New interview with Fiona Hill on the expanding war in the Middle East: "Once you get into these big system changes, you effectively get a world war...."
www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
"[Canada's] military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of... armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics."
Ok then!
From here - www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
thank you for sharing!
For years, Fiona Hill has been one of the smartest, most thoughtful people thinking about the state of the world
So much richness in this interview with @meganjgibson.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Sober and compelling, interview with Andrey Kurkov Viva Ukraine! @meganjgibson.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
Thank you!
Ten months before 9/11, a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 flying from London to Nairobi and nearly crashed it into the Sahara Desert.
Everyone survived but no one quite recovered.
How do you measure the cost of a disaster averted?
www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...
Thank you for reading! I do very much recommend the book
Perhaps clumsy wording from me but I was just referring to the two checkpoints available on one particular journey in search of a historical site. Of course there are more checkpoints between Ramallah and Jerusalem. And “often unmanned” was Shehadeh/Johnson’s characterisation
Lily Lynch on the Floridization of US politics
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
In this week’s @newstatesman.com –
Tina Brown on the abominable showman
M Sandel & T Piketty on the left after Trump
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social on the Gatsby myths
@yairwallach.bsky.social on the Gaza ceasefire
@traceythorn.bsky.social – back to the 80s
Cover by @andrecarrilho.bsky.social
Sadly, this gets truer every day
Love this — not least because Joni Mitchell absolutely came to my school when I was 11
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/n...
My piece for the New Statesman, on the ceasefire, how we got here, and why the dangers of further ethnic cleansing have not gone away.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production
The aftermath of Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. The text reads: "Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40% Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say." Photo by Yousef Masoud for The New York Times.
More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv
NYT's report on the Israeli order allowing killing 20 civilians as collateral damage for low level Hamas targets, 100 for major targets, and 500 civilians casualties per day, should be seen as blanket order for mass slaughter.
The mass killing was the point. The targets were the legal excuse.
if you’re interested Michel Barnier lasted nearly twice as long in office as Liz Truss. presumably the Barnier Lettuce well and truly went off some time ago
Free Palestine
“Things, we realized, did not simply get better.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
lol
Not the most important part here but the "DOGE" aspect does also affirm we're entering an era where the worst people you know will constantly be dropping the cry laughing emoji about the least funny shit you ever seen
I still think Biden has a lot to answer for…
Ahh, sorry about that one…
Nature in relation to motherhood has long been exploited. But who defines what, precisely, is natural? And who is served by such definitions?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
“The West Bank is at boiling point. The conditions for a third intifada are being created.”
www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
“The West Bank is at boiling point. The conditions for a third intifada are being created.”
www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
