So many great international pieces from @NewStatesman this week that I'm going to do a little thread of them:
1) @ImogenWK on the question of why Swedish PM Olof Palme was murdered in 1986 - and why it will endure beyond last week's naming of a culprit. https://www.newstatesman.com/who-killed-olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-murder-unsolved
1) @ImogenWK on the question of why Swedish PM Olof Palme was murdered in 1986 - and why it will endure beyond last week's naming of a culprit. https://www.newstatesman.com/who-killed-olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-murder-unsolved
2) @idvck on Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank from July 1 (if you haven't read into it, now's the moment...). Ido explains the four key consequences, including the likely death of the two-state solution. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2020/06/four-consequences-israel-s-plan-annex-west-bank-territories
3) @emilyctamkin reports from Delhi, Kolkata and Jaipur in this atmospheric long read on the changing meaning of Indian-ness in Modi's India, before and during the pandemic. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/06/india-hindu-muslim-nationalism-modi-unrest-protests
4) I marvel at how the breezy 2016-era Brexiteer vision of a swashbuckling "Global Britain" in a "post-geography" world lives on, seemingly oblivious to the geopolitical shifts of the intervening four years. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/world-has-changed-greatly-2016-vision-global-britain-needs-change-it
5) @RRajagopalanJNU explains the military standoff in the Himalayas and how the rising tensions wreck an attempt by the world's soon-most-populous country (India) to find a middle way between the world's two most-powerful countries (China and the US). https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/06/why-china-and-india-are-locked-dangerous-stand
6) @SEMcBain, our special correspondent in NYC, talks to Alex S Vitale (the author of The End of Policing) to unpack a crucial question following the BLM protests: what would defunding the police *actually* mean? https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/06/we-have-articulate-different-vision-justice-alex-s-vitale-why-police
7) @emilyctamkin quotes The History Boys ("It’s not so much lest we forget as lest we remember") in this superbly nuanced and insightful piece on America's past and present: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/06/how-trump-and-swathes-white-america-refuse-learn-either-about-or-our
8) @sarahmanavis on the growing global conspiracy theories (seriously) about the haircuts of female political leaders: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2020/06/hair-truthers-people-nicola-sturgeon-jacinda-ardern-diane-abbott-haircut-lockdown-conspiracy
9) @emilyctamkin and I launched this trailer for World Review: the @NewStatesman's new weekly global affairs podcast, which starts tomorrow (19 June).
And all of the above in the past 24 hours alone...
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