owen matthews
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Writer and historian, Spectator Magazine Russia correspondent, ex-Newsweek Moscow and Istanbul bureau chief. Media enquiries [email protected]
Joined February 2012
RT @Adrian_Hilton: I'm pleased to see this robust defence of ‘unqualified’ teachers, who are often better ‘qualified’ than those with Quali…
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RT @EC2man: The social disintegration that the British political establishment has cheered on for the past two decades is now starting to m…
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RT @tomhfh: Every time I ride the DLR I think two things. 1. I hope I can sit at the front and pretend to drive. 2. We cracked driverless…
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RT @procurementfile: The UK taxpayer will spend £22,490,382 to support “Green Growth in Nepal” from 2024-2029. Awarded to one supplier, PW…
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Important to understand re propagandists like Solovyev - their role is to say crazy outrageous things that make the Kremlin appear sane and reasonable. It's a carefully orchestrated political kabuki. They are not Kremlin mouthpieces.
According to propagandist Solovyov, Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, and Moldova should be “returned to the Russian Empire.” As a Finn, I say: go ahead and try.
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RT @rcolvile: Britain's recent wave of migration was unprecedented, unplanned and hugely unpopular. But it's not too late to fix at least s…
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RT @DanielJHannan: “History teaching in many schools is still focused on narrow, celebratory, accounts of ‘our island story’,” said the Run…
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RT @DavQuinn: Wow. "The Office for Budget Responsibility calculates that a low-skilled migrant by the age of 80 will, on average, have cost…
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RT @rochowanski: Rarely taught media literacy lesson: if a news website has no advertising, no paywall and maybe just an unobtrusive "donat…
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RT @roddreher: In Oxford, talking w/Britons about the dismal mood of the country. One told me that there's rising sense that all is falling…
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RT @Glenn_Diesen: The Atlantic cover in 2001: "Russia is Finished" (narrative for the next 24 years), now the same script is applied to Chi…
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RT @rochowanski: The #USAID story is opening the flood gates. Mikhail Benyash, once a leading Russian human rights lawyer, now a plumber in…
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RT @tomhfh: Prime Minister Keir Starmer told to "put down the bong" on the floor of the United States Senate.
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RT @AllisonPearson: The UK pays Norway £41 billion a year for energy. Norway supplies 41% of our gas. That’s a choice. We could drill our…
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RT @Valen10Francois: Unbelievable but true, there more people in France born in 1946 (and still alive) than there are people born in 2024 h…
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RT @RealDonKeith: This is the perfect example of why men and women’s anatomy matters in sports.
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RT @jk_rowling: This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideol…
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RT @peterrhague: The Ottoman slave trade lasted longer, took more people and was far more brutal than the Atlantic slave trade, yet nobody…
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