This is amazing news for both journalism and democracy! I'm sure the wealthy will continue to abuse and bully journalists via the courts but hopefully cases like this give more publications the courage to stand up to them.

Further examples of the international far-right's interconnectedness. The women who did the Islamophobic "unveiling" stunt at Saturday's Unite the Kingdom rally were from Collectif Nemesis, a French group that describes itself as "feminist identitarian"

Recent weeks have seen a barrage of attacks on abortion pill access across the US. One central argument is that remote access allows men to coerce women into abortions. However, when digging into these cases, a very different picture emerges. Me for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2101...

I vividly remember Deborah's beautiful pandemic-era piece about connecting with the family named on the Stolpersteine outside her apartment. It's lovely to read a more in-depth piece about Sonja, how her personal story intertwines with Europe's history, and the importance of reckoning with the past.

This is fascinating. Another study found a similar pattern in the UK - areas with pub closures had high levels of UKIP support. "When there is no longer any place to talk to each other, politics becomes a face-off between the isolated individual and the grand narratives of the media."

An 18-year-old jailed for a neo-Nazi terror attack the day before the UK's biggest ever far-right march is set to take place. Something is very wrong.

This is clearly terrible, but also, what kind of communications crisis are we living in for people to be completely unaware of these things? There are many institutions at fault here, not just Reform themselves

This story is absolutely wild. Excellent reporting.

This is a really interesting thread breaking down why the Met Gala infuriates so many people. My hot take on the subject is that I love seeing the creativity and craftsmanship on display each year, and I can think of far more offensive examples of "wealth porn" (e.g. superyachts)

Increasingly feels like antisemitism has become nothing but a political football in UK politics and not something that either camp has any real interest in identifying, confronting and dismantling

The block – then temporary restoration – of abortion pill mifepristone by mail has left women in the US completely confused on the drug's legal status. One provider says they have had panicked patients ask if they are allowed to take pills they have already received. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

This biopic would have been a bad idea no matter what but it feels particularly bleak for it to have been released in the wake of the Epstein files, at a time when we are still lacking serious conversations on how we treat and respond to survivors variety.com/2026/film/bo...

For those into niche British pop culture, I just found out the AI-using writer Alex Preston is the older brother of Samuel Preston from The Ordinary Boys - aka one half of Preston and Chantelle

Really looking forward to chairing this panel on longform journalism in Europe at @journalismfestival.com, alongside @willcoldwell.bsky.social and editors from @politiken.dk and @ftweekend.com. Give me a shout if you're planning on heading to Perugia!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Many of the Iranian human rights activists I've interviewed have been calling for this for a long time. The EU has also passed targeted sanctions on regime officials (another request by activists). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Question for all #Iran watchers: does it feel like there is way more information warfare being waged over the recent uprisings than there was in 2022? I don't remember seeing anywhere near this level of clashing narratives and suspicious online activity during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests

Germany is home to the largest Iranian diaspora in Europe. At protests in Berlin, many told me they want to see European leaders take "real action" against Tehran - such as expelling ambassadors, targeted sanctions, and the classification of the Revolutionary Guard as a terror group

this place needs more jokes about the brooklyn beckham wedding drama

"What has unsettled me more is how quickly Venezuelans ceased to be the subject of the story at all. Almost immediately, the media coverage migrated elsewhere toward abstractions of power and sovereignty, international law." Via @unbiasthenews.bsky.social unbiasthenews.org/venezuela-wi...

How hard could it really be for Novara Media to find a left-wing Iranian to write about this topic instead? Certain people need to pass the mic and sit this one out.

Fascinating: Miller rails against neoliberalism here and dismisses the world order the U.S. largely established post-WWII. Neoliberalism has MANY critics (particularly progressives), but Miller is insisting the U.S. act like a superpower while decrying…how it became a superpower in the first place?

Honestly incredible

I see some white Western "leftists" are doing to Venezuelans what they previously did to Syrians: dismissing their voices and lived experience while positioning themselves as the true experts. Some leftists' racism always comes out when minority groups don't behave the way they believe they should.

Feel like this point should be more central to some of the current discussions. Trump did not single handedly destroy the international order - there are many institutions and individuals who need to do some self-reflection. From www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.

This is one of the first German habits I picked up. Still don't drink sparkling water, still don't really like pickles, but damn my brain is now fully programmed to WAIT for that green man no matter how empty the street.

Germany may be famous for its memory culture, in which the horrors of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime are commemorated in monuments and days of remembrance, but reflecting on what one’s own family may have done during this period is often more taboo. I met some of the people trying to change this.

Vor kurzem hat @jessicabateman.bsky.social mich für @theobserveruk.bsky.social zu einem Recherche-Workshop zum Nationalsozialismus in der eigenen Familie in München begleitet – und sie ist den Geschichten einiger Teilnehmer*innen weiter gefolgt.

Ten years on from Merkel's "wir schaffen das", German politicians are now asking Syrians to return home. I marked this bittersweet anniversary by profiling five Syrians who came to Germany as refugees and have changed the country in profound ways - from LGBT activists to artists and doctors.

The "year in review" madness needs to stop. I don't want to be reminded of all the intricate personal data I feed to tech companies every day – please just stay quiet about it. And no I DO NOT want to see my LinkedIn "year in review", what kind of sicko do you think I am?

Once again, never forget the role the richest man in the world played in this

A little bright spark in the winter gloom: A citizens' initiative designed to allow women in EU countries with draconian abortion laws to get care *elsewhere* in Europe has passed in the European Parliament. The European Commission will now have to respond www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

The German Press Council has ruled that tabloid BILD violated the press code by describing Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif as a "Hamas leader" without evidence www.presserat.de/presse-nachr...

"[The older British media class] believe their own politics to be neutral, impartial- and other people’s politics to be the aberration, or doctrinaire, a belief egged on by the fact that most of the media agrees with them. Orthodoxies are for other people." A must-read from @lewisgoodall.com

This is a really illuminating piece from @nstamouli.bsky.social on what the future of Europe could look like as we head into COP30: climate refugees are not a concept from the distant future, they are on the continent right now. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

360 by Charli xcx is actually about Zohran Mamdani

This was a fascinating listen on the role religion has played in the NYC Mayoral election and the myriad of ways faith can shape our politics and voting habits www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

New work for @theobserveruk.bsky.social: I took a look at why sobriety is on the rise in Berlin, the world's capital of hedonism, and whether drug-free parties could help save nightlife venues from closure observer.co.uk/news/interna...

As Ian Watkins was back in the news recently, it's worth remembering that police received complaints about him almost five years before he was arrested. The women who reported him were dismissed as "crazy exes." He was only charged after his computer was searched as part of a drugs-related raid.

Horrific news out of Germany: a newly elected mayor in North-Rhine Westphalia – Iris Stalzer of the Social Democrats – is critically injured after being stabbed multiple times by an unknown perpetrator[s]. www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/a...

If you want to know what the UK government's position is on its obligations under the Genocide Convention in relation to its support for Israel, here's what it argued in court this summer.

Always had a soft spot for these guys, they seem fun ngl

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

A must-read here

Good of the telegraph to remind us that as well as racist coked up men with prior convictions for dv, the racist march led by a racist that descended into racist violence also included some racists who shop at oliver bonas & think running the church fete tombola makes them nice people

This week many British parents found themselves being educated by their kids on who Kirk was. Debates about him popped up in unusual places, from local Facebook groups to Football Twitter. I took at look at how the commentator amassed his surprising UK following: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is an excellent analysis, and I highly recommend everyone reads this before jumping to any further conclusions!!

This week many British parents found themselves being educated by their kids on who Kirk was. Debates about him popped up in unusual places, from local Facebook groups to Football Twitter. I took at look at how the commentator amassed his surprising UK following: www.politico.com/news/magazin...