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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 |

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Men, always men, only men

19.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 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

19.02.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday.
R: News headline, today.

Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

19.02.2026 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 930    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 16

MS NOW has obtained a statement from the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

At last.
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Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.

19.02.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4323    πŸ” 934    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 31

The Board of Peace, ladies and gentlemen

19.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

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.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

19.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 31436    πŸ” 7400    πŸ’¬ 1863    πŸ“Œ 755
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The Board of Peace may be a joke, but Marwan Barghouti is not In a rare on-the-record interview, Fadwa Barghouti says Israel’s continued incarceration of her husband is political

"Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is neither a real board nor an instrument of peace"

@jo-ann.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

19.02.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is πŸ‘Œ

19.02.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you, Popbitch

19.02.2026 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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charles: the law must take its course

19.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Read 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...

19.02.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

He's probably missing Pizza Express

19.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

My local paper! always full of excellent scoops and brilliantly led by @jollyjourno.bsky.social

19.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds Our investigation reveals gangs from a range of ethnic backgrounds are operating widely in the capital, exploiting girls and young women.

It's not just the "Epstein class" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

19.02.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an β€˜apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.02.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2770    πŸ” 683    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 19
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Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researcher Maksimas Milta discusses The Reckoning Project

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

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and @janinedigi.bsky.social

19.02.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 25
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

19.02.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11017    πŸ” 2868    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 227
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"Men close ranks" (and three other reads) An Epstein files special

To see the latest Epstein revelations is to see the misogyny women live withβ€” objectification, abuse, humiliation, and exclusion from powerβ€”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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19.02.2026 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researcher Maksimas Milta discusses The Reckoning Project

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...

18.02.2026 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

not much due diligence going on at Reform HQ I don't think

18.02.2026 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a relief! (says this Jewish woman)

18.02.2026 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on

How Labour Together used Β£730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise

That’s why they were targeted

18.02.2026 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5
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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.

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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

26.11.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 674    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 15
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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."

17.02.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 100
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"Men close ranks" (and three other reads) An Epstein files special

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

thebacklash.substack.com/p/men-close-...

17.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's condemnation will not stop Israel's right from West Bank annexation | Opinion Even Though Trump Has Said He Is 'Against Annexation,' the Israeli Right Will Not Stop Until It Has Claimed Sovereignty Over What Was Affectionately Known as an 'Occupation,' but Is in Reality a Mass ...

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 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And 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...

17.02.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cancel local elections, embolden the populists The government has U-turned on delaying elections in 30 English councils. It should be ashamed of the ill-thought out plan

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...

17.02.2026 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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