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This is one of the best ‘Lunch with the FT’ features in a while. Ed Luce interviews Doris Kearns Goodwin: ‘The robber barons probably thought they were God too.’ Via Financial Times ⁦⁦Edward Luce⁩ on.ft.com/4h48gdF

.Nicholas Burns to Jordan Schneider: “In their heart of hearts, I sense that the Chinese are really worried that they’ve lost Europe, maybe temporarily for the life of the Ukraine crisis. We’ll have to see how that plays out…but they’re worried about that.” chinatalk.media/p/amb-burns-re…

Ministerial announcement on 🇬🇧 and The HALO Trust working together to provide lifesaving work in #Somaliland

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Exciting news! Anushka Asthana, Deputy Political Editor at ITV News and co-presenter of Peston, has joined the board of the Society of Editors UK. societyofeditors.org/soe_news/senio…

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Delighted to celebrate book launch of my friend Masud Husain Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Oxford & fellow at the best college New College, Oxford - Our Brains, Our Selves is elegantly written, humane, sensitive & hugely accessible to the general reader.

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#Ukraine️ #UnitedStates and Rare Earth Minerals youtube.com/watch?v=89YPEi…

Former Chief of MI6, Sir Alex Younger speaking on Newsnight about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how we as Europeans should respond And all I can think about is why MI6 didn't protect us from Russian influence in the 2016 Brexit referendum

Normally totally disinterested in who should be next James Bond - but watching Jack O'Connell play Lt Col Robert Blair/Paddy Mayne in the BBC series on founding of the SAS - Amazon would be mad not to pick him. Most exciting young British actor n a while. He was born for it

ITV News Rageh Omaar the legendary Barbour Skyfall Bond jacket I am wearing and mentioned

Lady Cab Driver - 1999 - one of his best

Breaking News: Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner who gave nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” died at 95. nyti.ms/4gYVKeM

It’s not enough that his PM & FM insult President Donald J. Trump & Mog is a $1 billion yearly drain on #USA🇺🇲 taxpayers, but rump #Somalia🇸🇴’s Hassan Sheikh Mohamud thinks Americans are so dumb that he can offer us key #Somaliland & #Puntland ports that he doesn’t even control!🧐 semafor.com/article/03/28/…

21 years ago- Africa, the Somali speaking world and the international community lost a giant of a man. Brilliant diplomat, loving husband and dad and the sweetest and most man - and my uncle Abdelmajid Hussein 🇪🇹

Watch this powerful ITV News piece in which Tidjane Thiam, leader of the Ivory Coast opposition, tells Rageh Omaar about the subtle and insidious racism of the liberal West, and his fight to bring proper democracy to his country itv.com/watch/news/why…

Know I'm late to this. But this morning I saw this extraordinary film about Patrice Lumumba, Congo, its mineral wealth, Belgium's utter brutality, the USA & American Jazz & Nikita Kruschev's shoe banging at the UN set to Max Roach's drumming. . Incredible filmmaking. See it.

🚨Next Week - 5/13 at 10 am EDT: Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on East Africa and the Horn. Joshua Meservey will testify with additional witnesses to be added. You will be able to stream the hearing live here.👇🏼 foreign.senate.gov/hearings/east-…

Great to see Edward Luce terrific new book, Zbig, well displayed in Foyles Bookshop today. No surprise that Rageh Omaar says it’s ‘a towering achievement’. Out now from Bloomsbury Books UK