Of all the bad things happening, the death of the newspaper has to be among the most consequential. We just no longer have a common reality, and reporting has been replaced by opinion, opinion and opinion. It's all reels and podcasts and personalised algorithms
Roland Oliphant
@rolandoliphant.bsky.social
Chief Foreign Something @telegraph.co.uk
#BBCNews - British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
British army told to stop non-essential training exercises to save money
Units in the UK not preparing to be deployed have been told to cut back on training exercises due to cost pressures.
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Kharkiv tonight‼️ Russian attack set a monastery on fire.
Ukraine practically under continuous attack, with record amounts of drones being launched by fascist Russia. Right now, 5 Tu-95s, 2 Tu-160s airborne - if they launched cruise missiles, the weapons are expected in 🇺🇦 airspace at 0830. ~150 Shahed drones also launched at 🇺🇦.
Our colleague @guttmannaviva.bsky.social is quoted in this @telegraph.co.uk article by @rolandoliphant.bsky.social shedding light on some of the intelligence dynamics of the US-Israeli war against Iran www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
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"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv
Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian drone attack right now ‼️
D Blair and I spent the week trying to understand how Europe could defend itself without America. Here's our answer: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
What Europe must do to survive militarily without America
Trump has turned an unthinkable question into an urgent one. Can Nato still deter Russia without a superpower ally?
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New Battlelines on the Nato civil war, King Trump versus Carney Cromwell(?), James Rothwell on sunsets in Greenland, David Blair on how he saved the West www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHW...
Battle for the West: Trump, Greenland and Canada's fightback
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Rest easy old friend. Adam Dobby, former SAS man who helped journalists cover the wars in Syria and Ukraine www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Adam Dobby, former SAS man who helped journalists cover the wars in Syria and Ukraine
In Syria he slept with an AK on the roof of a house recently abandoned by ISIS to protect reporters under siege
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I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Drone Delusion
Why the lessons of Ukraine don’t apply to a conflict with China.
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Former HMA Washington Kim Darroch on Trump's new national security strategy: a rejection of 70 years of foreign policy, but which should not surprise anyone. youtu.be/zXm8smIIrQw?...
More Russia, less China and no Europe: Trump’s new security strategy unveiled
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Very tank nerdy episode of Battlelines: if Britain can't fix Ajax, can it still fight. With the Tel's Dom Nicholls and Ben Barry of IISS. Yes I know I know when is a tank not a tank etc share.google/xrGNBbcExnNE...
Why can't Britain build a decent tank?
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❗️Russian drone struck a residential building in Zaporizhzhia.
"Europe’s problem is not that it lacks options. It is that it refuses to use them". Jade McGlynn skewers both the Dmitriev/Witkoff plan for Ukraine's destruction, & Europe's refusal to act decisively enough to prevent disaster. open.substack.com/pub/smalldee...
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Amidst the absolute chaos of a Witkoff-stamped Russian psyop-as-peace plan, discussion is filled with anger at Washington and at Moscow.
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Xi Jinping is purging the CCP leadership. So we spoke to @josephtorigian.bsky.social about how the Xi family's own purge-trauma informs how he runs China - and covets Taiwan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLxa...
China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
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For the @telegraph.co.uk podcast Battle Lines, I talked to @rolandoliphant.bsky.social about my book "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge
Podcast Episode · Battle Lines · 24/11/2025 · 33m
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U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi to meet with Russian officials, who will presumably tell him that Europe's revised 28-point plan is a nonstarter and it's the original Dmitriev–Witkoff document to get things moving or nothing. www.cbsnews.com/news/army-se...
Army Secretary Driscoll meeting with Russians in UAE as Trump administration presses for Ukraine peace deal
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi to meet with Russian officials, two U.S. officials and two diplomatic sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told CBS News.
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The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan was lunacy. But the European/Ukrainian counter offer is very sensible: here's why. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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Russia struck an apartment building in Ternopil with an X-101 missile, killing 16 people, including a child. More than 60 people were injured, among them 14 children. Rescuers are still searching through the debris.
The death toll from the russian missile attack on Ternopil has risen to 19. More than 65 people were injured, including 16 children.
Donald Trump's admin is full of War on Terror vets - and this week he welcomed one from the other side. Friday's battlelines looks at Ahmed al Sharaa: Why the West is betting on a millenial ex-Al Qaeda commander to fix Syria. youtube.com/watch?v=xf0x...
Trump and the ex-terrorist: why the West needs Syria to work
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Here's our piece on Iran's drought. Really fascinating - and a lesson for everyone about ignoring the creeping crisis of climate change. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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I've been lucky enough to report from Iran a couple of times over the years. Each time I was there, water was an issue on people's minds, including officials I spoke to. But if everyone knew there was a problem, how did Tehran end up on the brink of running dry? youtu.be/zlP2If9uzV4?...
'Worse than war with Israel': Why Iran's regime is on edge
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The Telegraph cannot keep its credibility if it is not transparently independent www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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