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http://newstatesman.com/subscribe 02-02-2009 13:37:55
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“Liz Truss is fatally self-aware.”
📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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Joe Biden’s approach to the region has adhered to a sound realism.
🖊️ Sohrab Ahmari
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The comedian’s shallow, faux-educational prank merely bolsters his own brand.
🖊️ Sarah Manavis
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“The shortage, quality and cost of [housing] remains one of our biggest domestic policy problems, with knock on effects on everything from the productivity puzzle to pension provision to the demographic timebomb.”
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To which Truss replied with amusement: “Ha-ha.” She knows she’s a joke. She even seems to take part in it. But she does not care.
📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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Truss bluntly tells her allies: “I think I would be a very good Prime Minister, there are just two problems: I am weird and I don’t have any friends.”
📕 Rachel Cunliffe on Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West newstatesman.com/politics/conse…
“The price for the region, and the world, in escalating this crisis further will be too high.”
🖊️ Jasmine M. El-Gamal
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“This is a faux-educational, self-righteous prank that shouts about its own importance without saying anything at all.”
🖊️ Sarah Manavis
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As one aide put it: “anyone in Labour who is worrying about the honeymoon ending after an election needs to have their head checked. It could easily end before”.
🖊️ Freddie Hayward
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“That evening, I trembled over the fate of my homeland, Iran. I thought about its passionate, funny, and sometimes maddening people. My kin.”
🖊️ Sohrab Ahmari
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Truss – the impaler of the pound – describes herself this way: “I’m gregarious and I like people, but even my best friends wouldn’t describe me as a great people manager.”
📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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“Nigel Farage has never looked more satisfied.”
Freddie Hayward reports from Brussels on the police vs the NatCons. newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…
“Truss spent years under David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson being mocked, but also being noticed. And then she became prime minister.”
📕 Rachel Cunliffe on Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West newstatesman.com/politics/conse…
“Truss can be very rational – and, in fact, self-aware – indeed.”
📕 Rachel Cunliffe on Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West newstatesman.com/politics/conse…
Enjoyed Freddie Hayward's counter-consensual take on Liz Truss this morning - that if anything she's all-too self-aware:
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