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Congratulations & best of luck to @willdalrymple.bsky.social. fingers and toes crossed. I have the hardcover and the Audible (with Dalrymple as narrator, who could resist?).
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The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize
To be shortlisted for the annual British Academy Book Prize, books have to be both rigorously researched and highly readable. Historian Rebecca Earle, chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us through...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Congratulations & best of luck to @willdalrymple.bsky.social. fingers and toes crossed. I have the hardcover and the Audible (with Dalrymple as narrator, who could resist?).
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fivebooks.com/best-books/2...
Hey, why is all access to the live stream only international @cnn.com ? I want the CNN US stream, not two international streaming channels.
January 13, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Hey, why is all access to the live stream only international @cnn.com ? I want the CNN US stream, not two international streaming channels.
A brilliant new series, and now with video! Huzzah!
How did India’s Greatest Rebellion begin? Why did the dynamic between British and Indian soldiers start to change in the 1850s? How did the British react when the mutiny broke out?
@anitaanand.bsky.social & I launch a brand new series on the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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@anitaanand.bsky.social & I launch a brand new series on the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
A brilliant new series, and now with video! Huzzah!
@charliesavage.bsky.social Just read your excellent piece on the legal issues involved with Venezuela. I wonder what the experts think about the Charter of the Organization of American States. Particularly articles 19, 20, 21.
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
@charliesavage.bsky.social Just read your excellent piece on the legal issues involved with Venezuela. I wonder what the experts think about the Charter of the Organization of American States. Particularly articles 19, 20, 21.
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Join the Club to listen to this bonus episode as William and Anita are joined by Murray Pittock, author of Scotland: The Global History, to discuss the life of the novelist, politician and historian, John Buchan.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Join the Club to listen to this bonus episode as William and Anita are joined by Murray Pittock, author of Scotland: The Global History, to discuss the life of the novelist, politician and historian, John Buchan.
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You all really need to subscribe to @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social. The John Buchan bonus episode with Murray Pittock was great craic, as he & william went full clanjamfrie. Brilliant stuff. Buchan in the shopping cart.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You all really need to subscribe to @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social & @willdalrymple.bsky.social. The John Buchan bonus episode with Murray Pittock was great craic, as he & william went full clanjamfrie. Brilliant stuff. Buchan in the shopping cart.
I finished this miniseries and this morning, one of the perks of being a club member is you get to binge, and it's a typically brilliant mini. The final episode with Anna Funder is a revelation, and not always a pleasant one. Orwell in all his complexity.
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist in Burma & India
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302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist in India & Burma (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 28/10/2025 · 40m
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November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I finished this miniseries and this morning, one of the perks of being a club member is you get to binge, and it's a typically brilliant mini. The final episode with Anna Funder is a revelation, and not always a pleasant one. Orwell in all his complexity.
And so it is: ethnic cleansing is now officially US foreign policy in Gaza. www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...
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Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, ...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
And so it is: ethnic cleansing is now officially US foreign policy in Gaza. www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...
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President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting to "just clean out" the war-torn area.
Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to 'just clean out' Gaza
President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting to "just clean out" the war-torn area.
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January 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Donald Trump Just Cut All Foreign Aid to Ukraine and Most of the World newrepublic.com/post/190690/... via @newrepublic.com
Donald Trump Just Cut All Foreign Aid to Ukraine and Most of the World
Only Israel and Egypt received waivers.
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January 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Looks as if the second Trump presidency will begin the way the first Trump presidency ended: incompetent acrimonious chaos.
December 19, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Looks as if the second Trump presidency will begin the way the first Trump presidency ended: incompetent acrimonious chaos.
It's the brazen stupidity & ignorance that astounds me.
Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.
December 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM
It's the brazen stupidity & ignorance that astounds me.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. @dseuss.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did. (Gift Article)
“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.
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December 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. @dseuss.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is the book to read, folks.
I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
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Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...
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December 13, 2024 at 9:43 PM
This is the book to read, folks.
With all the guns in this country, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more frequently.
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After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry (Gift Article)
The shooting death of a UnitedHealthcare executive in Manhattan has unleashed Americans’ frustrations with an industry that often denies coverage and reimbursement for medical claims.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM
With all the guns in this country, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more frequently.
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This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/o...
Opinion | This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time (Gift Article)
Wolfgang Streeck has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong with globalization.
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November 29, 2024 at 2:48 PM
This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/o...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Absolutely wonderful miniseries from @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social on Babur. The @empirepoduk.bsky.social is unrivaled.
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Absolutely wonderful miniseries from @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social on Babur. The @empirepoduk.bsky.social is unrivaled.
This and @willdalrymple.bsky.social's The Golden Road are my must-buy books of 2025. Very excited to get both.
November 18, 2024 at 1:34 PM
This and @willdalrymple.bsky.social's The Golden Road are my must-buy books of 2025. Very excited to get both.
So this is bluesky...not all the folk I followed & who graciously followed me back are here, but @willdalrymple.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social & @joriegraham.bsky.social are, so that's good enough for me -- though Simon Sebag Montefiore's absence stings.
November 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
So this is bluesky...not all the folk I followed & who graciously followed me back are here, but @willdalrymple.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social & @joriegraham.bsky.social are, so that's good enough for me -- though Simon Sebag Montefiore's absence stings.
Julia Baird Victoria the Queen, a brilliant read, quite the revelation, especially Albert.
"Albert was a man surrounded by luxury and comfort, but he denied himself rest and allowed workaholism to undermine his health. Had he not, the century might have been better known as the Albertine age."
"Albert was a man surrounded by luxury and comfort, but he denied himself rest and allowed workaholism to undermine his health. Had he not, the century might have been better known as the Albertine age."
November 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Julia Baird Victoria the Queen, a brilliant read, quite the revelation, especially Albert.
"Albert was a man surrounded by luxury and comfort, but he denied himself rest and allowed workaholism to undermine his health. Had he not, the century might have been better known as the Albertine age."
"Albert was a man surrounded by luxury and comfort, but he denied himself rest and allowed workaholism to undermine his health. Had he not, the century might have been better known as the Albertine age."