My latest Column for @ConnexionFrance: Eight years is a long time in the history of French #protest movements, but it will feel like five minutes for #Macron when the infamous #GiletsJaunes return to the streets this month. #Paralysis #RageOfTheNation 🔗 facebook.com/share/p/14yanEo…

Britain needs some of De Gaulle’s civic patriotism to save our economy observer.co.uk/news/columnis…

The catnip truck comes to the neighborhood.

The British Left is in a time warp when it comes to Europe. Do they have no idea what’s happening there? Don’t they read the papers? Meloni is PM of Italy. AfD is outpolling CDU and SPD combined in Germany. Le Pen is favourite to be the next president of France. Socialist Sanchez in Spain is finished. They seem to think the EU we left (for good or ill) in 2016 is the Europe of today. Delusional.

If a few OpenAI engineers suddenly had “tragic accidents” at ASIS hands, the way a certain Middle Eastern intelligence service has been known to deal with Iranian nuclear scientists, word would get around…

Rubio: “We’ve invited Putin to the G20.” You’re an indicted war criminal, a mafia dictator, a bloody invader, and biggest monster of 21st century? Your army's committed thousands of war crimes? You’re helping Iran kill Americans? No problem, US will roll out red carpet for you!

She had NO idea who she just sat between. 🤣🤣 I love that she plopped down right in the middle of Mamdani and the Irish Prime Minister for her photo. And the best part is they both just went with it. NYC is so unserious for this LOL @NYCMayor @MichealMartinTD

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

Helter-skelter

A country that can’t defend its own borders, now seeks to secure space.

It looks and feels spontaneous, but is it? A video of Ed Miliband having an apparently impromptu chat with Feroz Khan, an American social media influencer, on the streets of New York Khan is an American social media influencer who has made a name for himself conducting seemingly impromptu interviews with people he stops in the street with a simple question: “What do you do for a living?” The Miliband clips has already had more than 1million views. But is it real? In fact it has been carefully staged There are several clues. The video shows Khan stopping Miliband in the street as he makes his way between engagements. “Excuse me, you have an amazing outfit,” he tells him. “What do you do for a living?” Rather than walk on Miliband, surprisingly, stops and turns to face the camera. His aides, meanwhile, keep on marching on without even looking back to check who he is talking to. They don’t wait for him, disappearing out of shot Even for a politician, Miliband appears to have rather well-rehearsed answers for Khan’s questions. “Hang on you’re that Feroz guy aren’t you,” he says. “You interviewed JLo once. What are you doing here?” Khan replies with a compliment: “I spread positivity on social media and I happened to come across you well dressed. What do you do for a living?” In a surreal exchange Miliband says he is the foreign secretary of Great Britain. “Please forgive me, I don’t know what that is,” Khan replies “I’m like the Marco Rubio of Great Britain,” Miliband says. What follows is an extraordinarily soft interview on any level. Khan, who sees his job as “spreading positivity”, says: “Nice to meet you. What makes your work so special?” The final clue is in the post itself. Khan posted it on his Instagram in direct “collaboration” with the Foreign Office and Britain’s UN mission, meaning it went up on their Instagram accounts at exactly the same time thetimes.com/article/fd04b25…

This really isn’t giving off prime ministerial vibes, more like some sort of terrible non-comedic political version of Trading Places where a Manchester Dad gets swapped with the British PM