Luke Baker

Fittingly lively and action-packed obituary for a great journalist and mentor. Nick Kotch was a marvellous Reuters correspondent and bureau chief who nurtured many young careers, especially in Africa https://t.co/DONhbofZbc

Important context for the India-UK free trade agreement, which has caused a Reform/Tory brouhaha over the elimination of NICs for Indian workers who remain in the UK for less than three years

Raoul Ruparel @RaoulRuparel

To add to this, many of these were rollovers post Brexit, see full list below. This is pretty common. Duration also often between 2 and 5 years. Also not just developed economies some developing ones in there too. https://t.co/pFCKPJ3u3e

RT @RaoulRuparel: To add to this, many of these were rollovers post Brexit, see full list below. This is pretty common. Duration also often…

RT @Peston: There was a time, not that long ago, that the Tory party would have applauded the elimination of double taxation - Indians and…

RT @sewellchan: Yesterday, I was fired by @Columbia. Here’s my statement, part 1: https://t.co/VXfISbLzRU

RT @mattjay: DOGE demanded root access. Not auditor access. Not admin. They were given “tenant owner” privileges in Azure — full control o…

Weirdly, there are at least four basketball courts in the Old City of Jerusalem... and two football pitches https://t.co/JzZwH1UNpH

Basketball court inside the Old City of Jerusalem. It's the court of the Christian Brothers high school https://t.co/1qqmq0PjGj

It's far from the only egregious case. The casual cruelty of it all... Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs - https://t.co/3AhsBtCDUz

Super proud of Zelenskyy. Huge respect. Standing up in the face of a mafia shakedown. Disgraceful and grotesque behaviour by Trump and Vance #Zelensky

For French (or German) speakers, must-view comments from German Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz, calling a spade and spade and saying that Europe needs to carve out complete independence from the United States, which is meddling in its affairs in unprecedented ways

Le Grand Continent @Grand_Continent

«Je n’aurais jamais pensé dire cela à la télévision...» Dans une prise de parole d'une dureté inédite, @_FriedrichMerz a décidé de charger les États-Unis, le nouveau gouvernement et @elonmusk en appelant à «l'indépendance» de l’Europe contre «l’ingérence». Nous le traduisons. https://t.co/F0aOdAC1nA

RT @Grand_Continent: «Je n’aurais jamais pensé dire cela à la télévision...» Dans une prise de parole d'une dureté inédite, @_FriedrichMer…

Masterpiece -- We’re not passengers — there aren’t any trains https://t.co/8YSgrRgOrs

Apparently (FranceInfo discussion) if you ask DeepSeek to describe the political system in China, it does it perfectly, setting out the layers of authoritarianism and the Chinese Communist Party's stranglehold. But almost as soon as the text is delivered, it disappears

RT @PortlandComms: Donald Trump has taken office as the 47th U.S. president, promising a new "golden age" of America. He immediately withdr…