It’s 50 years since the "Mishima Incident". I wrote this for BBC Culture on the many masks of a man with a peculiar array of admirers, from David Bowie to Henry Rollins, the alt-right and the Youtuber Pewdiepie. bbc.com/culture/articl…

Wer ist eigentlich dieser Thorsten Dietz? Und was hat er mit Ethik zu tun? Sachdienliche Hinweis gibt es in der zweiten Folge unseres Podcasts "Karte & Gebiet": karte-und-gebiet.de/2-folge-wege-z… #ethikzumselberdenken #karteundgebiet

Met up with a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, arguably the finest in our language...and didn't ask him about any books. My @Spectator interview with Sir Kazuo Ishiguro on cinema, and on the enduring fascination of lives spent on the wrong side of history spectator.co.uk/article/kazuo-…

Space exploration myths, frontierism, libertarianism, and the corporate space race. ⁦Oliver Morton⁩ ⁦Luke Jerram⁩ BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Returning to the moon bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

If AI can write a good essay (and it can) what does this mean for the humanities? And what does the collapse in humanities enrolments mean for science? Great question In ‘The College Essay Is Dead’ flip.it/zTQDVL

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Last month, I embedded with a team of first responders in front-line Donbas and documented their life-saving work in a region of divided loyalties By profession, they're firemen. But now, they drive an ambulance to the places the medics won’t go youtube.com/watch?v=g5hYrB…

Portugal agrees to swap Cape Verde’s debt for environmental investment climatechangenews.com/2023/01/24/por…

The continent’s self-proclaimed opinion makers must cease their attempts to whitewash liberation icons-turned-tyrants, and instead endeavour to hold them accountable for failing to responsibly fulfil their political mandates. aje.io/h1kryw

The hosting of Russian and Chinese navies for exercises from February 17-27th underlines how the ANC government, despite its claims to be neutral over the war, is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit econ.st/41aCkfY

I've been looking through the archives for Jeremy Bowen's new series, Frontlines of Journalism. Here are some of Jeremy's reports featured in the series, with links to each episode where he reflects on them. Warning: distressing images

🧐 How can #PublicMedia maintain its values while also undergoing #digital transformation? This was the subject of our CEO, Kristian Porter's speech to the 公視(台灣公共電視) Symposium last week... publicmediaalliance.org/maintaining-va…

"Die Debatte, vor welche strategischen Herausforderungen die multipolare Welt 🇪🇺 stellt, darf nicht verdrängt, sondern muss dringend geführt werden", so Marc Saxer in seiner Replik auf die jüngste Kolumne von Joerg Lau. Dafür ist die IP gerne der Ort! internationalepolitik.de/de/multipolari…

Is there such a thing as a good coup? - are coups always a bad thing? - when have coups turned out well? - how often do coup leaders keep their promises … and more … For The Africa Report theafricareport.com/128857/lessons…

"Hilf mir", sagt die Mutter unseres Autors, wenn er sie im Altersheim besucht. Sie hat Angst vor dem, was uns alle am Ende des Lebens erwartet. #red trib.al/LRbQFG6

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁. Check in on those around you. #WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | Samaritans

Just because Jihad doesn’t always mean ‘holy war’, it doesn’t follow that it never means holy war. Fitzroy Morrissey on the many meanings of Jihad: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-m…

"Personne ne sortira d'ici, qui pourrait porter au monde, avec le signe imprimé dans la chair, la sinistre nouvelle de ce que l'homme, à Auschwitz, a pu faire d'un autre homme." Primo Levi

Sehnen wir uns vor lauter rechter Populisten wieder nach den guten, alten Konservativen? Diese Frage stellen sich Ijoma Mangold und @[email protected] in der neuen Folge von #DieSogenannteGegenwart. Aber: Was ist Konservatismus heute überhaupt? trib.al/vrZR4Ko

brand-new must-read by Mustafa Suleyman MSFT AI Chief: We must build AI for people; not to be a person mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-cons…