state must worry all America’s European friends (assuming there are some).
It’s Nobel, Mr President. The guy who invented Dynamite. Nothing to do with nobility.
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
It’s Nobel, Mr President. The guy who invented Dynamite. Nothing to do with nobility.
My take this morning via The Mirror www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Grim WW3 warning issued as 'we're all in danger' with 'nobody safe'
Trump has created global anxiety over the coup in Venezuela - and now a security and defence expert warns Mirror readers that nobody is safe anymore
www.mirror.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 PM
My take this morning via The Mirror www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
‘The Government that killed them’. This is an utterly disgraceful (& illogical) thing to say, offering succour to those trying to subvert our democracy & elected govt. Many will think you’ve lost your marbles.
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
‘The Government that killed them’. This is an utterly disgraceful (& illogical) thing to say, offering succour to those trying to subvert our democracy & elected govt. Many will think you’ve lost your marbles.
Very well said. Time to get a grip.
When will European leaders admit there won't be a peace deal, unless Russian forces are defeated in Ukraine? They have now spent almost a year talking about deploying forces after a deal, while Putin grinds forward - slowly, but without showing any interest in peace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
UK and France would send troops to Ukraine in event of peace deal, Starmer says after Paris talks
Officials from the
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Very well said. Time to get a grip.
We wonder if Stephen Miller, Trump's senior aide, is going to respond at these repugnant rants from a high-profile Trump supporter.
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
We wonder if Stephen Miller, Trump's senior aide, is going to respond at these repugnant rants from a high-profile Trump supporter.
US agrees to support European troops in Ukraine
Wow. A game-changer.
Wow. A game-changer.
January 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
US agrees to support European troops in Ukraine
Wow. A game-changer.
Wow. A game-changer.
What Miller says is outrageous but it’s equally outrageous that Europe has allowed America to think this is OK.
It isn’t.
It isn’t.
January 6, 2026 at 7:49 AM
What Miller says is outrageous but it’s equally outrageous that Europe has allowed America to think this is OK.
It isn’t.
It isn’t.
This will ring alarm bells all over Europe this morning www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:46 AM
This will ring alarm bells all over Europe this morning www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
It takes one to know one…
January 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
It takes one to know one…
This is what Brexit has done. It has not made us greater Britain, it’s made us lesser Britain, too weak & afraid to confront, meaningfully, the madness of King Donald the First. Bizarrely the cowardice of LAB, REF & the Tories gives the Chavistas (!) on the Left a platform.
January 6, 2026 at 7:35 AM
This is what Brexit has done. It has not made us greater Britain, it’s made us lesser Britain, too weak & afraid to confront, meaningfully, the madness of King Donald the First. Bizarrely the cowardice of LAB, REF & the Tories gives the Chavistas (!) on the Left a platform.
January 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Apprentice contestant ‘denied Holocaust and blamed Jews for 9/11’
The Times seems more worried he was in ‘The Apprentice’ than an NHS cardiologist. Bizarre
www.thetimes.com/article/3eeb...
The Times seems more worried he was in ‘The Apprentice’ than an NHS cardiologist. Bizarre
www.thetimes.com/article/3eeb...
Apprentice contestant ‘denied Holocaust and blamed Jews for 9/11’
Asif Munaf, who appeared on the BBC show in 2024, posted ‘seriously offensive’ antisemitism, medical tribunal hears
www.thetimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Apprentice contestant ‘denied Holocaust and blamed Jews for 9/11’
The Times seems more worried he was in ‘The Apprentice’ than an NHS cardiologist. Bizarre
www.thetimes.com/article/3eeb...
The Times seems more worried he was in ‘The Apprentice’ than an NHS cardiologist. Bizarre
www.thetimes.com/article/3eeb...
My take on the defence crisis we face in 2026 via The Express
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2153...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2153...
UK armed forces face year of crisis as Labour branded 'a national disgrace'
EXCLUSIVE: Labour's treatment of the UK military has been dubbed "a national disgrace' after presiding over cuts of nearly £3billion to the MoD's Budget.
www.express.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
My take on the defence crisis we face in 2026 via The Express
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2153...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2153...
Trump: Venezuelan vice president will pay 'bigger price than Maduro' if she doesn't do 'what's right' -
It sounds like Trump is threatening to kill her. This is really not how a US president should talk. news.sky.com/story/venezu...
It sounds like Trump is threatening to kill her. This is really not how a US president should talk. news.sky.com/story/venezu...
Venezuela latest: US 'not at war', Rubio says - as Maduro could appear in court tomorrow
Nicolas Maduro is in the US - in handcuffs - where he said "happy new year" as agents escorted him through a corridor. He could appear in court tomorrow. But was this all legal? What is the reaction f...
news.sky.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Trump: Venezuelan vice president will pay 'bigger price than Maduro' if she doesn't do 'what's right' -
It sounds like Trump is threatening to kill her. This is really not how a US president should talk. news.sky.com/story/venezu...
It sounds like Trump is threatening to kill her. This is really not how a US president should talk. news.sky.com/story/venezu...
The gremlins are busy @TheTelegraph__ right now.
Did Rubio really say the US had a policy of ‘aggression’?
And we’re happy to note the USA is in charge of American policy..,
Did Rubio really say the US had a policy of ‘aggression’?
And we’re happy to note the USA is in charge of American policy..,
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The gremlins are busy @TheTelegraph__ right now.
Did Rubio really say the US had a policy of ‘aggression’?
And we’re happy to note the USA is in charge of American policy..,
Did Rubio really say the US had a policy of ‘aggression’?
And we’re happy to note the USA is in charge of American policy..,
‘Don’t eff around with Don’.
January 4, 2026 at 8:44 AM
‘Don’t eff around with Don’.
MAGA leaders are worried he might be. George Bush 2.0? Iraq 2.0? Should we be pleased - or horrified? A big debate is about to begin.
January 4, 2026 at 8:29 AM
MAGA leaders are worried he might be. George Bush 2.0? Iraq 2.0? Should we be pleased - or horrified? A big debate is about to begin.
Reposted by Anthony Glees
A country of almost 30 million, with a powerful if hated security apparatus with links to organised crime and access to lots of cocaine... what could possibly go wrong?
Trump just announced “we are going to run the country” until they can guarantee a just transition because they “can’t run the risk of someone else taking over” Venezuela.
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
A country of almost 30 million, with a powerful if hated security apparatus with links to organised crime and access to lots of cocaine... what could possibly go wrong?
What happened to America First, asks US, as Trump strikes
A great analysis of a big question: is Trump now a global interventionist?
www.thetimes.com/article/f239...
A great analysis of a big question: is Trump now a global interventionist?
www.thetimes.com/article/f239...
What happened to America First, asks US, as Trump strikes Venezuela
Seizing Nicolás Maduro jars with the isolationist views of much of Trump’s voting base — but he believes America’s back yard is his domain
www.thetimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:26 AM
What happened to America First, asks US, as Trump strikes
A great analysis of a big question: is Trump now a global interventionist?
www.thetimes.com/article/f239...
A great analysis of a big question: is Trump now a global interventionist?
www.thetimes.com/article/f239...