This is such a good piece, well worth your time.

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR - and how it is threatened by the vicious politics of resentment that Labour and the Tories have enabled/encouraged in the past 20 years. This to me is what lies beneath the asylum "debate". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In his in-depth investigation into the BBC, for which he spoke to dozens of journalists at the corporation, Daniel Trilling addresses the broader stakes of the historic failure of Western institutions over Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

“The West’s failure to oppose genocide in Gaza is a disaster for Palestinians. But there is also a boomerang effect at work here. Western political institutions have been shamed in the eyes of many of their own voters, deepening an already widespread cynicism about politics that is.”

Excellent & revealing read.

Glad to have caught up on this substantial, precise piece for Equator on the BBC's fatal obsession with over-correction. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

This piece by @trillingual.bsky.social is a characteristically clear, yet comprehensive anatomisation of the latest crisis to engulf the BBC. A long, essnetial read and a good counterpart to the @lewisgoodall.com piece in the 🧵 below.: www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Extremely thorough analysis of the BBC's distorted coverage of Israel's genocide in Gaza by @trillingual.bsky.social The piece is very well sourced, fair, nuanced, sympathetic to institutional pressures on the BBC - making the verdict on its biased output all the more damning.

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

Absolutely the best thing you'll read all weekend

‘This select­ion of almost two hundred images, displayed as small or medium-sized black and white prints, draws attention to the camera’s ambiguous role in representing popular movements that sought to challenge power.’ Daniel Trilling on Steve McQueen’s ‘Resistance’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

For the @equatormag.bsky.social newsletter, I talked about how I reported my piece on the BBC and Gaza, and what's at stake in the current crisis. You can read/sign up below - Equator is a brilliant and necessary new magazine, so give it your support! www.equator.org/articles/ins...

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was very common to be dismissed whenever it was said that Gaza would unravel everything, and this essay really does acutely show how true and poignant that was www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Important and remarkably timely piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...

V pleased to be giving a public talk (two, in fact) at Ulster University later this month: "How did we get here? The rise of Britain's far right." Derry, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we... Belfast, 25 Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-did-we... Please come along, or share with friends.

Important, deeply researched piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social, on the BBC's handling of Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

This is by some distance the best thing out there on this subject

"Others were dismayed by an apparent ignorance... about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. At a fractious meeting... the CEO of BBC News told colleagues: “We’ve got to remember that this all started on 7 October."" Fascinating read from @trillingual.bsky.social at @equatormag.bsky.social

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Wrote about 'Resistance', Steve McQueen's exhibition on 20th century protest. Some wonderful photographs, and some difficult questions about how to tell this story in our current moment. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity. They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

A first foray into podcast script-writing... helped make this series on what to do now that we're overshooting 1.5c global warming. Presented by Laurie Laybourn and produced by Planet B. More things soon I hope! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

The last time I went into a synagogue, I found out it had the Torah scroll rescued from what had once been my family's synagogue in Berlin, shortly before Kristallnacht. I was the first person in my family to see it in over 80 years.

Will try to have something more constructive to say eventually but this is unbelievably spiteful and stupid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Once again, if you're interested in how and why a leading human rights barrister can end up suggesting the UK might water down its commitment to such protections as the absolute ban on torture in article 3 of the Human Rights Act, ECHR, etc...

Labour's current position is that it's racist to make life much harder for people who have immigrated to the UK legally, but also that it will make life a little bit harder for people who have immigrated to the UK legally. The morality of that aside, what is the message here to the Reform-curious?

Just to illustrate how much worse it's got, I have received more abuse over the past year and a bit - including death threats and a large volume of antisemitism - for what I write than in the previous 15 years of covering migration and the far right put together.

Last year I wrote for @lrb.co.uk about the families of Majella O'Hare, a young girl killed by a British soldier, and Tony Harrison, a British soldier killed by the IRA, who were campaigning together against the Legacy Act - and the vested interests supporting it. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

2/ This by @trillingual.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk from June (ostensibly a review of @leninology.bsky.social’s important book, but much more than that) is a brilliant account of the new global and UK far right. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you want to know what the UK government's position is on its obligations under the Genocide Convention in relation to its support for Israel, here's what it argued in court this summer.

An independent UN commission has concluded that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Had a few conversations recently that make me think, for the first time in ages, there are some exciting things happening in media. This is one of the highlights: Equator, a new magazine set up by Nesrine Malik, Pankaj Mishra, Jonathan Shainin and others. Sign up for info here: www.equator.org

I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.

So brilliant. RIP Conor Gearty, the British government's essential critical friend

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

¿Esto es fascismo? Tribuna de @trillingual.bsky.social en la revista Nueva Sociedad n9.cl/qh9vf ¿Cómo comprender este fenómeno? ¿Qué fuerzas podrían hacerle frente? ¿Hasta qué punto sirve pensar todos estos fenómenos bajo la etiqueta de «fascismo»? @ccoo.bsky.social @crisfaciaben.bsky.social

I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.

Terrific essay by @trillingual.bsky.social. "The far-right ... thrives on failures in the existing system, yet offers remedies that would make everything much worse. It is difficult, but necessary, to give both parts of the equation due attention."

‘Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Important read 👇

My long read on Keir Starmer and human rights - for which a I spoke to dozens of current and former colleagues, campaigners and legal experts - is now a podcast. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Relevant passage from @trillingual.bsky.social's recent piece in The Guardian regarding the Starmer government's own deployment of the 'Genocide only applicable as a post-facto designation' line. (Speaker: Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director, Human Rights Watch.) Article: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Important read 👇

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Adding this very good @trillingual.bsky.social article from a few years back on this very subject: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...