Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.

A lecture at The Sanctuary for Independent Media

Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you

10 years later... a guest post by Marci Shore

On the days of revelation

50 Holy Wells #11

15 May was no 'party'... but the inquiry should look at 20 May... MPs should learn and enforce PUBLICATION of covid 'plans'

Maths, 'maths circles', Kolmogorov, Westminster's centralisation & vandalism

Wars rarely go to plan, especially if you believe your own rhetoric

A Christmas books special

This is a report for paid subscribers on progress and proposals for the year ahead, including ideas to pivot for faster growth to fund more in-depth investigative and policy debate projects

Featuring the podcast of our weekly Hoon live webinar, plus five things that mattered this week, including the latest big climate, transport, housing and political news in Aotearoa, and in geopolitics

The scale of Ottawa's defeat is a jarring and continuing indictment of the capacity of the Canadian state, and the state must reverse this situation, decisively.

Menorah faceplants. CPC stunts. Reflecting on the PM’s bad days. And more.

The End of Media, Chapter 2: Everything Everywhere

The best in music, books and shameless self-promotion

Ingen i uppropet för Gaza brydde sig när den största massakern på judar sedan Förintelsen ägde rum. Inte heller bryr de sig om barnen som Hamas tagit som gisslan. Dubbelmoralen är kväljande.

Skolans resultatutveckling förklaras inte av friskolereformen, inte av vinstuttagen, utan nästan helt av effekten av en stor invandring från länder med lågt humankapital. Varför är det så tyst om det?

Welcome back to Lucid, and a big hello to all new subscribers. I started Lucid in 2021 to separate the signal from the noise in politics and provide big-picture thinking about authoritarianism and threats to democracy in the US and around the world. I use my skills as a historian to identify the patterns and dynamics at work in the news that comes at us every day.

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Do Any Of You Even Remember What You Tried To Do To Us All?

Plus WARRIOR CREED Podcast

The US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani heaps substantial tension onto an already very tense US-Iranian relationship.

The IDF advances into Khan Younis, the US vetoes another UN resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire, and more

My debate with David Aaronovitch and the liberal left at Conway Hall

A counter-cultural view of Britain's housing crisis

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been embroiled in another giant racism scandal. If you missed the story, BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake revealed that his terrible experiences at the national broadcaster left him struggling with his mental health. The situation is “really affecting” him, he explained.

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About those truckers…

Just not in the direction typically assumed

It told us nothing about the Royal Family and much more about Meghan, Harry and America

Liberal society is marching shoulder to shoulder with the savages of Islamic holy war

Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.

Listen now | Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from The Earthling.

As the smoke cleared the battlefield, we were left witness to a disaster of unprecedented proportions. NATO’s most advanced tanks and armor were left as smoking ruins: The most shocking development was the closeups revealed that these weren’t just any NATO tanks and IFVs, but were in fact some of the most advanced upgraded variants. Many of the Leopards destroyed were not the older 2A4s but in fact the much newer 2A6s, which are some of the most advanced tanks in the world.

I wanted to do this quick nightly update as there are a few developments that couldn’t wait. Most astonishing of all, is the panicked tenor with which the U.S. establishment is now desperately trying to convince Congress of the need for Ukrainian aid.

US-Russian joint tactical victory, European and Ukrainian defeat

Saudi Royals Prefer Israel to Hamas, Myanmar Fracturing?, Reichsbürgers: 'Citizens of the Reich', Bellingcat Collaborates With Western Intel?, "There Once Was an Empire"

Det kan tyckas vara en fråga som enkelt avgörs med en lagändring. Men det är mer komplex än så. Att förbjuda koranbränningar efter hot och våld vore ett fatalt misstag.

I dag är det två månader sedan Hamas genomförde den värsta pogromen mot judar sedan Förintelsen. Trots horribla vittnesuppgifter dröjde det nästan två månader innan UN Women gjorde ett uttalande.

Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

My interview with the American journalist and author

Also: OYL race heats up, Hazel scalpers, close but no cigar on health deal, a ministerial puppy and loads more

And fundraising wars

Loneliness, liberalism, and the traditional family

Listen now | My guest today is Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy at MIT and author of a new book, Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions. We spoke about the efforts to get Alex's book cancelled, and the meltdowns over transgenderism within feminist philosophy. In the extended part of the episode we also spoke about the feminisation of academia, and why no one within trans activist circles wants to talk about autogynephilia.

On the “phantom time hypothesis”, the bizarre conspiracy theory that 297 years of European history were entirely made up.

This week: the Tories unveil their loveliest immigration policy yet! Plus, some last episode titles, and a global map of how tall places are.

I've recently tried to inject some nuance into the catastrophe in Gaza and Israel on radio and on my podcast. No sooner does the syllable "Gah-" slip from my lips than the comments start pouring in. “How do you feel about Gazan babies being murdered?"

David Pakman is a progressive American political commentator who hosts one of the world’s most popular left-wing talk shows, with over 1.8 million subscribers. Josh picks his brain about the state of the media, of the Left… and of America.