Here is Not the News

Ubangi in the pipeline edition

I regret to inform you there has been a lot of Not News of late. As a result, here is a brief summary of the absolute state of play. The funny bits are at the end.

I have divided the Not News into handy categories.

Foreign affairs

• China versus the USA

• Saudi Arabia and Iran

• Turkey, Syria, Russia

War news

• NordStream shenanigans

• The Strategically Irrelevant Town of Bakhmut

• What comes after Ukraine?

Weimar Republicanism (“Culture” and “Society”)

• The Twitter Files

• Racist hats

• Rainbow parents = best parents

• The German bishops cross the Rainbow Rubicon

• The coming crisis of competence

• Bossware - the future of work

• Liberal Women Are Differently Saned

• Farmer protests back on the menu