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Matthew Redhead

@matthewrr.bsky.social

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National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff and landscapes. Views own.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · Sep 12

“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial…they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”

Kenneth Clark, ‘Civilisation’.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 30m

Long live Reggie Perrin.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 38m

Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social · 38m

"Forces of anarchy, wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, ..."
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Jimmy's Secret Army

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 35m

Playing old Trump like a fiddle.

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 37m

Kremlin aide Ushakov:
Putin told Trump that Tomahawks will not change the situation on the battlefield, but will damage the relations between Russia and the US and the settlement in Ukraine.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

Kind of amazing how so many geopolitical deepsea divers predicting Trump's next diplomatic triumph haven't processed what a US government shutdown in its third week and troops in US streets might say about America's long term prospects for shaping the new global order

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 2h

Co-inky-dink? I think not.

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 2h

When the MI5 chief warns that AI and hostile states are reshaping espionage in real time, it’s not a thriller plot - it’s just Thursday.

(Ps interesting reference to “threat” in the context of China given the spy trial fiasco)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MI5 operating in new era of terror and state threats, says chief

In an annual speech, Sir Ken McCallum says the security service is operating in

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 2h

“I know it was you, Deirdre. Never take sides with Mike Baldwin again.”

Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 2h

That photo on the left. Very Michael Corleone.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 3h

The situation is combustible, and the blast could reach the U.S. This year, the Afghan Taliban has been quietly lifting restrictions on foreign and regional militants operating on Afghan soil. www.wsj.com/opinion/al-q...

Opinion | Al Qaeda Rises Amid Afghan-Pakistani Conflict

Why America should care about a South Asian skirmish.

www.wsj.com

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 14h

What is the reality of the cyber threat to the UK? We hear from @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social Director of Cyber and Tech at the Royal United Services Institute- definitely worth a listen @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social

This Is Not A Drill @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social · 14h

NEW EPISODE

@gavinesler.bsky.social talks to @mrjamessullivan.bsky.social, Director of Cyber and Tech at RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute to discuss scale and nature of cyber attacks, and assess how governments can respond 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod

#cyber #tech #podcast

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 23h

David Lamy.

Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

“You know I’ve got this gun, don’t ya?”

Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

I often play this when life gets me down. If things get really bad, I lie down in a darkened room and listen to Reggie Bosanquet “sing” ‘Dance With Me’.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

“So Victor goes into the bathroom as Mrs. Meldrew’s coming out, and he sees there’s another man in there, he’s there for legitimate reasons, but Victor says "What the hell do think you’re doing?". Very funny. That’s what I did last night anyway.”

Kim Jong Un, speaking into a microphone.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

“So, I once went to a raffle where the people who organised the raffle also won the prize, so that can happen, you know?”

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

I don't buy this. In fact, I would be deeply surprised—indeed, shocked, 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙—were president Donald J. Trump, the most law-abiding public servant ever to grace this land, to fail to uphold the presidential tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

President Trump’s request to Israel's parliament to dismiss corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.