Richard Lloyd Parry

My dear old friend, Gwen Robinson, died on Saturday in Bangkok. She was fierce, warm, dynamic & loyal. I have never known anyone who had so many friends - genuine & intimate friends, not superficial acquaintances. She made life funnier & more interesting. https://t.co/VqMxnXfRKn https://t.co/XLTTpnAEvl

RT @TimesRadio: "I've just come from the site, from this enormous heap of rubble it the middle of Bangkok." At least eight bodies of peopl…

RT @thetimes: An investigation has confirmed claims that South Korea’s adoption programme was rife with fraud, falsification and deception…

RT @johnthejack: “All of us have experienced beatings, electric shocks and even illegal detention,” he said. “There are criminals here doin…

Jonathan Reynolds, UK business secretary, announces“a substantial change of policy” relaxing mandatory quotas for electric cars after Nissan warned that excessively high targets and punitive fines were a risk to Britain’s biggest car plant. @thetimes https://t.co/qqwJk4Fjb0

RT @johnthejack: A skilled sniper in an elite unit, in ten years he did not once see his parents face to face. Months from being discharged…

“Shiori has the right to tell her own story from her own point of view in terms of public interest, fairness, morality.” Japan’s #MeToo heroine justifies using covert footage in her Oscar-nominated documentary, despite angry criticism by her own lawyers. https://t.co/WYMWN37QfK

RT @thetimes: After his predecessor found favour with the US president by giving him a gilt golf club, Shigeru Ishiba aims to emulate his s…

The @FT rallies the resistance...

Richard Lloyd Parry @dicklp

"Europeans are asking whether the US or China is now the direct threat. It's Trump, not Xi, who is talking about ending the independence of Canada, a Nato member state. And it is Musk, not China, that is promoting the far-right in Europe." @gideonrachman https://t.co/F4bfouIRoF

"Europeans are asking whether the US or China is now the direct threat. It's Trump, not Xi, who is talking about ending the independence of Canada, a Nato member state. And it is Musk, not China, that is promoting the far-right in Europe." @gideonrachman https://t.co/F4bfouIRoF

Boxing Day rainbow, Edinburgh https://t.co/oCIUVknrRd

Vladimir Putin's chum, Dmitry Medvedev, says the "lousy jackals" of The Times are now "legitimate military targets", after an editorial saying that the killing of his general was justified. "Be careful!" he warns. "After all, anything goes in London …” https://t.co/hoza7Ogvb7

RT @johnthejack: According to UN panel, North Korea is funding as much as two fifths of its nuclear and ballistic missile programme by stea…

RT @thetimes: 🗣 'My manager told me someone died there every two weeks' Mushrooms, moonshine, and opium: an insider's look at Vang Vieng's…

"Listening to him in the witness stand was like a flashback to a past era, a bold, free & irreverent Hong Kong, which has given way to a cowed and hesitant place." I heard Jimmy Lai give evidence at his trial on charges of sedition & subversion @thetimes https://t.co/N277mhJwxP