@ziyameral
Lecturer @SOAS, Senior Associate Fellow @RUSI & the European Leadership Network.. Middle East/Turkey, international security, defence, diplomacy, climate security.. Belfast resident.. Posts likely to include poetry, baking and pics of Rathlin Island.
After a suspected Russian strike on its Kyiv HQ, a Ukrainian drone firm opened its first UK factory
Its Shark-M can loiter for 7 hours, strike 110 miles away and use AI trained on battlefield footage
🤔How did Ukraine's drones become so effective?
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin speaking in the Wren Library in Trinity College, Cambridge,
Taoiseach Micheál Martin speaking at Trinity College, Cambridge, to mark the announcement of Professor Alvin Jackson as the first holder of the Childers Professorship in Modern Irish History, a new university chair endowed by a donation from the government of Ireland.
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
"Instead of acting united, EU countries are racing to produce new weaponry on their own terms. The result is a divided military landscape that creates neither credible deterrence nor strategic coherence."
@euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/opinion/euro...
Dan wasn't even born before decimalisation (nor was he anywhere near the UK when he was born) but still he yearns for Britain's pre-decimal times 55 years later.
Is US, a NATO ally, turning away from
the West?
Canada aiming to seriously increase defence spending and shift away from US manufacturers.
Very promising for NATO in the High North.
Screenshot from the Telegraph saying Protesters accuse RNLI of being 'taxi service' for asylum seekers Dozens of campaigners accuse charity of using lifeboats to 'facilitate' illegal immigration
Imagine being so "patriotic" that you protest the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for saving lives.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.
“I am too scared to drive my 5-year-old daughter to school in my husband’s car. I’m terrified ICE will detain me and our daughter will end up alone,” she said. “This is just as scary as the war in Ukraine, except now we don’t have Dmytro with us..."
www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...
Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...
47% of Europeans want X banned across the EU, so the flipping Scandiwegians are doing something about it, with proper Viking energy.
W is now accepting registration ahead of it's launch.
wsocial.eu
Good response to Jim Ratcliffe's appalling comment on immigration.
@jakerichardsmp.bsky.social: "Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country, one might question whether he is the patriot that we need to comment on this issue."
Noooo.. hype over chatbots?? difficult to believe
"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families"
extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Three women in Istanbul late 1800s.. an Armenian, a Greek and a Jew.. Can you tell who is who?
Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.
Some time after this photo was taken, someone said something like 'this should have been the end of it all'.
The simple fact is that if Joe Biden had delivered a speech at Davos as rambling and as disjointed as what we saw Trump deliver there would have been uproar in the US and calls to remove him from office.
Instead news organisations feel compelled to explain away what we saw and imply a strategy.
There should be a strict rule in the Chagos Islands debate that if you can’t point to them on a map, you shouldn’t be allowed to express an opinion about them.
An Élysée spokesperson said on Sunday that President Emmanuel Macron will ask the EU to activate its Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) – dubbed the bloc’s trade “bazooka” – if new US tariffs materialise.
Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people
Brexit failed, and Farage was one of its key architects.
"In a sane world, Farage would not be able to show his face in parliament or in a TV studio without being reminded of two things. His adult life was devoted to a cause that his compatriots now regard as a mistake."
https://on.ft.com/4pEaXpC
If a shop was selling the material Grok has been producing, it would be prosecuted.
So the question is whether X is subject to the same laws as everyone else, or whether it can intimidate govts into exempting it.
Equality before the law is not "fascism". It's one of our best defences against it.
Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors.
Excellent opening in particular.
A happy new year from
me and George, who is never impressed..
Kyiv did not sleep once again last night. On the last weekend of the year, the capital should have smelled of mulled wine, cinnamon, chocolate and joy.
Instead, our city was filled with smoke, gunpowder, explosions, screams, and curses.
The Russian attack lasted twelve hours.
Have yourself a wonderful Turkish boxing day with simit and Iznik christmas tree decorations 😍
It's an unusual form of isolationism...
Merry Christmas to all who mark it today ❤️🙏
God forgive me
