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when you're looking at Iraq and Afghanistan on a map
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Everyone is dunking on this Naomi Wolf tweet but missing the funniest part: Naomi Klein is also in London this week
I am in London for the first time in 5 years. Unrecognizable. Grotesque huge modern buildings looming over historic neighborhoods. No sign of British culture except for vestigial pubs. Huge LED screens in formerly beautiful peaceful streets. People sleeping, living on the
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This interview is actually Chotiner’s masterpiece — an essential document of this moment.
New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel.
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I always feared that someday the radical left would come after the country's largest asset management firms
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This is the saddest thing ever to be published in a newspaper
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Max Read on "the Zynternet" is incredible. Whoever came up with this is a genius
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I think about this old tweet a lot
Whoever is paying Dan Hodges to be stupid has made a sensational investment.
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“When the war in Gaza eventually ends, and the full scale of the horror becomes clear, there will surely be liberal Zionists who will wonder how on earth they could’ve ever supported it.”
Since 7 October, the principal dividing line on Israel-Palestine has been supporting or opposing a ceasefire. For a faction accustomed to taking the middle ground, that has posed a unique dilemma.
@bentreyf
unpacks 6 months of liberal Zionist doublethink
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I was briefly astounded by this quote from the US ambassador to the UN, until I got to the end of the sentence
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It's worse than you think – turns out *all* the titles are made up
I’m sorry, “Marchioness of Cholmondeley” is clearly a made-up title
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Today the Guardian is launching Cotton Capital – a big project that will look at how slavery shaped the newspaper, the city of Manchester, and the history of Britain. Here's David Olusoga's brilliant essay introducing the series:
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I know it will never happen, but the NYT should absolutely fire whoever gave Bret Stephens a column
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The only Qatar take you need, from
@NesrineMalik
: "Qatar is not a pariah state – it exists in a global political system of western sponsors that have forged deep alliances with Gulf monarchies and extended them immunity."
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“Nothing that happened on Saturday was profound in any way. It did not teach us a thing we did not already know about this country. It did not teach us a thing we did not already know about this political moment.”
@ettingermentum
on the Trump shooting
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This is the kind of hysterical stuff that you only find on the front pages of four or five national newspapers
Tory MP Danny Kruger tells NatCon that Western civilisation is threatened by a "new religion", a mix of "Marxism, narcissism and paganism", conforming to the "dystopian fantasy of John Lennon"
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I'm trying to imagine journalists giving this same treatment to brazenly unscrupulous behaviour in any other field.
“You people need to grow up – *all* of the water company executives are dumping sewage into the rivers, what else did you expect?"
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“Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party... it no longer believes in social democracy” –
this new
@DEHEdgerton
piece goes very hard
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I hate to see the secrets of my trade given away like this
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I adore Gary Younge's riff on the problem with "dog bites man" vs "man bites dog" as a guide to what counts as news:
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You mean like eradicating it by fighting it on the high seas for 175 years? That contribution, you bloody manipulative propagandists
@guardian
? Comments
@DouglasKMurray
(who doesn't stand for such nonsense)?
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Congrats you legend — and good luck stoking conspiracies at the fake news factory. They’re lucky to have you!
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Might be worth looking back at this prescient column from the Euros in 2021 – when everyone was cheering a great victory for decency and good sense over another Tory football culture-war campaign
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In 2016, we asked Ian Jack to write about Trident for
@gdnlongread
, and he produced this masterpiece —which makes very clear, over 10000 words, that the purpose of “our nuclear deterrent” has little to do with keeping us safe.
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Absolutely blistering piece from
@chakrabortty
on what "the grown-ups" have actually done to this country:
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The Tom Cotton op-ed is like that famous Brian Eno quote about the Velvet Underground: it didn't have many fans, but every single one of them has written their own op-ed about it
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"This could be a reverse 9/11" is an amazing sales pitch
Peace with Saudi could be a ‘reverse 9/11,’ top Israeli official says | Semafor
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@lionel_trolling
Need a semantic ruling here: can things that are indeed bad still be the subject of “moral panic”?
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This is why lying politicians never win in Britain
Why are US TV and radio interviews so ineffective at holding lying politicians accountable? The answer might just be with their British counterparts, who are much more adversarial — and effective — at holding lying politicians accountable on the airwaves.
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And yet the editors of The Cut rejected my personal essay, "The Case for Marrying Isaac Chotiner"
Gun to your head, would you rather be interviewed by chotiner or have your personal essay published in the cut?
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"While much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations." Today's
@gdnlongread
by Rashid Khalidi:
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Comedy aside, this is actually instructive: you can see in real time the emergence of an obviously invented norm, which acquires a sort of viral plausibility by constant repetition
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Every few years, I end up re-reading this 1991 essay by Ari Shavit, about his reserve duty at an internment camp for Palestinian prisoners in the first intifada. I think it's an important document of liberal Zionist sensibilities, and how they have shifted
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I'm hearing that Joe Biden has confused Chris Heath's GQ piece on the Zanesville Ohio zoo escape with the Esquire piece on Zanesville by Chris Jones
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Gunnersaurus is about to get deselected
Are you an Arsenal fan?
Join our Gooners 4 Corbyn canvass on Wednesday at 6PM.
Meet in front of the Arsenal Gift Shop outside the Emirates Stadium. Wear your Arsenal shirt!
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England's answer to Theo Baker visits a university protest:
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Don't trust anyone who doesn't love David Goldblatt:
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"Gambling is often treated as though it were a morality tale... But it’s not a morality tale about gamblers. It’s a morality tale about government."
It's a good day to read David Runciman's fantastic essay on the politics of gambling in Britain:
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I love it when SKB goes in two-footed, but this exchange is further evidence that Starmer is the Southgate of politics
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One of the last true giants of American liberalism (and history's greatest Swarthmore graduate). Victor taught me and thousands of other interns how to think about magazines and what they could do.
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Not many people know that Biden’s mother was President for 70 years
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I'm afraid to say this is a very severe case of columnist brain: never mind the thousands of dead civilians, the real tragedy here is all this TRIBALISM
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The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government - Janan Ganesh
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Rachel Reeves ditches Labour's plan to invest £28 billion a year on switching to a green economy from day one. Target will now be by the end of their first term.
This was a genuinely radical and transformative policy which now looks significantly watered down.
#r4today
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This might anger a few voters in Surrey, but senior Thames Water sources tell me these are actually great headlines: “It shows we are laser-focused on delivering returns for our shareholders,” one insider said
Thames Water tells hundreds of Surrey households not to drink tap water
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The final piece in our series “The Broken Years: Tory Britain 2010-24” – Will Davies on the bad policies and mismanagement that have pushed universities to the brink of disaster
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Johnson was a new kind of bullshitter, but Sunak and Starmer are good old fashioned liars: a cheery column from
@chakrabortty
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Italy was once world-famous for the phrase 'Mamma mia!'
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I love that the FT found a writer called Cordelia to do this interview about King Lear
I talked to Brian Cox, Kathryn Hunter, Greg Hicks and Simon Russell Beale about what it’s like to play King Lear and it got pretty intense…
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I love the idea that every new work of British colonial history has to be submitted for Nigel Biggar's personal approval in The Times now
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I've always thought that American magazines can't do the definitive Wylie profile because he represents too many of their writers. But
@davidedgarwolf
and
@unkowthe
have finally done it for
@gdnlongread
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I think we can all agree that whoever actually owns this newspaper, they have made a sensational investment
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I love this anecdote in Atul Dev's new
@gdnlongread
profile of Amit Shah, the second most powerful (and most feared) man in Modi's India
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Janet Malcolm, we need you now more than ever
Former NFL player Michael Oher, subject of "The Blind Side," petitioned a court Monday with allegations that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, instead tricking him into a signing a document making them his conservators and enriching themselves.
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Starmer's team are having a competition to see who can expel the softest person from Labour
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STORY
Senior Labour figures will tomorrow head to Chicago to share campaign tips with Kamala Harris' team.
Delegation includes GenSec David Evans and Labour Together chief Jonathan Ashworth
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“The campaign to ‘protect our history’, in other words, is about protecting the past from historians – and protecting the present from dangerous new ideas about how we got here.” Nesrine Malik on the desperate attempt to deny history
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This was a good piece by
@leninology
for the Guardian in 2020, on the extent to which "anticommunism" was only incidentally about actual communism
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Ohhhhh the nonpartisan Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
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“This is the world described by the late Peter Mair in his classic Ruling the Void – a book about how western political parties have lost interest in the public, while the public has lost interest in political parties.”
@chakrabortty
on the result:
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I fear the viral publicity campaign for my debut story collection "TERRORISM: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION" has gotten out of hand now
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@NesrineMalik
2010 was a long time ago! But we should remember that the awarding of this World Cup was the high point for a whole political project that sought to position the Gulf monarchies as a rich, modern, sophisticated alternative to the "bad" old Levantine Middle East
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I pitched this story to The Times, and the features editor turned me down – but now they've stolen my idea and given it to another writer
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This is why we call it “the anti-colonialism of fools”
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I would read an entire special issue of New York Magazine that was just interviews with cops about books like this
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The Guardian's Cotton Capital project is ongoing – here's our next big post-launch story, a brilliant report by
@samirashackle
on the conflict at Cambridge over the "legacies of slavery" research now being done by many UK institutions
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It’s unaccountably awful. Does anyone like it?
Dixon and Matterface are such a vampiric comms duo. Constant negativity I swear.
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Top story on the BBC News at 10 tonight is "Princess Anne has sustained minor injuries after coming into contact with a horse's head or legs while on a walk"
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I’m hearing that some other editors are publishing “long reads” that are “too long”. Let me just say, I would never.
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"Should politicians be allowed to use irony?" – the greatest debate in the history of British politics, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,.
Diane Abbott has been accused of exploiting the deaths of 41 migrants in a shipwreck off Italy in a now-deleted tweet about the tragedy
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“British participation in the Iraq War was a dismal failure of British politics and journalism, which have barely recovered.” Very strong stuff from Geoffrey Wheatcroft here:
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@OborneTweets
I feel pretty confident Guardian Media Group is obviously not the owner of a giant private equity firm with assets in the tens of billions....
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The Diane Abbott tweet was an absolute banger, anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand posting
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Cassandra Gooptar, the historian commissioned to do this research, describes how she discovered an invoice book from the 1820s, which shows John Edward Taylor, the paper's founding editor, importing Sea Island cotton from enslavers in South Carolina:
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It's vanishingly rare for one journalist to change a story like this -- incredible work by Adam Crafton.
NEW:
🚨Manchester United today announce Mason Greenwood to continue career elsewhere, u-turning on plan communicated by ceo Richard Arnold to executive leadership on August 1. Follows reporting from
@TheAthleticFC
& backlash by fans, charities & MPs
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I really enjoyed this FT Magazine essay by
@evgenymorozov
on the "forgotten future" of artificial intelligence, and the band of rebels who tried to make it different --
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I didn't expect this election to provide so many opportunities to repost Ian Jack's masterful Guardian Long Read on the delusions of Trident:
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I can't find it right now, but there's a memorable Amira Hass column from 2002, during the second intifada, which updates this criticism into something sharper: the problem, Hass says, isn't that we are like Germany, it's that we are ok with anything short of that threshold.
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[in longform magazine ideas meeting]
"Ok, how about – what if we sent the earthquake on a CRUISE ship?"
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This is the most exciting moment in British political tech since the “Matt Hancock” app
How times have changed - there is now an option to add Labour's pledge card to your Apple/Google wallet
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I think this is an excellent point – and I wonder if this is what's been missing from the coverage of NatCon in the press so far
One thing that needs to be understood about the rightist obsession with "Cultural Marxism", even before you get to the racialised overtones, is that it's a revival of postwar anticommunism, whose purpose was only ever partially to root out communism.
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Critics of austerity are now guilty of “cakeism”, according to this guy who I presume is an impartial observer of economic policy
The howls you can hear are the sound of rejecting reality and retreating back into cakeism. Thankfully we now have a government that is willing to confront the harsh reality we face thanks to the energy crisis and the COVID legacy
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For nine years
@davidedgarwolf
has been wanting to publish a profile of Steve Albini, and he's finally done it. Very much worth the wait – and very nicely done by
@jeremypgordon
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This is really fantastic
Hopping back on to share the new
@KnowYrEnemyPod
episode: we had on John Ganz to talk about William F. Buckley Jr.'s pretty lousy 1992 book, In Search of Anti-Semitism—on Joe Sobran, Pat Buchanan, Gore Vidal, the Dartmouth Review, and more
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"The Sun and the Sunday Times backed Labour at this month’s general election after News UK received private assurances that a Starmer-led government would not pursue Leveson 2...."
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