British investigators are circumspect but experts and security officials say Golders Green attack has hallmarks of Iranian intelligence my analysis etc here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

ICYMI My analysis (plus others) on how the US risks winning a battle but losing a war ... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

meanwhile in Gaza Israeli-backed Palestinian militias have stepped up operations against Hamas Evidence have increased their firepower as they carry out raids deep in Hamas-controlled territory my report: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"In his riveting The Revolutionists, Jason Burke treats the Iranian Revolution as a catalyst for “a new and different energy” that would surge through the Middle East. In its aftermath, ... older, leftist revolutionary currents were pushed to the margins." theconversation.com/the-iranian-...

Iraq emerging as a new front in this spiralling conflict, with air strikes, militia, Kurds, Shia, proxies covert ops and more all in the mix our report here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

our latest on these US/Israeli plans to mobilise Kurds in the north of Iraq vs Iran. a quieter night in Jerusalem, thankfully. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

In jerusalem right now somewhat incongruous combination of bells from old city (sunday morning) and loud explosions as missiles from Iran aimed at central israel intercepted overhead. there's no doubt a latin tag that could be usefully deployed. Bluesky users may know. Twitter not so much.

noisy night here in Jerusalem with a lot of alerts and so in and out of the shelter. all clear half an hour ago, and a stunning clear blue sky. unsurprisingly empty streets. here's my file from last night on rise and demise of Ali Khamenei. The end of an era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

came through quiet Ben Gurion airport at 4am this morning on one of last flights in for who knows how long. woken by alerts pinging on phone when first wave of missiles came in, since pretty much nonstop sirens, jets overhead, and explosions rattling windows here in Jerusalem.

so what lessons might 1979 offer for 2026 in Iran? one is that the good guys may win but then not end up winning at all www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

very very long, careful and clever review of The Revolutionists in the New Yorker .. which is pretty amazing "A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left." t.co/mk6on0oGOz

Finally got round to starting my birthday present, @jasonburke2.bsky.social ‘s Revolutionists. 100 pages in in two days and it’s excellent.

Our Patreon supporters now have access to our latest episode with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his remarkable book, The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, and they get their extra 15 minutes with Jason! Join us here: www.patreon.com/posts/revolu... #booksky

Here's a fantastic Spotify playlist with some of the best music that features in The Revolutionists. (yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it) open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...

"The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life ...." read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here: lithub.com/the-rise-of-...

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

am wildly pleased by big review of #TheRevolutionists in New York Times which says "timely, engaging" and other nice things the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...

Am v pleased that @AppleBooksOfficial chose THE REVOLUTIONISTS as a #BestBooks of January. "This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here: t.co/Y7MUwkWlEC

ooh The Revolutionists is a Book of the Year in the Guardian, which is very nice to see. "in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true

this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read .. www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...

v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year... in some v fine company too

oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting. lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents

v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year... in some v fine company too

This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms

I'll just leave this here ... (tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering) thank you james

thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.

v pleased to report that The Spectator likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read. And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ... www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.

v happy this a.m. to see👇 a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian. "combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

v happy this a.m. to see👇 a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian. "combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

In 1982, a US president told Israel to end a war. The lessons from then are very relevant now. It's not the threat you fought that is the problem, but the one that is coming. A quick oped based on my new book, #TheRevolutionists (out now) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I'll be talking about my new book and The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s .. tonight in London expect spies, explosions, getaway cars, war, politics, assassinations and beauty queens book last seats here: kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the...

v pleased by v kind review of The Revolutionists (published on Friday) in the Times. esp as by legendary Simon Sebag Montefiore. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

so this is nuts, and very nice. My new book #TheRevolutionists has actually made it onto the Baillie Gifford prize shortlist. It is published today too. To say I'm thrilled would be something of an understatement. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

For many Israelis, Netanyahu’s warning to get used to growing isolation confirmed what they already suspected of his priorities - but will also reinforce his political base my report from Sderot and Tel Aviv here ICYMI www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

this is powerful, moving and important from my fantastic colleague in Gaza, Malak Tantesh (and that's her dad in the hat, a very dear friend) www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

very pleased with this review in the FT of my new book - The Revolutionists (out in 1O days in UK). "dramatic, deeply researched account looks at the hijackings and hostage-takings of the 1970s — and their connection with radicalism today" www.ft.com/content/96d6...

very pleased that The Revolutionists is on the Baillie Gifford longlist with 11 brilliant works by brilliant writers. they've even done a nice little video. and my book looks v handsome indeed! youtu.be/W34vK8Tpcz0

Hamas is hurting, undoubtedly, but still has a plan: to survive (and to capture an Israeli soldier if possible) My report here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day," Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, told me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hopes and fears in Gaza - and a 12 year old who just want not to be "torn apart" a report with my brilliant colleague Malak A Tantesh www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The IDF dropped a 500lb bomb into a cafe in Gaza on Monday. We saw & identified fragments. They had conducted "aerial surveillance" so knew it was crowded with civilians. They had other precise munitions available. Up to 40 died, many more injured. My report: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The IDF dropped a 500lb bomb into a cafe in Gaza on Monday. We saw & identified fragments. They had conducted "aerial surveillance" so knew it was crowded with civilians. They had other precise munitions available. Up to 40 died, many more injured. My report: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe our report on how a devastating Israeli strike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into horror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Twelve days in Gaza: what happened while the world looked away? One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to another conflict. This is our timeline of what happened www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...