Events over the weekend have plunged the Middle East - and the world - into an uncertain future. We speak to @julianborger.bsky.social about how much worse this conflict could get - and why Donald Trump has gone to war. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
02.03.2026 00:18 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Hello British dual nationals:
If you have been, or know anyone who has been, refused board on a flight, ferry or train to the UK in the coming days, they can share their story here. Or email me direct - email in bio.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This piece by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social is absolutely worth your time. A deeply researched definitive account of the road to Putin’s full scale invasion of Ukraine - how much CIA and MI6 knew and why it was so hard to convince others that it was coming.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Her father’s war grave in Gaza was bulldozed by Israel. Amid the grief and anger, she wants answers
07.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 62 🔁 34 💬 7 📌 6Thanks Liz!
29.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you love your kids, stop the algorithm being racist and sexist.
If you want to be a great ancestor, make it humanitarian.
Riveting conversations this week with tech companies, influencers and creatives on how tech must be part of solution, not part of problem.
#WEF2026
Thank you
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“Sixty years before a deluded nobleman from La Mancha was overdosing on tales of derring-do, visiting his madness on those around him – and single-handedly rewriting the rules of fiction – the deeds of another heroic knight had already made literary history”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
!!! Checking and correcting now!
20.12.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland
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A screenshot of a tweet by Ken Dilanian quoting concerns that an order to kill boat occupants who are no longer able to fight would constitute a war crime. Below is a collage of nine infrared or night-vision aerial images showing small boats in the water. At the bottom is a caption referencing “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike.”
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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There he is. @julianborger.bsky.social among the hundred most notable books of the year. Well done, Julian. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Guardian’s former Gaza correspondent named young journalist of the year in UK awards
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1980:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%
2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%
This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.
Earlier than usual, Politics Weekly America on the Gaza ceasefire plan — and how much credit should go to Donald Trump. I break it down with @julianborger.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1p6H...
09.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0One of the greats
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Spent five minutes staring at this trying to work out what it had reminded me of.
Realised it was this horrifying passage from George Orwell’s 1984.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
30.08.2025 21:27 — 👍 4568 🔁 1139 💬 575 📌 361Government by the trolls, of the trolls, for the trolls, inflicted on the people.
25.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 58 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1I’ve checked this against the original press release, and yes, the UK government is actually suggesting something this bloody stupid. (Because it’s stored in a data centre and data centres are Bad).
12.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 46 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1
This is *immensely* stupid advice. They don’t use energy while they’re sitting on a hard drive not being accessed. They very much use energy while you’re going through them all and deleting them.
It’s also a fraction of a fraction of the energy saving you’d make by driving less or similar.
Kennedy is killing science.
That will end up killing people.
WTF. So if Russia invaded and killed civilians to get a piece of Ukrainian territory, that’s earning it?
10.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 304 🔁 68 💬 27 📌 4
‘I must document everything’: the film about the #Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in #Gaza
@julianborger.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have ever been in my lifetime.
The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/bullies-moral-lives-robert-reich
I was quoted in today’s @theguardian.com on Macron’s latest announcementby @julianborger.bsky.social
Let’s see if the UK follows France’s lead and recognises Palestine… but it’s clear both governments need to go much further than recognition
