How Boris Johnson played the clown on first visit by a British Foreign Secretary to Moscow in five yearshttps://t.co/fGSbZQ2ONF pic.twitter.com/bOmGbVJ32x
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) December 22, 2017
"We disapprove of Russia's sustained campaign of cyber-espionage and disruption" – UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, speaking after talks in Moscow https://t.co/9SxNbDewct pic.twitter.com/JbYwt5SvK5
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 22, 2017
An awkward exchange between Boris Johnson and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov pic.twitter.com/znXoHlD3Ht
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 22, 2017
Boris Johnson is on another planet. Lavrov complains about relations being "at a low," Boris says he's "glad they're increasing the export of kettle crisps to Russia." Interpreter just doesn't translate the crisps part pic.twitter.com/Zsdpimax7o
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) December 22, 2017
Lavrov plays the straight man to Boris’s buffoon in Moscow | Shaun Walker https://t.co/ANeTIHIgYI
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) December 22, 2017
Russia will care little about the spat between Sergei Lavrov and Boris Johnson – as see the UK as irrelevant https://t.co/RQdiYh4Rm2
— The Independent (@Independent) December 22, 2017
Cow arrives at slaughterhouse, says ready to work with McDonald's. https://t.co/WhHt8jxc3r
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 21, 2017
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MORE BATSHIT BREXIT BRITAIN
Jesus…
The UK passport is an expression of our independence and sovereignty – symbolising our citizenship of a proud, great nation. That's why we have announced that the iconic #bluepassport will return after we leave the European Union in 2019. https://t.co/pgQvrBIna5
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) December 22, 2017
— Graham Love (@GLove39) December 22, 2017
Why do we need any colour passport? We should just be able to shout, “British! Less of your nonsense!” and stroll straight through.
— Simon Blackwell (@simonblackwell) December 22, 2017
The blue passports might have to be imported. LOL (as the youngsters say) 😂🤣 https://t.co/ZKKdeIRbgB
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) December 22, 2017
Passport size and design is fixed by the ICAO (int civil aviation auth) which has nothing to do with the EU. EU member states aren't obliged to have burgundy passports. Croatia for example has a dark blue passport. The passport thing is a hunt of a snark. https://t.co/IlfRaqU2yF
— Otto English (@Otto_English) December 21, 2017
Government to reintroduce popular "iconic" ration books in major Brexit victory pic.twitter.com/MR2DLomXyX
— David Hemming (@DrDaveH) December 22, 2017
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TRUMPWORLD
Russia probe looms over Trump’s Mar-Lago retreat https://t.co/cIUYEJB51w via @dsamuelsohn pic.twitter.com/S3id5x4QWk
— POLITICO (@politico) December 22, 2017
Why the increased attacks on @FBI’s McCabe? Looks like someone has figured out he corroborates Comey against Trump. This is targeted. As were @POTUS’s Comey tweets. As is anti-Mueller campaign.https://t.co/1Up5OUZeXw
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 23, 2017
NYT: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have sought bank records from Deutsche Bank about entities associated with the family company of Jared Kushner https://t.co/fYxfRlQlXv
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 22, 2017
Could anyone not married to the president's daughter have to amend their financial disclosures 39 times and keep their job? pic.twitter.com/zeBLsyADyh
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 22, 2017
JUST IN: Trump administration blocks some government scientists from attending key conference: report https://t.co/45qGwmjNP9 pic.twitter.com/DsTxBogF7U
— The Hill (@thehill) December 22, 2017
Hat tip to Dutch @Nieuwsuur correspondent @WouterZwart, who caught US ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra denying own recorded comments, then denying the denial. Video instructive for Zwart's politely assertive interview technique. https://t.co/Falom4fWwM
— Richard T. Griffiths (@griffiths) December 22, 2017
Trump wanted to have a news conference but aides convinced him otherwise https://t.co/NFGDWevX09
— 🗽Jeffrey Levin 🗽 (@jilevin) December 22, 2017
This is the first time in 15 years that a president has not held an end-of-the-year press conference. https://t.co/4NEuGWOCfX
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 22, 2017
Prosecutors and former GOP officials are weighing in today for Mueller.
Former US attorneys, GOP officials come to Mueller's defense https://t.co/t0v9rLWZ9o
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) December 22, 2017
At my most pessimistic, this fear creeps into my head a lot, and it's why I think Bannon, the alt-right & co. can't quite be ignored, much as I wish they could https://t.co/9ZiBUqElZn
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 22, 2017
Aren’t we all…
News Alert: Awaiting @POTUS's departure at @WhiteHouse. pic.twitter.com/2oIKVJAKlI
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 22, 2017
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WORLD
"A generation after what they view as their humiliating Cold War defeat, the Putinists have found the political and geopolitical opportunities to work off their anger and their resentment." Excellent Susan Glasser analysis of the deepening Cold War 2.0. https://t.co/hpSRUmTw52
— LarryDiamond (@LarryDiamond) December 22, 2017
The @NYTimes wants to believe https://t.co/MXqQpr74Bk
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 22, 2017
Catalonia election: Spain PM Rajoy rejects Puigdemont talks call https://t.co/4HZlgUqjEJ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 22, 2017
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss has been recorded in virtual reality, to help ensure future generations never forget the horrors of the Holocaust pic.twitter.com/BIpj4BdogW
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 22, 2017
He is still too young to talk, but a two-year-old Indian boy has become a modern-day Mowgli and a subject of local intrigue after befriending a gang of langur monkeys https://t.co/Ym7LWpo8iK pic.twitter.com/LakI4ns3up
— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 22, 2017
Actual headline in the New York Times right now perfectly describes why I left California and came back to New York. pic.twitter.com/iA1PCgNR4j
— Julia Kite (@juliakite) December 22, 2017
The Overnight Note 