Rory Taylor
@rorytaylor
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Not to be too much of a doomer but I feel like we are really not mentally (or practically) prepared for what's coming
Why is migration policy Denmark's main political export and not Højskolen, a TV show that puts all 12 party leaders together for a 24 hour Big Brother-esque experience in a boarding school
🇫🇷 Incredible acapella Marseillaise after Macron's nuclear speech at Île Longue. Almost makes you want to join the French Foreign Legion.
If you were trying to create the ideal conditions for summer riots, I'm not sure you could do much better than this
The year is 2029: Prime Minister Ed Miliband and President Gavin Newsom re-establish UK-US diplomatic relations, ending a two year freeze sparked by former President Trump's unilateral recognition of the Falkland Islands as Argentinian.
Imagine winning this majority and then being brought down by a Peter Mandelson scandal in the year of our lord 2026
My prediction for Gorton and Denton is basically that it's a repeat of Caerphilly, but with the Greens instead of Plaid
Anti-Americanism becoming a major theme of next year's French presidential election (for both left and right) would make things very interesting
My Goodreads 'Year in Books' for 2025. Thirteen in total but my favourite was Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. An incredible, but heartbreaking and infuriating, account of real life in the occupied West Bank. Highly highly recommend, it's a Pulitzer Prize winner for a reason.
Danish local elections tomorrow. I wonder if the UK media/political class will continue waxing lyrical about the 'Danish model' as a silver bullet for Labour after the Danish SocDems inevitably do poorly...
Pro-EU centrists surging last minute to first place? Ed Davey is grinning and rubbing his hands together.
So these supposed narcoterrorists are so dangerous that they need to be executed by drone strike at sea, but if captured it's safe to just repatriate them and not prosecute them? Or perhaps the US has just been murdering people in the Caribbean?
Looks like Thailand's influential ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra is returning to self-imposed exile ahead of tomorrow's PM vote and next week's verdict that could see him jailed. He says he's heading to Singapore for a checkup and will be back tomorrow, but that's definitely not the way to Singapore...
It's not quite The Lord of the Rings or the Cornetto trilogy, but my latest video on Lula completes a trilogy of Latin American polling videos on TLDR Global: 🇧🇷 Why Lula's popularity is fading 🇲🇽 Why Claudia Sheinbaum is so popular 🇵🇪 Why Dina Boluarte is the world's most unpopular leader
You weren't far off: "Sánchez also announced a restructuring of the PSOE's federal executive committee"
Crazy thing is that's not dissimilar to what Stefan Zweig wrote in 1942: "When bombs laid waste the houses of Shanghai, we knew of it in our rooms in Europe before the wounded were carried out of their homes. What occurred thousands of miles over the sea leaped bodily before our eyes in pictures."
Exactly six months after Yoon's martial law attempt, South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president. Probably not the outcome that Yoon intended.
I'm pretty sure there's a perfect correlation between the length of time that a papal conclave goes on and the frequency that journalists covering it talk about seagulls
If 2024 was the year of incumbents losing, is 2025 the year of the incumbent comeback?