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Journalist, 1984, UK correspondent & Westminster Lobby @repubblica 🇬🇧 Corrispondente da Londra La Repubblica. Überflâneur. 📩 a.guerrera@repubblica.it
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Jan 4 9 tweets 5 min read
Ahead of Keir Starmer's major speech today, I interviewed veteran Labour MP Jon Cruddas @JonCruddas_1 in @repubblica about his new book “A Century of Labour” (Polity Books).

Cruddas explains to me why he "fears that Labour will have no mandate for change once in government", but also his concerns about "the lack of independent thought in the party".

Moreover, despite his great achievements so far, "Starmer remains quite an elusive political character" and Cruddas tells why the Labour Party "could be destroyed by victory" after the 2024 election. 🧵 FULL INTERVIEW HERE 👉repubblica.it/esteri/2024/01…Image 1. Cruddas praises the words of his leader Keir Starmer, because “it's quite a good, ethical case to make in terms of public standards in public life. There’s only been three Labour Prime Ministers who won power at general election in 100 years and the possibility of Starmer becoming the fourth Labour Prime Minister is a phenomenal development. Objectively that's something that should be recognised”.

However, Cruddas stresses, “The journey is not complete, and I don't think anyone should assume that the election is done and dusted”.
Aug 12, 2023 16 tweets 6 min read
Qualche giorno fa sono andato a Portland, nel sud dell'Inghilterra, dove c'è la controversa chiatta dei migranti e richiedenti asilo, ieri evacuata perché è stato rinvenuto il batterio della legionella. Ecco quanto ho visto e sentito al porto e in città. Cose non incoraggianti. Image 1. La chiatta si trova qui, sull'isola di Portland, anche se in realtà una connessione con la Gran Bretagna c'è grazie all'unica strada verso Weymouth e Chesil Beach, infinito e malinconico istmo di spiaggia dello straordinario romanzo di Ian McEwan (terza foto, sullo sfondo).

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Nov 8, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING. Irish Foreign minister @simoncoveney tells me: "There is a real intent in London to try to resolve the #Brexit protocol issues through negotiation over the next few weeks and months. And I think the EU will respond to that generously. In fact, I know they will." 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪 Coveney: "I think there is an agreement between the British and Irish Governments and certainly, I think there's a view within the British government now that an election at this time in Northern Ireland really serves no positive purpose. It would be a very polarising..."
Oct 26, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
This video is an absolute gem. ❤️🇬🇧

In 1967 John Reith, the first ever Director General of the BBC, spoke to Malcolm Muggeridge about the "BBC accent". - via @BBCArchive

P.S. I’m just mesmerised by the way he pronounces tower, tar and tyre. 😵‍💫😍
Oct 26, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
NEW. I interviewed the celebrated British of Asian descent writer @Hanifkureishi on Rishi Sunak and he's not happy

"I don't think people feel excited about him in any way, shape or form: he's no Obama. He doesn't have any moral authority that Obama had"

repubblica.it/esteri/2022/10… Kureishi: "Sunak comes from a very wealthy background, and he hasn't actually struggled. He went to public school and then he went to Oxford, he worked for Goldman Sachs and so on. Unlike Obama, he has no real roots in the immigrant community."
Aug 2, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
👀 CHINA EASTERN MILITARY COMMAND: WILL CARRY OUT JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS AROUND #TAIWAN ISLAND FROM AUG 2 EVENING LOCAL TIME - Reuters 👀
#Pelosi CHINA EASTERN MILITARY COMMAND: WILL CONDUCT JOINT SEA, AIR TRAINING IN AIRSPACE NORTH, SOUTHWEST, SOUTHEAST OF TAIWAN ISLAND - Reuters
Jul 30, 2022 4 tweets 5 min read
And we’re at Lady GAAAAAAGAAAAA, baby
@ladygaga ❤️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇬🇧

#London #tottenhamStadium Image GAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAA
@ladygaga #BadRomance #tottenhamStadium #London 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇬🇧
Jun 20, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
My interview with Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

“It’s the EU threatening a new Irish border. Tone-deaf Ireland must choose between the Brexit Protocol and the Good Friday Agreement”

His appeal to Europe for a solution and why Joe Biden should be "more balanced"

repubblica.it/esteri/2022/06… Donaldson on the Northern Ireland bill which rips off the Protocol: "We want to see the government follow through and take this bill forward in Parliament because I think it offers the potential to solve the protocol problem and restore the political institutions under the GFA".
May 12, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
NEW. The Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, spoke to Vice President Maroš Šefčovič today (Thursday 12 May) - FCDO

"The Foreign Secretary outlined that the UK's overriding priority is to protect peace and stability in Northern Ireland and said that the Northern Ireland Protocol..." "...had become the greatest obstacle to forming a Northern Ireland Executive. She also noted that the current situation was causing unacceptable disruption to trade and had created a two-tier system where people in Northern Ireland weren’t being treated the same as..."
May 11, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
If the UK really wanted to trigger Art 16 of Brexit protocol, it’d already do so. The fact, unlike previous times, is the UK is in a weaker position than EU, if a trade war erupts. Especially in such turbulent times. EU knows it. But sure NI political stalemate is worrying. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Yes, the DUP want radical changes to the Protocol for obvious reasons and there is no government without them. However, the new NI Assembly has a majority supporting the Brexit protocol, which would be then extended in 2024 beyond doubt. It's a very tricky position for the UK.
May 10, 2022 11 tweets 10 min read
And we’re back. @muse second night in London at @EventimApollo. Floor standing tonight 🤟🏻🇬🇧 Image Better outfit than last night?
@muse #London @EventimApollo ImageImage
May 9, 2022 13 tweets 11 min read
Queuing for @muse almost 3 years after their last concert in London. Magical. 🤟🏻 @EventimApollo Image The right outfit for @muse?
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Apr 28, 2022 22 tweets 5 min read
Il discorso della ministra degli Esteri Liz Truss ieri a Londra secondo me è spartiacque e apre una nuova era geopolitica. Non solo: mi pare sia il manifesto di una nuova, sempre più probabile Guerra Fredda tra Occidente e Russia-Cina, oltre a quella "calda" in Ucraina. THREAD 👇 1. Truss ha subito messo in chiaro: la guerra in Ucraina si deve vincere non solo per difendere la libertà e la democrazia, ma anche perché è il baluardo ideologico e sistemico che porrà le basi della futura geopolitica mondiale, come ho scritto qui 🇺🇦🇷🇺

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Apr 27, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Perché,con le frasi di Londra ieri sui “bombardamenti legittimi in Russia con armi britanniche”, siamo entrati in una nuova fase della guerra in Ucraina.

E perché UK e Usa sono passate al “contrattacco” contro Putin.

Il mio retroscena oggi su @repubblica
repubblica.it/esteri/2022/04… L'esplosiva affermazione del sottosegretario alla Difesa con delega all'Esercito, il deputato conservatore inglese James Heappey, apre un'altra fase della guerra in Ucraina, sfiorando una linea rossa sempre più indistinguibile. Perché per la prima volta, un Paese occidentale…
Apr 22, 2022 18 tweets 7 min read
I have interviewed Nadia Murad @NadiaMuradBasee, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on the tragedy of mass rapes in #Ukraine. She told me interesting things. Like, if we want to stop this appalling weapon of war against women, we also must change ourselves.
repubblica.it/cultura/2022/0… 1. @NadiaMuradBasee: "What is happening in Ukraine is appalling, but, unfortunately, not new. Women and girls in conflicts all over the world are subjected to sexual violence, just as Yazidis were. Women and girls will continue to be used as "weapons" of war until..."
Apr 22, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Boris Johnson announces that the UK will reopen its embassy in Kyiv next week - as Italy did recently. Boris Johnson: the Indians want peace and the Russians out [of Ukraine]
Mar 4, 2022 15 tweets 5 min read
EXCLUSIVE. Boris Johnson: How to avoid a nuclear disaster in Ukraine and why "Putin is in a cul-de-sac"

A long interview on Moscow's aggression, how to deal with the Russian President and the unity of the West, despite Brexit - @repubblica

repubblica.it/esteri/2022/03… PM: “An attack on a nuclear power plant or an explosion are clearly a matter of our common European health and safety. We remember what happened with Chernobyl, the radioactive clouds spread over the whole continent, and indeed, also to North America. There is clearly a risk.”
Feb 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
NEW. Boris Johnson: “We – and the world – cannot allow that freedom just to be snuffed out. We cannot and will not just look away.”

“Today in concert with our allies we will agree a massive package of economic sanctions designed in time to hobble the Russian economy”

#Ukraine Johnson: “For all his bombs and tanks and missiles I don’t believe that the Russian dictator will ever subdue the national feeling of the Ukrainians and their passionate belief that their country should be free”.
Feb 19, 2022 34 tweets 10 min read
Great, powerful, inspiring speech by Boris Johnson in Munich on #Russia and #Ukraine. Very wise, tough words in defense of a free Europe.

#MSC2022 Johnson: "We must be united against Russia threat because we should be in no doubt what is at stake here.

If Ukraine is invaded and overwhelmed, we'll witness the destruction of a democratic state, a country that has been free for a generation, with a proud history of elections"
Feb 10, 2022 20 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING. Sir John Major: “The Prime Minister and our present Government not only challenge the Law, but also seem to believe that they – and they alone – need not obey the rules, traditions, conventions – call them what you will – of public life.”
@instituteforgov Sir John Major: “The charge that there is one law for the Government, and one for everyone else is politically deadly.

Our democracy requires that the truth and the Law should be respected and obeyed – above all, by the Government. But it seems that it is not always respected”
Feb 9, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
NEW. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will fly to Moscow today to urge the Kremlin to de-escalate and desist its aggression against Ukraine. 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 She will make clear that the Kremlin’s current strategy is damaging Russian standing and interests.

The Foreign Secretary will also assert the right of Ukraine to self-determination and urge Russia to abide by the international agreements it has already signed up to. (FCDO) 🇬🇧🇷🇺