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Seems as good a time as any to mention I've got a VERY short primer on China in the Xi era coming out in 2026 brixtonink.co.uk/books/everyt... Via @brixtonink.bsky.social who really have a way w/covers! (Also loved the one for the 2025 edition of my book Vigil brixtonink.co.uk/books/vigil/ )
Everything you wanted to know about China* -
In this accessible and politically astute primer, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom tackles the questions many are afraid to ask about China.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
'Elon Musk might be prone to hyperbole, but he is not exaggerating the stakes. Decisions about artificial intelligence and human activity in space are already determining the present and will decide the future.'

DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-star-rising/
August 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A love letter to Saigon’s past and present, Connla Stokes' FALLING FOR SAIGON invites you to get lost in its streets, taste its flavours, and—just maybe—fall for it, too.

Find out more at brixtonink.co.uk/books/fallin...
August 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚨 Tesla scraps its in-house Dojo AI chip team to focus on inference-focused AI5 & AI6 chips via Samsung & TSMC.
Musk’s move shows ruthless efficiency, but at what cost?

Dive into Musk's world in DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke. Pre-order now at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-star-rising/
Tesla to streamline its AI chip design work, Musk says
Tesla will streamline its AI chip research to focus on its development of inference chips used to run AI models and make real-time decisions, CEO Elon Musk said, after a media report he had ordered the closure of the in-house Dojo supercomputer team.
www.reuters.com
August 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'With the United States turning inward – a process that predates Trump – China has now an opportunity to fill a vacuum, creating with others a multipolar world’.

Read Lanxin Xiang's review of M. Burrows and J. Braml's World to Come.

More on the book: brixtonink.co.uk/books/world-...
Asia-Pacific
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the WorldKevin Rudd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. £26.99. 624 pp.Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate o...
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August 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
From post-war boom to David-versus-Goliath protests - Jeffrey Wasserstrom's VIRGIL tells Hong Kong’s heroic struggle for autonomy. A riveting and essential read by China specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

Find out more: brixtonink.co.uk/books/vigil/
August 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING is now available for pre-order in the UK. 🔥

🔖 Grab your copy today at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...
July 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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👇 @chinaheritage.bsky.social @chowleen.bsky.social --includes evocative lines about the 2025 edition's Foreword by Hawkins ("The effect is chilling not because it is unprecedented, but because it has become routine") & Afterword by Cheng ("One can almost feel the city’s breath growing shallower")
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖—Wayne Wong on Jeffrey Wasserstrom's 𝑉𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑙: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔, (Brixton Ink, 2025): "What began as a modest act of documentation now reads as diasporic memory work[.]"
⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: chajournal.blog/2025/08/06/w...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🔥 Musk’s “5 things” email demanding weekly work reports rattled federal agencies. Now, Trump allies at the FBI, State, and Defence push back. A power struggle like no other.

ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke, available for pre-order in the UK at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-star-rising/
Exclusive: Trump administration formally axes Elon Musk's 'five things' email
The Trump administration on Tuesday formally axed a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week, as first reported by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Elon Musk doesn’t follow the script — he rewrites it mid-sentence. From flying to Mars to midnight tweets, his impulsiveness isn’t a bug. It’s the brand.

ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke, available for pre-order in the UK at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-star-rising/
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Once hailed as a "real-life Iron Man," Elon Musk has been shunned by both the left and the right. Yet he’s far from out of the game.

Track the rise and fall of this modern Icarus in ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke.

Pre-order now at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s... (UK only).
July 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🚨 Elon Musk just secured a $29B Tesla payday — one of the largest in history.

Visionary? Power grab? Or something darker?

Unpack the myth and the man in ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke.
Pre-order in the UK now:
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Tesla approves share award worth $29 billion to CEO Elon Musk
Tesla has granted CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares worth about $29 billion, a move aimed at keeping the billionaire entrepreneur at the helm as he fights a court ruling that voided his original pay deal for being unfair to shareholders.
www.reuters.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🔥 Award-winning writer Richard Cooke's ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING is full of chaos, vision, and volatility of the world’s most polarising billionaire.

Out now in the UK & SE Asia, coming soon to AU, NZ & North America.

Grab your copy today at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...
August 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING

Award-winning author Richard Cooke unpacks Musk’s Mars obsession, anti-“woke” crusade, far-right ties, and his rise as a “Dark Maga” icon – before the inevitable fall.

OUT NOW in the UK and Southeast Asia.
Coming soon to Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
July 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
🚨 Elon Musk’s Boring Company is heading to Nashville to dig a new tunnel.
From rockets to underground roads — what’s his next move? 🚀🛣️

Delve deeper in ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke, available for pre-order in the UK at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-star-rising/
Nashville Is a ‘Tough Place to Tunnel.’ Musk Is Digging Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Elon Musk is nothing if not impulsive. When South Australia faced a power crisis, he promised, via a few tweets, to build a battery system in 100 days or it’d be free.

🔥 Preorder ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke at Waterstones.com and enjoy 25% off with the code SUMMER25 till 31 July.
July 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
⏳ Still time to save 25%!

Pre-order ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke now on Waterstones.com and get 25% off with code SUMMER25 at checkout.

Offer ends 31 July. Don’t miss out! 🔥
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Once hailed as a "real-life Iron Man," Elon Musk has been shunned by both the left and the right. Yet he’s far from out of the game.

Track the rise and fall of this modern Icarus in ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING by Richard Cooke.

Pre-order now at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s... (UK only).
July 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Elon Musk: Dark Star Rising is now available for pre-order in the UK.

Grab your copy today at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...

You can also pre-order at Waterstones.com and enjoy 25% off when applying the code SUMMER25.
Dark Star Rising -
How did the world’s richest man become the face of America’s reactionary revolution?
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July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Amid the 2008 Great Recession, Musk risked it all to save both Tesla and SpaceX—and it paid off.

Now, with more at stake in the game, will his next big gamble pay off too?

Preorder ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING at Waterstones.com and enjoy 25% off with the code SUMMER25 from 28-31 July.
Elon Musk says Tesla and Samsung have signed a $16.5 billion chip deal | CNN Business
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the U.S. automaker had signed a $16.5 billion deal to source chips from Samsung Electronics, a move expected to bolster the South Korean tech giant’s loss-making contract manu...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
In 2021, TIME hailed Elon Musk as the man who would “save our planet and get us a new one.”

In 2025, headlines called him “a threat to democracy.”

Now THAT's a turnaround!

Preorder ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING at Waterstones.com and enjoy 25% off with the code SUMMER25 from 28-31 July.
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
U.S. law bans Russia from using Starlink, but enforcement is tough. The front line shifts, devices get captured, and private users complicate things.

Is this why Musk shut it down?

Delve deeper in ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING, available for pre-order in the UK at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
www.reuters.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Enjoy 25% off RRP when ordering our latest title - ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING at Waterstones.com from 28 to 31 July.

🔥 Don't forget to apply the code SUMMER25 at checkout.
July 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Feb 2022, as Russia invaded, Ukraine’s VP asked Musk for help. He replied, “Starlink is now active. More terminals en route.”

Now, those satellites are shut down. Why did Musk pull the plug?

Go back to Day 1 in ELON MUSK: BLACK STAR RISING.
Pre-order now (UK only): brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
www.reuters.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In ELON MUSK: DARK STAR RISING, the billionaire is cast as a modern Icarus—daring, restless, always reaching for new heights. But after his fallout with Trump, has this Icarus finally flown too close to the harsh sun?

Pre-order now at brixtonink.co.uk/books/dark-s...
July 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM