US calls for international action to cut weapons supply to Sudan paramilitaries

I contributed a few suggestions to the Spectator's yearly roundup of recommended reading: www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...

Sudan capital hit by drone attacks a day after RSF agrees to truce - reports

Oh dear. Falling apart before it even gets going! The far-left disunited www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Scarborough beach

The Economist poll

Trump’s growing unpopularity

According to The Economist, 100,000 Russian troops have been killed in combat in 2025 alone — a roughly five to one ratio of Ukraine’s deaths. That is at least six times the Soviet Union’s 1980s death toll in Afghanistan

Trump at it again. He holds a summit with Putin. No decision…Then thinks about supplying long range missiles to Ukraine… then speaks to Putin…decides to have another meeting with the Russian president…thinks about supplying the missiles…no decision…again…etc. etc. etc.

www.thenational.scot/news/2554418... More troubles in the fruit and nut party

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he may tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles if the war is not settled. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Ethiopia’s Federal Future Tested in Western Tigray open.substack.com/pub/ethiopia...

Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Reach Deal on Hostage Release and Troop Pullback www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

The Farage effect

Very strange

Trump’s Middle East Adviser Pick Is a Small-Time Truck Salesman. There is no indication in corporate documents that Mr. Boulos, a Lebanese-American whose son is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a man of significant wealth as a result of his businesses www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

Chris Mason: Starmer unflinching as he seeks to take on Reform First week by week, and now day by day, the prime minister is stepping up the way he describes the political battle between Labour and Reform UK.

Ethiopia: Surge in Arrests of Journalists, Media Workers Clampdown Stifles Independent Voices Ahead of Anticipated National Elections www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front has splintered, with one faction seeking sanctuary from Eritrea’s President Isaias and another turning to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy. Relying on these authoritarian leaders to resolve Tigray’s crisis is misguided martinplaut.com/2025/09/21/w...

How Eritrean churches fund the Eritrean dictatorship www.facebook.com/share/p/17CL...

The real fear of the British right: that Keir Starmer might succeed martinplaut.com/2025/09/20/t...

President Trump just said in a press conference with Keir Starmer that “zero” illegal migration took place in last 3 months. His own press release discredits the claim www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

I’m delighted! My book on slavery now on sale in South Africa! “Unbroken chains: A 5,000 year history of African enslavement”

Britain will not surrender its flag to those who wish to use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division, Sir Keir Starmer has said

Time’s Hostage: How Ethiopia’s Past is Strangling its Present and Future open.substack.com/pub/ethiopia...

South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in a move that some fear could reignite the country's civil war

Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home. BBC has examined French property and company records and has been unable to find evidence that Ferrari's parents have the means to give their daughter a significant contribution towards the purchase of the home.

Tigray Needs Democracy Before Secession open.substack.com/pub/ethiopia...

Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is I am convinced that Trump looks at NATO as if it’s a U.S.-owned shopping center whose tenants are never paying enough rent. And he looks at the European Union as a shopping center competing with the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

After Reassuring Europe, Trump Strikes a Different Tone About Russian Threats. Trump suggested that he was powerless to control President Putin saying he could not convince the Russians to stop killing Ukrainian civilians or hacking American court records www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Ethiopia’s ruling party: Framing its future direction under the motto “Resist, Strive, and Cleanse,” the party pledged to “diligently cleanse” its journey toward prosperity by “eliminating the ideas, cultures, habits, infiltrators, and traitors that serve as obstacles x.com/addisstandar...

I’m thrilled to share this offer on my new book on African enslavement. “This erudite book is an eye-opening revelation and a transfixing read.” Polly Toynbee, The Guardian www.waterstones.com/book/unbroke...

Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections. All those foreign dictators will be delighted www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

South African troops abandoned by their government

Oh no! Someone has to go out and buy some lavatory paper! The shock! The horror! A human rights atrocity by Trump