This exchange is so brilliant, mesmerisingly so. Keir Starmer (and so many others, in & out of politics) should watch and learn about belief, brevity & hope — and impact. A mix of things he prepped for and things he could never have prepped for, both superb. (cc @thehopeguy.bsky.social )

When we launched this campaign, we said we wanted to knock on one million doors across the five boroughs by the June primary. Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million. In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million. We just passed three.

Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza. By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Duterte was certain he would never be arrested, just as Milošević and others before him were also sure. Trump’s ‘They’re going to be, like, dead, OK?’ is reminiscent of Duterte’s boast that ‘the fish will grow fat’ in Manila Bay. First rule of justice: never say never.

A surveillance camera captured the moment a Russian strike hit a Kyiv resident’s apartment on Oct. 22. The strike killed two and injured 29 in the city, and several fires broke out. Video: Tetyana Kotelenets

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Beyond chilling & far too relevant. Required departure “before 3rd February, 1940”. wow

This is indeed brilliant — a series of superb haikus, each revealing in its own way

My latest report from eastern #Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social. In August Russia seized a chain of villages near Dobropillia. Since then Ukraine has taken much of this salient back. It's a modest success - proof, Kyiv claims, that it isn't losing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Fab image, Rostock 2007!, on a creative-protest book cover of mine in… 2016, by Fabien Bimmer @apnews.com

This is not a story of two sides finally finding peace. It is a story of two peoples who will wake up tomorrow under two very different skies: one free to heal, the other trapped in the ruins Nagham Zbeedat www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims” The list of 18,457 children killed in Gaza: a poignant, humanizing, & heart-breaking investigation👇 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The NY Times interviewed 700 people from Gaza over the last two years. Its journalists tried to find what happened to them. Impressive. Humanist journalism at its best www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bravo.

Can always rely on @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social to say what needs saying and say it well on occasions such as these www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Did you know that for the past 25 years, there's a law that's been quietly defending your rights every day? That's the Human Rights Act at work Happy Birthday to the HRA 🎉

Looking forward to Henley Literary Festival on Monday — a chance to discuss justice at a crucial time

Nadine is correct and this Palestinian wants nothing, whatsoever, to do with you or your performative bs “solidarity”. You’re a repugnant rotter and a stain on our just cause. Our suffering is not your springboard to dismiss, excuse and “what-about” the legitimate pain, suffering and fears of Jews

Are you in Marlborough or area? Come join us for discussions on justice and what can/must be achieved — key moment for this (and lots of other great stuff) at @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Three things that must change w Canada's recognition of Palestine, which is also true for the 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷 & 🇦🇺: 1️⃣ No more opposition to the #ICC investigation or warrants in relation to Gaza; their legal opposition was based on their view that Palestine wasn't a state. That must now be over.

How truly amazing. Helping a respected charity for free is now seen as a CRITICISM?! Beyond extraordinary.

UN Gaza #genocide report makes clear: it is extraordinary that governments which created #ICC to punish worst crimes now fail to stand up for that same court. Dangerous and wrong — me in Guardian

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Thank you! @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for sharing and for earlier kind words. Out this week in the U.S., available (hopefully) in all good bookshops. Polish, German and Arabic editions all on the way — but/and a book about battles for justice will hopefully feel relevant for American readers, too

Book now to see @valentinelow.bsky.social 'The Power & the Palace' @headlinebooks.bsky.social event sponsor #AdamMatthewGroup and #AndewZiminski 'Church Going' @profilebooks.bsky.social and @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social 'Prosecuting the Powerful' @hachetteuk.bsky.social Tickets: bit.ly/3V3goBC

we can all agree that justice — its absence & the urgent need to prosecute most powerful — is a key theme today. Come join for discussion on the themes!, Conduit Club London 9 September, chaired by Paul van Zyl, whose many hats include being co-founder of @theictj.bsky.social

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Spot-on from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

The White House has sanctioned Canadian national & #ICC Judge Kimberly Prost, among others. Will FM @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social protest this move? These are not normal times. Appeasing Trump is not worth abandoning our principles & commitment to the rule of law. www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-str...

The global architecture of impunity for Israel is beginning to crack. Israel is increasingly isolated. Will more countries use existing tools for accountability to end Israel’s genocide and illegal occupation? See @sarahleah1.bsky.social's take w/ @arabcenterdc.org: arabcenterdc.org/resource/acc...

“After the incident, Dargin crossed the street to examine the sandwich, which, he said, appeared to have salami.” Alleged criminality really takes interesting forms, these days

One of those dream headlines — the story is barely worth blinking at (who could POSSIBLY be surprised?) but the headline is heaven

Excited to be in conversation with the great Philippe Sands on themes of Prosecuting the Powerful at Edinburgh Book Festival on Monday 11th. Could there be a more important moment for justice themes?

Love this piece. Loved the paper then, and the brilliant people working for it — and enjoy reading it now also, when sane takes are in such short supply. #RIPDerkSauer, a visionary

This is a good and clear piece. But/and: in addition to problems with the letter itself as described here, it is extraordinary that Times editors decided this story merited the front-page splash — consciously ignoring the flakiness of arguments which it is based on

B'tselem, today: "[T]he unequivocal conclusion [is] that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. www.btselem.org/publications...

Two key Israeli human rights groups have joined Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others in describing Gaza as genocide. Western governments, meanwhile, remain determined to look the other way — or even seek to punish those who want to highlight/address those crimes

the background to how this is made is incredible www.economist.com/1843/2022/07...

ICC has rejected Israel’s request to have arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant withdrawn, vacated, or declared of no force or effect and to suspend the Prosecutor’s investigation.

"In these fraught times, the New York Times has made a seemingly deliberate and very self-aware choice to paint a picture of this war without the understanding of who is in the right and who is in the wrong," writes Francis Farrell, reporter at the Kyiv Independent, in this op-ed.

I will be in conversation on 11 August at Edinburgh International Book Festival with @philippesands.bsky.social on key justice themes of our times. How can we can do better at #ProsecutingthePowerful? Tickets now on sale… (And of course sooo many other reasons to go to Edinburgh during those days)

I am so honoured to be on this stellar list, in such remarkable company. My takeaway: people feel justice matters, which I am happy for

Vladimir Putin’s alleged daughter, Elizaveta Krivonogikh (aka Liza Rudnova), now lives in Paris, where she works at an art gallery known for exhibiting anti-war art. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

A brilliant piece of remarkable power, on this month at @arcolatheatre.bsky.social — Ukraine & war & much more. Based on work of Reckoning Project, full of painful & surprising & moving moments

This Sunday, 1 June, I will be discussion with great Baroness Helena Kennedy @hayfestival.bsky.social on themes of international justice, looking forward. Come join!, for an “if not now, when?” event (and of course room for questions, too)

Coming tomorrow: now that the #ICC prosecutor has stepped aside, we explore the cultural issues at the court that lead to the sexual misconduct investigation, the rules now being applied by the Bureau of ASP and how the media has become a major player in this saga

Well that’s something I didn’t expect to experience again soon. To stand in a huge Russian crowd and feel not discomfort but warmth — for a sold-out Russian-only #QEH performance of fab comedy with 86-year-old “foreign agent” star Lia Akhedzhakova, standing ovations. Non-Putin Russias do exist…