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Mar 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In-depth coverage of Putin's war on Ukraine in today's @theipaper Weekend.
Just £1.20 from your newsagent.

Here's some highlights of the impact on the UK's politics and economics, by @ChaplainChloe @HugoGye @katyballs + otheres
Key line from No.10 official on bills: “We’ve set out the package for April + we think that’s going to be enough.”
Tory MP: “It’s a tricky one to think how much money you want to throw at it versus how much misery you will allow"
@ChaplainChloe @HugoGye

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Ukraine war provides cover for a quiet reset for Boris Johnson and No 10, by @katyballs

inews.co.uk/opinion/ukrain…
Plus my long read on the UK's changing policy on Ukrainian refugees. Packed with quotes from multiple sources.

Can Priti Patel and Boris Johnson catch up with the public mood?

inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…

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Mar 12
Priti Patel is under fire for her handling of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, but the buck stops with Boris Johnson

My long read for @theipaper Weekend🧵
inews.co.uk/opinion/priti-…
The piece has some strong defences of the Home Secretary, who has shifted her stance on refugees as the Ukraine crisis has grown.
But it also has some withering criticism of both her and @BorisJohnson.
I've been told that early in the crisis, an email chain in the Home Office contained a memo setting out that the Home Secretary's priority was UK national security.
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Mar 12
Superb piece by @larisamlbrown on the MoD's Defence Intelligence team. The unglamorous, unsung heroes of our intelligence services.
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-we…
DI is now getting the recognition but also the funding it needs.
The extra funding is something the late Dr Brian Jones, the real star of the Hutton Inquiry I was privileged to meet + befriend, always told me he wanted.
Here's a taster of what he was like

independent.co.uk/voices/comment…
And this:
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Mar 11
“I lost everyone and lost the meaning of life...I want to achieve the maximum repost by the press of my grief." Sergii Perebeinis, whose wife Tatiana and children Nikita, 18, and Alise, 9, were killed by Russian mortar fire fleeing Irpin.

@CSaid reports:
sfchronicle.com/california/art…
Utterly heart breaking account by Sergii. He was in Donbass visiting his mother, who had Covid. His wife and kids had their apartment block shelled so fled on foot. 

This is how he discovered what had happened.
For context, here's the original report by @lynseyaddario of the @nytimes:

nytimes.com/2022/03/06/wor…
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Mar 9
Why onshore wind, not fracking, offers @BorisJohnson the better energy weapon against Putin.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/fracki…
Featuring this startling new analysis by @DrSimEvans of @CarbonBrief:
If all 649 onshore wind and solar farms that *already* have planning permission got built, the electricity they would produce would exceed ALL the gas the UK is currently importing from Russia. Image
Why haven't they been built? The lack of a clear route to market. But that could all change this summer when @KwasiKwarteng holds the contracts for difference auction. If he expands even further the cap for onshore wind, it could make a big difference.
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Mar 9
New: Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP announces to MPs that UK has decided to supply Star Streak high velocity anti aircraft missiles to Ukraine 🇺🇦 govt.
"It's vital that Ukraine retains its ability to fly."
Wallace adds that UK increasing direct humanitarian aid to Ukraine to make it the largest bilateral donor in the world.
.@JohnHealey_MP praises the decision to supply Star Streak missiles to Ukraine (and reveals he and @Keir_Starmer will travel to visit British troops in Estonia tonight)

Here's more on why the UK needs to do more to help Ukraine's airforce:

inews.co.uk/opinion/the-be…
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Mar 9
.@BWallaceMP made clear yday on @BBCr4today that Poland plan to supply MiGs to Ukraine would have to be a bilateral one, not a Nato one - tho Nato would stand by it. But the US clearly felt using its base in Germany as conduit was a mistake.
More here:

inews.co.uk/opinion/the-be…
Slovakia PM on @BBCr4today notably doesn't rule out sending its own MiG-29s to Ukraine. Says discussions have to be private and Ukraine has right to receive 'gifts' of such weapons.
Feels like the idea is not dead
The remarkable thing is that Ukrainian Air Force 🇺🇦 has not been overwhelmed by their Russian counterparts.
Echoes of the 'Few' in the RAF in 1940. But they're running out of time.
More here:

inews.co.uk/opinion/the-be…
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