Mark Chadbourn
📖Sunday Times bestselling author, 📺TV screenwriter, 📇journalist at The New European, Guardian, Times 📶Economist. ✂️Runs with scissors. LDN, NYC, LA
https://www.markchadbourn.co.uk for contact, agents etc
- Zelenskyy will not meet with any Russian representative in Istanbul except Putin, his spokesperson says. And Putin won’t want to attend.
- Someone tried to set fire to Keir Starmer’s house last night.
- The European “Coalition of the Willing” has issued an ultimatum to Putin to bring in the 30-day ceasefire by the end of the day or harsh sanctions will be imposed. The Kremlin: “The language of ultimatums is unacceptable for Moscow. It is impossible to talk to Russia in such a language.”
- Starmer’s immigration focus is the dumbest, stupidest piece of political manoeuvring I’ve seen in a long time. His rhetoric is going to split his coalition and whatever he promises will only drive the racists to demand more. You can’t placate them. It’s a losing strategy.
- The Taliban has now banned chess.
- Morning Bluesky. The US and China have agreed a 90-day tariff pause with tariffs reduced by 115% in the interim, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
- Who do you think wrote this in The Sun? “Sun readers know this country’s migration system is broken. A population the size of Birmingham arrived in just 4 years...”
- Trump dumps Ukraine, dumps European leaders, and immediately goes with what his master Putin wants.
- Air traffic control systems failed at Newark again today. The FAA implemented a groundstop which lasted for 45 minutes.
- Trump is getting a $400 million luxury Boeing 747-8 as a ‘gift’ from Qatar’s royal family, ABC reports. The plane is described as a “flying palace” and will be used as Airforce One and then transferred to Trump. It’s the biggest foreign ‘gift’ ever and apparently doesn’t break bribery laws.
