@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 |
Men, always men, only men
19.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 32 🔁 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...
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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.
19.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 18 📌 25
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)
18.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on
How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise
That’s why they were targeted
White appears to favour not just banning Nus Ghani, Kemi Badenoch. Shabana Mahmood and Rishi Sunak from parliament - but here goes further to endorse "deporting every single one", as Steve Laws advocates for every British-born minority and every migrant.
18.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
Nick Fuentes tells his followers not to vote in the midterms so the GOP gets wiped out, Trump gets impeached and indicted, and then "we get a Nazi to run in 2028": "I hope we get a fucking fascist to run in '28 to burn the GOP down as a dark horse and win the presidency as a right-wing radical."
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The Backlash is out and it's an Epstein special, with reads on complicity, Me Too, men still ruling the world. With links to must-reads by @sianushka.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @gracepanetta.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social and many others
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Last week, Netanyahu's security cabinet made a bunch of ostensibly boring decisions dealing with land purchases in the West Bank's Areas A & B. But behind its "smokescreen of picayune bureaucracy," writes Zehava Galon of Zulat, it de facto repealed the Oslo Accords. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
17.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0And finally we have the big Reform shadow cabinet reveal. A perfect day to revisit @mrhenrymorris.substack.com's very excellent dispatch from a Reform defectors' away day for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/723...
Our local government sleuth is back with this column about the government's U-turn on cancelling local elections, a decision of which the government "should be ashamed", writes the Covert Councillor for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724...
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