Nicholas Guyatt

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I teach American history at Cambridge. Opinions strictly personal; for sober & authoritative tweeting consult @Cambridge_Uni, @CamHistory & @JesusCollegeCam

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Trump just told the media four times in thirty seconds that the US and Israel had to invade Iran because Iran was "going to take over the Middle East," which is odd because the nation which attacked or invaded half a dozen of its neighbours last year was...Israel

Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP Kit Malthouse MP correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague

Eighty gloriously unhinged seconds in which Jordan Peterson tries to sell Elon Musk on "the carnivore diet"

Richard Madeley explaining the plot of his new crime novel on Radio 2 just now is two minutes of pure joy, and the most Accidental Partridge thing I have ever heard

Every journalist should be reporting the facts, as Jeremy Bowen just did on the BBC: 🚨 This is a war of choice, not a 'pre-emptive' war 🚨 It's against international law 🚨 Trump and Netanyahu don't care about that 🚨 It threatens the security of the world

The next phase of propaganda surrounding this criminal war: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells the BBC that a "cessation of war" without the toppling of the Iranian regime will lead to "global recession"

Mandelson phoning into his old Times Radio podcast in January 2025 to complain about the security vetting. Stick around for Hugo Rifkind’s penetrating follow up question

Preposterous for McSweeney to claim that in December 2024 he believed Mandelson had only a "passing acquaintance" with Epstein when the FT had done its damning reporting on their close friendship in *June 2023* - he's either lying or he's spectacularly bad at his job

I am trying to imagine a universe in which an actually left-wing politician would spy on journalists, report them to the security services, belatedly get called out for doing so, and then Laura Kuenssberg would sympathetically ask "were you just a bit naive?"

Wes Streeting at Tony Blair’s conference this morning refuses to confirm that the NHS will remain free at the point of use - under his tenure look out for ‘top-up fees’ for most of us and a bonanza for private healthcare providers

Another caller just now - on the football phone in, no less - accuses the BBC of complicity in the genocide of Palestinians

Eighty seconds of pure pleasure as GB News brings Suella Braverman to Cambridge for a 'dialogue' on Gaza

Lammy responds by dismissing the question as “unbecoming”, because parliamentary etiquette still matters to a man who is arming a genocide

"Keir Starmer showed no curiosity whatsoever about what one of his peers had been up to with Jeffrey Epstein." An extraordinary two minutes of radio from the FT's Jim Pickard confirming that everybody knew, and nobody cared

I know Jonathan Dimbleby is the King's mate, but it is preposterous to claim that Andrew's arrest doesn't damage the monarchy when Buckingham Palace spent years ridiculing Virginia Giuffre's allegations from 2015 and the Queen personally intervened to buy her silence in 2022

Mandelson just told the BBC that when he passed government documents to Jeffrey Epstein he was "acting in the national interest"

So the guy who reportedly compiled the dodgy dossier on journalists for Labour Together was himself a Times journalist until 2022, &amp; in 2015 did one of the wildest interviews I've ever seen in which he confirmed "we just publish the position of the British government"

Preposterous for McSweeney to claim that in December 2024 he believed Mandelson had only a "passing acquaintance" with Epstein when the FT had done its damning reporting on their close friendship in June 2023 - he's either lying or he's spectacularly bad at his job

So the guy who reportedly compiled the dodgy dossier on journalists for Labour Together was himself a Times journalist until 2022, & in 2015 did one of the wildest interviews I've ever seen in which he confirmed "we just publish the position of the British government"