WhatInTheWorldWeekly

In this week’s episode, I discuss the fallout from Zeze Mills latest podcast episode she interviewed Noel Clarke. Clarke has been accused by 20 women of accusations ranging from sexual harassment to bullying. The general theme of the fallout was that it was wrong of Mills to conduct the interview. We are now at the stage in life where it is we have to remind people that the presumption of innocence and the right to put forward your own defence is something worth defending.

No not the International Cricket Council, rather the International Criminal Court. This court has a very chequered history of almost exclusively convicting African warlords (essentially the only people they can kidnap and subdue). Ultimately, this was done to make peace even less likely. The thought of peace frightens the US very greatly

Gary Lineker was briefly suspended by the BBC for comparing the govts rhetoric on refugee migrant crossings to that used by the Nazis about the Jews in the 1930s. While the comparison was somewhat tenuous, missing from the discussion is the fact that the UK govt played a key role in causing the migrant crisis by sponsoring jihadi death squads who destabilised Syria and caused the inevitable refugee crisis.

I summarise the main protagonists (and antagonists) in the Nigerian elections held on the 25th February 2023. The plots and subplots and how the voting and reaction has been. Unlike recent election, it appears this one was less credible than the smaller governship elections which have been held in recent years. Ultimately, I think the winner was inevitable regardless of the irregularities.

A recap on the state of the war today. Sadly, this war has been inevitable since 2014 due to the aggression of the US in goading Russia through the Maidan uprising of 2014. Even after the war began, the US continuously blocked peace efforts. They seem prepared to fight the war to the last Ukrainian.

A few weeks ago, journalist Matt Taibbi reported via a long thread on twitter about documents he’s received which show conclusively that Twitter was working in close collaboration with the FBI and elected officials to censor, suspend and delete accounts. Some even show the FBI requesting real world information about users. As the information continues to come out, I will publish more episodes on the more explosive parts of the reporting.

I dive into the BBC Africa documentary about the violence ravaging Northern Nigeria. The WhatsApp broadcasts say it’s a cynical Fulani plot to take over Nigeria, but it seems more like a mix of terrible governance, ethnic division and climate change.

The current war in Ukraine seems to be a trial run for what we can expect regarding censorship. People must be protected from information the government doesn’t want them to know, less they start having opinions that deviate from the official narrative.

A brief few words about my trip to Florence.

I asked my friend (who is Jewish) for his perspective on Israel-Palestine. His personal experiences, political leanings etc. It’s a wide ranging conversation going from how he founded a Jewish youth society at his university, his encounter with Palestinian society and experiences when visiting Israel. First 20mins is my summary not the conflict, rest his the actual interview