Arthur Snell

Awkward interviewing yourself!

Thank you @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social it was a fascinating conversation.

Relentless sun and ruthless populists: how the climate crisis will change the next 20 years Former diplomat Arthur Snell says a heating planet is accelerating conflict and migration – and fostering a new age of empire. Democracies are dangerously unprepared, he warns

In the ahem now longlost days before the war, I interviewed @snellarthur.bsky.social about his new book on how the climate crisis is upending geopolitics (yes we did talk about the future of Gulf petrostates, which was looking fairly unstable even before this) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Serious question - where will you go? It's everywhere.

or #irevwal tbf

That was such a wonderful try! #walvire

Relentless sun and ruthless populists: how the climate crisis will change the next 20 years Former diplomat Arthur Snell says a heating planet is accelerating conflict and migration – and fostering a new age of empire. Democracies are dangerously unprepared, he warns

Genuinely an honour to have been interviewed by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social of @theguardian.com about my new book. Which you can buy from @bookshop.org of course.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I must be having fucking cheese dreams. This can’t really be our reality can it?

It was fun to read because @henrymance.ft.com is a great writer, but Lunch with the FT is usually about people who've done something interesting. This guy really hasn't.

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🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

This comes soon after reports that Russia is helping Iran with the targeting and locations of US forces, so…..

A bar graph showing the monthly average non-farm jobs created during each president’s term starting with H.W. Bush with 54,000; Clinton with 242,000; GW Bush with 22,000; Obama with 109,000; Trump 1 with -58,000; Biden with 336,000, Trump 2 with 16,000 so far. The Democrats created more jobs while in office than the Republicans did.

Biden: +336K jobs per month. Clinton: +242K. Trump 2: +16K — less than the MONTHLY average of every Democratic president since 1989.

The “greatest economy ever” is dead last.
The data doesn’t lie.
#TrumpsJobsSlump​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

So road trips are out
And like, buying stuff

This campaign needs you now Exempt Afghan women from study‑visa suspension now

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American military attacking what they knew to be an unarmed ship.
A bunch of cowards who will probably get medals for it

Trump’s declaration that he expects UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER from Iran does not seem to be calming markets

Worth adding: I sympathise with those that wonder why these people are our allies. But, right now isn't the time to re-examine those alliances. That's the sort of thing Trump would do, not us.

This isn't 4D chess. Odd that people are struggling to understand the policy (which seems pretty sound to me).

2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.

Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?

Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.

Some of his pals are blanking me.

Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?

Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

Words, what do they mean

Tory peer to leave House of Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over £50m Covid PPE deals Lord Chadlington introduced government to supplier in which he had financial interest in 2020

Peter Gummer to quit House of Lords after damning conduct committee report recommends 12-month suspension over introduction of PPE company to govt and failing to cooperate with earlier inquiries. Top reporting from David Conn

Another completely predictable thing has just happened.

US is not at war with Iran so its decision to sink a ship hundreds of miles from Iran, leading to the drowning of most onboard is...

#warcrimes

War crimes update.

Aircraft carriers, surely!

"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"