I've spent the last two years being sued for my reporting. It has been – and I cannot stress this enough – an abject waste of my time. Now, the claim has been dropped, so I wrote something (in the dreaded first-person) about it all via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

We seek a senior commissioning editor to work on FT Life and Arts and across FT Weekend - it is a wonderful job but you have to be experienced, very, very good and also work with me so think on. Anyway the link is here job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes…

“Garner’s diaries [include] joyfully bathetic reports of how art fits into life (after writing a successful scene for The Children’s Bach: ‘Delirious, I ran downstairs and bought myself a pasty’).” newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Favourite things to do in Oslo?

Also the riots

Me on Southport and Tainted Love theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I would like to see this paragraph printed at movie poster-size and prominently displayed in the lobby of every tech company in the world theguardian.com/news/article/2…

A wonderful book. Just look at the first page. Dude can write

"This piece is both a propulsive adventure story and a tender celebration of Ukrainian art, filled with beautiful writing about." Thanks to @longreads and Seyward Darby for recommending "Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers" by Charlotte Higgins theguardian.com/world/article/…

"The way people’s eyes glaze over whenever one mentions the suffering of Palestinian civilians, and the deaths of thousands of children, is deeply unsettling." Today's The Guardian Long Read by the historian Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב is a unique, profound & devastating piece theguardian.com/world/article/…

Omer Bartov makes a remarkable intervention. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Eye phrenology followed with ‘you gotta hand it to John Bolton’ in a five hour span. This is why she will always be the GOAT of posting.

"In China, if you look at the west of the globe, the end of the map is Britain, and that is how the Chinese visualise Britain in their mind’s eye." Today's The Guardian Long Read by Xiaolu Guo theguardian.com/news/article/2…

For The Guardian, an adapted excerpt of TABLETS SHATTERED about how Zionism, in the words of the great socialist literary critic Irving Howe, enabled American Jews “to postpone that inner reconsideration of ‘Jewishness’ which the American condition required” theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China by Peter Hessler theguardian.com/world/article/…

“Laws as they emerge are always fighting the previous war." nytimes.com/2024/08/20/mag…

In 2020, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service was asked whether Höcke was a rightwing extremist. “Björn Höcke is *the* rightwing extremist,” he replied. Today's The Guardian Long Read by Alex Dziadosz theguardian.com/world/article/…

This video of Khadija, who died in the Grenfell disaster, has always stuck with me. Listening to the report’s findings today, I can’t stop thinking of her.

A cool flame: The secret love affair that changed humanity’s perception of the world. Long read extract from my biography of James Lovelock, exploring the origins of the Gaia Theory and the NASA mission to find life on Mars. guardianbookshop.com/the-many-lives… theguardian.com/environment/ar…

This is so good