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Israel Election 2026: Why Netanyahu Might Be The Best Politician Alive
Season 1 Episode 234
Israel has voted, Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his parliamentary majority — and he may still remain prime minister.
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah…
1 day, 19 hours ago
Saudi Arabia Executes Two Bangladeshis: Migrant Worker Abuse & a Hajj/Umrah Boycott
Season 1 Episode 233
Saudi Arabia has executed two Bangladeshi nationals for an unspecified “immoral act” inside a mosque in Mecca. Bangladesh says it wasn’t warned, the …
1 week, 2 days ago
Malala, Gaza, Conspiracies & the Collapse of Trust
Season 1 Episode 232
NEWS WEAKLY 232 – Malala, Gaza, Conspiracies & the Collapse of Trust
Why do people with perfectly good reasons to distrust governments sometimes end u…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
October 7 Mourning, Flydubai Conspiracies, Coalition Migration Cuts & OpenAI’s Medicare Breach
Season 1 Episode 231
NEWS WEAKLY 231 – October 7 Mourning, Flydubai Conspiracies, Coalition Migration Cuts & OpenAI’s Medicare Breach
This week on News Weakly: three years…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Australia’s New Student Visa Rules, Nyadol Nyuon & Macklemore’s Palestine Controversy
Season 1 Episode 230
This week on News Weakly: Tony Burke tells international students to leave the family at home, while British backpackers discover the migration syste…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Blast Radius: How 9/11 Remade Pakistan
Season 1 Episode 229
Twenty-five years after 9/11, everyone knows where Ground Zero was. But where did the blast radius end?
This special edition of News Weakly follows on…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Getting Shot: Antisemitism and the Loyalty Test
Season 1 Episode 228
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah revisits a 2022 argument about the Sydney Festival boycott after The Shot brands him a “liberal Zionist coward” f…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The End of the World with Flared Pants
Season 1 Episode 227
Everyone agrees the world is ending. The only disagreement is which catastrophe gets top billing.
Starting with Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “crisis of confide…
2 months ago
What Is The Sentence?
Season 1 Episode 226
NEWS WEAKLY 226 – What Is The Sentence?
Last week, News Weakly opened with Jason Arday. This week, after his sudden death, Sami Shah asks a harder que…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Story Machine: AI, Fabulism & What We’re Really Buying
Season 1 Episode 225
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah goes long on artificial intelligence, authenticity and the increasingly difficult question: how was this thing ac…
2 months, 3 weeks ago