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Waltz and Hegseth are very lucky that this info ended up in the hands of a responsible journalist who redacted sensitive information and reported the newsworthy elements in careful fashion. That was not a surefire thing.

A statement from The Atlantic after President Trump and his team’s comments about Jeffrey Goldberg.

Incredible courage.

National security adviser Mike Waltz has conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, John Hudson scoops. Gmail is a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, for which Waltz was already taking flak washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Rubbish has resonance: my article in The Times and The Sunday Times on why Keir has to get a grip on Birmingham's bins crisis thetimes.com/comment/column…

U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records cbsnews.com/news/what-reco… via @60minutes

Worth reading on due process and what it signifies when it no longer matters to a government. nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opi…

#OnThisDay 1941 The Belfast Blitz began when the first of four German bombing raids flew over the city. By the end of the fourth raid in May, over 1,100 people were dead, 56,000 houses were damaged, 10,000 made temporarily homeless & £20million in damage. #Ireland #History #WW2

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause that the Trump administration acted in contempt of court when officials last month defied his order to turn two planes around carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. abcnews.link/aRYR2oW

So proud of my friend Max Telford and his brilliant book The Tree of Life, the epic story of the connectedness of species from oak trees to orcas to us. Read it: it will make you see the world differently. hachette.co.uk/titles/max-tel…

A travelling dentist at the Ballyclare May Fair. Co Antrim. c1890. (AP)

My article in Engelsberg Ideas on Joe Biden, Original Sin, and the growing cost of Trump's energy engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-h…

Gerry Adams v BBC libel case: What the jury didn’t hear irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

Teenagers outside a record shop in Smithfield, (Gresham Street) Belfast. 1963. (Mirrorpix)

I have the utmost sympathy for this family. But this article is precisely why more MPs are turning against the Assisted Dying Bill. Neither of the couple involved appears to have had a terminal illness, yet their deaths went ahead despite “strict” eligibility rules.

Alina Bohdan fled war in Ukraine. She has young children and is suffering from cancer. Last night she was huddled in fear reading the Bible to them as a baying racist mob swept down the street, seeking whom they might devour. What sickening insanity. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

The Times obituary of the witty, stylish and kind Rosemary Sandberg, a great talent in children's publishing and my agent for The Stone Bird thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/…

The New York Times now reports millions of Americans are attending No Kings anti-Trump protests across the country. Events in all 50 states. Officials in Los Angeles are calling the crowds “unprecedented.” This is likely one of the largest mass protests in U.S. history.

My @UnHerd article on Trump's National Guard move and the historic dangers of sending soldiers to quell protestors unherd.com/2025/06/trumps…

Thoughtful and worrying article on the rise of political violence in the US. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…