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Each week I look at one major international event and try to explain the st...
The letter below was sent to the UN late last night by Ilham Ahmed, representative of the autonomous administration of North East Syria. The Security Council is due to discuss Syria today, 22 January. Of course, the al-Sharaa government (which is what I think we should call it now, not the ‘Syrian g...
Posted on substack 20 January 2026
A catastrophe is unfolding, hour by hour, in North East Syria.
The transitional government of Al-Sharaa agreed a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of North East Syria (called ‘the Kurds’ by most in the press) on Sunday. But government forces and a...
Developments in Syria have been overshadowed by news from Iran but they are not good. A few days ago a coordinated and planned attac
...How the system stifles love and even stops us living fully as ourselves
When I first became interested in anarchism, I saw it as an alternative system of government, a method of how we should take decisions together, a better mechanism that would provide more equitable outcomes and provide that ...
There’s a major development on the Western Sahara and it’s very alarming. A native population who have suffered repressive occupation for decades, trusting the UN’s promise of self-determination, is about to be abandoned.
If you don’t know the history, Morocco invaded the territory in 1975 when Sp...
We live, it is alleged, in a ‘post-truth’ age. In fact, we have always lived in a ‘post-truth’ age (particularly if you are a post-structuralist, as I discussed last week). And the truth is that governments are pretty much always uttering ‘post-truth’ - facts that suit their narrative, selective inf...
This article was recently published on the Rethinking Security website.
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since the International Court...
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