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Secret document prepared for Kremlin outlines plan for Russia to weaken US negotiating position on Ukraine by stoking tension between the US & other countries while pushing ahead with efforts to dismantle the Ukrainian state. w/Robyn Dixon washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/…

I’ll take that

💥Germany is boycotting Israel's antisemitism conference because Israel invited neo-Nazis. Couldn't make this up.

Belgrade - the first place I lived as a foreign correspondent - is rising up. Mass protests over the last 4 months over perceived corruption in the government are coming to a head. Biggest crisis of Vucic’s presidency - and biggest demos since Milosevic

Assessment of the JFK files recently released by one of the most authoritative researchers out there

Farewell to one of the most important spies of the Cold War. Oleg Gordievsky has died. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand

Difficult to argue with this. Interesting to see what happens when power and pressure is exerted in ways people didn’t expect

An astute skewering of the corporate capture of the culture wars by Sohrab Ahmari unherd.com/2025/03/how-th…

There’s an obvious similarity between Erdogan/Imamoglu and Putin/Navalny. What’s surprising to me is that I’ve been thinking: how long before the same kind of thing happens in the US? Trump threatened Hillary (“lock her up”); they tried it against Trump 2021-24; in both cases the

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are just the latest populists to weaponise fears of a sinister “deep state”. 🖊️ Phil Tinline on the hoax that spawned an age of American conspiracism newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/…

Interesting 👇🏻

Is this the best piece of magazine journalism ever? Gladwell takes a subject that matters not at all and turns it into a drama, a comedy and a character study all in one. The Ketchup Conundrum newyorker.com/magazine/2004/…

The Mills Brothers performing “Caravan” live on a television show in the late 1960s.

“Like a demon, a chatbot is much easier to summon than it is to rid yourself of.” ⁦Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK⁩ on the weird incentives that drive high-growth tech pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpi…

Thrilled to be a finalist for this year’s Orwell Prize for political writing. Among such august company too… orwellfoundation.com/political-writ…

“Students’ politics are no more attributable to indoctrination by professors than are their green hair and pierced septums.” Excellent point by Pinker nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

This is a really good, nuanced article about RFK Jr and scientific orthodoxy newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

This kind of stuff appearing unbidden in my feed is the reason I’m still here

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