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An investigative journalist heads to Moscow to hear from the “merchant of death” himself. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/v...

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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'The Spanish now eat 5.9 pounds of anchovies each annually, but not until the “hunger years” after their Civil War did anchovies move inland to wash up on the counters of tapas bars.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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'A chilling account of occupied southeastern Ukraine reveals a systematic program of Russification combined with chaos, brutality and corruption.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/silent-terror/

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What made Soumitra Chatterjee Bengal’s much-loved actor? Rachel Dwyer ✍️ www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...

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July 1940. Lithuania’s Deputy Prime Minister was summoned by a raging Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, told him that he should “take a good look at reality and understand that in the future, small nations will have to disappear”. www.ft.com/content/5628...

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New data reveals a record 4.5m UK children in poverty & Labour’s spring statement cuts will exacerbate this. Read Seven Children: Inequality & Britain’s Next Generation by @dannydorling.bsky.social. ‘Haunting.’ @observeruk.bsky.social 25% off DORLING25 tinyurl.com/5n7vyncd tinyurl.com/cvz74z47

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Academics thinking of travelling to the US for a conference ... Well, at least one such person has been refused admission at the border because the US border guards searched their phone and laptop and found negative opinions about the Trump administration's policy towards the research community.

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Stand firm. news.sky.com/story/amp/jo...

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I wouldn't be surprised if it gets blacklisted in US institutions though - I annoyingly include mentions of women, colonialism, the US civil rights movement, and Marcuse in the book...

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Michael Chaplin is the author of 'Newcastle United Stole My Heart: Sixty Years in Black and White' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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www.thetimes.com/culture/book... Wonderful review by Nick Lloyd in the Sunday Times for @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social new book, TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN, from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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So proud to know them, and to tell the story of these Western volunteers fighting for Ukraine (and the rest of us).

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Prisoner swaps are controversial, but there are sure to be more economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist

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So grateful for the stewardship of @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @michaeldwyer.bsky.social as Zero Sum gains recognition from reviews in publications like the @financialtimes.com and the @nytimes.com ⬇️

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‘Waste Land’ An Order in Decline — reviewed by John Bolton

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Why Putin Can’t Wait to Have McDonald’s Back in Moscow www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/b...

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New From @EmpirePodUK Our series on the English colonisation of Ireland continues- THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE- THE CLASH OF TWO KINGS podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/b...

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‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says

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Deeply honoured & hugely delighted for this kind & thoughtful review of India’s Near East in @foreignaffairs.com by the amazing Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Thank you! 🙏🏾 @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/indi...

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Tertitskiy’s comprehensive biography Accidental Tyrant also helps us to understand how Kim gained power, how he kept it for himself and his descendants, and above all how other leaders — starting with Stalin and Mao — helped him to do so.' www.ft.com/content/2886...

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Tertitskiy’s comprehensive biography Accidental Tyrant also helps us to understand how Kim gained power, how he kept it for himself and his descendants, and above all how other leaders — starting with Stalin and Mao — helped him to do so.' www.ft.com/content/2886...

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Sobering, necessary reading.

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Exceptionally grim @financialtimes.com essay by Keir Giles of @chathamhouse.bsky.social: archive.ph/287LE

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After a decade of research trips, a year of writing & 82,812 words, the first draft of Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America has just been submitted to my editor at @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Thanks to @michaeldwyer.bsky.social for helping to make it happen.

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How North Korea became hell on earth. 'Tertitskiy has marshalled an impressive array of sources in multiple languages to piece together this brisk, credible and highly readable account.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #Korea #DPRK www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

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'#NATO leaders aren’t ready for a post-U.S. world... The public deserves to know the truth about #Russia’s threat, however uncomfortable it may be.' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/10/e...

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In a debate in the House of Lords a couple of months ago, History Reclaimed stalwart Robert Tombs told me that the Church of England had not practised slavery, despite the SPG owning the Codrington plantations, buying captives & branding them with ‘Society’. I’d recommend he read this:

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The latest offering from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, reviewed in the Sunday Times by Jason Cowley, the former editor of the New Statesman. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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👇 @willdalrymple.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social

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In a just world, Payal Kapadia's ferociously beautiful 'All We Imagine As Light' would win an Oscar.

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Evening all. I'm drinking a wintry G&T tonight, damson soda for vibrancy in these dark days. Supper is mostly warm cheese. How's your cold winter treating you? #ConfinedCocktails

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