Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall
@rashmee.bsky.social
Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. FRSA.
Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette
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Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette
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Why Donald #Trump cited a 203-year-old statement to justify the lightning invasion of #Venezuela and the abduction of its president. #thisweekthosebooks
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January 4, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Why Donald #Trump cited a 203-year-old statement to justify the lightning invasion of #Venezuela and the abduction of its president. #thisweekthosebooks
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The Monroe Doctrine has mostly been observed in the breach, as our first book explains, via a quote from 19th century Cuban national hero José Martí. #thisweekthosebooks in @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...
January 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
The Monroe Doctrine has mostly been observed in the breach, as our first book explains, via a quote from 19th century Cuban national hero José Martí. #thisweekthosebooks in @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...
Some say the focus on #Venezuela’s oil stems from an imperialist US worldview & the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. But #Trump’s display of power reverses the Doctrine’s basic principle – no further colonisation in the Americas #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/why-americ...
Why America's backyard is a frontline
The US was never meant to build an empire. An alternative history imagines it couldn't
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January 4, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Some say the focus on #Venezuela’s oil stems from an imperialist US worldview & the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. But #Trump’s display of power reverses the Doctrine’s basic principle – no further colonisation in the Americas #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/why-americ...
Why America's backyard is a frontline
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Why America's backyard is a frontline
The US was never meant to build an empire. An alternative history imagines it couldn't
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January 4, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Why America's backyard is a frontline
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Lovely @londonermag.bsky.social piece on shops that are veterans of the London's scene, for eg. an iconic umbrella store that opened in 1830. www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-londons-...
How London’s oldest establishments stay in business
From powder pigments to Chinese herbs
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January 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Lovely @londonermag.bsky.social piece on shops that are veterans of the London's scene, for eg. an iconic umbrella store that opened in 1830. www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-londons-...
Happy new year from #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Happy new year from #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
Very interesting @jamesomalley.co.uk : Not being presumptive but happy to count as part of your community :-) Happy new year open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
How I rebooted my social life
Some self-help for the New Year
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December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Very interesting @jamesomalley.co.uk : Not being presumptive but happy to count as part of your community :-) Happy new year open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
Very true @billemmott.bsky.social Emmott, what has been happening, has not been deglobalisation but rather deAmericanisation & the big question is if it can be extended to the rules, norms, institutions & alliances that America built & has now chosen to disown billemmott.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...
A year of destruction and speculation
Essay on 2025 published by Engelsberg Ideas today
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December 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Very true @billemmott.bsky.social Emmott, what has been happening, has not been deglobalisation but rather deAmericanisation & the big question is if it can be extended to the rules, norms, institutions & alliances that America built & has now chosen to disown billemmott.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...
Reposted by Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall
The Holy City was extracting money from tourists even when Mark Twain visited in 1867
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Exit Bethlehem via the gift shop
The Holy City was extracting money from tourists even when Mark Twain visited in 1867
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December 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Holy City was extracting money from tourists even when Mark Twain visited in 1867
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✏️ @rashmee.bsky.social
With the maker of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey pausing production for a year on account of retaliatory import taxes after Trump's so-called ‘Liberation Day’, this book is relevant #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With the maker of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey pausing production for a year on account of retaliatory import taxes after Trump's so-called ‘Liberation Day’, this book is relevant #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
Per @semaforben.bsky.social . Glad to have this reminder of why we should pay attention to Dave Weigel's observations from across the road in the #US. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
🟡 Semafor Americana: The best of Weigel | Semafor
In today’s edition: A retrospective as Dave takes some time off.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Per @semaforben.bsky.social . Glad to have this reminder of why we should pay attention to Dave Weigel's observations from across the road in the #US. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
Wanted to highlight the truths in this 2018 piece: Far-right parties in the West often portray #Islam as at war with Christianity. What gets lost in the white noise is a key fact: #Jesus is an important figure for Muslims, too. thearabweekly.com/christmas-st...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Wanted to highlight the truths in this 2018 piece: Far-right parties in the West often portray #Islam as at war with Christianity. What gets lost in the white noise is a key fact: #Jesus is an important figure for Muslims, too. thearabweekly.com/christmas-st...
Per @axios.com : High-level delegations from at least 9 countries descended on the same locale for parallel negotiations this weekend on Ukraine & Gaza. Not Geneva or Paris, but Trump envoy Steve Witkoff's sprawling country club outside Miami www.axios.com/2025/12/22/u...
Witkoff's Miami golf club becomes epicenter of global diplomacy
Delegations from at least nine countries have descended on south Florida.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Per @axios.com : High-level delegations from at least 9 countries descended on the same locale for parallel negotiations this weekend on Ukraine & Gaza. Not Geneva or Paris, but Trump envoy Steve Witkoff's sprawling country club outside Miami www.axios.com/2025/12/22/u...
It was baffling to see such self-deprecation. #Aachen has a storied history, a 9th century cathedral, a Christmas market, a connection to Anne Frank, an international newspaper museum, the world equestrian championships and the annual international Charlemagne prize www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It was baffling to see such self-deprecation. #Aachen has a storied history, a 9th century cathedral, a Christmas market, a connection to Anne Frank, an international newspaper museum, the world equestrian championships and the annual international Charlemagne prize www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
It was baffling to see such self-deprecation. #Aachen has a storied history, a 9th century cathedral, a Christmas market, a connection to Anne Frank, an international newspaper museum, the world equestrian championships and the annual international Charlemagne prize www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
Aachen: A city that was surprised we were here | Rashmee Roshan Lall
“Touring Europe?” “Here for the day?” Just two of the questions on the lips of Aacheners in December 2025. The guy in the sports goods store near the old market said so. So did Kai, who lived on Ponts...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It was baffling to see such self-deprecation. #Aachen has a storied history, a 9th century cathedral, a Christmas market, a connection to Anne Frank, an international newspaper museum, the world equestrian championships and the annual international Charlemagne prize www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
Aachen: A city that was surprised we were here www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
Aachen: A city that was surprised we were here | Rashmee Roshan Lall
“Touring Europe?” “Here for the day?” Just two of the questions on the lips of Aacheners in December 2025. The guy in the sports goods store near the old market said so. So did Kai, who lived on Ponts...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Aachen: A city that was surprised we were here www.rashmee.com/aachen-a-cit...
@tansyhoskins.org 's three shorts on the extraction cost of fashion are excellent. tansyhoskins.org/the-real-cos...
The real cost of fashion
Stolen land, water, fossil fuels and human time
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December 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
@tansyhoskins.org 's three shorts on the extraction cost of fashion are excellent. tansyhoskins.org/the-real-cos...
@billemmott.bsky.social is 100% right: For as long as Trump is president, the US clearly has no intention of combatting imperialism by its fellow great powers, unless its own national interests are threatened
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An important counter to the Putin-Trump narrative
English original of article on the EU's big loan to Ukraine published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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December 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@billemmott.bsky.social is 100% right: For as long as Trump is president, the US clearly has no intention of combatting imperialism by its fellow great powers, unless its own national interests are threatened
billemmott.substack.com/p/an-importa...
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Spot on @billemmott.bsky.social: From now on, #Europe must act as if the transatlantic alliance does not exist, because under #Trump-Vance it doesn’t. open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Trump’s hatred demonstrates Europe’s importance
From now on, we must act as if the transatlantic alliance does not exist, because under Trump-Vance it doesn’t. English original of column published in Italian today by La Stampa [with minor updates]
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December 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Spot on @billemmott.bsky.social: From now on, #Europe must act as if the transatlantic alliance does not exist, because under #Trump-Vance it doesn’t. open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Christie’s simple belief that human beings should practice what they preach finds an acerbic echo in Twain and may be the essence of Bethlehem’s story. via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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Exit Bethlehem via the gift shop
The Holy City was extracting money from tourists even when Mark Twain visited in 1867
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Christie’s simple belief that human beings should practice what they preach finds an acerbic echo in Twain and may be the essence of Bethlehem’s story. via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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In light of how one man is behaving, this book – from my baker’s dozen of fave reads of 2025 – is relevant. Paul Lynch imagines how authoritarianism can come to a democracy. He writes “the end of the world is always a local event” #thisweekthosebooks
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December 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In light of how one man is behaving, this book – from my baker’s dozen of fave reads of 2025 – is relevant. Paul Lynch imagines how authoritarianism can come to a democracy. He writes “the end of the world is always a local event” #thisweekthosebooks
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/bakers-doz...
In light of how at least one powerful man is behaving, this book, one of my baker’s dozen of favourite reads of 2025, is particularly relevant. Paul Lynch imagines how authoritarianism can come to a democracy and as he writes, “the end of the world is always a local event…” #thisweekthosebooks
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In light of how at least one powerful man is behaving, this book, one of my baker’s dozen of favourite reads of 2025, is particularly relevant. Paul Lynch imagines how authoritarianism can come to a democracy and as he writes, “the end of the world is always a local event…” #thisweekthosebooks