This is important if one cares about the BBC and accurate reporting of war.
It shows how BBC uses Al Jazeera and Hamas channels as sources for its updates and therefore ends up reporting a totally false story unchecked. When it turns out to be false it vanishes, uncorrected

Ominous changing of the guatd....Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official says reuters.com/world/africa/r…

Unscientific American
What went wrong at the nation’s leading popular science magazine (includes my own run of 214 consecutive monthly columns at Scientific American and the ideological capture of the editors after 2016):
city-journal.org/article/unscie…

'An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.'

thefp.com/p/npr-editor-h…

University presidents everywhere need to embrace this simple statement by Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida:

'At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free…

It's bizarre that Eurovision is being held in Malmö. I lived in Malmö, and it is by far the unsafest city I have ever lived in (and I come from Yemen). I lived by Triangeln, a central part of the city - and I heard explosions almost every week. I could not believe my ears. My…

Columbia revolutionary students push limits of satire in demand for humanitarian fooddrops of sushi, acai,electrolyte water & glutefree croissants fr uni.

‘This is crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus but this is, like, basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for’.

Anyone comparing the protests in Iran to entitled student protests in America is a moron.

Iranian revolutionaries like Nika were raped and murdered for protesting against the Islamic Regime, while these entitled students demand food and water from their colleges as they protest.

How outsourcing-obsessed execs and financiers all but ruined Boeing as a maker of safe passenger planes and innovative military ones...

This is an American being held right now by Hamas. Keith Siegel. It truly angers me that I didn't even learn this man's name until this morning. IMO our first duty as a nation is to look after our fellow citizens. Our media is now focused on the circus at American colleges. I…

The University of Oxford has around 40 Diversity Commissars on its payroll - 10x the national average - at a total annual cost of £2.04m. As far as I know the number of staff tasked with defending and promoting academic freedom is zero.

Marches can only be deemed peaceful if those disagreeing with the views of the marchers are safe in their vicinity.

Anyone looking for gripping, thought-provoking #sciencefiction should try the stunning new novel 'Annie Bot' by SierraGreer. Taking you into the expanding mind of a sentient robot designed for human sex & companionship - it's funny, disturbing, subtle unpredictable, moving.

Sofia Bongart, 21, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.

Sofia was a Jewish convert and had just completed her years-long conversion just two weeks before her death. She 'never got to pick up the certification.”

She had gone to the Supernova music festival with her…

It is hard to imagine any screen incarnation of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley character being more enjoyable than John Malkovich's in Liliana Cavani's little-seen 2002 version of 'Ripley's Game' (also starring Ray Winstone, Lena Headey & Dougray Scott)
youtu.be/izIgroi7_NU

The arc of the moral universe bends slowly towards justice.

“ISIS couple who 'raped two Yazidi slave girls' are arrested in Germany.”
mol.im/a/13293417

What a morally bankrupt organisation Amnesty International has become. They eulogise the memory of a man who kidnapped 19-year-old Moshe Tamam and held him hostage for 2 days, then gouged out his eyes, castrated him, mutilated his body, and finally shot him in the chest and dumped his body.…

The number of people forced to flee from war in Sudan has now surpassed 8.5 million. An appalling number.
They're now internally displaced, sheltering in Sudan, or refugees abroad. 'Thousands are crossing borders daily as if the emergency had started yesterday,' says UNHCR.

Did you know foreign airlines can’t run flights between American cities? That limits our options for domestic flights and makes them more expensive. Competition means innovation and cheaper prices. It’s time for American airlines to step up their game.

Columnist Matthew Syed of the London SundayTimes has written many trenchant pieces but this from 2023 about the oppressive literalism of our public discourse & the disappearance of context may be the most important. Sadly, It becomes more relevant with every day.