A mainstream commentator finally said what we all know

It didn't start on October 7th...

In 1988, after the Burmese army crushed a popular uprising, I was so angry that I would have gladly welcomed any American miltiary intervention. In 1994, I wanted NATO invention to halt Bosnian Serb aggression (and resigned from my UN job in Sarajevo). But by 2001, I’d reached

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The reason why campus activists aren't protesting about Iran is actually pretty simple. The U.S. isn't allied with Iran. The U.S. isn't facilitating the mass slaughter of Iranians by funding and arming the Iranian regime to the tune of billions of dollars. To my knowledge,

@__Injaneb96 Nobody gives a shit about this tactic. We were all told in 2002 that only Ahmed Chalabi and other Iraqis in the west were the only ones that knew the truth - we'd be welcomed as liberators - and we all had to shut up and defer because we didn't understand Iraq. If you're

The @UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of #Iran today called on the Iranian Government to immediately restore internet and mobile connectivity and end its violent crackdown of the ongoing, nationwide protest.

Wouldn’t it be nice if this mysteriously deleted tweet (by Polish Russia hawk Radek Sikorski) about the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines, got a really huge number of retweets?

My own colleagues who I’ve worked with in news rooms for years have been silent because they’re afraid for their careers. What kind of industry is this? What kind of world is this? He was killed wearing his press vest in a tent with his colleagues.

“What such cases expose is the way that expanding the meaning of incitement has become a means for greater policing of speech.” My @ObserverUK column:

New — we put together a list of how much AIPAC donated to every members of Congress and federal candidate in 2024, plus their super PAC support. Here is the first-ever list of AIPAC's Top 10 beneficiaries...

Losing your mind over a front page? How about a more considered take on why Scots want England to lose? https://t.co/oM9KlUuMue

The UK has the least trusted media in the OECD

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.

Do you see the difference?

Let their reactions to the ICC arrest warrant be remembered as the most outspoken renunciation of any pretentious commitments left to a ‘rules-based order’, now more provingly than ever a ghost word for their hegemony.

If, unlike Nicola Sturgeon, you're not familiar with this deeply unpleasant man, here's some background on him from a Wings piece way back in 2020. He's a pathological liar and a fraud. https://t.co/6JT55JZHcI

@SophieMolly_SG I've just realised who you are, Sophie! I thought I recognised the face! Well, I can certainly see why @scottishgreens wanted you as a candidate.

Professor John Mearsheimer explains the most basic realities about the fairy tale understanding that @piersmorgan has of US foreign policy. Well worth listening to this: it's at the core of so many foreign policy debates: https://t.co/BdcEJgraDU