@aloner.bsky.social
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
A member of the Israeli parliament, Limor Son Har-Melech, led a group of settlers including children into occupied Gaza and attempted to plant trees there as a way of marking their illegal claims.
"Gaza will be Jewish, because only in this way will we ensure victory" - Limor Son Har-Melech
Yes! I feel seen!
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The front pages of the Daily Mail, Sun, Independent, Daily Star, Daily Record, Daily Mirror, Times, Daily Express and Daily Telegraph. All show the photo of the pedo Prince looking like he’s seen the devil himself - hiding in the back seat of his car as he’s driven away from the police station yesterday. A truly beautiful collage of consequence.
I can’t remember the last time a single photo dominated the front page of every major newspaper in the UK.
Phil Noble of Reuters, take a bow.
👏🫡
Always!
20.02.2026 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
NEW
The death of the Firm
The arrest of Andrew may not show the end of the monarchy, but it may show the end of a certain model of monarchy
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Some insider baseball for those who are partial to that sort of thing
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Private Eye reporting that Peter Mandelson recommended Andrew as trade envoy and the then Prince Charles was opposed
This is the Private Eye bit (Brian being their nickname for Charles). Sorry not to do full alt text - please let me know if you need it.
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Men, always men, only men
19.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 2"If Smotrich had come, there would have been no need to rely on an Arab party. But he preferred that I rely on an Arab party, so that he could get angry about it, rather than come and be part of the solution. So this boycott needs to be broken”, Bennett said
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L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.
Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.
MS NOW has obtained a statement from the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre:
At last.
Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.
The Board of Peace, ladies and gentlemen
19.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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"Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is neither a real board nor an instrument of peace"
@jo-ann.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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This is 👌
19.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, Popbitch
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charles: the law must take its course
19.02.2026 12:52 — 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2Read this beautifully written piece by Namhee Lee for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about how ordinary people stopped a coup in South Korea that December
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
He's probably missing Pizza Express
19.02.2026 12:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0My local paper! always full of excellent scoops and brilliantly led by @jollyjourno.bsky.social
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It's not just the "Epstein class" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
19.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre.
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It is four years since Russia’s invasion, and 12 years of war in Ukraine’s east. This week, @aloner.bsky.social and I talk to Maksimas Milta of @trpforjustice.bsky.social about the latest
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@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and @janinedigi.bsky.social
NEW: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Dame Antonia Romeo as the first female Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service, it is understood.
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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To see the latest Epstein revelations is to see the misogyny women live with— objectification, abuse, humiliation, and exclusion from power—refracted. Part of the horror is how recognisable so much of it is.
My attempt at pulling out the backlash-adjacent threads
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It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day, and this week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I spoke with Makskimas Milta of the Reckoning Project, ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
not much due diligence going on at Reform HQ I don't think
18.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a relief! (says this Jewish woman)
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