Sorry but in what world has Trump been "intently focused on making sure Iran never had the nuclear fuel in hand to build a nuclear weapon," let alone for the last decade? He withdrew from the JCPOA to spite Obama, and because it was what every Republican wanted him to do.

When the war in Iran started, I started writing a piece on the implications for the US ban on assassination. This became a longer piece co-authored with @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social. The piece has just ben published on @justsecurity.org. Here: www.justsecurity.org/135015/khame...

‘Trump claims X despite evidence to the contrary’ is literally the story of Trump’s life and presidency.

Oof!

How does cinema convey historical knowledge for popular education? Viviane Saglier on Annemarie Jacir’s film, ‘Palestine 36’ (2025).

‘Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security researchers say the underlying vulnerabilities cover the planet and are easy to exploit.’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

At a time of assassinations, leaked communications, and abuses of executive power, it might be good to reflect on the legacy of the Church Committee investigations. Last week, I recorded a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode with @mguariglia.bsky.social and @brianhochman.bsky.social.

Thanks, Martin Sandbu for featuring me in this @financialtimes.com story on decapitation.

Thought so.

And will all the universities who trumpet how “international” they are speak out against this?

Great episode of The Bunker here with @dorianlynskey.bsky.social. ‘Each individual has to make the effort to commit themselves to truth.’ Key distinction between lying which acknowledges truth and the totalitarian (Trump included) assault on the idea of truth. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Paging Congress for the 163433478974227th time.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This is hardly unprecedented in US politics. When candidates develop national ambitions, they moderate their views. The problem is that Israel’s behaviour domestically and internationally has (likely) never been worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Well played, Lush.

‘Historians will eventually decide whether that stance was an anomaly or the culmination of a long process in which Frankfurt School critical theory turned into a form of liberalism that was too often complicit with US imperialism.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Great piece on how to tell the story of rising fascism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pivot to Asia. abcnews.com/Internationa...

I’m all here for this. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump trusted Israel over his own intelligence community to start the war. Will he now trust another brutal leader over common sense?

Since we now know that the timing of the strikes and broader attack aimed at killing the senior leadership, maybe we can do away with legal sophistry, and call this an assassination? Just a thought. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Was on @thetimes.com Radio last Friday to discuss stategies of decapitation and all things assassination with Henry Bonsu. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Not that I was planning a trip any time soon, but this is the last nail in the coffin.

All of a sudden Swansea doesn’t look so bad. (Photo credits Tomer Cohen on LinkedIn).

Any moment now, he’ll grow into the role. Presidential.

A staged assassination to influence an election. No. Doesn’t ring a bell. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Was that in the job description? Truly, the best and the brightest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Consider it’s Starmer, a good principled policy could not last long. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

Talk about normalising extremism.

Almost as if assassination is becoming normalised.

🚨This is next Wednesday. Panel on US domestic and foreign violence at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social organised by the British Association for American Studies. Tickets are free, but you need to register here: www.tickets.bl.uk/5225/5226

Satire well and truly dead.

@nytimes.com doing NY Times things. Picked-up the interest on Lumumba, write an article. Secion titled 'How did he fall?' does not even mention the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/w...

Nice to appear on @aljazeera.com Inside Story to discuss the war in Iran and the role assassination plays and has played in Israeli and US foreign policy.

'In 2015, Mr. Obama said that if Congress killed his deal with Iran, America would lose not only constraints on Iran’s nuclear program but also “credibility as the anchor of the international system.”' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...

This is what principled leadership looks like. Perhaps, our PM could learn a thing or two? www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Having to work from home this morning. Three well-paid research assistants, doing nothing. Terrible.

‘Iranian officials have been under extra security protocols since the U.S.-Israeli strikes began more than two weeks ago, killing the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Still, a wave of targeted assassinations of top officials followed.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Technology allowed the U.S. and Israel to kill Iran's Supreme Leader, but raised longstanding questions about whether the U.S. as a democracy should be assassinating foreign leaders. n.pr/3N8rZ2j

All well and good for the media to pander to the fantasies of a deranged president and big boy shoes Rubio, but the Cuban people are starving and in a desperate situation. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

Wow. Martin shut Trump up for over two minutes.

The US government providing intelligence and military support to a local ally in the hunt for an important political figure?! No, it’s not Iran. It’s Bolivia, in 1967. New article with Thomas Field in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social. Here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.’” www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/p...

New @nytimes.com euphemism for ‘the president is an absolute moron who does not know what he is talking about’ just dropped.

Is Little Marco’s dream about to become true? Will the US also intervene in Cuba? elpais.com/america/2026...

For the first time in what feels like forever, I'm happy with a decision the PM has made.

Last week, I discussed the US government’s involvement in assassination, the Church Committee investigation, and the impact of the Khamenei assassination with Ryan Lucas from @npr.org. You can hear or read more from All Things Considered, here: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

New evidence in the office of my stay in Hamburg.

Throw back to the many (failed) Cuban exiles expeditions to try and remove Castro's regime and/or assassinate Castro during the Cold War. Some were terroristic, some farcical. All failed. More details on some, in my The President's Kill List. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...