Peter Beaumont
@petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
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The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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I'm already calling it on the next FIFA Peace Price: MBS!
You heard it here first!
You heard it here first!
a man sitting in a chair with arabic writing on the screen
ALT: a man sitting in a chair with arabic writing on the screen
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm already calling it on the next FIFA Peace Price: MBS!
You heard it here first!
You heard it here first!
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"Europe’s leaders privately warned that the United States may be preparing to pressure Ukraine into territorial concessions without offering real security guarantees." Their only clue was absolutely everything the Trump administration have been saying and doing since 20 January.
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Europe’s leaders privately warned that the United States may be preparing to pressure Ukraine into territorial concessions without offering real security guarantees." Their only clue was absolutely everything the Trump administration have been saying and doing since 20 January.
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This is maybe the most embarrassing moment of Infantino's tenure and that is saying something
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is maybe the most embarrassing moment of Infantino's tenure and that is saying something
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It’s entirely possible that there will be players at the 2030 World Cup who weren’t born the last time it was held in a functioning democracy
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s entirely possible that there will be players at the 2030 World Cup who weren’t born the last time it was held in a functioning democracy
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Do you remember when everyone said it was such a shame that Americans didn't like football; if only Americans liked football, then what a glorious global game it would become? Turns out that was a golden age.
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do you remember when everyone said it was such a shame that Americans didn't like football; if only Americans liked football, then what a glorious global game it would become? Turns out that was a golden age.
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It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision
🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision
Trump discovers the "tiny" car of the very near future: a 1965 Fiat 500.
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Trump discovers the "tiny" car of the very near future: a 1965 Fiat 500.
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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Breaking News: The New York Times sued Perplexity, an A.I. start-up, claiming that its copyrights were repeatedly violated by the company.
New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Breaking News: The New York Times sued Perplexity, an A.I. start-up, claiming that its copyrights were repeatedly violated by the company.
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Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Check out drummer Louis Delorme in this. Playing drums with one hand and keys with another. www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
Air: Tiny Desk Concert
The French electronic duo turns distressed dreams into symphonies plucked from cotton candy clouds. Yet to see Air's members perform live, everything looks so effortless.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Check out drummer Louis Delorme in this. Playing drums with one hand and keys with another. www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g...
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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EU fines Elon Musk’s X €120mn for transparency violations on.ft.com/49XYo4D
EU fines Elon Musk’s X €120mn for transparency violations
Penalty under the bloc’s Digital Services Act risks escalating tensions with US government
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
EU fines Elon Musk’s X €120mn for transparency violations on.ft.com/49XYo4D
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December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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DOD IG lists the things in Whiskey Pete's texts that came straight from a classified S/NF email.
You'll be devastated that "Currently clean on OPSEC" wasn't Whiskey Pete trying to be cool--it came from the email.
You'll be devastated that "Currently clean on OPSEC" wasn't Whiskey Pete trying to be cool--it came from the email.
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
DOD IG lists the things in Whiskey Pete's texts that came straight from a classified S/NF email.
You'll be devastated that "Currently clean on OPSEC" wasn't Whiskey Pete trying to be cool--it came from the email.
You'll be devastated that "Currently clean on OPSEC" wasn't Whiskey Pete trying to be cool--it came from the email.
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CBS News staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ network town hall with Erika Kirk
CBS staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ Erika Kirk town hall
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
CBS News staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ network town hall with Erika Kirk
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"Using a personal cell phone to
conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD
information through Signal risks potential compromise of
sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD
personnel and mission objectives."
conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD
information through Signal risks potential compromise of
sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD
personnel and mission objectives."
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Using a personal cell phone to
conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD
information through Signal risks potential compromise of
sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD
personnel and mission objectives."
conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD
information through Signal risks potential compromise of
sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD
personnel and mission objectives."
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BREAKING: The Pentagon released an 84-page report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss military strikes. It found he risked putting troops in danger.
Pentagon releases report on Hegseth’s Signal chats
The agency watchdog investigated whether the Defense secretary violated the agency’s standards for sharing classified information and put troops in danger.
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
BREAKING: The Pentagon released an 84-page report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss military strikes. It found he risked putting troops in danger.
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Labour is slow-marching working people to populism as.ft.com/r/2aedc22e-6...
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
Labour is slow-marching working people to populism
[FREE TO READ] Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support
as.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Labour is slow-marching working people to populism as.ft.com/r/2aedc22e-6...
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
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If they both exist and like him, they will doubtless come forward to explain how they know what he was up to even when he was nowhere near them.
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If they both exist and like him, they will doubtless come forward to explain how they know what he was up to even when he was nowhere near them.
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Farage is all over the place - is the story that
a) he never did a racism; or
b) everyone was doing a racism,* so his racism didn't count
It can't be both
*anyway some people were *not* doing a racism - and Manning/ITV are not leaders of a political party
a) he never did a racism; or
b) everyone was doing a racism,* so his racism didn't count
It can't be both
*anyway some people were *not* doing a racism - and Manning/ITV are not leaders of a political party
ITV are now asking Farage about his schoolboy comments and Farage is talking over the correspondent and instead ranting about Bernard Manning and how Manning appeared on ITV in the past. This is all quite odd.
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Farage is all over the place - is the story that
a) he never did a racism; or
b) everyone was doing a racism,* so his racism didn't count
It can't be both
*anyway some people were *not* doing a racism - and Manning/ITV are not leaders of a political party
a) he never did a racism; or
b) everyone was doing a racism,* so his racism didn't count
It can't be both
*anyway some people were *not* doing a racism - and Manning/ITV are not leaders of a political party