What a wonderful, welcoming headline to read as I pack to return home after five weeks. This septic isle...

The real question is who will be Michael Gove's chummy 'opposite' number on the inevitable post-Westminster podcast, a cosy cogitation on the virtues of hammering pins under the fingernails of benefit claimants and bombing somewhere new and exciting every month?

this is hell. this is what hell looks like

Rome Statute art. 8 (2)(b)(ix):

I am looking forward to my country no longer being governed by Conservatives. I am also eager to see the day it is no longer governed by conservatives.

Literally nobody needs to know where I am all the time, and I would regard anybody expecting it as a grotesque invasion of privacy.

Tickled that Lorraine Daston & Katherine Parks's (excellent) Wonders and the Order of Nature is catalogued here next to The Psychic Workbook. (It's a good book: zonebooks.org/books/118-wond…)

‘The crimes set out in the Rome Charter and in customary law all concern attacks on civilians. In its assault on Gaza Israel has committed many of the same potential crimes as the Hamas operatives.’

Conor Gearty on the ICC, from November: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Statement of #ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️
icc-cpi.int/news/statement…

Related:

Famed historian Ilan Pappe says he was detained Monday at Detroit airport, questioned by federal agents and had his phone copied. “am I a Hamas supporter? do I regard the Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide? what is the solution to the 'conflict' (seriously this what they asked!)”

Good thread on something moving under the electoral surface, therefore mostly invisible to Westminster-focused politicos.