Jonathan Hopkin

British.

Job offer: leading large Middle Eastern country the way we want. No experience necessary. We might kill you.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Ok this one dumb tweet from musk wasn’t real 🤷

sorry for serious interlude.
aaaaaaand we are back to satire.
we are all going to need therapy after today bsky.app/profile/whst...

Aaaaaaaannd Scene.

Congrats Market you got played by the master

"Trump then said never mind. Oil is climbing again. Tehran under heavy bombardment."
www.ft.com/content/56dd...

Ah yes the draft dodgers love a war

It’s a fake? Well it’s a long way from being the craziest thing he’s tweeted

Hey buy my car, but if I don’t like your politics I might just switch it off on you

Not here Donald

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

Enough of that communist weather

Yup, Iran has learned that they have the rest of the world by the nut sack. Do we really think that they won't use that leverage going forward?

Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Says Iran War ‘Very Complete’ Oil futures, which surged as much as 31% Sunday night to more than $100 a barrel, have tumbled back down, a stunning reversal that gained momentum after President Trump told CBS that the war he launch...

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we’ve learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can’t endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Even in this administration it beggars belief they hadn't understood this

Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”

The EU has the fiscal capacity to do this, we should join in

The fundamental contradiction of Starmer's - and Europe's - foreign policy is trying to maintain ties with Trump to protect ourselves from Putin, when everything he does helps Putin. It just doesn't work, there's no alternative to building our own defence capacity and moving fast to renewables

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They should be praying for the rest of us

Spot on from @labourlewis.bsky.social

Simple theory: rich people think this so they impose that view on everyone else

Is it too much to hope that we all give up on a fossil-centred future now?

Italy predicted to have biggest inflation spike in G7. Lucky for her the opposition is so craven

People in Congress going to be freaking out

Maybe he can though

Net zero looking a bit perkier today huh

Above and beyond everything else the insistence that rightwing politicians are the safest custodians of the economy in the face of all the evidence never ceases to baffle me

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58