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Alain Catzeflis
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SNOUT IN TROUGH
You might say this is corrupt. I couldn’t possibly comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Every autocrat has a backroom mastermind. #StephenMiller is #Trump’s

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Stephen Miller: Lord of the Flies at the heart of Trump's assault on democracy
The deputy Chief of Staff at the White House is the descendant of immigrant Jews fleeing anti-Semitism. And yet he's the president's persecutor in chief.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Blair Viceroy to Gaza. Have we learnt nothing? open.substack.com/pub/theconst... #Gaza #Blair #Palestine #Israel
Blair Viceroy to Gaza. Have we learnt nothing?
The Trump plan for ending the war in Gaza is flimsy as it is. Handing it over to Tony Blair would be the kiss of death
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October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#Gaza #Israel #UNICEF #therestispolitics.bsky.social #rory-stewart.bsky.social #alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Bearing witness to a 'war on children' in Gaza. One man's testimony open.substack.com/pub/theconst...
Bearing witness to a 'war on children' in Gaza. One man's testimony
Israel denies accusations of indiscriminate killing, starvation and other crimes of war. Judge for yourself if UNICEF's James Elder's words ring true
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Stalin’s birthplace is simmering with anxiety and bitterness. My Substack 👇
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Is Georgia the next domino in Putin's sights?
The US and Europe have failed the most basic test of deterrence against an aggressive and expansionist Russia
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September 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The message for the UK and Europe is simple: circle your wagons around Zelensky and stick to your guns. Because if he wins Putin won’t stop there. The man in the Kremlin hasn’t changed his spots My Substack 👇
#Ukraine #Trump #Putin open.substack.com/pub/theconst...
If Trump tries to play the percentages with Putin he'll lose
Stalin swallowed up eastern Europe. Putin will do the same with Ukraine if he's given the chance
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August 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Everyday we should remind ourselves of this 👇.....#Gaza
August 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#KeirStarmer must stop behaving like a lawyer and start acting like a leader. Diplomatic baby steps will not end the deliberate mass starvation of kids in #Gaza. The British government must stop the export of arms, parts and software to Israel until this horror.
We are complicit in a #genocide.
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The British Prime Minister, a former human rights lawyer and champion of civil liberties, now walks the razor’s edge of inconsistency. My Substack 👇
#Gaza #Israel #Netanyahu #Starmer
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Criminalising protest because a tiny minority behaves badly is a really, really dumb idea.
Keir Starmer is confusing terrorism with protest and eating away at an already fragile democracy.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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JUST GIVE ...

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES
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SAVE THE CHILDREN
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RED CROSS
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July 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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" I have supp'd full of horrors" Macbeth

#Gaza #Israel #Warcrimes #Genocide
July 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Israel's behaviour in Gaza is rapidly devaluing the moral strength of the Holocaust. #Israel #Gaza #Netanyahu #Palestine #ChathamHouse #FCO
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Gaza: Murder or manslaughter? Genocide or just careless targeting?
Rapahel Lemkin, the Pole who coined the phrase genocide, would have known the difference
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July 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Liberals need to stop being so damn apologetic, endlessly walking on eggshells. My Substack 👇
#Trump #Farage #Project2025
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Populism: You don't take a violin to a knife fight. It's time to stand up to the bullies
Trump and his mentors at Project 2025 are not fooling around. Their aim is to roll back and eventually repeal the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Doctors in Gaza paint a picture of a health system slowly and systematically being choked to death. #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #Netanyahu
July 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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It takes a jurist to categorise what the IDF doing in Gaza as a war crime or genocide. To this man on the Clapham omnibus, it looks suspiciously like a deliberate effort to drive the entire population of Gaza into the wilderness. #Gaza #Israel #IDF #Netanyahu
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How much longer will the civilised nations of Europe pretend that Israel's action in Gaza amount to self-defence?
The killing of Dr Marwan Sultan a leading cardiologist who ran the largest hospital in Gaza begs the question: what is Netanyahu trying to do?
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July 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Has #Starmer got it in him?

#Labour #RachelReeves #MorganMcSweeney

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Starmer's problem is not a lack of political nous. It's an absence of audacity
FDR and Clement Attlee drove big change by having a clear idea of what they wanted and the courage to do it. The UK desperately needs that kind of leadership.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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What's it going to be? Full pelt to annexation? Or a deal to bring back the hostages and begin the slow, hard climb back to dialogue?
#Israel #Gaza #Smotrich #BenGvir #USA #Hamas

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The Judaism of peace and justice has been hijacked by Israel's ultra-nationalists
The war in Gaza is on a road to nowhere.Israel faces a choice: it can keep going or it can try and salvage something from the wreckage
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June 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I've lost 22kg in 12 months. My resting heartbeat is down to a middle distance runners. But now comes the hard part

Read my Substack

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#Ozempic #Mounjaro #weightloss
May 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Donald Trump heads to the Gulf - but not Israel - where Saudi Arabia has jumped to the top of the White House's VIP list
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Trump
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Israel's wants to demolish Gaza and expel the Palestinians. That's a crime. But it's also a mess America doesn't need
Donald Trump heads to the Gulf - but not Israel - where Saudi Arabia has jumped to the top of the White House's VIP list
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May 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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So the Chinese wanted to shut down loss-making British steel. What a surprise open.substack.com/pub/theconst...
#China #Britishsteel
So the Chinese wanted to shut down loss-making British steel. What a surprise
The cardinal, the only, iron law of 21st century economics is national resilience
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April 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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@Trump @Erdogan @Orban sing from the same hymn sheet. @Chavez was the pioneer. 👇

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How to become an autocrat - in a democracy.
Donald Trump follows a well-trodden path pioneered by revolutionary leftist Hugo Chavez and Hungary's Viktor Orban
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April 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#Trump is waging war on the rule of law. Like Putin in Ukraine he's taking a big gamble. Just like Putin the US President risks overplaying his hand
@nytimes.com @edwardluce.bsky.social @wsj.com

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I"fought the law and..." who won?
Donald Trump is trashing the rule of law in America. It's a serious crisis. But the outcome is not a foregone conclusion.
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March 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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What #Trump and #Putin have in common and why #Russia is a real and present threat to Europe. 👇

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The Russian bear is out of the woods | TheArticle
The end of World War II marked the unravelling of empires and the arrival of full-on nationalism. Spheres of influenc...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Those who live by the market shall get screwed by the market. There are many reasons why Tesla's share price has collapsed. Number 1 Elon Musk is a dick. There are others as this excellent piece in the FT explains. #Tesla #ElonMusk
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What Tesla’s tarnish tells us about America Inc
Elon Musk’s company, like the US itself, seems like a sell
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March 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM