Alec Wearing
@alec_wearing
Former Civil Service economist. Interests: current affairs; Scottish economic, social and literary history; literature, football and cricket.
War criminal Putin launched a ballistic missile at a hotel where American, UK, and local Ukrainian aid and health volunteers were staying. 4 dead, over 30 injured. In his deliberate bombing of children’s cancer hospitals, maternity wards, shopping centers, and places labeled as…
And people wonder why our world is going down the tubes. I understand that a College/University education is expensive and some people do not have the means to afford such privileges and that should be changed everywhere. An education should be a right like any other right. I am
President Macron: "We will never accept the theory that might is right... The Europeans will never abandon Ukraine, never."
“The three to four years post the Brexit referendum were the most miserable time in modern British politics" It’s “depressing” to hear politicians recycling post-Brexit rhetoric as Starmer and EU leaders announce a new deal, says Andrew Neil. @AFNeil | @StigAbell | @KateEMcCann
Andrew Marr is "hot under the collar at the ludicrous, offensive & unpatriotic language that's being thrown around by the brexit right... talking about surrender & betrayal... is the language of war, & that's deranged..." #LBC
We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison. Because, as I have…
We must not overestimate the primitiveness of Donald Trump and his trade policy. This man grew up in the corrupt New York real estate mafia world and was mentored by Roy Cohn, who was the chief lawyer of Italian mafia families in New York. Cohn taught Trum three principles:…
Time for King Charles to visit Canada, where he is head of state and has every right to go whenever he wants. I have no doubt the welcome would be ecstatic. And very symbolic. Retweet if you agree.
“Ukraine is reeling, as the rest of the world is, from Donald Trump's extraordinary dizzying tilt towards Moscow.” Trump's “horrendous disrespect” of Zelensky has fuelled a “huge casm” in the US's understanding of the on the ground reality in Ukraine, says @JeromeStarkey.
I have always had respect For Senator Durbin, and now I have a little more. It’s an indictment on the Republican Party, that they just sit cowering in the corner begging a convicted criminal and now Russian asset, not to hurt them.
This veteran is correct. Putin-puppet Trump is allowing Russia's dictator to seize control of America without firing a single shot. 😳👇
Trump's allies are asked a simple question: "What else could a Russian asset actually possibly do that Trump hasn't yet done?"
Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock has just given a really remarkable, nearly 12-minute speech on yesterday's events at the White House in support of #Ukraine. I have translated a large part of the speech for you.