History will not be kind to Trump

‘More than a human can bear’: UN report details Israel’s use of sexual and other gender-based violence against Palestinians Source: OHCHR Shared via the Google app search.app/SwMkSnxxjAHzbH…

So true theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I didn't think I could still be shocked by any Israeli politicians any more but the casual cruelty shown by some of the MPs here plumbs new depths. Knesset debate reveals not everyone thinks starving Gazan children is a bad thing haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

At what point does a country tip into fascism? The US is seeing masked men snatch people off the street, judges attacked, civil rights eroded, opposition politicians murdered, troops put on US streets, and a Pyongyang-style military parade. What next? theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Many people seem to think Britain was an all-white, homogeneous island until the 20th century. Here are two Britons with an African grandparent in the seventh century - 200 years before King Alfred. livescience.com/archaeology/1-…

"Caesar once, seeing some wealthy strangers at Rome, carrying up and down with them in their arms and bosoms young puppy-dogs and monkeys, embracing and making much of them, took occasion not unnaturally to ask whether the women in their country were not used to bear children; by

So the shooter may not have been a trans activist, registered Democrat, Mexican immigrant, radical feminist, black lesbian or all of the above? Just another far-right gun nut then?

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Was Trump sabotaged by UN staff during his visit? thetimes.com/article/608eeb…

Assata Shakur Dies at 78; Convicted Revolutionary Found Refuge in Cuba nytimes.com/2025/09/26/obi… via The New York Times

Good to see the rank outsider and most leftwing candidate theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

Three years ago, after the Martin Bashir scandal, BBC boss Tim Davie tried to prevent future crises by appointing two “external editorial experts” to scrutinise BBC journalism. Oddly, both came from PR rather than journalism. One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist

🚨It’s past midnight in Tehran. Here are my 12 key observations from Day 10 of Iran’s protests. 1️⃣ By every measure, Day 10 marks the largest and most widespread day of Iran’s new uprising. 2️⃣ Protests spread across Tehran’s bazaars—not only the Grand Bazaar but multiple

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Carole Cadwalladr: Stop Normalising Fascism open.substack.com/pub/broligarch…

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719). The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy

With energy sanctions against Russia lifted and now this, Putin couldn't have got a result more favourable to the Kremlin if he was directing the US military himself.

Great piece by my former colleague on the opaque role of tech oligarchs, private equity and foreign states in British journalism - and how the Observer deal was even dodgier than we thought. open.substack.com/pub/broligarch…