Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People trying to escape from second floor windows in central Kyiv a few minutes ago after a hit on the National Academy of Sciences 074
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Ukrainian protesters in Kyiv want the defence minister back... 062
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026An unelected monarch appoints an unelected prime minister. This is how we do it... 🇬🇧 2141
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Nato summit final declaration just out 1 - Trump signs up to Art 5 (sorry Vlad) 6 - No reference to next meeting (once less chance for a Trump row) 151
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Britain will have to "dial back" on military operations (against Russia, in Middle East) in future if No10, Treasury do not provide more money to MoD - UK chief of defence staff tells a Lords ctte 150
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Starmer loyalist John Healey quits ahead of G7 and Nato summits in defence spending row. Said PM only offers minimal increase in defence spending this parliament of about £2bn despite growing global commitments, threat from Russia. Key passage from resignation letter: 034
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026where's the podium? will it even come out today?? forget polymarket, you can tell me 210
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Further clarification from Romania in fresh statement 061
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Anybody out there know Amman. I'm here for 24h + in the market for food and other recommendations... 030
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026An hour or so later and another 40% or so counted. Back home it'd be two seats in Sunderland and a long wait before a marginal declares 1294
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Even Russia hasn't tried this in Ukraine. At least, not yet... 3139
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Discuss: has social media has improved public discourse, decision making? Example below.... 1101
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I'm back in Jerusalem, reporting for the Guardian over Passover, Easter and a little thereafter. From the Old City this morning... 180
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Bombing into the stone age? Originally advocated by retired US air force Gen Curtis LeMay in his 1965 memoir as a way to deal with North Vietnam. And how did that turn out? 176
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Catching up with the Trump speech, some extraordinary comments from a war crimes-human rights-diplomatic strategy perspective... 0111
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Unusual Downing St statement - confirming that ministers have agreed collectively to an expansion of US bombing from UK to include targeting Iranian "capabilities" targeting ships in the Straits. Mission creep.... 032
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Here's another one... targeting of ballistic missile industrial sites... 020
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Experimenting with AI infographic generation - let me know if you spot any errors... 120
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Espionage arrests - relating to China - Met statement 032
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"I never tried to kill a leader of another country, ever..." 1197
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Israel Channel 12 reports that Israeli officials believe Khamenei is most likely killed... 232
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Looks like the ISC's calls for the govt to justify every proposed redaction of documents will take time. A lot of Mandelson documents will meet the 'prejudicial to international relations test' never mind national security 0112
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Letter to the prime minister from parliament's intelligence & security committee - when will you send us the withheld Mandelson documents so we can decide whether to release them? 23910
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Spy stories - Letter to the Guardian today from a particularly important reader... 030
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Has the Labour govt become an amoral sea of vagueness? Exhibit A, last par 020
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025coalition of the willing - vague on ground forces 110
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Not sure this is exactly a Nato Art 5 equivalent "may include armed force" but would it in practice? 110
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Europe peace plan for Ukraine supported by leaders of Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK plus EU 131
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Watching F1 finale in a bar in Kyiv. A snap power cut adds to the excitement, system now rebooting 061
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 01/11/2025On another platform this user is apparently the leading poster on the Huntingdon train stabbings... 240
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Stephen Parkinson, DPP, had decided Sept 3 to drop the case. Only senior civil servants could be informed (incl Powell). Not clear when Starmer + Cooper were told (and doesn't look like they could intervene) - case was publicly dropped Sept 15. Future questions best directed at Parkinson... 020
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Tory spy case accusations backfiring... Rishi Sunak was sent a copy of first witness statement in the spy case says Jonathan Powell + Matthew Collins. Powell says he 'played no role' in subsequent evidence when in govt 182
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025An Iranian designed Shahed 136 drone is unveiled at the Speakers House in parliament. It has been decommissioned, guests are assured... 021
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Why did the CPS think it was reasonable to charge Cash and Berry with spying in April 2024 but said it had to drop them in Sep 2025 b/c of a ruling in another spy case On any reasonable reading that judgment is lowering or widening the definition of enemy... 111
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Met police operating live facial recognition outside Brixton tube. Three people picked up since 11.30 a sergeant tells me 141
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025You'd have thought this would have happened earlier... 1111
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Deadline day latest: changes to Starmer's squad into tonight 042