Gavin Esler
Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
- Fascinating conversation about India - Pakistan and Kashmir as a flashpoint for big power rivalry with Professor Chris Clary @claryc.bsky.social
- 🌏NEW EPISODE🌏 An escalating crisis on the India-Pakistan border has put the neighbours and historic rivals on the brink of a wider conflict. Can this be brought back from the edge? @gavinesler.bsky.social discusses with @claryc.bsky.social ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
- “Very awkward” is very “Yes prime minister.” There is something very loveable about British understatement (thanks @pickardje.bsky.social )
- A new World Order WITHOUT America? What might that look like as we all come to terms with Donald Trump and Maganomics? I’ve been speaking with a world renowned foreign affairs expert @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social
- 🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The first 100 days of Trump’s second term have left the rest of the world facing the challenge of maintaining a global order without American leadership. @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by Oxford University Professor Ngaire Woods to discuss what comes next ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
- Yes.
- Just another case of the right hand not knowing what the far right hand is doing.
- Brilliant
- Metro: Pain as Spain mainly off the mains #TomorrowsPapersToday
- Trump’s 100 days - CLUE: he ain’t no FDR. Plus - if you like Donald Trump, Will you be voting for the latest Farage party? Will you even be voting since if Apathy were a party it might just win power …. @bunkerpod.bsky.social
- ⏰Start Your Week⏰ The local elections are coming up – will there be big wins for Farage? Will he pretend Reform has done amazingly no matter what? Plus, Trump reaches 100 days in office – @gavinesler.bsky.social talks @jacobjarvis.bsky.social through how it's going... ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction
- “Is the ‘trade deal’ in the room with you now?”
- Appeasement? You decide -
- 🚨NEW🚨 Trump famously said he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. But now, he’s suggested the US might “pass” on peace negotiations. So, what does that mean for Ukraine? @gavinesler.bsky.social speaks with @lukeharding1968.bsky.social in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
- Weird Donald just gets more weird by the day
- Ah … that Trump King-Midas-in-Reverse touch …
- Make America Groan Again
- Is China likely to back down in the face of the Trump on-off tariff trade war? Hear an expert view @bunkerpod.bsky.social from Cindy Yu
- Trump's tariff tirade has led to a full blown trade war between the US and China. Have we got any idea who might win it? China expert and commentator Cindy Yu joins @gavinesler.bsky.social in our latest episode ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
- Thanks Kenny
- Link to The Great Trump Uncertainty - my latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/gavinesl...
- The Great Trump Uncertainty
- I’m sure this is accurately reported, but why does The Times think that “economic advisers” to Trump know what Trump will do when Trump rules with iron whim? “UK must strike ‘extraordinary deal’ or face permanent 10% tariffs” www.thetimes.com/article/61bf...
- There must be a name for this kind of behaviour but I can’t think of it ….
- And …
- For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
- Make America Groan Again
- Can’t wait for the moment when Trump tells the world it’s all gone to plan and been a world beating success and that he’s made America great again if only we weren’t too stupid to see it ….
- Interesting
- Interest read: An American Cuckoo in Europe's Nest? open.substack.com/pub/europewi...
- Yes. Definitely
- Yes to this. A rule of thumb is that any meeting over 20 minutes long is probably a waste of time and any meeting that ends with a cheery note about the next meeting is definitely a waste of time
- It was produced I think by ABC News in the US and I was involved in the BBC part of it
- asking @gavinesler.bsky.social : after seeing that Oliver Stone to testify on JFK assassination, was it you that did the devastating Panorama takedown of Stone's theories?
- Harsh. But funny ….
- Thanks @romanhoefner.bsky.social - great journalism and fearless reporting has never been more important than at a time when lying by some has become normalised
- I am one of the journalists who worked on this story (@gavinesler.bsky.social thanks so much for sharing it!). This is why think it's actually concerning: bsky.app/profile/roma...
- Every White House correspondents dinner that I attended had a comedian mocking the President of the Day. Not this year …. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- The Trump Slump?
- Good luck with that www.wsj.com/business/aut...
- Thank you Nicolai for your insights into Germany at a turning point.
- Thank you to @gavinesler.bsky.social for having me on "This is not a drill" for a great conversation on Germany`s changing attitute to security, its fiscal changes and the implications for wider European security:
- In 1890 the US introduced the (Republican) McKinley Tariff raising import duties to almost 50%. The result? Democrat landslide in 1890 Congressional elections. Herbert Hoover (Republican) & the Smoot/Hawley Tariff Act did the same in 1930 … result? FDR won landslide 1932. Roll on 2026 midterms…
- Germany rearms - while the US National “Security” establishment leaks like a broken drain - have a listen to German national security expert @nvondarza.bsky.social on the challenges ahead for all of us
- 🇩🇪🇪🇺Could the German government’s vote to back a rearmament plan prove a turning point for the whole of Europe?🇪🇺🇩🇪 To discuss the German response to European security concerns, @gavinesler.bsky.social is joined by @nvondarza.bsky.social from the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
- This from Der Spiegel - if confirmed - suggests that Trump’s key appointments are all seriously compromised … www.spiegel.de/internationa...
- True … but if stupidity were a resignation issue there might be a lot of vacancies in one fairly recent administration …
- And just remember … these are the people negotiating with Vladimir Putin …. What could possibly go wrong?
- Great scoop for The Atlantic and @JeffreyGoldberg … not so great for American war planning … “the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @JeffreyGoldberg.”
- Definitely looks like Elon is having a bad few weeks … still, he’s at least got the Day Job in Washington
- CNN reckons so. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
- Fascinating conversation with @samagreene.bsky.social on the Putin-Trump relationship - and how it might come unstuck.
- 🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Trump’s much-touted call with Putin has come to nothing so far. Is Putin just stalling – or manipulating a guileless US president? KCL Russian politics professor @samagreene.bsky.social explains to @gavinesler.bsky.social 📳 Listen linktr.ee/DrillPod
- Is this true? www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...
- How tariffs “work” - an expert view
- Respectfully don’t agree - thanks to Blucher Wellington won at Waterloo. Thanks to Canadians, Australians Americans Free French and Free Poles plus so many others Nazism was defeated. From Canada to Turkey to Estonia and the EU almost everyone knows Putin has to be stopped. Superstate? No.
- I’m not convinced that wallowing in the sewage that much of Twitter has become is the same as “broadening my horizons.”
- Thanks Martin - The United States of Anger is more than 25 years old but in the book I did suggest middle class Americans were often so angry a generation ago if some glib politician could tap into that anger, well … it could turn out a bit like now …
- Going back a bit, @gavinesler.bsky.social The United States of Anger was remarkably prescient. Thomas Frank’s What’s the matter with Kansas is good too
- Trump & the Lessons from History open.substack.com/pub/gavinesl...
- The Dirt on Water, Waste and Weird Weather open.substack.com/pub/gavinesl...
- What could possibly go wrong….?
- Here's who's now working inside the SSA for DOGE: • 4x private equity guys with no gov experience • 3x 22/23yr-old recent college grads • 1x SpaceX intern who didn't finish college • 1x engineer who previously resigned for racist comments www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
- Thank you!
- Department Of Grifting Effortlessly
