“I’m first a journalist & a human being and then an Israeli. How could it be any other way?” The veteran Haaretz.com writer Gideon Levy on whether he ever feels a conflict between his identity and his craft. Media Confidential with Lionel Barber mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

Exc: Liz Truss broke Whitehall rules by publishing her new book without agreement from the Cabinet Office.

Former ministers are meant to abide by the 'Radcliffe Rules', requiring them to hand over a pre-publication copy of their memoir for vetting.

Truss gave the Cabinet Office

Lunch with the Deep State: George Parker has a tasty encounter with Liz Truss who still won’t accept responsibility for crashing the economy. Plenty of conspiracy theories but lettuce not on menu ft.com/content/8e0046… via @ft

A v sobering interview with Gideon Levy from Haaretz.com who reports every week from the West Bank on daily life for the Palestinians. This is a much neglected story. Plus on Media Confidential alan rusbridger and I discuss bolshy newsrooms at the New York Times and NPR - and saturation

Each week the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy travels to the West Bank to give Haaretz.com readers a sense of Palestinians’ lives. His dispatches are quietly revelatory. He speaks about his work on Media Confidential with me and Lionel Barber mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

As Russian forces advance and pulverize everything in their path, life is draining out of Ukraine's frontline communities.

My Financial Times dispatch from the Donbas. ft.com/content/bccdf9…

I wrote end February that Ukraine is in dire need – and the West must respond quickly. Incredibly, Congress has still to act and Biden administration has been near silent. Almost like Potus can only deal with one crisis at a time spectator.co.uk/article/ukrain…

The Iranians telegraphed their drone attacks, they reportedly informed neighbours 72 hours ahead of the strike, and they had to make a show of force after the humiliating loss of Quds force commanders. Doing nothing would have exposed the regime’s brittleness. Conclusion: the

Last night's events in the Middle East show the value of allies and of long term investment in defence. Iran's capabilities - to attack with a wide variety of precision long range weapons - are considerable. European countries could not have mounted a similar defence

PM Kishida:
I delivered an address at the U.S. Congress entitled “For the Future: Our Global Partnership”. With the international community now at a historic turning point, I focused on what kind of future 🇯🇵 & 🇺🇸 should seek to leave for the next (1/2)

Former Post Office boss Alan Cook telling inquiry he had no idea that the PO could initiate its own prosecutions has to be one of the feeblest excuses of all time. He literally had no idea how the business he was running operated

Lionel Barber Anne Applebaum alan rusbridger If you think ukraine is forgotten what abt Afghanistan and Sudan?

Ukraine is the only country in the world facing ballistic missile attacks. It can be defended by Patriot systems unused or in storage elsewhere. This needs to happen now.

PM Kishida 🇯🇵 clear in his address to the 🇺🇸 congress: “Russia's unprovoked, unjust, and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has entered its third year. As I often say, Ukraine of today may be East Asia of tomorrow.”

Is Ukraine “the forgotten war”? This week’s
Media Confidential podcast talks to Anne Applebaum who writes and talks eloquently about Putin, the media and Ukrainians fighting courageously while western support falters. Special edition for Speaker Johnson with me and alan rusbridger

Here Edward Luce nails it (and Speaker Johnson’s choice): America’s moment of truth on Ukraine ft.com/content/98f37c… via @ft

Abrdn executive Ptr Brnnr has complained the company is facing 'corporate bullying' because of its ridiculous name ft.com/content/2c9bb0…

My piece for Politico on Japan “hunkering down for Trump 2.0”

Seconded! Coming up on the Media Confidential podcast this week alan rusbridger and I talk to Anne Applebaum on “the forgotten war” in Ukraine
and Russian aggression
There is no better expert commentator on the frontline

While Washington sleeps, Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine cities (Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv) continue to escalate and now the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under attack. Wake up MAGA Republicans before it is too late!