Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Mark Urban

Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really interesting piece, well worth your time.

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 1d

How 7th October changed the Middle East and wider world markurban.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Two Years That Changed the Middle East

Some thoughts about this anniversary

markurban.substack.com

1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 1d

How 7th October changed the Middle East and wider world markurban.substack.com/p/two-years-...

Two Years That Changed the Middle East

Some thoughts about this anniversary

markurban.substack.com

1 1 9

Reposted by Mark Urban

The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 5d

“I’m surprised the march leaders haven’t said it’s not appropriate.”

After the Manchester synagogue attack, Amber & @markurban.bsky.social debate Palestine Action’s planned march and whether Sir Mark Rowley should ask Home Sec Shabana Mahmood to cancel it

🎧 The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com

2 1 4

Reposted by Mark Urban

The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Special episode alert

Following the Manchester synagogue attack, the team unpacks what happens next. Plus, @markurban.bsky.social responds to rising anti-Semitism, and The Crime Agents' Andy Hughes breaks major news from the scene

Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

#manchester

1 3 6

Reposted by Mark Urban

The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 6d

Assassinations & apologies - spying in the Middle East is a dangerous game...

The team explain how secret operations work - plus @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social explain how they almost crossed paths thanks to a botched Mossad operation

The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

1 2 7

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 6d

On this week’s @crisisroompod.bsky.social

we discuss bungled Middle East assassinations, Trump’s peace plan and that extraordinary gathering of generals in America t.co/UP28nkCqeO

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-crisis-room/id1815989479?i=1000729602372

t.co

2

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 7d

I think I might swap Baghdad for Rome or Istanbul! But completely understand the appeal of the appeal of the other two

1 2

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 9d

Depends on the incident. Recent Danish and Norwegian ones have been associated by some with Russian ships offshore. But frankly you could recruit locals to do it

1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 9d

there's quite a few experimental systems Richard, and I think there have been promising trials results. but someone needs to grip it, empower the armed forces to get systems into action quickly

1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 9d

wrong paradigm. a new sector of companies if offering drones and counter-drone solutions. It was said there were 200 firms doing the latter at the recent DSEI fair. Most don't operate like the old 'primes'. They are keen and hungry so solutions should have been found after Lakenheath

1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 9d

If you wondered whether the UK could do any better than Denmark if its airports were being buzzed by drones

The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 9d

'The UK hasn't raised its game'

Amber & @markurban.bsky.social dive into the UK’s drone defence and ask - could we actually stop a hostile drone if it entered British airspace?

Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧

#uk #droneattack #defence

3 7

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 9d

I know I know 😬

1 2

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

thank you

1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

oh - on CNN or her podcast?

1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

The question of moralising - how a press pack can fall in behind a particular view of a conflict is a fascinating one. In Bosnia for example it was down to a small number of thought leaders who influenced the wider pack

1 2

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

thanks Anna 👍

1

Reposted by Mark Urban

Anna Macleod @akcmacleod.bsky.social · 10d

Great read

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

Newly released secret files show how the government tried to thwart publication of my book Big Boys' Rules (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Mark Urban: How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles

Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me

www.thetimes.com

1 2 4

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

How foreign news defaults to 'goodies and baddies', and baulks at coverage of the morally ambivalent markurban.substack.com/p/who-are-th...

Who are the Good Guys?

What coverage of Syria, or the lack of it, tells us

markurban.substack.com

1 4 15

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d

Newly released secret files show how the government tried to thwart publication of my book Big Boys' Rules (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Mark Urban: How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles

Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me

www.thetimes.com

5 23

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 11d

I know what you mean!

1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 11d

Oh what’s this? A secret Cabinet Office file about my book Big Boys’ Rules?! I’ll be revealing what’s inside it in tomorrow’s Sunday Times

2 27

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 11d

The search for good guys and bad guys in foreign news coverage - a telling example from this week markurban.substack.com/p/who-are-th...

Who are the Good Guys?

What coverage of Syria, or the lack of it, tells us

markurban.substack.com

6

Reposted by Mark Urban

The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 New episode alert!

Is NATO being bullied by Russian drones? @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social debate whether Russian jets should be shot down the next time they enter NATO airspace - and Amber gives the inside track on party conferences

Listen to The Crisis Room @globalplayer.com 🎧

1 1 1

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d

What to do about Russian drones and fighter incursions? We thrash it out @crisisroompod.bsky.social that’s just dropped - listen in t.co/luXewz0bIr

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-crisis-room/id1815989479?i=1000728420631

t.co

1 5

Reposted by Mark Urban

Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social · 14d

If, like me, you are wondering how a two state solution could ever be achieved then this article is well worth ten minutes of your time.

Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d

This week’s step by several westeen countries to recognise Palestine is meant to keep the two state solution alive. Ive blogged about how that might just work markurban.substack.com/p/a-palestin...

A Palestinian State has Never Seemed Further Away

But here's how it might happen...

markurban.substack.com

5 15