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
- Thought for the day.
- Czechia knows what it’s doing.
- Reform’s new Leicestershire County Councillor Hamilton Gray is an ex-cop who was sacked for breaching professional standards on "honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct, orders and instructions, and duties and responsibilities".
- Netanyahu: “The Israeli army will enter Gaza with full force in the coming days… “I see no scenario in which we would stop the war in Gaza.”
- Zelenskyy will not meet with any Russian representative in Istanbul except Putin, his spokesperson says. And Putin won’t want to attend.
- China won the trade war with the US. Trump lost.
- 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.
- 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.
- A massive fire at Marywilska 44, a huge shopping centre in Warsaw, Poland, in May last year was arson ordered by Russian intelligence, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. Some suspects are in custody, others have been identified and are being hunted.
- Air traffic control systems failed at Newark again today. The FAA implemented a groundstop which lasted for 45 minutes.
