Japan PM Fumio Kishida: 'Russia's unprovoked, unjust and brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has entered its third year. As I often say Ukraine of today is maybe the East Asia of tomorrow.' 🇯🇵 understands that not only European security is at stake in 🇺🇦but also East Asian

Thank you Guy Verhofstadt !! In crisis times, political leadership is critical.

Right on point and brave from the ever brilliant Kate Maltby.
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As the war between Hamas & Israel continues, Iran is exploiting the violence for its own ends. My latest for UnHerd.
unherd.com/2024/04/iran-i…

Get in, Pedro. #COYS .

What a goal, VdV! #COYS

Because of course

Iranian-backed fighters are now lodged in Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza.

Israel is under siege from Tehran’s proxies, writes David Patrikarakos: 👇buff.ly/3vItfQN

Beneath the noise created by the Gaza war, Iran is quietly extending its power and its proxies across the Middle East.

David Patrikarakos: 👇buff.ly/3vItfQN

As American power wanes across the Middle East, a power vacuum is forming.

And Tehran spies its opportunity, writes David Patrikarakos: 👇buff.ly/3vItfQN

We are not asking too much. We just need artillery shells and aviation. Rest we do ourselves.

Armed Forces of Ukraine

#ARMUkraineNOW

As the war between Hamas & Israel continues, Iran is exploiting the violence for its own ends. My latest for UnHerd.
unherd.com/2024/04/iran-i…

Interesting on war's links to societal creativity.
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“they’ve just hit us with two more rockets right as we were filling the site of the first attack”

harrowing moment of russians attacking journalists and first-responders with “double-tap” in today’s bombing of my homecity Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine

Don't forget Ukraine

Russia will not stop with #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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The UK once led the opposition to attempts to police 'hatred' in international law, warning it would suppress dissent. With the advent of Scotland's new hate law, that legacy has been forgotten.

My newspaper column this week:
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d) Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel of the Free Speech Union. Come to our event to hear Bryn talk about Academic freedom and the limits of the law. Bryn Harris 3418 The Free Speech Union

A launch date for Night Train to Odesa, in Edinburgh!

Watch this film. It will be great. 👇🏽