For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

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No one should be jailed for revealing evidence of war crimes. The sentence is outrageous.

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Rule 1: Never provide a metaphor

Imagine being against gay marriage when it’s actually just this

I'm rewatching Jurassic Park and the main characters have just been offered three years of research funding, which, as an academic, is harder to beileve than the dinosaurs

One wonders how many of those making the "equivalence" accusation, including quite a few in the press, had taken 10 minutes to read the ICC prosecutor’s statement. Latest column, on the "equivalence" argument and what it obscures. smh.com.au/world/middle-e…

Don’t generally care about box-office, but Furiousa returns are a real downer. Miller is an original, the designs brilliant and wierd, the stunts are dazzling and the movie is terrific. And it’s very Australian (despite an unexplained accent from the lead )

This lawyer of 38 years explains to Trump, Elon Musk, and MAGA-fascists how the legal system in America works.

For the record; exposing atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan? Great and important. 2016 US election and a clearing house for Moscow agitprop? Not so great amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/19…

“All decent people welcome the sparing of his life,” writes David Frum. “Trump’s reckoning should be with the orderly process of law, not with the bloodshed he rejoiced in when it befell others”: theatln.tc/YvbRupj6

On July 11, I published an article disliked by strong Biden supporters. That prompted a flurry of emails threatening to cancel subscriptions to The Atlantic Today I offended Trump supporters - which got me a cascade of fantasies about sending my family to concentration camps.

Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi activist in the White Rose non-violent resistance group. She, her brother Hans, and friends distributed anti-Nazi leaflets and were arrested by the Gestapo. In 1943, they were executed for their resistance efforts. Sophie was 21.