Isabel Hilton

❗️👀 Mexican cartels are increasingly sending operatives to Russia’s war against Ukraine to learn drone technology and recruiting returning soldiers, primarily Colombians, - WP Groups are closely studying radio-frequency switching and techniques for bypassing EW countermeasures against drones.

Abraham Lincoln: “I hated being killed at the Donald J. Trump Theater but at least I didn’t have to live to see his presidency.”

All of this ends in one of those deadly nightclub fires, am I right?

Check out my latest video with the fabulous @isabelh.bsky.social on how we can harness the sun on an EPIC scale

Trump Took His Status. ICE Took His Dignity. He Took His Life. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-took...

Israel’s defence minister bragging about his illegal invasion of Lebanon: “Twenty-four Lebanese villages, hundreds of years old, we destroyed all the buildings,” he said, boasting that up to 20,000 homes had been demolished. “Not house by house, but entire villages.” Ft.com

It's difficult to solve a problem is your refuse to admit it is there: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Simon Romero of the New York Times reports that the Trump administration has taken an estimated $8 billion in oil revenue out of Venezuela. In the wake of the devastating earthquakes that hit on June 24, the U.S. has so far pledged only $300 million in aid.

These people are seriously evil: Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The ever solipsistic Nigel Farage described himself as the “most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician in modern times. “. Quite a claim. I wonder if he knows the names Jo Cox and David Arness?

With unclear intention, Russia’s satellites have been placed curiously close to a commercial satellite that provides essential intelligence for the Ukrainian armed forces. Read the latest RUSI Commentary by @julianasuess.bsky.social.

Why do we have to keep correcting this, year after year, story after story? When does it stop? The US "acknowledges" but DOES NOT recognize the PRC claim to Taiwan. AP is wrong here (and in the next sentence as well). apnews.com/article/taiw...

Ft on space x A very successful but fairly small satellite launch company, bolted onto a stagnant money-losing social media company (X) and a money-incinerating AI company [xAI, operator of the widely despised model Grok], and then sprinkled with a lot of hype about humankind going interplanetary.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Last chance to register for Thursday's debate: Is China the primary threat to global stability in the next decade? Now with @isabelh.bsky.social and Desmond Shum added to the bill. Register ⬇️ www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/m...

🎙️This morning @isabelh.bsky.social and I spoke to Monocle Radio about #Putin's visiting to #China, what #Russia is hoping to get out of it and how that relationship might develop. The segment starts about 3 minutes into the recording monocle.com/player/?uuid...

“Xi’s wishlist is likely to include the hope that the Trump administration will stop behaving like a drunken elephant at a wedding and refrain from bringing down the global economy”, writes Isabel Hilton

Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

With Orbán in power in Hungary, Russians refrained from targeting Ukraine’s Transcarpathia that hosts a sizeable Hungarian ethnic community. But after the regime change in Hungary, Russians are no longer restrained, hence the most dramatic Russian strike on Transcarpathia today since February 2022.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Our new issue is out and our paywall is down, which means you can read it all for free. Including great reads from @ethanz.bsky.social @tom-clark.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @isabelh.bsky.social @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social

My take on the Trump-XI meeting app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73550/...

Distressed that the great @Reuters editorial standards seem to be slipping. Viz this claim that a group of UK mps about to visit China are the first in 7 years..apart of course, from the group that visited 2 years ago.Better "sources" perhaps? Check a fact or 2? www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

How to bring some joy into a world that is a bit short of right now. This is a great project www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/a-document...

China is now America’s main rival in the stratosphere—and the two superpowers are increasingly viewing each other’s space programs with suspicion, writes @isabelh.bsky.social: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

New Prospect out now! With @ethanz.bsky.social on the US court judgments threatening the future of social media; @isabelh.bsky.social on the new star wars; @duncanweldon.bsky.social on price shocks and the Iran war; and @mrhenrymorris.substack.com joins Reform on the Welsh campaign trail

We don’t have the budgets of corporations or lobbyists – but we are committed to exposing the forces behind the rise of climate misinformation in the UK This Earth Day, we’re launching a crowdfunder to keep that work going

And thank you Reuters for reminding us where our realy sympathies should lie in this disordered world:second-hand Lamborghinis and Ferraris, bound for Dubai from Japan, are stranded at a port in Sri Lanka because ships are unable to dock in the Middle East..

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There has been a striking lack of news about the US airman since Trump's announcement of his rescue from Iran. Clearly the operation was messy and became a long firefight in which he and others were wounded. Since then, silence.

"With all these assets, why is the USA so bad at winning wars?" A very good piece by @isabelh.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

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New Prospect out now! Daron Acemoglu, @isabelh.bsky.social , Kim Darroch and Arash Azizi feature in our Iran symposium, plus @sophie-neiman.bsky.social reports from Sudan, @imogenwk.bsky.social on Louis Theroux and the manosphere, and @zackpolanski.bsky.social does our Hinterland Q&A...

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The Washington Post architecture correspondent describes Donald Trump as the biggest threat to architecture in DC since the war of 1812. (For those w short memories, that was when the Brits burned down the White House) That’s him off the ballroom opening night guest list I expect.

Well there’s a surprise. This loan was agreed last December. Two Putin stooges are trying to sabotage it

Well it worked for T***p

Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.

How's everyone else's scams going? My scam is parked in the driveway and just started charging off solar power for $0.

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Global ramifications of the war in Iran, with Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, former US NATO ambassador Kurt Volker, @isabelh.bsky.social and @markhleonard.bsky.social of @ecfr.eu. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Does this remind anyone of another recent election? To aid Viktor Orban in his upcoming election Russian operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters. Catherine Belton The Washington Post apple.news/Avq4Ozfy3SUu...