In this weekend's @theobserveruk.bsky.social:
- why the far right in Japan is on the rise;
- @nickywoolf.bsky.social on Epstein and conspiracies
- the honeymoon is over for Ukrainians in Poland
- why Hezbollah is taking lessons from Sinn Fein
- + me on when to suck up and when to stand up to Trump

Likewise, Ivo Daalder - former foreign policy advisor to Clinton and Obama - is not one to panic. Yet here we are...

When people like Peter Ricketts - who is measured, sensible and not in any way alarmist - start speaking like this, it really is serious

Notable that Trump cares about only 0.2% of homicides in South Africa (oh, and some of the farmers killed are black)

And for those who claim Labour needs to "talk tough" on immigration, a reminder that John Reid said this 18 years ago

to be fair, I did point out his domestic woes may hold him back

The new Observer is here, and it’s a thing of beauty

The final Observer produced by the Guardian and my last day as Head of News. Signed off with a front page on Gaza and enormous pride at what we’ve achieved over the past five years: numerous awards, great investigations, quite simply the best Sunday newspaper in Britain.