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Jan 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
1. UK government ministers and top brass have done some really essential international travel this month. Let's see where we've paid for them to visit, while we've been in lockdown:
2. Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab absolutely had to visit Sudan - where he elbow bumped a military leader accused of killing protesters
3. Raab also visited a school in Ethiopia
4. Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP definitely had to visit Kenya to open a military base. Essential travel!
5. Foreign Minister @JamesDuddridge also 100% had to visit Kenya
6. And General Lorimer really really had to visit the United Arab Emirates to meet its dictator
7. Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP also visited Somalia this week - another example of absolutely essential international travel, while his cabinet colleagues criticise the public for going abroad Image
8. After a stopover at Sandhurst in England, General Lorimer appears to have travelled to Egypt to admire the Pyramids
9. And now General Lorimer is in Bahrain for his third essential international trip during UK lockdown

10. Trade Secretary Liz Truss has gone to India during lockdown
11. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab went to Cyprus last week during lockdown
12. Alok Sharma MP is in Egypt today
13. Earlier in lockdown, Alok Sharma went to Ethiopia and Gabon

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May 17, 2023
I've been looking at where British rocket launchers for Ukraine have ended up.

Five were obtained by Sergei Korotkikh, who founded Russia's National Socialist Society and is accused of beheading a migrant - he's been fighting for Ukraine since 2014

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The rocket launchers, which cost about £20k each, were also obtained by man convicted of torture by a Kyiv court.

@CAATuk says the findings are "very troubling" and UK monitoring of weapons sent to Ukraine is "not good enough"
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Another group with UK arms is Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade in Bakhmut.

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Oct 17, 2022
Questions arising from Labour's new Qatar world cup "boycott" policy.

1. Will the boycott extend to UK support for Qatar's military e.g. the RAF joint squadron with Qatar?
2. Would a Labour government review claims of Qatar's links to terrorism, including militia groups NATO backed in 2011 to topple Gaddafi?
3. Will Labour politicians, such as Lords candidate Tom Watson, give back money they took from Qatar to go on paid trips there?
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Jul 21, 2022
The current head of MI6, Richard Moore, is giving a talk at the Aspen Security Forum
MI6 chief says Putin has made "epic fails" in Ukraine and has only made "incremental progress" - "it's tiny amounts, and we're talking about a small number of miles of advance, and when they take a town, there's nothing left of it. It is obliterated."
MI6 boss Richard Moore says: "I think they're about to run out of steam. I think our assessment is that the Russians will increasingly find it difficult to supply manpower, material over the next few weeks. They will have to pause."
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May 24, 2021
A protester in Salalah holds a sign saying: "From Dhofar to Sohar". He is showing solidarity with activists in a city 850km away from him. There is dissent at both ends of Oman Image
Omani police jeeps and coaches speed through Salalah. Are we about to see another crackdown? The coaches could be carrying extra riot police and/or they will take lots of protesters to prison
Oman, tonight. Protesters calling for an end to corruption. Behind them is the clock tower in Salalah, so they are marching near to a major Omani air force and army signals base
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May 23, 2021
10 years since Arab Spring protesters were rounded up, shot and killed in Oman, protesters are back on the streets of Sohar today - in a Gulf country where supposedly everyone loves the regime

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British-trained Omani riot police have already been deployed in large numbers, and some videos show protesters fleeing. Other videos filmed secretly from passing cars, suggesting fear of reprisals for covering protest ImageImageImage
Last month @declassifiedUK revealed a secret Privy Council, that advises Oman's ruler, is dominated by British officials - the head of UK army, head of MI6 etc dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0…
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Apr 3, 2021
Some interesting points from Alan Duncan's diary so far.

1. Philip Hammond's lack of concern for suffering in Yemen when he was Foreign Secretary at start of the war Image
2. Duncan's own role dealing with Ecuador government in attempt to remove Assange from the embassy ImageImage
3.The influence of Conservative Friends of Israel over who gets job of UK's Middle East minister, given Duncan's concerns about illegal settlements. We already know Duncan got different job at Foreign Office, but even that role was too much for Israeli embassy officer Shai Masot ImageImageImage
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