Otherweb Archive - Opinion - World

• It’s not all over for Badenoch
• What to Know About Hostage Deal Reached Between Israel and Hamas
• Trump should reject UK’s dangerous Diego Garcia deal - Washington Examiner
• The Israel–Hamas Ceasefire, Semitic Peoples, and the Mystery of Collective Blame
• UK anti-corruption minister resigns amid Bangladeshi corruption probe into her family - ICIJ
• The relief I’ll feel if the Gaza ceasefire deal holds is tempered by rage. Because it could have happened so much sooner | Jonathan Freedland
• After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war. But we’re still clinging to hope | Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad
• Israel’s security cabinet votes to approve Hamas-Israel hostage deal
• Nicola Sturgeon still thinks she was right
• The moral cowardice of the ‘compassionate’ class
• Far right on course to win big in Germany
• Winston Churchill’s former home, Chartwell, became the headquarters for Churchill’s campaign against Nazi Germany
• "We don't want to be Americans": Greenland PM Egede rejects Trump expansion plans on Fox News
• The War That Changed the World. The Ceasefire That Changed Too Little.
• Douglas Murray: It is time to eliminate Hamas and bring our hostages back home
• Israel’s cease-fire is no triumph but a wrenching, risky deal with the devil
• The Taliban's hard-line approach to governing may be getting harder to maintain
• This is the perfect encapsulation of the old cultural world of the 20th-century ‘anti-establishment’ establishment
• The Great Dumbing Down of American Education
• Kemi Badenoch still has no ideas
• Is this peace or appeasement?
• Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya: October 7 massacre will remain a source of pride for our people
• "A series of criminal efforts to retain power”: The stench of American politics overwhelms us all
• Rachel Reeves will soon need to pick a side
• A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is supposed to begin on Sunday. Here’s why
• A 100% tax on Brits buying homes in Spain sounds satisfying – but it won’t solve our housing crisis | María Ramírez
• Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on | Aditya Chakrabortty
• Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of migrants can’t be deported
• Praise that Israeli hostages are coming home, but a deal that keeps Hamas in power is a bad one
• Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern
• Hostage and Ceasefire Deal Reached Between Hamas And Israel
• After tens of thousands killed, Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire
• South Korea's right-wing president arrested over attempt to impose military rule
• In praise of neighbourhood sleuths
• Emily Thornberry: “I want to rebuild good vibes about the UK”
• PMQs review: Badenoch keeps letting Starmer win
• What makes the toolmaker’s son tick?
• Anti-drone cages, short corridors and small houses: how better design can solve British prison problems | Alex South
• The strange death of the centre right
• Letter of the week: Rules of engagement
• TikTok, HamHom, and the First Amendment
• The old order cannot hold
• Christians around the world are facing increased violence and threats because of their faith, according to a new report
• Inside the Lib Dems’ electoral strategy
• How the very idea of Semites at its inception was fake ancient history perpetrated by post-Christian Jew-haters
• Mike Gonzalez: What we conservatives are doing is reversing the long march of the 'woke' Left
• From Poet to Reporter, Covering the Human Angle of Conflict in Nigeria
• Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time | Rafael Behr
• The curse of the Oxbridge reject
• Will the bond markets defeat Rachel Reeves?
• THE TYRANNY OF TABOOS: Causes of LA Wildfires Can’t Be Spoken
• As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars
• Anthony Albanese couldn’t sell a schooner to a shearer. He needs to ask ‘what would Xenophon do?’ | Hugh Riminton
• New platform draws on investigative journalism to identify cross-border patterns of corruption - ICIJ
• The EU is a far bigger threat to democracy than Musk
• Can the housing and productivity crises be solved at the same time?
• The Long Journey Home | ACLU
• In March 1945, U.S. and Filipino troops pushed towards Yamashita’s main line of resistance holed up in the rugged mountains around Baguio
• Zuckerberg, Musk, answer me this: what about the child abuse scandal playing out online? | Susanna Rustin
• Some of the 98 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza may be coming home soon following a breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and the terror group
• Elon Musk’s AfD livestream has sent the German elites into meltdown
• Labour MP Lola McEvoy threatens to ban Elon Musk's Twitter
• My homelessness was temporary. But for many older women like me, a house is becoming out of reach | Susan Francis
• How much trouble is Rachel Reeves in?
• The Anglosphere’s Migration Mess: The BorderLine
• As Trump enters the fray, the danger is that a nationalist Europe will fragment, not stick together | Nathalie Tocci
• The Biggest Threat to Europe
• Former leader of France’s National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, dies at 96
• The UK's Labour Party blocked a Conservative Party amendment that would have forced a nationwide inquiry into migrant grooming gangs
• What's happening in the U.K. is part of a much larger story, says Jarrett Stepman
• The world’s longest-running civil war may be reaching a new stage, writes Jack Erickson and Brent Sadler
• As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth? | John Harris
• The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs | Kenan Malik
• I am a rational liberal, yet a question about the sanctity of life floored me | Sonia Sodha
• Grooming, Shipman, Chilcot: for all the post-inquiry ‘never agains’, the default is inaction | Isabel Hardman
• Maduro’s Third Six-Year Term Spells Doom for Venezuela
• Who Are the Potential Replacements for 88-Year-Old Pope Francis? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Up until then, Manila had been nicknamed 'The Pearl of the Orient'
• Canada is without a leader amid the risk of tariffs and terror
• China's economic woes are not a temporary downturn. A fundamental shift in policy and thinking is necessary
• Buy Nothing Groups Seem to Offer Everything—Except a Chance to Get to Know Your Neighbors
• Rise of Illegal Alien Criminal Gangs Prompts Urgent Call to End Sanctuary Policies
• Canada is on track to receive a Trumpian leader in Pierre Poilievre
• Why Europe Should Close the Door to Most Migrants
• The public inquiry industrial complex
• Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre gets 40 million views on Jordan Peterson podcast
• 'S-Day' was an awesome display of U.S. industrial might
• No, Elon Musk is not an ‘extremist’ threat to the UK
• Venezuela's Maduro begins third term amid contested election
• The AfD leader’s fawning over Elon Musk should sink her party. Instead, it will boost it | Thomas Verreyer
• There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting | Marina Hyde
• With Trump as America’s tsar and Musk at his side, Starmer must now look to Europe | Jonathan Freedland
• Who is Humza to accuse Musk of ‘inflaming racial tensions’?
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's progressive policies are 'just like Justin,' Conservative leader says
• For years I’ve asked ministers what they expect refugees to do. They never have an answer | Diane Taylor
• Remittances from immigrants living in the U.S. are the largest source of foreign income for Latin America
• Four years of Biden proves too close a shave
• "It sounds pretty, no?": Sheinbaum pokes at Trump Gulf of Mexico plans with map of "Mexican America"
• Europe’s supposedly ‘sensible’, self-described ‘centrist’ leaders have resorted to ever-more authoritarian means to keep their grip on power
• Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it | David Lammy