A study of the explanations offered for Kimberly Guilfoyle’s conduct as US ambassador to Greece: a reported $100,000 credit card request before her confirmation, an Aktor lobbyist mistaken for her chief of staff, and a dinner remark about changing governments, set against her 2015 advice to Greeks about freeloaders.

A planned public execution and a fictional reconstruction of a recorded killing expose the different powers involved in making state violence visible.

A former Fox News presenter, now Secretary of Defense, plans to livestream a military execution. Noch Einmal Tucholsky examines the machinery of the broadcast.

The Trump administration pressured the EU, Lithuania and Canada to strip their names from Europe’s leading disinformation conference, days before it opened, over a panel asking whether the United States now belongs on its own list of threats. France declined to join the disappearing act.

The Trump administration pressured the EU, Lithuania and Canada to strip their names from Europe’s leading disinformation conference, days before it opened, over a panel asking whether the United States now belongs on its own list of threats. France declined to join the disappearing act.

The deliberation was genuine. The range was not. Two specimens: a court that cannot substitute its own determination, and an inquiry whose terms were redrawn.

A 1966 Treasury training manual for handling Parliament shows how bills, statutory instruments and legislative time are shaped long before any vote is taken.

On 5 October 2026, Operation Epic Fury has happened, is happening and may happen again, and Hormuz and Panama show why those tenses no longer resolve.

Twelve American bombers left a Gloucestershire airbase within a week of arriving, days after a counter-terrorism operation that found petrol but no explosive device. The Professor asks what, exactly, has been confirmed, and reads the departure against a warning Tehran issued in July, before anyone needed it to be true.

A box of 204 Palomar sky-survey photographs found at a London car-boot sale reveals how the continuous night sky was turned into a numbered, paired and retrievable documentary system.

The evidence existed. It was retained, circulated, reviewed. It did not reach the locus at which it could have become consequential. The routing is the mechanism.

Jared Kushner’s fund is the largest shareholder in Israel’s biggest insurer, which holds $456m in Israeli military suppliers. The Professor measures the distance between the envoy and the shells, joint by lawful joint.

A deacon explains, over casserole, why nothing he has just described strikes him as remarkable.

The disclosure register reads COMPLETE AND CURRENT. The burden of assembly, relation and interpretation has been transferred to the recipient. Nothing has been withheld.

A lobbyist’s six weeks’ unpaid leave for Andy Burnham’s by-election campaign turns out to be one entry in a much older and much larger pattern: the quarterly government disclosures, ACOBA advice letters and parliamentary registers that already record, separately and individually, how often Palantir and the British state have exchanged staff, access and advisers, across fifteen years and both governing parties.

Britain can map what its critical infrastructure depends on. When a node fails, no one is answerable for keeping the function whole.

PIP tribunals, the Rwanda ruling and the Windrush scandal show three distinct ways institutions build the categories a later decision only applies.

Prof. Tucholsky traces Tom Watson’s path from anti-surveillance litigant and Labour deputy leader to senior vice-president of Palantir Technologies, and discovers what happens to a peer’s declared interests when the House of Lords marks him exempt from registration.

Bankers, lawyers and accountants earned £1.2bn from this year’s takeover frenzy. Prof. Tucholsky asks which company that money built, and finds he had already identified the trade himself, in 1922.

Each strike on the Houthis enters two ledgers. How the evidence that can be counted fastest keeps deciding what Washington calls success in Yemen.

When the institution knows what the actor can deny knowing, the denial may be accurate and the arrangement still implausible. Two specimens, two production routes.

The Chadwick Transatlantic Unit considers whether Washington's stalled triumphal arch and Kennedy Center disputes may be resolved through Reciprocal Superposition.

The Chadwick Transatlantic Unit considers whether Washington's stalled triumphal arch and Kennedy Center disputes may be resolved through Reciprocal Superposition.

The Chadwick Transatlantic Unit considers whether Washington's stalled triumphal arch and Kennedy Center disputes may be resolved through Reciprocal Superposition.

The Chadwick Transatlantic Unit considers whether Washington's stalled triumphal arch and Kennedy Center disputes may be resolved through Reciprocal Superposition.

The Chadwick Transatlantic Unit considers whether Washington's stalled triumphal arch and Kennedy Center disputes may be resolved through Reciprocal Superposition.

The outcome was reported. The process disappeared. How a true statement that something has ended can be allowed to stand for something being resolved.

Second in a series: the US–Denmark–Greenland security agreement has been signed, its text released, and Article XII means it is not yet in force. The Professor reads the runes.

Part II examines the collapse of the Chagos deal, exposing how legal evasion has created strategic vulnerability around Diego Garcia and the archipelago.

Part II examines the collapse of the Chagos deal, exposing how legal evasion has created strategic vulnerability around Diego Garcia and the archipelago.

A reading of Trump‘s address to the 81st UN General Assembly - Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, the new Greenland security deal, and AI - as five declarations of authority over matters the speaker treats as already settled.

How institutions can transfer responsibility through valid processes until authority and accountability cease to coincide.

The US said it would hold Venezuela's oil money ‘not as a market participant’. Eight months on it is shareholder, purchaser, board veto-holder and transition sponsor, all before the election.

The US said it would hold Venezuela's oil money ‘not as a market participant’. Eight months on it is shareholder, purchaser, board veto-holder and transition sponsor, all before the election.

The US–Denmark–Greenland security deal: what each side says it means, who said it, and the text nobody has yet published.

How West Germany’s 1949 answer to the problem Carl Schmitt posed is being tested, case by case, by the AfD’s rise in 2026.

How West Germany’s 1949 answer to the problem Carl Schmitt posed is being tested, case by case, by the AfD’s rise in 2026.

What happened when the PH415 Princesse X photograph entered the wall at Art Safari Bucharest, September 2026 - and what the installation revealed about Brâncuși, Elsa Fraenkel, and institutional translation.

Macklemore, Sheeran, Pink and Robert Kraft each expose a different layer of authority over a stadium stage, from ownership to classification to reception.

The procedure was followed. The purpose was not. How a completed process can substitute for the substance it was meant to verify, without anyone cutting a corner.

The US confirms for the first time that it keeps weapons in orbit. China and Russia object in terms that, on the Russian side, have barely changed in six years.

Ofcom built its crisis-response protocol two weeks before Belfast. Three months on, an FOI request confirms: no investigation has been announced.

Multiple shipping chokepoints and a war in Ukraine are compounding into a winter energy and food shock with clear authors but no address to answer for it.

Israel’s culture minister, who spent the past nine months threatening to cancel state film funding over one film and denouncing two more for “amplifying our enemies’ narrative,” has now proposed revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors over a Gaza documentary that won a Special Jury Prize and Venice’s longest standing ovation on record. The Professor asks who this law has actually been used against before, and sets the accusation beside Judaism’s own, older word for the same act.

Israel’s culture minister, who spent the past nine months threatening to cancel state film funding over one film and denouncing two more for “amplifying our enemies’ narrative,” has now proposed revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors over a Gaza documentary that won a Special Jury Prize and Venice’s longest standing ovation on record. The Professor asks who this law has actually been used against before, and sets the accusation beside Judaism’s own, older word for the same act.

Israel’s culture minister, who spent the past nine months threatening to cancel state film funding over one film and denouncing two more for “amplifying our enemies’ narrative,” has now proposed revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors over a Gaza documentary that won a Special Jury Prize and Venice’s longest standing ovation on record. The Professor asks who this law has actually been used against before, and sets the accusation beside Judaism’s own, older word for the same act.

Israel’s culture minister, who spent the past nine months threatening to cancel state film funding over one film and denouncing two more for “amplifying our enemies’ narrative,” has now proposed revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors over a Gaza documentary that won a Special Jury Prize and Venice’s longest standing ovation on record. The Professor asks who this law has actually been used against before, and sets the accusation beside Judaism’s own, older word for the same act.