Abandoned by the Press
The UK Media and Iraq
Twenty years ago today, US and British forces entered Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).(...)
The UK Media and Iraq
Twenty years ago today, US and British forces entered Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).(...)
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
Moscow’s Hybrid War
For the Kremlin, controlling Montenegro is an opportunity to have its own proxy in NATO. For Belgrade, it’s a chance to regain the territory, which declared independence in June 2006.(...)
Post-Brexit Ireland
The end of Ireland’s Brexit crisis shouldn’t be noteworthy. As Fintan O’Toole noted in The Guardian, the Windsor Framework could have been agreed upon two years ago.(...)
Guido Fawkes, Phony Rebel
Guido Fawkes is the kind of media that can destroy reputations in minutes. Sometimes deservedly, but not always.(...)
Seymour Hersh and Nord Stream
The End of Mental Privacy
During the Trump era, it was often said that political satire was becoming impossible.(...)
The BBC and Austerity
Not every media organisation can bear criticism, even self-criticism, but others require it to keep going.(...)
Ukraine is Not Stalingrad
Foucault once suggested that Clausewitz's famous observation, "war is not merely a political act but a real political instrument" carried out by other means, be reversed, with politics made an extension of war.(...)