Trevor Warner
@trevor1953.bsky.social
Asquithian Liberal, Wykehamist, Balliolian, Classicist and European.
A Francophile, Germanophile, Austrophile and a Sinophile.
Archaeology, Art, Books, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science.
A Francophile, Germanophile, Austrophile and a Sinophile.
Archaeology, Art, Books, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science.
Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence
This first paper in a three-part Lancet Series combines narrative and systematic reviews
with original analyses and meta-analyses to assess three hypotheses concerning a dietary
pattern based on ultra...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
What France owes to Niger
'For Amadou and his students this wasn’t ancient history: it was the origin of people’s contemporary poverty and sense of domination by a distant power.'
#colonialism
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'For Amadou and his students this wasn’t ancient history: it was the origin of people’s contemporary poverty and sense of domination by a distant power.'
#colonialism
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Rob Lemkin | What France owes to Niger
About ten years ago I visited Dioundiou, a village in Niger two hundred kilometres south-east of the capital Niamey, and...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
What France owes to Niger
'For Amadou and his students this wasn’t ancient history: it was the origin of people’s contemporary poverty and sense of domination by a distant power.'
#colonialism
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
'For Amadou and his students this wasn’t ancient history: it was the origin of people’s contemporary poverty and sense of domination by a distant power.'
#colonialism
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
No Illusions
Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.
#books #history
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Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.
#books #history
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John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
No Illusions
Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ireland's Great Famine came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.
#books #history
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#books #history
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Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine
Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Ireland's Great Famine came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Habsburg Legacies
Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 by Iryna Vushko.
#books #history
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Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 by Iryna Vushko.
#books #history
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Holly Case · Thin Pink Glaze: Habsburg Legacies
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Habsburg Legacies
Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 by Iryna Vushko.
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 by Iryna Vushko.
#books #history
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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As Reform councillors back
the formation of vigilante groups
to protect women and girls ...
the formation of vigilante groups
to protect women and girls ...
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
As Reform councillors back
the formation of vigilante groups
to protect women and girls ...
the formation of vigilante groups
to protect women and girls ...
Should the Bank of England be independent?
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Film: Andrew Haldane, Daniela Gabor and James Butler · Should the Bank of England be independent?
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November 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Should the Bank of England be independent?
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Norman Ebbutt, Berlin correspondent for the Times, interviewed Hitler on 14 October 1930, soon after the Nazis had their first big breakthrough in the Reichstag elections.
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Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler
In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Norman Ebbutt, Berlin correspondent for the Times, interviewed Hitler on 14 October 1930, soon after the Nazis had their first big breakthrough in the Reichstag elections.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
When Erasmus called him ‘a man for all seasons’, he was commending More for his universal appeal. After nearly five centuries of disagreement, however, the phrase might be better used as a commentary on the way every age has reinvented More for its own purposes.
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Lucy Wooding · Damnable Rottenness: More and More
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When Erasmus called him ‘a man for all seasons’, he was commending More for his universal appeal. After nearly five centuries of disagreement, however, the phrase might be better used as a commentary on the way every age has reinvented More for its own purposes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.
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David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The crisis in the news
While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain's children go hungry, families can't afford homes, and carers are exhausted. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain's children go hungry, families can't afford homes, and carers are exhausted. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
The crisis in the news
The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes
Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud — but the real news is missing.
While the media fixates on Trump, Farag...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The crisis in the news
While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain's children go hungry, families can't afford homes, and carers are exhausted. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain's children go hungry, families can't afford homes, and carers are exhausted. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Take a Cold Bath
Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
#books #history #religion
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Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
#books #history #religion
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Lucy Wooding · Take a Cold Bath: Chastity or Fornication?
Christ himself made barely any pronouncements condemning sexuality. This has not stood in the way of Church authorities...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Take a Cold Bath
Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
#books #history #religion
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Few things expose the potential for illogicality, hypocrisy and cruelty within the Christian tradition more clearly than its attitude to sex.
#books #history #religion
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Damnable Rottenness
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded popular assent.
#books #biography
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Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded popular assent.
#books #biography
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lucy Wooding · Damnable Rottenness: More and More
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Damnable Rottenness
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded popular assent.
#books #biography
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded popular assent.
#books #biography
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Happy November. In the Labours of the Months it is often time to fatten up the pigs. The swineherd takes them out into the woods and knocks down acorns for them to eat. (Image Trin MS B.11.31 f11r)
November 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Happy November. In the Labours of the Months it is often time to fatten up the pigs. The swineherd takes them out into the woods and knocks down acorns for them to eat. (Image Trin MS B.11.31 f11r)
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It's finally here 🥳 UK publication day for my book, "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother", the first narrative biography of Elizabeth Boleyn. I hope my book leads to her finally being included in the Boleyn family's story. Buy it now from all good bookshops in the UK!
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's finally here 🥳 UK publication day for my book, "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother", the first narrative biography of Elizabeth Boleyn. I hope my book leads to her finally being included in the Boleyn family's story. Buy it now from all good bookshops in the UK!
What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
#GazaHolocaust
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
#GazaHolocaust
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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
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October 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
#GazaHolocaust
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
#GazaHolocaust
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
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Labour Minister's
copying Trump
with blatant lies ...
meme via Occupy London
copying Trump
with blatant lies ...
meme via Occupy London
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Labour Minister's
copying Trump
with blatant lies ...
meme via Occupy London
copying Trump
with blatant lies ...
meme via Occupy London
In Her Green Necklace
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt
by Euphrosyne Doxiadis.
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The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt
by Euphrosyne Doxiadis.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Elisabeth R. O’Connell · In Her Green Necklace: Mummy Portraits
The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of Antony...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In Her Green Necklace
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt
by Euphrosyne Doxiadis.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt
by Euphrosyne Doxiadis.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Fall' by Albert Camus www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Jonathan Rée and James Wood · Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Fall' by Albert Camus
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October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Fall' by Albert Camus www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
New Deal at Dunkirk
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft · New Deal at Dunkirk: Wartime Tories
Even if they had been appeasers, most Conservatives accepted the patriotic necessity of the war, but had many different...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New Deal at Dunkirk
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Unconditional Looking
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David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons
Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Unconditional Looking
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oh wow what's that, you're wondering who here may have read Sátántangó from beginning to end, and assuming that person must be so clever and, dare I say, good looking
well my friends you're in luck, Marie Le Conte here,
well my friends you're in luck, Marie Le Conte here,
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
oh wow what's that, you're wondering who here may have read Sátántangó from beginning to end, and assuming that person must be so clever and, dare I say, good looking
well my friends you're in luck, Marie Le Conte here,
well my friends you're in luck, Marie Le Conte here,