In which we defend (some) Trump supporters again - and reveal what went down when Marianna Spring and I visited a progressive bookstore in Des Moines.
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On the toxicity issue raised by Dr Cass this morning, it's worth repeating: no major publisher would touch Hannah's book in spite of the fact that it was approved by the BBC as a piece of impartial reporting

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Ha ha fair point - might be peak me but not sure I'm peak Guardian Harry (see recent news stories 🙄)

In which we hear from a living Old Testament prophet Jeremy Bowen and from the only woman in America who had time to talk to us Katty Kay -- NOT REALLY Katty x
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Somebody: the joke about Americans being bad at geography is tired, really.
US Department of State: Hold our Bud Light and watch this:

I'm biased I admit but I feel sorry for the others on this list 😉 - even if you're sceptical about 'disinformation' as a genre (I am) you have to admit that she explores a world that is frighteningly real - and she does it brilliantly 💪

Only a few more days of this madness: other memoirs are available of course, some better written, but none cheaper 😆

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It’s a big week for the future of UK media ownership: DCMS is due to rule on Emirati bid for the Telegraph and Labour may back a Lords amendment giving Parliament the power to defend the principle of a free press.

I’m discussing with Simon Jack at 7.50am on Radio4.

This’ll be great ✌️😉. Well she will be …

Finn can kick 😬

20 years have passed since Alistair Cooke’s last broadcast of Letter from America on 20th February 2004. It was an end of a remarkable broadcasting achievement the longest running radio series which began on 24th March 1946 and led to 2,879 weekly Letters over the 58 years. /1

In 1980 the Wilmington Evening Journal predicted the political future.

It predicted Reagan would win in 1980. Ted Kennedy in 1984. John F Kennedy Jr would be elected in 2000 & 2008.

Finally, Joe Biden would get the nomination in 2008 but lose the general because he'd be too old

Alexey Navalny, telling Russians not to give up when asked what he would tell them in the event he’s killed.
From Daniel Roher’s 2022 film “Navalny.”

Putin backs Biden, Trump’s happy and American politics gets weirder 🤦🏼‍♀️

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One for Marianna Spring though I fear she’s keener on ‘soccer’ 🤑

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