Hard to imagine more impactful #journalism than the brave reporting of Aaron Smale Aaron Smale which led to the horrifying NZ report into abuse in care. Astounding work to reveal an awful Aotearoa story after similar crimes in Australia, Ireland, Canada, UK, US and elsewhere.

Wonderful take on “ignorance” - mostly the valuable and deliberate kind “What Don’t We Know?” ⁦The New Yorker⁩. FYI ⁦Rory Stewart⁩ newyorker.com/culture/open-q…

Rest in eternal power Ismail Al-Ghoul 🕊️💔 He’s been a mainstay on our screens in the last 10 months, reporting from Gaza for Al Jazeera. Today Israeli forces killed him. Shame on every journalist that is deafeningly silent as their peers are murdered.

It’s now a familiar pattern: a violent attack, innocent people are killed, and X is set alight with unfounded - and often incorrect - accusations about the assailant's identity. My analysis on social media’s role fanning the flames of Southport riots. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Haniyeh's last words: 'If a leader leaves, another will come' - reuters.com/world/middle-e…

nytimes.com/2024/08/02/opi… via @NYTOpinion

It's impossible to view the postings of Farage, without utter revulsion. He masquerades as a " reasoned commentator" on what he claims to be a national crisis linked to immigrants while claiming he deplores any lawlessness. Then he hints at more lawlessness if his warnings are

Good on them. Horrible error.

Hostage to history: Does Israel risk becoming a pariah state? [Something I wrote for ⁦The Listener⁩ fits with new Biden quote: "Stop bullshitting me and don't take me for granted." nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/w…

Netanyahu is prepared to escalate in the Middle East via Financial Times [Alarming and so right. From former MI6 boss.] on.ft.com/4dukeuW

Elon Musk reposted a screenshot of a fake Telegraph article (posted by the co-leader of Britain First), to his 193 million followers stating that Keir Starmer is considering setting up detainment camps. That’s not free speech, it’s being an irresponsible knee-jerking knobhead.

Dear RNZ News please tell Nathan that Cafe Boot is best coffee in Paris. Two branches, including this: maps.app.goo.gl/oTK2sYWjqQwaRq…

Ukraine is a nation consumed by war; Russia as well to a very real extent. Gaza is consumed by war; Israel to a real extent is consumed by war. The New York Times, once a newspaper of record, is consumed by journalistic malpractice and malfeasance.

If Biden is right and had achieved this it is quite the win and as big a credit to him as the prisoner release: axios.com/2024/08/13/ira…

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US | Kim Dotcom | The Guardian [He is ghastly but this seems to be a terrible decision and precedent.] theguardian.com/technology/art…

Very funny episode of The Rest Is History on Italian food with historian John Dickie using the fabulous line: "like machine-gunning anchovies in a tin." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Great dogged #journalism by ⁦Guyon Espiner⁩ and ⁦RNZ News⁩. Resignation surely imminent: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/…

The new William Dalrymple arrives in Auckland. It may have to join my teetering book jenga.

Remarkably sensible piece on folly of ACT treaty revision: Matthew Hooton: Act’s Treaty bill all about attacking Nats in 2026 nzherald.co.nz/business/acts-…