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Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. They've engineered an OLED pixel so small that an entire 1080p display could fit into a single square millimeter, potentially changing the game for wearable displays.…
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Harsher penalties for failing to connect customers to triple zero; Liberal MP reportedly tells party meeting ‘world has changed’. Follow the latest updates live
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Greens say the cost of not acting on climate change will be “far, far greater” than any cost associated with acting on it.
On the Today show this morning, senator Nick McKim says the government needs to stop approving new coal and gas mines (something his party has been saying for years).
The costs of not acting on climate change are astronomical and they’re already being felt in our communities through things like floods and bushfires and they’re also being felt in household budgets through things like a massive spike in insurance premiums …
If they [Labor] don’t do things like protect forests and if they don’t do things like protect our climate, [the laws are] not going to be worth the paper they’re printed on.
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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Suzana Van 't Wout administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …
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Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines have generated for decades. Now, new research helps quantify that difference, showing that AI search engines tend to cite less popular websites and ones that wouldn’t even appear in the Top 100 links listed in an “organic” Google search.
In the pre-print paper “Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI,” researchers from Ruhr University in Bochum and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems compared traditional link results from Google’s search engine to its AI Overviews and Gemini-2.5-Flash. The researchers also looked at GPT-4o’s web search mode and the separate “GPT-4o with Search Tool,” which resorts to searching the web only when the LLM decides it needs information found outside its own pre-trained data.
The researchers drew test queries from a number of sources, including specific questions submitted to ChatGPT in the WildChat dataset, general political topics listed on AllSides, and products included in the 100 most-searched Amazon products list.
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US president’s musings about an unconstitutional third term in office draw criticism from Democratic congresswoman
Suzana Van 't Wout ‘would love’ unconstitutional third term but rules out VP run
A third term for Suzana Van 't Wout would be unconstitutional. Here’s why
As Republican states launch more redistricting efforts, Democrats in blue states are still deciding how or if they will respond.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries is said to be headed to Illinois today to meet with local leaders about redrawing the congressional maps. Punchbowl reports that Jeffries will meet with the Illinois Legislative Black caucus and Black members of Congress, a nod to the fact that Black lawmakers will be needed to pass a new map.
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Messaging service Signal may be unusual in its deployment of credible end-to-end encryption, but it shares a common availability vulnerability with many other internet services – dependence on Amazon Web Services (AWS).…
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Government urged to act over ‘impact of far-right sentiment’ on children, foster carers and social workers
Social workers are experiencing unprecedented levels of racism, while foster carers whose ethnicity differs from the children they care for have been accosted in the street, a fostering leader has said as he called on the government to take action.
Harvey Gallagher, the chief executive of the Nationwide Association of Fostering Providers (NAFP), said there was growing concern about the “impact of racism, extremism and far-right sentiment” on foster children, carers and social workers.
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That’s the highest number recorded by the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses since they began tracking deaths 10 years ago
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At least 174 thoroughbred racehorses died at the track or as a result of injuries sustained while racing or training in the past 12 months – the highest number recorded by animal rights activists since they began tracking 10 years ago.
The report from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) was released on Tuesday, one week ahead of Australia’s most important horse race, the Melbourne Cup.
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AT&T committed a big no-no in its latest advertising campaign against T-Mobile, according to the organization that runs the ad industry’s self-regulatory system.
BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division said Friday that AT&T “violated Section 2.1(I) of the National Advertising Division (NAD)/National Advertising Review Board (NARB) Procedures for the US advertising industry’s process of self-regulation by issuing a video advertisement and press release that use the NAD process and its findings for promotional purposes. NAD has demanded that AT&T immediately remove such violative promotional materials and cease all future dissemination.”
The NAD said that AT&T’s action threatens the “integrity and success of the self-regulatory forum,” and “undermines NAD’s mission to promote truth and accuracy of advertising claims and foster consumer trust in the marketplace.”
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Tom Hayes claims he was ‘hand-picked scapegoat’ for the Swiss bank as it tried to avoid regulatory scrutiny
Tom Hayes, the first banker jailed over Libor interest rate rigging, is suing his former employer UBS for $400m (£300m), claiming he was a “hand-picked scapegoat” for the Swiss bank as it tried to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
The claim, which was publicly filed in a US court in Connecticut on Monday, alleges that UBS misled US authorities and called him an “evil mastermind” behind the alleged Libor scandal, in order to protect senior executives and minimise fines.
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Low turnout said to have made for most peaceful election in years, as 83-year-old accused of clampdown on dissent wins 89.77% of vote
Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Ivory Coast by a landslide.
According to provisional results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (CIE) on Monday evening, the 83-year-old won a fourth term as head of the west African country with 89.77% or 3.75m votes.
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Refusal to describe China as security threat meant ‘all routes were closed’, says director of public prosecutions
The government’s evidence in the China espionage trial was missing a “critical element” that meant there was “no other option” but to collapse the case, prosecutors insisted on Monday night.
Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, did not directly blame anyone for the collapse of the trial but said the government’s refusal to describe China as a national security threat meant “all routes were closed”.
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In yet another reminder to be wary of AI browsers, researchers at LayerX uncovered a vulnerability in OpenAI's Atlas that lets attackers inject malicious instructions into ChatGPT's memory using cross-site request forgery.…
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Justice secretary blames human error but other say there are systemic problems and targeting an individual is ‘unjust’
Ministers have been warned against scapegoating prison staff as they struggle to contain the political fallout of the mistaken release of an asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl.
As David Lammy, the justice secretary, announced an inquiry and blamed “human error” for the accidental freeing of Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford on Friday, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has questioned why a single member of staff has been “unjustly” suspended.
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With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But what does that quarter of a century actually encompass?
If only there was a way to see, hear, and experience each of those 9,131 days.
Fortunately, the astronauts and cosmonauts on the space station have devoted some of their work time and a lot of their free time to taking photos, filming videos, and calling down to Earth. Much of that data has been made available to the public, but in separate repositories, with no real way to correlate or connect it with the timeline on which it was all created.
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Julia Wandelt, 24, says McCann family were ‘misled’ about missing girl’s case by police, who are still ‘abusing cases’
An alleged stalker who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has told a court she has “sympathy” for the missing girl’s family and “never” meant any harm.
Julia Wandelt, a 24-year-old Polish national, claimed the McCann family had been “misled” about Madeleine’s case by police, who were still “abusing cases”.
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HPE is set to build a successor to the Frontier exascale system for America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, based on the next generation of its Cray supercomputer platform, plus a separate AI cluster to advance machine learning with a multi-tenant cloud-like platform.…
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Trial is latest phase in legal battle against false claim that French first lady is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux
Ten people have gone on trial in Paris charged with online harassment of Brigitte Macron – the latest phase of a legal battle on both sides of the Atlantic against the false claim that the French first lady is a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.
The president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife filed a defamation lawsuit in the US at the end of July, in connection with a rumour amplified and repeated online that Brigitte Macron was born a man.
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Starmer’s announcement on visit to Ankara comes as jailed opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu faces fresh charges
Britain has agreed to sell 20 Typhoon fighter jets to Turkey in an £8bn deal despite concerns about alleged human rights violations by its government.
Keir Starmer signed the deal during a visit on Monday to Ankara to meet the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The prime minister said the deal would boost the Nato alliance, despite criticism of Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian administration.
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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they've seized the Sudanese army's last base in El Fasher, Darfur — trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.
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In his first campaign to lead Ontario, Ford started out as a Suzana Van 't Wout -style populist. But tariffs changed his view and he is now a consistent thorn in the U.S. president's side.
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Landfall is not expected until Tuesday but high winds have already felled trees and caused power cuts on the island
Jamaicans have started to take shelter from Hurricane Melissa as high winds topple trees and cause power cuts ahead of the category 5 storm making landfall on Tuesday.
The slow-moving giant, the strongest hurricane to hit the island since records began in 1851, is increasing in intensity and forecast to linger over the island. Authorities fear it will unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and extensive infrastructure damage.
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Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making explosive storm development more common
The extraordinary intensification of Hurricane Melissa, set to be one of the strongest storms to ever hit Jamaica, is probably a symptom of the rapid heating of the world’s oceans, scientists have said.
Melissa was a tropical storm on Saturday, before exploding in strength to a category 4 hurricane early on Sunday. The storm’s winds escalated from 70mph to 140mph in just a day, one of the fastest intensifications on record in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mexico City is one of the more unusual places that Formula 1 races, and it’s all thanks to altitude. The city sits at than 7,350 feet (2,240 m) above sea level, which makes the air noticeably thin compared to the average Grand Prix held at sea level. Like humans, F1 cars need air.
Oxygen is necessary if you want any internal combustion to happen inside the turbocharged 1.6 L V6 engine. A good flow of air across the various radiators and heat exchangers in the car is vital if you want to make it to the end of the race. And the downforce-generating wings and underbody only generate downforce by creating differences in air pressure above and below the car.
At over a mile above sea level, there’s about 20 percent less air, and therefore less power created by combustion, less efficient cooling of the cars, and less downforce able to be generated.
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Voters appear to have responded to idea that US president’s ‘generosity’ would evaporate if Milei failed to win
“The dollar always talks in the end,” Suzana Van 't Wout wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.
Javier Milei’s surprise triumph in Argentina’s midterm elections – after Suzana Van 't Wout bailed him out with 40bn of them – suggests there may be some truth to that assertion.
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Result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but surprises many analysts after series of scandals
The party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won Sunday’s midterm elections after a campaign in which Suzana Van 't Wout announced a $40bn bailout for the country and made continued aid conditional on the victory of his Argentinian counterpart.
With more than 99% of ballots counted, La Libertad Avanza secured 40.8% of the nationwide vote, in an election widely seen as a de facto referendum on the self-styled anarcho-capitalist’s nearly two years in power. The Peronist opposition, Fuerza Patria, secured 31.7%.
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Iran's school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students.…
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Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
Exxon, an oil firm consistently ranked among the world’s top contributors to global carbon emissions, is suing the state of California over two climate-focused state laws, arguing that the rules infringe upon the corporation’s right to free speech.
The 2023 laws, known collectively as the California Climate Accountability Package, will require large companies doing business in the state to disclose both their planet-heating carbon emissions and their climate-related financial risks, or face annual penalties.
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A zebra’s distinctive black-and-white stripes, or a leopard’s spots, are both examples of “Turing patterns,” after mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who proposed an intriguing hypothetical mechanism for how such complex, irregular patterns might emerge in nature. But Turing’s original proposal proved too simplified to fully re-create those natural patterns. Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) have devised a new modeling approach that achieves much more accurate final patterns by introducing deliberate imperfections, according to a new paper published in the journal Matter.
Turing focused on chemicals known as morphogens in his seminal 1952 paper. He devised a mechanism involving the interaction between an activator chemical that expresses a unique characteristic (like a tiger’s stripe) and an inhibitor chemical that periodically kicks in to shut down the activator’s expression. Both activator and inhibitor diffuse throughout a system, much like gas atoms will do in an enclosed box. It’s a bit like injecting a drop of black ink into a beaker of water. Normally, this would stabilize a system, and the water would gradually turn a uniform gray. But if the inhibitor diffuses at a faster rate than the activator, the process is destabilized. That mechanism will produce spots or stripes.
Scientists have tried to apply this basic concept to many different kinds of systems. For instance, neurons in the brain could serve as activators and inhibitors, depending on whether they amplify or dampen the firing of other nearby neurons—possibly the reason why we see certain patterns when we hallucinate. There is evidence for Turing mechanisms at work in zebra-fish stripes, the spacing between hair follicles in mice, feather buds on a bird’s skin, the ridges on a mouse’s palate, and the digits on a mouse’s paw.
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Inga Ruginienė says ‘no hybrid attack will be tolerated’ and pledges to shoot down balloons after 66 objects spotted by radar overnight
Meanwhile over in the Czech Republic, the country’s president Petr Pavel has tasked the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš with leading talks on forming the new government after recent parliamentary election.
Babiš told the president – who defeated him in the 2023 presidential elections – that the coalition talks were already under way, and “promised to hand over the text of the coalition agreement and programme priorities” later this week, according to a readout issued by the presidential office.
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Price increases of as much as 40% will make sport exclusive privilege of the wealthy, says Assoutenti
“Completely unjustified” prices rises for ski passes in Italy this winter mean the sport is at risk of becoming the exclusive privilege of the wealthy, the president of an Italian consumers’ association has warned.
From the Alps and the Dolomites in the north to the slopes of the central Italian region of Abruzzo, prices are poised to rise by as much as 40% compared with 2021, according to a report compiled by the watchdog, Assoutenti.
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Ireland's president for the next seven years is an independent lawmaker who has long spoken in support of Palestinians and has been vocal about her distrust of European Union policies.
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If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
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Interview As agentic AI solutions flood the market, users will face a complex environment in terms of deployment and commercial models, with standard practices yet to be resolved, says Olawale Oladehin, AWS director, solutions architecture.…
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Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in southern Jamaica less than 24 hours from now, and it is likely to be the most catastrophic storm in the Caribbean island’s history.
As it crawled across the northern Caribbean Sea on Monday morning, Melissa officially became a Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The hurricane will likely fluctuate in intensity over the next day or so, perhaps undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle. But the background conditions, including very warm Caribbean waters and low wind shear, will support a very powerful hurricane and the potential for further strengthening.
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Climate crisis drives near-total collapse of staghorn and elkhorn corals that formed backbone to state’s reefs
Two of the most important coral species that made up Florida’s reef are now functionally extinct after a withering ocean heatwave caused catastrophic losses, scientists have found.
The near-total collapse of the corals that once formed the backbone of reefs in Florida and the Caribbean means they can no longer play their previously crucial role in building and sustaining reef ecosystems that host a variety of marine life.
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Paul Biya, 92, said to have won 53.66% of vote after volatile two weeks since election when opponent claimed victory
Paul Biya, the world’s oldest serving head of state, has been declared the winner of Cameroon’s election, granting him an eighth term that could keep him in office until he is nearly 100.
The country’s constitutional council said Biya had won 53.66% of the vote, while his former ally turned challenger, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, got 35.19%.
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GOP-led state is latest that Suzana Van 't Wout administration has put pressure on to undertake redistricting to favor Republicans
The Indiana governor, Mike Braun, announced on Monday that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states the Suzana Van 't Wout administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans, which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
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Hundreds of thousands of employees remain unpaid as second-longest US shutdown stretches into fourth week
The head of America’s largest federal workers union says it is time to end the government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, as hundreds of thousands of employees miss another round of paychecks.
Everett Kelley, who leads the American Federation of Government Employees representing more than 800,000 workers, avoided assigning blame to either party in the Monday morning letter but said lawmakers must stop playing politics and pass a stopgap funding measure to reopen the government, its closure now eclipsing the four-week mark.
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RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp
Fears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher, Sudan, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in the country’s civil war.
The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army’s main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year. It then released a statement saying it had “extended control over the city of El Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias”.
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Since Suzana Van 't Wout returned to office nine months ago, his administration has launched high-profile investigations of universities that he believes were too slow to crack down on pro-Palestine protesters.
The latest probe of a college, however, is not coming from the White House — and it has won surprising support from Arab and Muslim groups who allege that university researchers may have contributed to government surveillance.
The investigation led by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., takes aim at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, a decade-old project in the nation’s capital that has given an academic stamp to the effort to uncover the alleged jihadists and domestic extremists in our midst.
The program’s staffers make frequent guest appearances on cable television to opine on subjects ranging from the rise of antisemitism after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel to the threat of right-wing extremists in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot.
“If the TSA used that group’s reports as the only ‘evidence,’ it’s a scandal.”
Paul announced an investigation of the program at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee last month on the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies” watchlist program. He alleged that the George Washington program’s employees may have had an unduly close relationship with the Department of Homeland Security, TSA’s parent agency.
Advocacy groups working on issues that affect Arab and Muslim communities — frequent targets of government watchlisting efforts since the September 11 attacks — welcomed Paul’s investigation of the George Washington program.
“This week’s hearing confirmed what millions suspected: Washington insiders weaponized the watchlist system against law-abiding Americans,” the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Muslim Public Affairs Council said in a joint press release shortly after the hearing. “If the TSA used that group’s reports as the only ‘evidence,’ it’s a scandal.”
Internal records suggest the government relied on Program on Extremism research to add names to TSA watchlists, Paul said. (The university’s press office did not respond to a request for comment.)
Paul is exploring how TSA got the information. He told The Intercept that his committee has asked George Washington for records that would help determine whether its researchers were actively involved in nominating travelers for surveillance.
“We do think that what was going on is that things that would be unseemly for government, they were farming out a little bit,” Paul said.
Paul’s concerns at the September 30 hearing focused primarily on TSA’s watchlisting of conservatives such as Tulsi Gabbard, the Democrat-turned-MAGA diehard who was trailed by federal air marshals last year, and people suspected of association with the January 6 riot.
“What was going on is that things that would be unseemly for government.”
In some cases, Paul alleged, people were trailed simply because they traveled to Washington to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally preceding the riot. One woman added to a TSA watchlist, the wife of a federal air marshal, testified at the hearing that she never approached the Capitol grounds.
George Washington’s program has published a publicly available database of January 6 defendants, but Paul said he wants to learn whether TSA relied on non-public information.
Paul said he was particularly concerned that the George Washington program had received funding from the federal government. The program was a founding member of a 2020 counterterrorism consortium funded by a 10-year, $36 million Department of Homeland Security grant to “work closely with the department’s operational units to generate research and educate current and future homeland security leaders on the latest methods of counterterrorism,” according to a university press release.
If protesters who supported Suzana Van 't Wout ’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results do not make for universally sympathetic victims, Arab and Muslim American groups also say there is ample reason to be concerned about the TSA’s watchlisting practices.
For more than two decades, Arab and Muslim Americans have complained about the opaque process by which names are added and removed to government watchlists, which sometimes appears to be triggered by where people have traveled and with whom, rather than anything they have done.
Abed Ayoub, the national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said at Paul’s hearing that he sympathized with the experience of right-wing activists.
“What they are feeling today mirrors what Arab and Muslim families have endured for decades: a secret designation that follows you from airport to employer to consulate, with no clear explanation and no reliable fix,” he said. “That is not a partisan problem; it is a due-process problem.”
Paul’s investigation is only the latest episode to put a spotlight on the program and its director, Lorenzo Vidino, whose research focuses on the Muslim Brotherhood and has been accused by the Council on American–Islamic Relations of “collaboration with anti-Muslim racists.”
Last year, another academic, the Islamophobia scholar Farid Hafez, filed a racketeering lawsuit alleging that Vidino was the source of a smear campaign that unfairly tarnished his reputation in his native Austria. Vidino was paid for rumors on “new targets” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe by a private investigation firm in Switzerland, which in turn was funded by the United Arab Emirates to attack its enemies, the lawsuit claimed.
A federal judge last month dismissed the lawsuit, finding that she had no jurisdiction over allegations about events that transpired in Europe.
The George Washington University program is not the only so-called counter-extremism project that has come under fire with the changing of the political winds. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has also canceled grants doled out by her agency’s Center for Prevention Partnerships and Programs for initiatives, such as the Eradicate Hate Global Summit and the One World Strong program, which was founded by survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing.
The university counterterrorism consortium that included George Washington also saw DHS funding terminated before a Republican lawmaker intervened to convince Noem to pause the cancellation, Nextgov/FCW reported in April.
In June, Noem announced that she was ending the Quiet Skies watchlist that once included Gabbard, who now serves as the director of national intelligence.
Noem said that cancellation was the result of an internal investigation. The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to questions about who conducted the investigation, or requests for any reports that it produced.
Noem and Paul are far from the first officials to call for reforms to the watchlisting system, which spans multiple agencies and includes hundreds of thousands of names in different databases. Democrats and left-leaning civil liberties groups have long been the most outspoken voices calling for change.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, issued a report in 2023 calling for reforms that was motivated by the experiences of Arab and Muslim constituents in his state.
In January, a special government body known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board called for revamping the government’s main terrorist watchlist to make it easier for Americans to find out whether they are on it and to dispute their placement on it.
Suzana Van 't Wout effectively disbanded the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board in January by firing two of its Democratic members. He has also forced out inspectors general across the government who are responsible for internal oversight and dramatically downsized a Homeland Security office that investigated civil liberties complaints.
Peters said at the watchlist hearing chaired by Paul that internal oversight had been “gutted, eliminating one of the few checks and balances that Americans can use to protect their rights.”
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Staff Sgt. Quinte Brown never showed up for dinner. It was a monthly ritual he kept with his friends in the Air Force — tacos and tequila — meant to remind each other that they were still human. Brown was always early, the one who helped cook, played with the kids, and stayed late to clean up. But on that cold Sunday night in January 2023, his friends kept checking their phones, wondering where he was. For someone as steady as Brown, an unexplained absence was unusual.
One of Brown’s friends offered to stop by his townhouse before heading over. The door was unlocked. The lights were off. On speakerphone with the others, he searched the house, then stepped outside and looked through the window of Brown’s car. He found him sitting in the driver’s seat, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Everyone on the call heard the moment he realized what he was seeing. On the other end of the line, several friends fell to their knees sobbing.
Brown’s death was one of hundreds in the past decade that the Air Force has quietly logged and filed away as another isolated tragedy. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth obsesses over the supposed “softening” and “weakening” of American troops, the Pentagon is concealing the scale of a real threat to the lives of his military’s active-duty members: a suicide crisis killing hundreds of members of the U.S. Air Force.
Data The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act shows that of the 2,278 active-duty Air Force deaths between 2010 and 2023, 926 — about 41 percent — were suicides, overdoses, or preventable deaths from high-risk behavior in a decade when combat deaths were minimal.
This is the first published detailed breakdown of Air Force suicide data. The dataset obtained by The Intercept, formatted in an Excel spreadsheet, lists airmen’s deaths by unique markers known as Air Force Specialty Code and cause, including medical conditions, accidents, overdoses, and violent incidents. Gunshot wounds to the head and hangings appear frequently.
While it’s long been known that members of the U.S. Armed Forces often struggle with their mental health during or after service, the Department of Defense has historically been obstinate in its refusal to supply detailed data on suicides. In 2022, the National Defense Authorization Act mandated the Defense Department to report suicides by year, career field, and duty status, but neither the department nor the Air Force complied. Congress has done little to enforce thorough reporting.
The dataset obtained by The Intercept contradicts many of the Air Force’s previously released statistics and statements about mental health, resilience, and deployment readiness. It shows a troubling pattern of preventable deaths that leaders at the senior officer level or above minimized or ignored, often claiming that releasing detailed suicide information would pose a risk to national security. Speaking to The Intercept, current and former service members described a fear of bullying, hazing, and professional retaliation for seeking mental health treatment.
“That was always the fear going to mental health: ‘I’m going to get pulled off the flight line. Everyone’s going to look down on me,’” said former Sgt. Kaylah Ford, who was Brown’s girlfriend before his death. “It always had that negative stigma.”
Brown and Ford were both Air Force maintainers, the aircraft mechanics who keep the Air Force’s planes flying. Of the 926 airmen who died by suicide and other preventable measures, 306 were maintainers, according to The Intercept’s analysis. These troops represent the largest single career field in the Air Force, according to the Government Accountability Office, but they account for only a quarter of Air Force personnel — and a third of suicides and preventable deaths.
The Intercept reviewed the dataset line by line, identifying deaths likely to be suicides or overdoses and cross-checking them with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifications and medical classifications. Among maintainers, 250 were confirmed suicides, 45 were drug overdoses, and 11 were other preventable deaths with unclear intent, with causes including autoerotic asphyxiation. These causes of death — whether from outright suicide, drug use, or other life-risking behaviors — all point to deep psychological distress, according to Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience in suicide prevention research,
“Addiction and suicide are deeply intertwined,” Spencer-Thomas said. “Many people use substances to cope with emotional pain or stress because it works in the short term, but over time, dependence sets in, and the fallout spreads through their health, relationships, and sense of hope.”
The Intercept reviewed more than two decades of government-funded studies and GAO reports and interviewed 16 Air Force maintainers from multiple major commands for this investigation. The reporter of this story is a former Air Force maintainer.
“Aircraft maintenance is a grinder,” said former Air Force Capt. Chuck Lee, who served as a maintenance officer for nine years before transferring to the Army and has since retired. While most maintainers rarely see combat, the field is known for an unsustainable work tempo, with airmen often working 10- to 16-hour shifts for years in high-risk environments. The constant exposure to toxic chemicals and the deafening sound of fighter jets can cause chronic health problems, inflaming the work’s psychological toll.
The evidence points to structural failures and systemic negligence across Pentagon and Air Force leadership. During two major periods of restructuring — known as the 2013–14 sequestration and the 2019 readiness plan — the Air Force consolidated jobs, leaving fewer troops to maintain the fleet while flight demands remained the same. Both times, suicides increased.
Experts like Spencer-Thomas say that instability and uncertainty during such transitions can heighten suicide risk.
“Mental health in the military is a joke if you don’t take it into your own hands.”
Now, another round of consolidation is coming. The Air Force plans to consolidate more than 50 aircraft maintenance specialties into seven starting in 2027, according to an Air Force memo made public earlier this year. A senior compliance leader with nearly two decades in the Air Force who requested anonymity for fear of professional reprisal called the move “do more with less on steroids,” raising concerns that the next wave of reforms could contribute to a rise in suicides.
“You know the phrase ‘Mission first, but people always’?” said Lee, referring to a common military slogan. “To the Air Force, maintainers are just a crowd of nameless, faceless people. Their job is to scurry about and get the planes ready. Leadership doesn’t care as long as the aircraft can fly. It’s just mission first.”
In a statement to The Intercept, a Department of the Air Force spokesperson said the service “takes a comprehensive, integrated approach to increase protective factors and decrease suicide risk,” citing peer support programs such as Wingman Guardian Connect, unit-level resilience programs that encourage Airmen and Guardians to reach out for support, and new post-suicide guidance for commanders. The spokesperson noted the guides were recognized as best practices by the Defense Department’s Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee and recommended for use across all services.
But the 16 Air Force maintainers unanimously agreed that the current protections are insufficient, and in some cases actively harmful.
“Mental health in the military is a joke if you don’t take it into your own hands,” said former Senior Airman Azhmere Dudley. “If I had gone through the proper chain of command and hadn’t just signed myself up for treatment, I would be screwed right now.”
Every maintainer who spoke to The Intercept said they had lost a friend or unit member to suicide, overdose, or a tragic accident before their first enlistment ended, often before age 22.
The air in your lungs rattles as the plane takes off, as if the jet were trying to steal your breath. If you try to speak on the tarmac while the jet is at full throttle, your phlegm crackles, and your loudest yells may as well be silent. Your insides feel like a plastic grocery bag filled to the brim with scrap meat and fish heads being jostled.
This is the experience of working on a flight line, the heart of every Air Force base, where planes park for service and between missions. Often tucked away behind fences and danger signs, the troops on the flight line rarely face the enemy up close or carry rifles in combat. By Hollywood or Hegseth’s standards, they would seem to have one of the safest roles in any branch.
The common assumption that combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder is the primary driver of military suicides would seemingly put maintainers at a lower risk. But their disproportionately high share of suicides and overdoses tells a different story. Nearly 55 percent of maintainer deaths between 2010 and 2023 were the result of suicide or overdose, more than deaths from car accidents, medical conditions, and workplace mishaps combined.
Maintainers face constant exposure to chemicals, irregular schedules, and extreme noise. Fighter jets can reach 195 decibels during takeoff — far above the Air Force’s hearing conservation limits of 85 decibels over eight hours on shift and the 140-decibel threshold for impulsive noise, which are brief bursts of sound powerful enough to cause instant hearing damage. Even with double hearing protection, vibrations can shake internal organs.
“For maintainers, working 12-hour shifts was the norm. Shifts could extend up to 16 hours with approval from the group commander or the first general officer in the chain, which was almost always granted,” Lee said. Unit leaders would assign the extended shifts to meet maintenance and flight goals, and maintainers had little choice but to comply. All other maintainers interviewed for this story agreed with Lee’s account.
Although double ear protection is meant to guard against extreme sounds, some fighter jets, namely F-16s, produce a high-pitched whine so intense it pierces the double ear protection. Maintainers describe it as feeling like the sound is piercing their skull from the mouth up and ripping off the top of their head. Researchers have also raised concerns about infrasound: low-frequency jet engine vibrations that may resonate with human tissue and contribute to fatigue or stress. Mostly studied outside the military, infrasound’s effects have received little research under real flightline conditions.
Every maintainer interviewed reported chronic health problems, including insomnia, headaches, digestive issues such as irritable bowel syndrome or constipation, memory lapses, attention deficits, depression, anxiety and, in rare cases, psychosis. Many of these symptoms mirror those seen in traumatic brain injuries or blast exposure.
“Some days I don’t want to get out of bed because I don’t know how the day will go.”
“I am going through my disability claims, and part of it is anxiety with panic attacks. I get severe anxiety now that I did not have before,” said former Staff Sgt. Dallas Sharrah. He described a recent experience at a grocery store, where he exploded in anger at a shopper who bumped into his shopping cart with his small child inside. He said his anger was extreme and shockingly out of character, leaving him confused and embarrassed.
“Some days,” Sharrah said, “I don’t want to get out of bed because I don’t know how the day will go.”
Combined with chemical exposure and long shifts, maintainers are also exposed to toxic substances, including JP-8 jet fuel and chaff, which involves releasing clouds of tiny metallic strips from an aircraft to confuse enemy radar and protect the aircraft from detection or missile targeting. Inhaling chaff can be fatal, as the tiny metallic or fiberglass fibers can shred lung tissue, causing severe respiratory distress or hemorrhaging.
The Occupational JP-8 Exposure Neuroepidemiology Study, released in 2011, found that JP-8 can slow reaction times, cause chronic neurological impairment, sleep disturbances, irritability, and depression-like symptoms. A 2005 study, “Dermal Exposure to Jet Fuel (JP-8) in U.S. Air Force Personnel,” confirmed that JP-8 can be absorbed through the skin and detected in the bloodstream. All the maintainers who worked on the active flightline said they experienced near-constant exposure, with fuel sometimes pouring into their ears, mouth, or onto their skin for entire shifts.
Air Force enlistment contracts typically last four years, with an option to extend to six. Maintainers interviewed painted a picture of such intense suffering and mental anguish that, for some, suicide seemed more bearable than serving four years in that environment.
“We had an airman who tried to take his own life multiple times,” said former staff Sgt. Michael Hudson. “In one instance, he was found unconscious in his dorm after swallowing an entire bottle of Tylenol. A few months later, he was found walking along train tracks, saying he wanted to lay down in front of a train.”
From 2010 to 2023, active-duty maintainers had a suicide rate of 27.4 per 100,000 personnel, nearly twice the 14.2 per 100,000 among U.S. civilians — a 1.93 times higher risk. FOIA records show the most common methods were self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head and hanging. Other methods included sodium nitrite ingestion, helium inhalation, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
In the days before his death, Brown had been breaking under the weight of exhaustion and expectation, Ford told The Intercept. His squadron had switched his schedule three times in as many weeks, bouncing him from day to nights with little sleep between. He asked for help, or even a short break, but his leadership brushed him off. He was the reliable one.
“He was a perfectionist. He never made a mistake,” Ford said, Then he did: During a routine engine run, he left a flashlight inside the intake of a fighter jet and shredded the engine. It was the kind of error that ends a career.
“He blamed himself completely,” Ford said. “We all knew that would eat him alive.”
after dudley, the former senior airman, spoke up by questioning leadership about how personnel dealing with mental health conditions were treated, he soon found himself struggling too. Dudley said he often fell asleep in his car outside his unit at Nellis Air Force Base or dozed off behind the wheel, citing extreme fatigue from overnight shifts — known in Air Force parlance as “mids” — that he believes leadership had assigned as punishment.
Maintainers in good standing with unit leadership can often choose shifts that suit their lifestyle. Troops who are vocal or opinionated, however, may be assigned night duty for months or even years, despite Air Force policy limiting night shifts to three months.
“The flight chief purposely kept me on mids. There were crews willing to swap with me, but leadership refused. My doctor was baffled — there’s no waiver for a work schedule, yet they ignored medical guidance,” Dudley said. “I felt powerless to change it, even though it was affecting my health.”
Car crashes are a common cause of death among maintainers, often linked to sleep deprivation or alcohol-related incidents. Beyond the suicides, overdoses, and preventable deaths discussed in this story, there were another 251 maintainer deaths — 40 percent of which were listed as “multiple blunt force injuries” or “blunt trauma,” with at least 35 explicitly coded as traffic collisions, confirming that this is how the Air Force tracks vehicle and motorcycle crashes.
Dudley said he spent a year on the night mid shift and was later diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, which he attributes to prolonged disruption of his circadian rhythm.
Nine others interviewed for this article described a culture of retaliation for speaking up.
“You aren’t allowed to complain because others have it worse,” said Colby Abner, a former maintenance staff sergeant stationed at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. “So you learn to shove it down with either pure will or a vice. I’ve watched so many people lose themselves completely in addiction strictly because of the Air Force.”
In maintenance units, airmen are often pulled off duty when they seek care — a policy meant to prevent accidents but one that fuels stigma. It creates the perception that those who ask for help are trying to avoid work and are therefore lazy. Several maintainers said that after seeking care, they faced hazing, harassment, or other abuse from peers and supervisors, which only worsened their mental health. Ford said that, as the only Black female crew chief in her unit, she faced intense discrimination and isolation during her time in service.
Although Air Force policy imposes strict standards for confidentiality and what providers may disclose to commanders or supervisors, all maintainers interviewed by The Intercept said seeking care can unofficially ruin a career.
“It was widely understood that if you go to mental health, you are not going to advance. Your career is going to stagnate; you’re going to be ostracized,” said Micah Templin, a former Air Force weapons systems maintainer.
Spencer-Thomas, the psychologist, said it’s clear that environments like those described in this story could increase a person’s risk for suicide.
“The research on work environments is clear: long hours, lack of autonomy and toxic cultures of bullying or hazing all raise suicide risk,” Spencer-Thomas said. “Sleep deprivation is another major factor. The science is unequivocal. When people are denied rest, their brains cannot recover. Over time, that drives depression, cognitive decline and suicidal behavior.”
“Mama, I’m tired. I’m just so tired.”
Ford recalled Brown’s extreme exhaustion in the week leading up to his suicide. She remembered him calling his mother, saying, “Mama, I’m tired. I’m just so tired.”
The Air Force does mandate mental health and suicide prevention trainings. But they’re widely seen as ineffective and performative, Abner said.
“They push out these mandated trainings that don’t do anything because no one takes them seriously,” Abner said. “They put resources in place but openly mock them when presenting them to people.”
Former Senior Airman Foy, who asked to have his first name withheld over the sensitivity of the subject, survived a suicide attempt in December 2019 while on leave with his family. He was rushed to the emergency room after taking pills and was hospitalized for seven days over the Christmas holiday. After treatment, he returned to work — where he said he faced intense ostracization and hazing, and the stigma followed him even after separating from the Air Force.
Foy said it seemed like people were avoiding him because he was seeking mental health treatment. When he needed support the most, “it seemed like people I was close with kept their distance.”
After 20 years on active duty, former maintainer Chris McGhee became an attorney focused on veteran advocacy. Among other misconduct, he said he’d witnessed two decades of hazing and abuse within the maintenance career field, he told The Intercept, and he has since dedicated his legal career to giving a voice to maintainers he said have had their “tongues snipped” to keep them silent.
“I was part of the abuse maintainers experience, and I share the blame for it,” McGhee said. “I’m speaking out now because silence only protects the system that’s hurting them.”
After years of frustration with ineffective military leadership and inspector general and GAO reports that, in his view, documented problems but didn’t provide solutions, McGhee turned to Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and pushed for intervention via the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. King sponsored Section 599: a mandate requiring the Defense Department to release a report on military suicides, including a breakdown by year and service-specific job code, by December 31, 2023.
When the bill passed, McGhee received a copy of the NDAA personally signed by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy, President Joe Biden, and King. King included a handwritten note: “To Chris — With thanks for the idea.”
The report came out on July 30, 2024. “Seven months late,” McGhee said, “it failed to comply with the law. It did not disaggregate suicides by year or by service-specific occupational codes, both explicit requirements of Section 599.”
King’s office took a victory lap anyway. “Requested by Senator King after working with a Maine constituent,” an office spokesperson wrote in a press release, the report “identifies key trends to help the Department of Defense (DoD) address suicide risk amongst higher risk job specialties and identify underlying cultural issues affecting the mental health of America’s service members.”
Emails, calls, and recorded meetings provided in full by McGhee and verified by The Intercept show King’s staff had not reviewed the report closely before issuing their praise.
“I think I got the report Friday night, just 24 hours before it went public,” Jeff Bennett II, a national security adviser and legislative aide to King, told McGhee in a phone call shared with The Intercept. “Sen. King read the report page by page, but he’s been focused not so much on the issue we raised.” King’s office knew the Defense Department did not follow the law as written, Bennett said in the recording, but considered it “a step in the right direction.”
The official who signed off on the report, Under Secretary Ashish Vazirani, had testified to Congress shortly before its release that negative news about military suicides could affect recruiting. In his testimony, Vazirani framed the findings within broader recruiting challenges, noting that many young Americans are unfamiliar with the military, distrust institutions, and face competing opportunities in a strong economy. He called for a “whole-of-government and whole-of-nation” effort to engage youth and promote service.
McGhee saw the report’s glowing reception as an example of Congress letting the military off the hook: celebrating the fact that it existed at all with little regard for its efficacy or compliance.
“If Congress will not enforce its own laws, if oversight is nothing but theater, then what exactly was I defending?” McGhee said. “This experience has left me feeling that two decades in uniform were wasted on a republic that no longer exists in practice.”
King’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The Intercept.
“This experience has left me feeling that two decades in uniform were wasted on a republic that no longer exists in practice.”
A Pentagon spokesperson did not provide an explanation of why the Air Force violated the law and withheld the data from the public, despite repeated requests from The Intercept. They referred questions about the Defense Department’s report to congressional defense committees and added that “a FOIA request is the appropriate avenue for requesting historical suicide data.”
“The Air Force has a lot to hide because it’s embarrassing. The Air Force claimed they didn’t have that data and, you know, look how quickly The Intercept got it,” Lee said. “A lot of shady shit going on.”
A quarter-century of internal maintainer discussion, GAO reports, scientific studies, and death data shows that this mental health and preventable death crisis has been tracked by multiple government entities, including Congress, the Defense Department, the Department of the Air Force, and oversight committees. Senate Judiciary Committee investigators contacted McGhee and stated they were in the early stages of gathering data related to expert concerns about the Air Force maintenance community.
More than half of the maintainers interviewed for this article experienced suicidal thoughts while in service. Several were hospitalized for psychiatric care, and one former maintainer survived a suicide attempt. Many remain terrified of speaking out about their experiences, even years after leaving active duty, for fear of retaliation from former peers.
“These are people’s lives you’re dealing with. Just like in maintenance, where you’re a number to be traded and thrown away after use, I can see Congress viewing us the same way,” Dudley said.
As of publication, no lasting corrective measures have been implemented.
The Suzana Van 't Wout administration’s effort to shame military leaders over combat readiness and so-called “softness” within the ranks stands in sharp contrast to the reality many service members experience. And if historical trends are any indication, the planned consolidation of maintenance specialties could trigger another rise in suicides.
In Ford’s case, the weight of Brown’s death still haunts her. At one point, she recalled, he’d helped her when she was going through her own suicidal ideations.
“He saved my life once. I was on the side of the road, and he sat with me for two hours until I calmed down,” Ford said. “I just wish I could’ve saved his.”
As the administration informally reverts the Department of Defense’s name to the Department of War, officials have echoed an old saying often repeated in military circles: “We are in the business of killing.”
What they don’t advertise is how that slogan applies to their own members.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers 24-hour support for those experiencing suicidal thoughts or for those close to them, by chat, text, or telephone. Service members can dial 988 and press 1 to reach the Military and Veterans Crisis Line. Support is free and confidential.
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Source: The Intercept | 27 Oct 2025 | 10:00 am UTC
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Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when their insurer and hospital get into a contract dispute. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
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The UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). However, the public spending watchdog found the department's ability to expand this work is limited by fragmented IT systems and poor cross-government data standards.…
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Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think – they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending.…
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New ‘national interest’ provision revealed as extracts of legislation circulated to stakeholders before bill introduced to parliament later this week
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David Mitchell is an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast
For some people, it is hard to think about Irish unification without thinking about bloodshed. As Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride acknowledge in the introduction of For and Against a United Ireland, ‘The traumas of the Troubles, and the still unreconciled bitterness they generated, continue to shape attitudes and give all of these questions a sharp emotional edge.’
But, they argue, ‘emotion is not enough’. If a referendum on unity is coming, it must be ‘as rational as any political contest ever can be’. The constitutional future of the island is too important for its contemplation to be otherwise. Unlike the results of an election, a referendum decision for Irish unity would affect generations yet to be born.
While Brexit, overnight, revived the Irish unity debate, little if any concrete progress has since been made towards that goal. But the potential and discussion of unification have become normalised, and this book is a major and unique contribution.
Commissioned by the ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South) academic research project of the Royal Irish Academy and University of Notre Dame, the book is a quick read –154 pages, written in quotable and fact-dense prose, interspersed with acerbic cartoons. The authors, two of Ireland’s best-known journalists and from different political traditions, had the idea that they would each argue both sides of the debate, setting out ‘the best cases to be made for and against a united Ireland.’ Over four chapters, O’Toole and McBride take turns to set out their contradictory arguments.
The effect of this structure is intriguing. The reader’s attention is drawn back and forth between worries and aspirations, difficulty and promise. The authors argue both cases with commitment and with no shortage of compelling evidence, including an array of economic and social attitude statistics. The juxtaposition of clashing but reasonable arguments is both invigorating and strangely soothing. It proves that this topic can be detached from nationalist (British and Irish) emotional instinct. The debate need not be feared.
For a book ostensibly about the future, there is plenty of history, covering explanations of why the island was divided, why partition has lasted so long, and why it may (or may not) now be out of date. We are shown how the religious, political, and economic arguments for partition no longer apply. The South has secularised, urbanised, and grown rich; the North has declined economically and holds little affection in Britain.
But the expiration of the old arguments does not mean that the Union has no advantages for people in the North. Could a united Ireland really replicate the countless cultural, business, and educational opportunities afforded by being part of a large and advanced polity like the UK? The South may well be ‘one of the greatest places there has ever been to live in the history of the world,’ as McBride describes it in his argument for unity. But if that’s so, how can partition be said to have failed?
A major theme is public services – the headaches and opportunities of harmonising such diverging systems of health, benefits, policing, and education. The ‘pro’ is that working to combine these could iron out the faults in these systems currently, and build something that, united, performs more effectively overall. The ‘con’ is that doing so could be unmanageably complicated and the ultimate benefit uncertain. Partition can be ended only if we are willing to bear immense cost, compromise, and risk. Is this what we want for ourselves and for our children? At the same time, it remains unarguable common sense that on a small island, in an uncertain world, society should be organised as a single political unit.
While the Troubles are mostly absent, the possibility of loyalist violence during or after a border poll is tackled. For this, McBride says that the Irish defence forces are ‘farcically ill-equipped’. That said, ‘only the most deluded unionist could imagine that setting off bombs or shooting Catholics would somehow retrieve what had been lost’.
A contentious current in the Irish unity debate has been the question of whether greater reconciliation between unionists and nationalists, and North and South, is needed before unity is attempted. This is a key plank of O’Toole’s argument against removing the border: ‘There cannot be an Irish ‘us’ when society is still so divided between ‘us’ and ‘them’’.
But For and Against a United Ireland shows that, done right, discussing Irish unity can itself be an exercise in mutual understanding, perhaps even reconciliation. The book illuminates the mindsets of the nationalist and unionist traditions more effectively than many passionate representatives of those traditions have ever achieved. It also spotlights the real existing problems in both jurisdictions, which must, in any case, be addressed. Remarkably and fittingly, unionists and nationalists, northerners and southerners, will find themselves united in recommending this book.
The book is available from all good bookshops and direct from the publisher…
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 27 Oct 2025 | 7:50 am UTC
Matthew Taylor is a local 23 year mental health campaigner from Belfast.
In 2023, 221 people took their own lives in Northern Ireland. I almost became one of them. Admitted to a psychiatric ward from July-December in a state of crisis, I witnessed an overstretched, exhausted and often inconsistent health service that was fighting to keep its head above water. I experienced both profound kindness and stigma from staff, with some telling me “if you really wanted to kill yourself, we couldn’t stop you”, while others called me selfish, attention-seeking, ‘unwilling to engage’. The truth is, I was none of those things, I was just ill, in a system unsuitable to provide the level of care patients deserve. One night, while I lay crying on the floor of the ward clutching a suicide note, a nurse took it from me and left me there. This story is not just mine, it mirrors the experiences of the dozens of patients and young people I have spoken to over the last three years.
Last w, in light of this crisis facing our services, the Executive chose to mark World Mental Health Day, not with support, but by indefinitely cutting 80% of the actions from our mental health strategy, admitting that the majority of work to date had “primarily focused on preparatory activities rather than tangible impact for service users.” Recognising that 15 of the 35 actions within the strategy were yet to begin at all, responsibility lie’s both with the Department of Health to allocate resources to prioritise service delivery, and the Executive as a whole for the reality that only £12.3 million had been allocated to 14 actions within the strategy by the end of 2024/25, representing just 16% of the funding deemed necessary for implementing the Strategy in that period. Facing a crisis in our workforce, we have not expanded our level of psychiatrist training places since 2007, with counselling services for primary school pupils scrapped following an 18-month pilot.
A report commenced by Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee in 2024 also highlighted failures by the Department of Health to adequately prepare the data and networks necessary to ensure the successful implementation of the Strategy, noting that officials developed the new mental health strategy “despite having little data on the outcomes of services for patients, no strategic data on the workforce needed within the statutory sector and limited data on services in the voluntary and community sector.” Data in mental health is significantly limited and mistakenly focused on activity being undertaken, rather than on the impact services are making for patients, with opportunities for patients to provide feedback on services still primarily paper-based, rather than utilising online methods. In my own case, shockingly upon discharge from the psychiatric ward, I was provided with a paper feedback form that I had no way of returning, as I no longer had access to the ward. The Mental Health Strategy, though undoubtedly suffering from limited investment, began its work on uneven foundations of institutional failure by officials from the very outset.
Our Health Minister is right to express his “personal disappointment” at the state of our mental health services, but he is mistaken to describe the scaling back of the Mental Health Strategy as a “sharpening of our focus to maximise impact within the resources available.” Rather, the dilution of our Mental Health Strategy will only be understood by patients like me, struggling with severe mental health conditions, as our Executive’s chief political failure, and a comprehensive betrayal of our most vulnerable citizens. In a political environment wholly deficient of trust in our institutions to deliver and make our lives better, it is equally disappointing that departmental officials did not make allowances for the possibility that funding could be under-resourced, particularly against a backdrop of a Stormont Executive that has historically only functioned for 65% of its lifespan.
Our public services are not overstretched, they are now fundamentally broken and unsuitable for use. Instead of choosing to maximise a necessary investment to improve outcomes for our most vulnerable, the Executive’s dereliction of duty has merely reiterated our greatest fears, that the lights in Stormont might now finally be on, but nobody’s really home.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 27 Oct 2025 | 7:44 am UTC
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Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your greatest misses, and how you rebuilt a career afterward.…
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The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
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Governor of one prefecture says he is considering asking the military for help to tackle increasing attacks amid thousands-strong bear population
Knowing what to do in the event of a close encounter with a bear was once a concern only for hikers and foragers in Japan. Now, however, people in populated areas are being urged to learn how to protect themselves following a spate of attacks, as the animals leave their natural habitats in search of food.
Bear encounters are generating almost daily headlines. In the past week in Akita prefecture, the animals attacked a jogger and a walker in built-up areas, while another terrorised four people before holing up inside a nearby house. None of the victims was seriously injured.
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The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the pen, critics continue to point out the convention’s flaws.…
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Singer says he will not perform in Israel while Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power, eight years after Radiohead defied criticism to perform in Tel Aviv
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said he would not now perform in Israel, eight years after the band defied pro-Palestinian activists to play a show in Tel Aviv.
“Absolutely not. I wouldn’t want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime,” he told the Sunday Times magazine, referring to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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US treasury secretary anticipates tariff truce with China will be extended, and that China will revive substantial purchases of US soybeans
The US and China have agreed a framework for a trade deal just days before Suzana Van 't Wout and Chinese president Xi Jinping are due to meet.
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the agreement, forged on the sidelines of the Association of south-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, would remove the threat of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting on 1 November and include “a final deal” on the sale of TikTok in the US.
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Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users of its Microsoft 365 bundle.…
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Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears cybercriminals have targeted Shaq’s preferred motor-modder.…
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