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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are the doom-laden prophecies of AI experts sincere? Or are they a helpful distraction from the bad things AI companies are doing now? If AI companies believe in this risk, why can't they stop? Thank you to the 20+ people who helped me explore these questions for this week's New Statesman

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

WILL AI KILL US ALL? by @willdunn.bsky.social There has never been so much money in the apocalypse business. Read the cover story: www.newstatesman.com/busine...

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My cover story - something I've been working on since last summer - on the shadow state, a country trapped in an outsourced asylum (and everything else) system it created for itself:

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How Britain lost control

Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Revealing long-read by @willdunn.bsky.social on the casual, chaotic integration of AI into the workings of British politics and why it matters:

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The silent coup

How AI captured Westminster

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is a story about power, about politicians becoming distracted by a shiny new thing, without stopping to ask what it might cost. www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

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The silent coup

How AI captured Westminster

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"When pressed on matters she prefers not to discuss, she responds sharply: 'I wouldn’t talk about it. Thank you, though'" The brilliant Faye Curran spent months profiling Alfreda Bikowsky, the woman who led the CIA unit dedicated to bin Laden, and was once described as "the Queen of Torture"

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Well @meganjgibson.bsky.social has interviewed Fiona Hill again and frankly I wish she hadn’t www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

How is this conflict going to impact
Russia and China?
There's all of these [interlinking| ties. Once you get into these big system changes, you effectively get a world war.

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

New interview with Fiona Hill on the expanding war in the Middle East: "Once you get into these big system changes, you effectively get a world war...." www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

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Fiona Hill: We are heading into absolute chaos and brutal slaughter

The former Donald Trump adviser on an escalating crisis and the prospect of world war

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"[Canada's] military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of... armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics." Ok then! From here - www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

For years, Fiona Hill has been one of the smartest, most thoughtful people thinking about the state of the world So much richness in this interview with @meganjgibson.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”

The foreign policy expert on spheres of influence and what America First really means

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Ten months before 9/11, a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 flying from London to Nairobi and nearly crashed it into the Sahara Desert. Everyone survived but no one quite recovered. How do you measure the cost of a disaster averted? www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...

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The strange fate of Flight 2069

How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didn’t happen?

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Lily Lynch on the Floridization of US politics www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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Tom Gatti @tomgatti.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In this week’s @newstatesman.com – Tina Brown on the abominable showman M Sandel & T Piketty on the left after Trump @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social on the Gatsby myths @yairwallach.bsky.social on the Gaza ceasefire @traceythorn.bsky.social – back to the 80s Cover by @andrecarrilho.bsky.social

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My piece for the New Statesman, on the ceasefire, how we got here, and why the dangers of further ethnic cleansing have not gone away. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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The peace paradox

The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/01/2025

More than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war in Gaza, according to a new study. It suggests that the Hamas health ministry tally, a figure the UN relies on, is a significant undercount. nyti.ms/4fZxCIv

The aftermath of Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. The text reads: "Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40% Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say." Photo by Yousef Masoud for The New York Times.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

NYT's report on the Israeli order allowing killing 20 civilians as collateral damage for low level Hamas targets, 100 for major targets, and 500 civilians casualties per day, should be seen as blanket order for mass slaughter. The mass killing was the point. The targets were the legal excuse.

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ido @ido.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

if you’re interested Michel Barnier lasted nearly twice as long in office as Liz Truss. presumably the Barnier Lettuce well and truly went off some time ago

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Free Palestine

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“Things, we realized, did not simply get better.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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Postelection Pre-exhaustion

The Trump barrage begins again.

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Sarah Manavis @sarahmanavis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Not the most important part here but the "DOGE" aspect does also affirm we're entering an era where the worst people you know will constantly be dropping the cry laughing emoji about the least funny shit you ever seen

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I still think Biden has a lot to answer for…

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Nature in relation to motherhood has long been exploited. But who defines what, precisely, is natural? And who is served by such definitions? www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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How motherhood was weaponised

Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

“The West Bank is at boiling point. The conditions for a third intifada are being created.” www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

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War and the West Bank

Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

“The West Bank is at boiling point. The conditions for a third intifada are being created.” www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

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War and the West Bank

Settler violence in the occupied territory is intensifying, and Palestinian deaths are mounting.

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

“But if Israel — a state founded from genocide, a state founded to protect Jews from the Holocaust — is found to be committing genocide, that is a huge stigma and it would put powerful pressure on Netanyahu to finally to relent.” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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"I'm not sure how Israel is going to overcome this"

South Africa presents its case to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 04/12/2023

explaining some online beef to a normal person

Uncle, how to get to the beautiful country? by Xiaoyu Wang

a green alien in a space suit showing a map to a seated man smoking a cigarette playing a board game

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Very curious now: just how bad could Saltburn be?!

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target...These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional" www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...

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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...

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Megan Gibson @meganjgibson.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

“It’s hard to feel that Christmas spirit with the sound of F-35 training drills in the background." I went to Finnish Lapland, the home of Santa Claus, reindeer and, increasingly, Nato training exercises. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

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Lapland: a prisoner of geography

Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential crisis.

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