The deep anthropology of Starmer slaughter and the shallow psychology of Burnham worship open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

The anthropology of Keir sacrifice open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

How a country ends up persecuting, deporting and even murdering a loyal minority open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Matt Goodwin's Ingerland. A free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Matt Goodwin's Ingerland. A free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

How a country ends up persecuting, deporting and even murdering a loyal minority open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

A magazine length feature on how a group can be demonised open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

An encounter with a modern right-wing nightmare: the Afghan 'man of fighting age'. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

An encounter with a modern right-wing nightmare: the Afghan 'man of fighting age'. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

🇪🇺 Can Europe build digital sovereignty? IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's 'The Briefing Room' about the feasibility of building #DigitalSovereignty in Europe and the UK. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/ouGdmnj

Taking on the cultural backlashers over the Odyssey. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

it's a shame that you can't see the 1937 depiction of Odysseus arriving in the land of the Phaecians that illustrates this piece. The algorithm here is a little puritanical

Taking on the cultural backlashers over the Odyssey. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

A Blair-length essay on the Blair essay. Contains radical proposals open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

A Blair-length essay on the Blair essay. Contains radical proposals open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

as [Trump] and his family amass billions through a naked corruption that was entirely predictable, what does that say about the voters [..] who apparently want his crypto-subsidised British mini-me to become prime minister of the UK? @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

🇪🇺 Can Europe build digital sovereignty? IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4's 'The Briefing Room' about the feasibility of building #DigitalSovereignty in Europe and the UK. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: buff.ly/ouGdmnj

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social+ @bbcstever.bsky.social, @christopherjm.ft.com Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former US National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia

A mega essay on Radden Keefe's London Falling and Izabella Scott's The Bed Trick open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

A mega essay on Radden Keefe's London Falling and Izabella Scott's The Bed Trick open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Revealed: secret minutes of the committee planning the greatest monument in the history of the world open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Revealed: secret minutes of the committee planning the greatest monument in the history of the world open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

'Being Prime Minister is an incredibly difficult job... Everybody fails at something, and we have not got the tolerance for failure.' Meg Russell spoke with @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social, @anandmenon.bsky.social and Bronwen Maddox on the Briefing Room's 10th anniversary special this week. Listen 👇

Worth noting in this very depressing column (1930s Berlin-style bigotry in the UK, but its stupid face) that one of the Reform actors is also Heartland Institute EU/UK outpost. Heartland is worst of the Kochtopus (Atlas Network) for climate denial. Some of #Auspol worst went for training in US.

The Right seems increasingly terrified of Muslims. But where do they want to go with this? open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social article hits all points. It is the best critique of our electoral challenge that I have read. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

I'll be on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm UK time to discuss tech sovereignty, and whether Europe can ever shake off its dependency on America. Fun panel with lots of disagreement, chaired by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social. Tune in or link below. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Israel has lost the West. A free post. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Israel has lost the West. A free post. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Reform schools: Suella's plan for your children. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Reform schools: Suella's plan for your children. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

open.substack.com/pub/davidaar... By @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social

Trump is all errors and vainglory. So who can a populist turn to now? open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Goodwin live at a Scruton cafe in Hungary! @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social great thread

He may be about to get hammered in the local elections but Starmer got the big one right. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

He may be about to get hammered in the local elections but Starmer got the big one right. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Macron has welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and the US but warned the situation in Lebanon remains critical and urged that Lebanon be included in the deal, Reuters reports.

new online paper by @rosahodgkin.bsky.social @danhaile.bsky.social and me on how govt needs to get a grip of the economic consequences of the Iran war. Needs to stand up coordinating machinery - like Gordon Brown's National Economic Council www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

The abasement of Pam Bondi. A morality tale open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

The abasement of Pam Bondi. A morality tale open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Many civilian deaths in the Persian Gulf have been among migrant workers, whose labor has quietly turned cities such as Dubai into global business hubs. As many of Dubai’s wealthier residents fled during Iranian strikes, those workers have remained.

Great article by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on why we should be frightened of the power of the techbros, the new robber barons.

Magazine length feature on a strange conference and the subculture that spawned it: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Three snippets concerning the parhology of the New Right: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Little public challenge, including from > GB News staff who aren't white nationalists/racists > Regulator > Govt ministers, Opposition, backbench MPs - anxious about free speech/hate speech - too awkward if on a TV channel, not 4Chan? > Other media outlets: now seen as normal, not newsworthy?

On extremism bsky.app/profile/sund...