The postwar always begins during the war. This case is crucial to ensuring that Ukraine's postwar reconstruction processes are focused on long term sustainable prosperity and democracy.

If someone constantly argues that women don't statistically have the same mental aptitudes as men, and tries to tell you that it's just Science and not because they're a sexist pig, you can point to the much strong empirical correlation between saying such things and actually being a sexist pig.

Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut

"AI-powered surveillance", lol. Stupid, not happening. The only way they could implement this is by banning VPN use where the intention is to evade the OSA, but how would you establish that? They're an essential digital safety tool. If it happened, would be a clusterfuck.

If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Gentle reminder that the BBC Board register of interests is obviously wholly unfit for purpose.

Nick Robinson closed the Today programme emphasising that the BBC Board is *still* fighting over the wording of a statement over the Panorama programme.

Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’ More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes

If developments in the United States take a more radical and violent turn then you can now pretty much guarantee that the BBC will only report the full extent of these escalation spirals long after their consequences have become too obvious to play down.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson

Exactly. And the Prescott report was very obviously designed to achieve precisely this outcome.

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

Little bomb planted by Robbie Gibb has gone off in a way most gratifying to Robbie Gibb. Davie’s just collateral damage.

This is absolutely nuts Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

This graph tells you why. It’s great reporting, of course.

"They're killing everyone that moves"

Can someone explain to me like I’m 6 why there has been apparently ≈ zero blowback for Manchester City, owned by a government which is currently facilitating genocide in Sudan?

They’ve smashed the control panel to pieces, ripping out the wires with wild abandon, until one button remains – ‘BOATS’ – and they’ll keep pressing that button from now until 2029, and when that inevitably fails, they will turn around and blame you.

A Jewish Israeli volunteer who was assisting olive harvest in the West Bank, and a Palestinian first responder, bothlynched by settlers today.

Some photo documentation in this piece as the images Yair shared seem to be suppressed, by BlueSky, inaccessible to view www.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

Huge numbers of Labour policy spads read @samfr.bsky.social’s Substack, where the exact scale of the repair job was written in black and white. What actually happened is those people were cowed into silence by a set-up that valued polling over policy.

Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever. The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.

Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol

It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful! Read it here:

The woman who has accused the prosecutor of the international criminal court of sexual abuse has been targeted by two British private intelligence firms as part of a covert operation said to have taken place on behalf of Qatar. -- from @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social, me and Robert Flummerfelt:

we’ve spent umpty trillion dollars to build a phrenology machine.

It would be quite funny if Stoltenberg suspends a rule that would require Norway’s SWT to sell stocks in war crimes-facilitating tech stocks just as those stocks start to fall.

He’s shooting his friends in the face up in heaven now

OCCRP Senior Researcher Alina Tsogoeva will lead a workshop on Nov. 7 at the African Investigative Journalism Conference focusing on how open-source intelligence can be used to track vessels and uncover illicit maritime activity. aijc.africa

I am old enough to remember when the Mirlees Review was going to fix all this.

Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week

Last week, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Trump administration with our partners at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social demanding information on ICE and CBP’s use of Israeli surveillance tools against US citizens. Staff attorney Samah Sisay shares more in the video below.

Before Oct 23 Israel made a considerable effort to argue that its legal system investigates alleged war crimes seriously - thus enjoys "complementarity״ protection from intl proceedings. Now Israel no longer even tries to pretend that this is the case. 2/2

After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes. 1/

He was already 30 when he painted this. Just astonishing to think of the will power it must have taken to turn himself into as great a painter as he became. Is there anything comparable? Wagner maybe?

‘Corruption Kills’: Thousands March in Serbia to Mark Tragedy’s Anniversary www.occrp.org/en/news/corr...

Opponents and loyalists of Serbia’s autocratic president clash in Belgrade

Vor dem Parlament in Belgrad. Gerade sind Menschen gerannt, Böller wurden geworfen, Rauch stieg auf, die Polizei machte einen Zufahrtweg zu. Die Demonstrierenden stehen davor und brüllen "Gotov Je" - Er ist am Ende. Stimmung sehr angespannt.

Keep thinking about a panel event in London a few weeks ago where quite a senior figure in the UK politics and media scene lamented that Europeans could not match the capabilities of an American federal agency yet seemed unaware that many of its skilled officials were fired or resigned months ago

I saw someone refer to Lam’s beliefs as cream tea fascism and now whenever I see a picture of her I think of those Auden lines: The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team. Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

“All children’s lives have equal value,” we say, with confidence. But having for years witnessed my people buried under the weight of global silence, let’s face it: That sentence only applies if the children are the right color, from the right wars, dying in ways the news can romanticize. 1/5

This is the truth of the Abraham Accords - a grubby deal between perpetrator states to ensure mutual impunity for war crimes

“Its second report, released on Tuesday, found evidence of systematic mass killings at a maternity hospital, a former children’s hospital turned detention center, and the berm outside of El-Fasher. The maternity hospital was the city’s last operational hospital”

“Atrocities are committed with unashamed expectation of impunity…the world has failed an entire generation." news.un.org/en/story/202...

Finally some good London nightlife news