David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch
Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room, author of Voodoo Histories, now Substacking with Notes from the Underground at https://t.co/SLEshAT7y1 davidaaronovitch.substack.com beside my Macbook Joined May 2010-
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No surpise that Timothy/@ukonward think the best way to reduce the UK's trade deficit is to reduce exports by cutting international student places. What is astonishing is that anyone takes this sutff removely seriously..
No surpise that Timothy/@ukonward think the best way to reduce the UK's trade deficit is to reduce exports by cutting international student places. What is astonishing is that anyone takes this sutff removely seriously..
My name is Kristin Song. On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months. At the hospital, the ER doctor slid…
Broadcaster Esther Rantzen has said she "begs" MPs to attend a debate in Parliament on assisted dying. Worth listening to this episode of The Briefing Room - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… with @DAaronovitch @ImogenGoold Agnes van der Heide @ErasmusMC @ThaddeusPope @ProfRHuxtable
Three million disabled people face losing monthly benefits payments, under plans set to be unveiled by the government. Last week, @DAaronovitch @TorstenBell @tonywilsonIES @SamanthaWindett talked about PIP payments (and lots more) in The Briefing Room - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Good thread, and much as I suspected...
Good thread, and much as I suspected...
The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach
The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach
Now that’s interesting: Israel is now open to discussing "sustainable calm" in Gaza after an initial hostage release. In other words, Israel is open to ending the war if it can get the hostages back. axios.com/2024/04/27/isr…
They’re coming for the Woke Pope and his pesky insistence on living somewhere adjacent to the 21st century
They’re coming for the Woke Pope and his pesky insistence on living somewhere adjacent to the 21st century
This is an inaccurate headline that will only fuel community concerns. The decision to cover the memorial was taken by park authorities, not the police. As the paper’s own article makes clear, it is a precaution Royal Parks have taken for a number of different events.
Misinformation. This video is from SYRIA yesterday, when Assad and Russian forces attacked civilian homes in the city of Ariha in the Idlib countryside. This is the original video: x.com/fared_alhor/st…
I am amazed that even Mary's sensible and thoughtful reflections on Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation' can be caught up in a culture war spat. I daresay Clark would have seen it as a sign of impending barbarism. But fwiw, here's some more thoughts from me. 🧵
I am amazed that even Mary's sensible and thoughtful reflections on Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation' can be caught up in a culture war spat. I daresay Clark would have seen it as a sign of impending barbarism. But fwiw, here's some more thoughts from me. 🧵
#TelAviv tonight: Tens of thousands of anti-govt protesters are once again on the streets calling for the immediate ousting of @netanyahu and his inept, corrupt, and messianic clan. #GazaWar
Economic inactivity - what's happening, why does it matter & what should we do about it? Insightful discussion @DAaronovitch @tonywilsonIES @SamanthaWindett @TorstenBell . New Pivotal report on economic inactivity in Northern Ireland coming out on 1 May bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Part two of my assault on smartphoneophobia open.substack.com/pub/davidaaron…
Some US states now reporting mammal to mammal transmission of H5N1 avian flu. Not good. @DAaronovitch and guests asked how worried we should be about avian flu in this episode of The Briefing Room (Feb 2023) - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
You could make a better case that British politics is remaking itself but that it’s the Tory party which is broken and that Frost has very much helped to break it
You could make a better case that British politics is remaking itself but that it’s the Tory party which is broken and that Frost has very much helped to break it
Fascinating new @TheIFS paper finds that the closure of 70% of police stations in London was not cost effective and led to higher crime levels, with particularly negative impacts on the poor ifs.org.uk/sites/default/…
So much misleading stuff has been posted here regarding the position of the ICJ on the charges of Israeli genocide in Gaza, this is a necessary corrective: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Latest column is on the extremists, narcissists and other supposed “allies” who make peace between Israelis and Palestinians ever harder to achieve theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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@DavidHenigUK Timothy is ideologically closer to PiS or Fidesz forms of East European national Conservatism than the Anglosphere neo-liberalism of Thatcher and Reagan. So affinities to Benn's British Leyland Socialism are not that surprising
For those of my generation, Tony Benn becoming the main inspiration to some Conservative thinkers was definitely not predicted.
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This is a very good thread on the Times Blunt story. I’ll add my suspicion that “passing information to the Germans” in any way compromised Operation Market Garden, when the interpretation for decades has been more “dreadfully organised mess” than anything else
A thread: I have only read this article and NOT the book from which it derives, but as the author of the standard biography of Anthony Blunt, I feel inclined to comment. The main contention is that not only was Blunt spying for the Soviets, but that he was/
Waiting for me in my hotel room in Mumbai…very very sweet. If a tiny bit that episode of I’m Alan Partridge. You know the one.
@DAaronovitch @Trivium21c x.com/schroedinger99… This is doing my head in. I may distil them instead.
@Trivium21c @DAaronovitch Yep. I'd like to see a response from someone better versed in stats than I can pretend to be, but my initial reaction is that the evidence presented is credible but not terribly strong.
A great read.
Haidt Anxiety, the first of a two part essay on the great smartphone panic open.substack.com/pub/davidaaron…
oh no
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@cydney0071 @DAaronovitch @ThePrizeForce No, but safe passage *directly* undermines the traffickers' business model in ways punitive barriers do not. Rwanda feeds their business model, the odds are in their favour and can be improved by increasing the rate of crossings. Treating them like good faith actors is silly.
@caitlinmoran @DAaronovitch @KirstieMAllsopp No intention to diss anyone.
Sorry I don't like Falter's stunt, don't like it at all. That's irrespective of how I feel towards the marches and whether or not a great many Jews have good reason to feel fear and intimidation and thus are actively swerving city centres at weekends etc.
@DAaronovitch @KirstieMAllsopp As is the duty of all sisters, mine pointed out "It's because he pulls the same faces as you in photos"
There's a bit in James Graham's This House which is a kind of montage / medley type thing of all the MPs the 74 Labour govt lost for mad reasons, mainly either dying or faking their own death. The 2019 version would be so insane no one could possibly believe it.
Blue Lights is so good. Best UK police thing in forever.
@DAaronovitch 'Geopolitical Analyst at the Budapest based Center for Fundamental Rights' A decent salary, of course. Plenty shops in Budapest, mainly through Corvinus, funded by Fidesz/Kremlin. That twat Furedi's popup MCC Brussels is one, currently doling out to Spikedist types here.
@DAaronovitch Absolutely right - Braverman, Farage and co should be seen very clearly to be sharing platforms with fascists, anti-democrats and other fans of Putinism. Don't give them a cancel culture narrative. Expose them for what they are.
@DAaronovitch @MattChorley @BBCr4today @MrHarryCole Ray Winstone with Lord Charles and you've got yourself a show.
@DAaronovitch @NiSibeal I'm at episode 6 and it's been really good. I've no idea where it's going, though. The motor boat scene is quite something.