@opendemocracy.net on what #Argentina’s falling poverty really means: "The government is not hiding information; it is destroying the infrastructure that produced that information, and this destruction is the technology of its governance." www.opendemocracy.net/argentina-po...

Some say the UAE leaving OPEC is like Zayn Malik leaving One Direction, but for #oil moguls!

@mpmacy.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk's @mrjamesob.bsky.social had a lovely convo today on how it'll takes ages (if ever) to get #Trump's face off of everything! Have a listen

Reader Pat D adds another book to #thisweekthosebooks selection on how an arms race can lead to #war (as sure as eggs are eggs)! Do you have another book to suggest? thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/arms-race-...

@vermontgmg.bsky.social on the strange case of the US Justice Department's non-statement about the 'shooting' www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

#thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com

Good point from @vermontgmg.bsky.social: The shortest possible objection is that we can’t possibly believe or agree that the world is too dangerous for the elected leader of a democracy to ever leave his compound and that all supplicants must come to him in order to have an audience #Trump #ballroom

What a world focussed on weapons of war might mean. #thisweekthosebooks offers context through two reads thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/arms-race-...

Does an arms race really drive the world to #war? Yes. #thisweekthosebooks offers context from two reads via @medium.com: A distinguished academic points out that weapons generally lead to war. Joseph Heller’s satirical take on the ghastly business of fighting and death. medium.com/this-week-th...

Data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that global #military expenditure surged in 2025 because of rearmament. #thisweekthosebooks has context from @jmaiolo.bsky.social's book on the madness of militarisation thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/arms-race-...

New data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that global #military expenditure surged in 2025 because of rearmament. #thisweekthosebooks has context on the madness of militarisation. thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/arms-race-...

Yes, an arms race can drive the world to #war open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

@jerusalem.bsky.social makes a good case for culture writers staying with their beat & leaving the policy/economics pencils/mics/cams to do their thing. Oh, & she’s planning to read László Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer. Want to hear about that! open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Have your say on the future of East #Greenwich. Local election hustings: April 28. Details 👇🏽 nextdoor.co.uk/p/kQYSGxJMRL...

Per @occrp.org : #Nepal’s Home Minister Sudhan Gurung has resigned just weeks after taking office — a move he says is aimed at ensuring an “impartial investigation” into his alleged financial ties to a businessman under scrutiny for money laundering.

Per @equatormag.bsky.social: "...while the West’s narrative has collapsed, its capacity for violence remains...yet this power no longer carries the weight of authority, since the world increasingly no longer sees its own future in the mirror of America’s present"

US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin acquitted of all charges cpj.org?p=583673

"Some days, I walk imagining the year is 1726. Those magnificent forests! Other days, I feel the trees suffering.” Read @janisseray.bsky.social to understand how forestry practices in the American South are creating a literal tinder box(to timber companies' benefit) open.substack.com/pub/trackles...

Pope Leo says many “hidden” poems are written daily “not with words but...with kindness", which only God can completely read. #thisweekthosebooks on a novel about a new pope & the church’s “real battleground...secret landscape of the individual spirit” thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...

As Pope Leo's 4-nation tour of #Africa ends, #thisweekthosebooks offers context via @medium.com from 2 relevant reads: A leading historian picks 10 popes over two millennia. A bestseller on a new pope with an idealistic agenda. medium.com/this-week-th...

Pope Leo ends his tour of Africa in Equatorial Guinea, meeting its 83-year-old leader, the continent’s longest-serving president. Which popes navigated change well? #thisweekthosebooks has context from Eamon Duffy’s book on the 10 who shook the world thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...

This pope speaks American...the world listens open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

Is Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...

Is Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role. Free to read open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

Again — Communication increases understanding while decreasing frustration. I like knowing what’s happening and what we’re working toward youtu.be/uk2TZwkhi4E

Troubling story by @nicdawes.bsky.social in @codastory.com on Peter Thiel's new 'AI tribunal', which will be "a team of intelligence and law enforcement veterans" who will make "it much, much cheaper to indulge in the quasi legal harassment of journalists".

Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of @millmedia.bsky.social & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of @zetland.dk #ijf26 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...

Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland. #ijf26 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...

Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...

via @timesofindianews.bsky.social : The spectacular defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is a sign of European publics’ disenchantment with the #Trump gospel of militant Christian nationalism. The EU establishment still won't abandon its mad, uncrowned king timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-plus/int...

Courtesy @sarayasin.bsky.social 's The Key, Huda Fakhreddine's moving reflection on her family home in south #Lebanon, along with fragments of her father's evocative poetry. "This is us, again and again./ We resist. We take refuge in the storm that is to come." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...

@muckrack.com quotes @semafor.com: “Media newsletter recapping media newsletters acknowledges errors recapping media newsletters.” It's about One Sheet, launched by @mediaite.com, which had “[a] series of mishaps...including misattributed information & made-up quotes", perhaps because of #AI use

“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” —Neurologist Steve Polyak, quoted by @mikereilley.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/journali...

@edwardluce.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com : Even were #Vance to regain his place in the Trumpian firmament, there is no such thing as a Vance base. His standing relies solely on #Trump. www.ft.com/content/6354...

@tbij.bsky.social Family Courts Reporter Hannah Summers has a moving and urgent story about Florence (not her real name), who was 10 when she was caught in the middle of a protracted family court dispute between her parents while the professionals did not listen to her at all. 1/2

@tansyhoskins.org's investigation into textile waste – where our clothes end up; who profits from fashion – had her spending 16 months sorting through donations at a #London charity shop to explore the things dropped off! Sounds like an interesting book tansyhoskins.org/my-new-book-...

In the past 24 hours, President Trump has accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on Crime,” announced a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, got McDonald’s delivered to the White House for a photo op...& shared — & deleted! — a Truth Social post that portrayed him as a Christ-like figure.

Fascinating history lesson on #Hungary from Viktor Orbán's old professor. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-or...

Hungary votes out its proto-Trump. #thisweekthosebooks open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

As #Hungary votes out its proto-#Trump, #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com offers context from two relevant books: * A right-wing British view of Hungary’s history. * And an extraordinary meditation on the human propensity to war. medium.com/this-week-th...

A history lesson from Viktor #Orbán's old professor. A Nobel laureate on the culture of #war. #thisweekthosebooks offers context from two books + the back story on #Hungary. Free to read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-or...

All eyes on #Islamabad . @arabnews.bsky.social editor Faisal J Abbas offers his take www.arabnews.com/node/2639372

@moveon.org has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C. sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

MoveOn has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C. sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

The first humans to fly around the Moon in more than 50 years are headed back to Earth. #thisweekthosebooks has two great books on our fascination with that orb in the nighttime sky. Free to read. thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/moon-artem...

@vittles.bsky.social has an important story: A tsunami of shutdown attempts has hit small food markets in# London. Shepherd’s Bush Market, Brixton Village, Plaza and Seven Sisters indoor market are also engaged in fights to continue operating. open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

ShalomcAuslander makes a very good point in @persuasionuk.bsky.social : “…some things such as politics, policy, and peace should be conducted in a manner that reflects their import” open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Writing in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Joseph Maina noted the complete ignorance displayed by #Trump about, say, #Somalia. Very different from the #British who at least "studied the places they intended to dominate”. www.rashmee.com/trump-africa...

#Trump is enough to make one #African journo miss the #British empire! www.rashmee.com/trump-africa...