I posted about Settler Colonialism here back in November, having just read Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism. Now here's Helen Dale, who's also just read Kirsch's book. She has a specifically Australian take. Many of the world’s worst ideas come from the United States. Critical race theory and affirmative action, for example, are all-American. Even when…

Einat Wilf again: Stop talking about a ceasefire. Lebanon should be at PEACE with Israel, says former member of Knesset Dr. @EinatWilf. pic.twitter.com/dSREA9nXgm — Israeli Citizen Spox (@IsrCitizenSpox) January 28, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Now the malign influence of Tehran/Hezbollah has gone, why not? The situation with Hamas looks intractable: there seems to be no way that…

Philip Colbert's lobsters have escaped the Saatchi Gallery, and now infest Duke of York Square on King's Road: You noticed the urinal homage to Marcel Duchamp on that top lobster? Of course you did. Possible homage to Van Gogh with the sunflowers and Warhol with the soup? And Yayoi Kusama with the polka dots? Colbert's…

From the Times. The bad news: Claims of two-tier policing are an extreme right-wing narrative, according to an internal Home Office review that recommended sweeping changes to the UK’s approach to combating extremism. The Home Office document also cites how right-wing extremists “frequently exploit” the grooming gangs scandal — described as “alleged group-based sexual abuse”…

In the next few days we will hear a lot “But, but, but what will replace UNRWA?”My answer? Simple: Palestinian Responsibility. https://t.co/4FE2DemOa7 — Dr. Einat Wilf (@EinatWilf) January 28, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js See here for more from Einat Wilf on UNRWA.

Upsetting the French is surely a core function of the Royal Navy https://t.co/pBxAldpHWX — Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) January 27, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Male athletes are so talented! We see their triumphs frequently in women's cycling, but they're also super good at women's track & field. Sadie Schreiner had a poor start and his spikes almost fell off, but he still won on Friday! Those @NCAA DIII women need to train harder. pic.twitter.com/zmTfwnBWov — 🚲 (@i_heart__bikes) January 26,…

Howard Jacobson at the JC on remembering Auschwitz: I don’t expect everybody to agree that the only real subject of art since 1945 has been the genocide – I mean the actual genocide of the Jews, not the politically manufactured genocides of which Jews are now routinely accused – and the only testing philosophical question,…

From the Daily NK: North Korea’s University of Technology of Songrim conducted a campus-wide review last month of violations against the country’s anti-reactionary thought law, Daily NK has learned. “Late last month, all students and staff were summoned to the university’s assembly hall,” a source in North Hwanghae province told Daily NK recently. “The review…

This from Andrew Sullivan (via) reinforces the point made by Justin Webb yesterday about the sense of exhilaration in the US now after the moribund Biden years, and making America normal again. Yes, it's Trump…but: To say I have conflicted feelings after a week or so of Trump’s return to power would be an understatement.…