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Blue Lights is more than great TV. It might be the best chance Britons have of reckoning with the Troubles | Jonathan Freedland The reaction to the Bloody Sunday trial makes it clear: those of us outside Northern Ireland just don’t understand the painful legacy of this brutal conflict, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedlan...

Bloody Sunday, Blue Lights and the two most boring words in the English language. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics Podcast Episode · The Kicker · 10/23/2025 · 28m

On The Kicker @sulliview.bsky.social joins @joshuahersh.bsky.social to talk about what it means for journalism ethics to evolve with the times—and how she views questions around transparency, media bias, and whether the public editor role might make its return. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Is the UK in a data crisis? Podcast Episode · The Briefing Room · 16/10/2025 · 28m

This episode of The Briefibg Room raises such ab inportat concern podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Depressingly prescient.

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Nato’s moment of truth Podcast Episode · The Rachman Review · 12/06/2025 · 29m

Great insights as ever from @oanalungescu.bsky.social on the threats (seen and unseen) from Russia and what needs to be done and crucially when! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms

Spot on -
Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

@nytimes.com I’ve been waiting over 4 hours now for you to call me back about the problem with my subscription. For nearly 10 yrs I’ve been a loyal subscriber but your payment system has now glitched and keeps rejecting my payment. If subscribing to independent journalism matters please fix this.

I knew this podcast was going to be great so I saved it up to listen to it all in one go on holidays.
It is an absolute must listen and well done to @suelinwong.bsky.social @samcolbert.bsky.social and the whole team 👏👏

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Rodrigo Duterte's downfall marks dramatic end to Philippines power struggle The ex-president is on his way to the International Criminal Court following his arrest in Manila.

Not enough power to share: The political feud behind Rodrigo Duterte's downfall from @pakhead.bsky.social
Hopefully there is some justice for the tens of thousands brutally murdered during his regime. ⬇️

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YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (17 February 2025)

One Russian newspaper today sums up how Moscow views events of the last few days: “Dumbfounded Europe, kneed by America just below the belt, is still struggling to get its breath back.” #ReadingRussia

Another great weekend essay from @financialtimes.com ⬇️

A bleak weekend read⬇️

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How China Hacked America’s Phone Network Podcast Episode · The Daily · 12/12/2024 · 33m

Intellectually I know this sort of hacking is happening but it still takes me aback when i hear about the scale of state actor activity in our data and comms podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

Our lives are being determined and dictated by the obscene wealth of a bunch of self serving tech oligarchs. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/t...

Houthi Attacks Continue to Disrupt Shipping Industry As Israel-Hamas War Rages On The transport route around the southern tip of Africa was once little used — but freighters are now forced to take it and are charging higher rates.

The ripple effects of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea - www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Shaken by Assad's sudden fall, Syria faces seismic turning point

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Our Ministry for the Future – Reshaping capitalism to help solve the climate crisis In 'The Ministry of the Future', by acclaimed sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson, our current history is depicted as a choice between utopia or catastrophe. Inspired by this 'cli-fi' (climate fiction)...

Bleak but true.
As Profs Anette Mikes & Steve New said re research “….lift our eyes from our cluttered but comforting academic desktops to a threatening horizon that should be the dominant frame of our daily activity as researchers and teachers.”

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What the all-seeing eye scanning our earth sees / “It sees a species dominated by Lords of the Desert: people prepared to destroy everything as long as they can command the ruins.”

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Climate summit veterans call for urgent reform amid COP29 The turbulent talks in Baku have underscored problems with the process, signatories say.

Global climate summit veterans pen open letter in the middle of COP29 with the blunt message of 'This isn't working.'

Signatories include Christiana Figueres, Ban Ki-moon, Maria Robinson and numerous climate scientists and diplomats.

www.axios.com/2024/11/15/c...

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