John Prideaux
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Journalist at The Economist, views mine. US editor & Exec director of podcasts Checks and Balance pod:
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Daily Mail front page calls for more environmental regulation and more multiculturalism. Is the ed on holiday?
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But no serious historian has bought it since about 1990, so far as I can see. The war was indeed about slavery
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6-year-old: "Daddy, in some countries they eat shark-fin soup."
Me: "Yes, that's terrible."
6-year-old: "Yeah, I hate soup."
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On Gen Kelly and his daft views on Robert E. Lee: there's been a big change in our understanding of the Civil War since Kelly was at school
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The "both sides were at fault" view was pushed at the end of the war, to help put the country back together
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That doesn't excuse Gen Kelly's remarks. But his view of the Civil War is consistent with what his generation was taught at school
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On the plus side, maybe this will be the thing that gets the GOP enthused about felons voting
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This view endured for a surprisingly long time. You see it even in the work of great historians like Bruce Catton
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Prepping for a pod on nuclear weapons, am struck by how bad and bordeline mad the GWB administration's decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty 20 years ago was.
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@FrankLuntz
Same kid at school in DC and London.
DC school: metal detector at the door, armed security guard, active shooter drills.
London school: Miss Burton has a buzzer on the door to let kids in. That's it.
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Last week on Checks and Balance we asked listeners where they listen to the podcast. This was prompted by Emily, who sent a picture of the jungly park in Singapore where she listens to the podcast with her dad while they go for a run every Saturday.
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Lots of good detail in this
@PedderSophie
piece about the impressive French evacuation of foreigners from Sudan. But my favourite detail is that 🇫🇷 special forces have cassoulet in their combat rations 🦆
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Operation Desert Stormy
BREAKING: President Trump says attack on Syria could happen "very soon or not so soon at all!"
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My 6-year old, who is at school in north London, says there has been a lot of talk about Ruth Badger Ginsburg in the playground recently. 🦡
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Interviewed someone today who is a lifelong
@TheEconomist
reader. When she was at college she asked someone where she could pick up an Economist.
"Try the business school."
"No, I mean the magazine."
"Ah, ok, the library is that way."
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The Finns have greeted the world’s free press, and Russia today, with punnets of strawberries and fresh peas. This is a lovely country.
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Good beginning for Trump, strong finish for Clinton. It matters how you leave the audience feeling.
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Most American political junkies haven't absorbed how good the past 20 years or so have been for incomes
(
@MichaelRStrain
being an honourable exception)
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@natashaloder
also, props to our ace colleague
@HJoyceGender
who was on to this before everyone else
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Very excited to share the first episode of a podcast series I've been working on. It's about why the generation of Americans born in the 1940s have had such a stranglehold on the White House, and why they won't let go.
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Here's GWB in full doublespeak mode, explaining the decision: "The ABM Treaty is a relic of the past. It prevents freedom-loving people from exploring the future". You what?
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This debate wasn't a turning point. The genital-grabbing tape may yet be.
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Three of our journalists went to Kyiv to interview the most impressive political leader of our time
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Pastor Mark Burns just said that Donald Trump will make sure that all Americans will have jobs
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Didn't like
@willwilkinson
's tweet, for which he has apologised, but his writing in more than 140 characters is clever, thoughtful, clear, thought-provoking and frequently funny--even when you don't agree with it.
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To recap, a Republican administration withdrew from a successful international treaty, signed by another Republican president (Nixon), that had reduced the number of inter-continental ballistic missiles. This was in response to...terrorists flying planes into targets in America.
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Joe Biden, to his credit, opposed the decision at the time. "Unilaterally abandoning the ABM Treaty would be a serious mistake," he said.
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Since then America has poured about $70bn into a missile-defence programme that doesn't work very well (in tests it shoots down missiles about 50% of the time). That, and eroding arms control in a way that now seems kinda regrettable, were the results of that 2002 decision.
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Excellent new
@TheEconomist
podcast about what happened to freethinking Russians when their country invaded Ukraine. It's with the great
@ArkadyOstrovsky
Fans of Russian literature will find echoes of how the the state treats its brightest and best.
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In case you're wondering where the stuff from prominent R's about having redesigning schools to make mass shootings harder (rather than limiting the availability of guns) it's all in an NRA report from 2013, after Sandy Hook, which offers pointers on school design
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“ Ukraine remains the only country in history to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons. It surrendered an arsenal of around 5,000 missiles and bombs in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the West.” from the BBC
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I think what you mean is "terrorist who became a politcian".
Martin McGuinness, Irish revolutionary turned statesman, dies at 66
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We did a pod in March on whether Biden should run again, featuring
@chowardchoward
,
@imkahloon
,
@gelliottmorris
and
@JBennet
Elliott made a good point that Biden's approval ratings are not actually that bad compared with other incumbent presidents
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Public Service Announcement:
@jonfasman
fans can find him on The Intelligence, the daily podcast from
@TheEconomist
Today's episode features JF talking to
@gadyepstein
about the careful language China's diplomats are using to describe Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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I've discovered that if I write my to-do list in hot pink crayon it appears less menacing.
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The "Trump is only winning with 35%" idea is over. Already garnered more votes than Romney, heading for a record:
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Here is Rebecca the Racoon (iykyk), courtesy of the Library of Congress
@EconUS
@imkahloon
@chowardchoward
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"The main thing is to be clear, grammatical and consistent, but also respectful, while not pandering to fashion or to lobbies of the constantly aggrieved"
From a recent
@TheEconomist
style memo
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Looks like the NYT has nailed the story that every news organisation in America has been chasing
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"Climate adaptation is one of the great and underappreciated success stories of the last 100 years. The number of deaths associated with extreme weather and climate-related natural disasters has fallen by a factor of 10 over the past century."
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But does Russia have investments in you?
For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.
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One son is supporting 🇺🇸 and the other is supporting 🏴. Transatlantic alliance under strain on the sofa.
⚽️🏆🌍
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Strange that Clinton passed up the opportunity to point out that the US economy is indeed doing well right now.
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Putin seems to be achieving what Trump couldn’t — a large increase in military spending by NATO allies
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Click on this primaries story by
@JamesMAstill
for the prose and analysis. Stay for the final paragraph
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Here's a thing I wrote a whole week ago on why America's safety net is skimpy:
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Brilliant review of my brilliant mother's book. Am so proud.
I reviewed a bonkers biography of the very bonkers Friedrich Nietzsche and it's my favourite thing I've either read or written for ages.
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In another policy win for
@TheEconomist
's mighty US team, NYC public schools have decided to follow the research on how to teach children to read. Here's
@TamaraGilkes
's piece from last year, which explained what needed to change
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From August 2018. Seem to remember arguing at the time that we didn’t need the question mark. The Senate confirmed that again today.
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David Rennie, who wrote his 244th and final Lexington column a few weeks ago, explains why he writes
@DSORennie
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"My wife Judy Harris often says, “Our son died with all his civil liberties intact."
Powerful piece from
@NormOrnstein
on treating severe mental illness
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My godson (aged 4) reports that the coronavirus began when someone cut up a cricket bat and ate it.
@natashaloder
@alokjha
will you explore this thesis on The Jab 💉?
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Two months ago our model put Trump 8 points down in Florida. Now he's down 4. Most of that move predates the RNC. ht/
@gelliottmorris
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While folks are doing retrospectives of their prescient op-eds, we bring you this from September 2015.
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“Who else but us?” These guys are so brave.
"I’m Ready": Ukraine’s civilians take up arms as volunteer fighters armed with assault rifles patrolled central Kyiv on Friday, poised to defend their country.
Follow live updates.
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England out of the World Cup but still in contention for greatest landscape
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Fun fact about noted populist and MAGA fan Sen Josh Hawley: he once taught at a private school in London where the fees are approx. $12,000 per term
From our Francis Chung, Sen. Josh Hawley greeting protesters in the east side of the Capitol before riots began.
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Actually the problem for Trump is white, college-educated women like Ann Coulter. They favour Clinton by 20 points.
If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.
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The number of Tory MPs who have abandoned Boris Johnson for lying vs the number of Republican Congressmen who have abandoned Trump for big lying is quite the contrast.
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This is sad. For a while I had a corespondence with a prisoner in OK who was a regular reader. What does this policy in FL achieve?
@orlandosentinel
Florida has banned prison inmates from reading more than 20,000 books and magazines, including coloring books, language-learning texts and issues of ‘The Economist.’
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Also, if Trump wins Florida our model says he's a coin-flip to take win in the electoral college. h/t
@gelliottmorris
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“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying“ George Orwell
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Reader, they did not
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"The NRA suggests limiting entry to a single point; building a prison-style fence [...] banning greenery outside schools because intruders may hide in trees and bushes [...] and making do without windows, or only small ones with ballistic protective glass"
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Trump's changes to Obamacare seem tailor-made to hurt a Republican constituency.
@Henry_Curr
explains
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Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Sakharov, Navalny…is there any other government whose core function for nearly two centuries has been to imprison the country’s best and brightest?
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Shout out to
@gelliottmorris
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@TheEconomist
model has been predicting a fairly easy win for Macron for months, while the takes were all about how close the race was.
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We published this, which I wrote, last week
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Sitting in front of a log fire with 8-year-old son recently. We stared at the flames for a while in silence and then he said. "Ah, fire. Pre-history's TV."
🔥
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Thinking of my grandfathers this VE day
Col John Francis Prideaux, who served in Palestine, North Africa, Italy and then took part in Operation Overlord.
Squadron Leader Charles Peto Bennett, who helped direct air cover for the Normandy landings.
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Came home to find that kid two, aged 8, has formed a detective agency with his friend Bobby. Their motto:
We scour the land for cold, hard evidence and dish out cold, hard justice.
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“ we should never lose sight of how much a Ukrainian victory will improve the world we live in”
If you are thinking about nuclear war, this might help.
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Page flow has suddenly sped up at Economist HQ 🦁🦁🦁🏴
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No third-party presidential candidate has won a state since '68. Could that be about to change?
@hco96
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In fairness to Melania Trump, the stuff about how all that matters in America is the size of your dreams is out of copyright
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Favourite snippet from new Economist/YouGov poll: 27% think appointment of John Quincy Adams as ambassador to Paris inappropriate
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Just received an email from a colleague that read,
"Apologies, I was out walking alpacas. And I have not been following the Cosby business."
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Don’t think I’m overly bothered by Mr Musk owning this platform. More bothered that it might distract him from electrifying everything, which is really important
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Think I just pulled a hamstring while doing a conference call. Is there a better definition of middle-aged?
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Campaigns often say different things to different audiences. You can’t do that when 100m are watching.
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