Alex Hall Hall
@alexhh.bsky.social
Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
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This is not a “peace deal”. It’s a 28-point surrender plan drafted and leaked to US media by Russia, and Trump treated it like it was his own. Rubio admitted as much to senators.
This is shaping up to be a train wreck.
This is shaping up to be a train wreck.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is not a “peace deal”. It’s a 28-point surrender plan drafted and leaked to US media by Russia, and Trump treated it like it was his own. Rubio admitted as much to senators.
This is shaping up to be a train wreck.
This is shaping up to be a train wreck.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
Brave, beautiful Georgia! 🇬🇪
Today marks 22 years since the Rose Revolution - the day that reshaped Georgia for the better and saved the country, at least for my generation. I will be forever grateful and will continue to fight for its values.
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Brave, beautiful Georgia! 🇬🇪
What to do, in this corrupted , sordid, country I now live in? I love my American friends and neighbors. Still admire US in many ways. I pledged allegiance as part of my citizenship ceremony. Trump’s betrayal of US values feels personal. But, I have to keep faith that democracy will reassert itself.
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What to do, in this corrupted , sordid, country I now live in? I love my American friends and neighbors. Still admire US in many ways. I pledged allegiance as part of my citizenship ceremony. Trump’s betrayal of US values feels personal. But, I have to keep faith that democracy will reassert itself.
This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an excellent, depressing, analysis. Trump accuses Democrats of treason, yet he is the one colluding with Russia, selling out allies, betraying NATO, and surrendering US interests to the diktats of a foreign nation. Trump is a deeply corrupt, compromised, craven Quisling.
Read this and weep. A clear and depressing takedown of the Quisling Trump administration, its abject subservience to Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, and by extension, all of us in NATO. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #160: The US Becomes A Mouthpiece To Pass On Putin's Demands
Vance To The Fore; The 28 Points—Is It More Interesting Who Backed Them?
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Read this and weep. A clear and depressing takedown of the Quisling Trump administration, its abject subservience to Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, and by extension, all of us in NATO. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Trump's plan "needs additional work" [K. Starmer] in the same way as does my job application for a vacant role of prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Trump's plan "needs additional work" [K. Starmer] in the same way as does my job application for a vacant role of prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet.
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Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
Congress, pay attention. We the People decide where our money goes — not the President. And we are demanding full support for Ukraine, with everything they need to win. Trump does not hold the power of the purse. The American people do. Act accordingly.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.
And here’s another example of journalistic drivel. Where is their self respect. I used to think of journalism as a noble profession, eg war reporting, investigative journalism. Now, with a few honorable exceptions, it’s descending into shallow mediocrity. We are all dragged down and soiled by it.
It’s unbelievably embarrassing that a newspaper with some lingering pretensions to be serious would run with this kind of drivel.
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And here’s another example of journalistic drivel. Where is their self respect. I used to think of journalism as a noble profession, eg war reporting, investigative journalism. Now, with a few honorable exceptions, it’s descending into shallow mediocrity. We are all dragged down and soiled by it.
I loathe the culture of shallow gotcha journalism, especially when conducted by people who have ZERO useful knowledge or experience of their own, and just want to score cheap points. Of course, PMs should be asked tough questions, but on serious stuff. Starmer shd replied with a withering put down.
Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I loathe the culture of shallow gotcha journalism, especially when conducted by people who have ZERO useful knowledge or experience of their own, and just want to score cheap points. Of course, PMs should be asked tough questions, but on serious stuff. Starmer shd replied with a withering put down.
Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!
It’s unbelievably embarrassing that a newspaper with some lingering pretensions to be serious would run with this kind of drivel.
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s unbelievably embarrassing that a newspaper with some lingering pretensions to be serious would run with this kind of drivel.
It has to be said, she’s a genius at chirpily gaslighting us all. Putin should headhunt her.
JUST NOW: Trump’s Secretary of Lying chalked up his “Quiet Piggy” line to him being “frank and honest” 🤔and said it’s why people voted for him.
There is no bottom.
(And for all the commenters telling us he said “Peggy”, you can relax now. He isn’t even denying it.)
There is no bottom.
(And for all the commenters telling us he said “Peggy”, you can relax now. He isn’t even denying it.)
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It has to be said, she’s a genius at chirpily gaslighting us all. Putin should headhunt her.
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Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
In today’s WSJ, 22 years after the invasion of Iraq. “Mistakes in execution aside” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Am looking forward to the WSJ op-ed in 2042 on how Brexit was a brilliant success too…….”mistakes in execution aside.” 🤦♀️
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In today’s WSJ, 22 years after the invasion of Iraq. “Mistakes in execution aside” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Am looking forward to the WSJ op-ed in 2042 on how Brexit was a brilliant success too…….”mistakes in execution aside.” 🤦♀️
Popped out of the room for two minutes, and returned to find half my sandwich gone, and these two looking very shiftily up at me. Hmmm
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Popped out of the room for two minutes, and returned to find half my sandwich gone, and these two looking very shiftily up at me. Hmmm
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Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.
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From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end
Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
So many American Christian nationalists are bigoted hypocrites, piously spouting religious dogma while behaving abominably to less fortunate fellow human beings. Jesus would weep.
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So many American Christian nationalists are bigoted hypocrites, piously spouting religious dogma while behaving abominably to less fortunate fellow human beings. Jesus would weep.
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Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Daily dose of excellent observations and depressing analysis by the stellar team at the Bulwark. By now, I shouldn’t be shocked, but the fawning meeting with MBS still represents yet another appalling low. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Epstein Saga Has Only Just Begun
The next phase will involve ensuring Trump complies with the disclosures. Let us distrust and verify.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Daily dose of excellent observations and depressing analysis by the stellar team at the Bulwark. By now, I shouldn’t be shocked, but the fawning meeting with MBS still represents yet another appalling low. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM