I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die

FWIW, after 2+ decades in 🇬🇧 diplomacy my settled view is that BBCWS is *the* (not *a*) vital element of British soft power and the continued attacks on its funding are nothing short of barbaric and self defeating.

A truly amazing result. Looking forward to seeing how govt spins its way out of this one. Would love for it to be a moment of reflection and humility and understanding of broader implications of this but… (list of buts is long)

It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise. Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.

This is an incredible photo.

Sad and so wrong, what an inhumane decision

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The best Epstein account I’ve read so far: about the place of the women in those men’s world

great piece by @svdberg.bsky.social & colleagues listing some of the extraordinary moves by Trump to block & destroy justice for all time. Extraordinary that European govts which created #ICC remain almost silent at his judicial vandalism, even now

What a treat to take part in live show (and then be part of 4 Feb Off Air podcast, 35mins in) with iconic Jane Garvey & Fi Glover, discussing justice themes. Great conversation and… glad themes seem important to others, too.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

Loved doing this!, conversation about so many things & coming back to essentials: why justice matters, how we can make it happen. (Updated paperback: 5 Feb)

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

This a great thread. From Russia to Iran, the parallels are unmissable

Vermont’s Republican guv—who I vote against every time, even tho he gave my kid a prize for their world peace in French poster in fifth grade—has more spine than many national Democrats.

At least we know that while federal agents are killing people for using cell phones and the country is going to shit, Trump was working hard playing golf, hosting a screening for Melania’s movie, and rage-posting about his ballroom.

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

"Trump’s speech was so contemptuous of America’s most important allies that everyone I have spoken to who heard it came away suggesting that it marked the end of an era. How could Europeans ever rely on America as an ally if the American people could elect a man like Trump?"

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Patel wanted to disclose the identity of British agents in pursuit of a photo-op!

Would someone ask Farage or Badenoch or any of our flag-draped tabloid editors what they would say to the families of the 457 British soldiers who gave their lives in Afghanistan?

“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China”

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

This was/is a magical & fascinating series, worth re-watching. It was/is important without today’s political context, but also of huge relevance in so many other ways for today

Check out my friend Sari Bashi's new memoir, Upside-Down Love - a book about a Palestinian professor & refugee from Gaza, & an Israeli-American Jewish human rights lawyer. They meet, fall in love & make it work, against the odds & against Israeli law. Buy it here: ummforat.com/en/buy-upsid...

Israel's Ben Gvir leads demolition of Unrwa headquarters in Jerusalem www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvi...

How it started/how it's going

This reeks of Kremlin playback for miles around! "We must save the people of Donba... I mean, Greenland. From evil Ukra... I mean, Danes!"

This is becoming pathological

Just the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland having to correct Tucker Carlson on world war II history. Utterly shameful.

Honoured to sit on a jury for the prize named after my great late colleague Rupert Cornwell — and very happy with such brilliant applications as that from Trisha Mukherjee. Looking forward to reading…

One of the most powerful images of the Iranian protests is that of an Iranian young woman burning Khamenei’s portrait, and lighting her cigarette with it. Photographer unknown.

“A friend sent this from city of Shahin Shahar near Isfahan. He said “the city center is effectively under protester’s control.” @bahmankalbasi.bsky.social x.com/bahmankalbas...

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

A truly remarkable book and a well deserved winner — whose brilliant author Victoria Amelina was killed by a Russian missile in 2023

Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.

This is such a powerful story — not just about rose-growing but a metaphor for all of Ukraine’s resilience in this war, in ways that both Trump & Putin quite fail to understand

Argentina potentially in the vanguard (again) on themes of international justice