Alex von Tunzelmann
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
If you click on the post I embedded, it’s a reply to a post with a screenshot of JCO’s tweet in it. Or you could just look all over Bluesky tbh
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you click on the post I embedded, it’s a reply to a post with a screenshot of JCO’s tweet in it. Or you could just look all over Bluesky tbh
Not only that he’s daft, but that he’s a bit dense, inadequate and boring. Deep down, he knows these criticisms to be true, which is why they hurt so badly.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Not only that he’s daft, but that he’s a bit dense, inadequate and boring. Deep down, he knows these criticisms to be true, which is why they hurt so badly.
Yes, the fact he’s adored by an army of absolute losers just makes it even worse for him, and I think that’s beautiful
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Yes, the fact he’s adored by an army of absolute losers just makes it even worse for him, and I think that’s beautiful
I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”
And the third time because he has no idea when to stop and just spent eight hours asking Grok to come up with a killer diss
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And the third time because he has no idea when to stop and just spent eight hours asking Grok to come up with a killer diss
Yes, in the Shakespearean sense! He has a fatal flaw that prevents him from getting what he most desires. Though of course his tragedy is also our comedy
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yes, in the Shakespearean sense! He has a fatal flaw that prevents him from getting what he most desires. Though of course his tragedy is also our comedy
A tenth! If I had 100,000th of his wealth, I’d still have about $5 million, and you’d never have the slightest trouble from me again.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A tenth! If I had 100,000th of his wealth, I’d still have about $5 million, and you’d never have the slightest trouble from me again.
Oh how lovely! Very glad you enjoyed it, and sending you both all my best. I remember Max with great affection, too.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oh how lovely! Very glad you enjoyed it, and sending you both all my best. I remember Max with great affection, too.
Thinking about this a lot lately since reading The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather’s biography of Fritz Bauer. An extraordinary story about a man who understood this. www.penguin.co.uk/books/442190...
The Prosecutor
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‘Compulsively readable’ Financial Times
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'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands
'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian Junger
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November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thinking about this a lot lately since reading The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather’s biography of Fritz Bauer. An extraordinary story about a man who understood this. www.penguin.co.uk/books/442190...
If you want this stuff not to happen again, you need consequences. Significant ones. Justice must be done and must be seen to be done. Truth and reconciliation is important, and so it is the rule of law must be reimposed and respected.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you want this stuff not to happen again, you need consequences. Significant ones. Justice must be done and must be seen to be done. Truth and reconciliation is important, and so it is the rule of law must be reimposed and respected.
Eh, look, they went on for decades, variously shagging each other, hating each other, and basting themselves in cocaine. It wasn’t all going to be perfect
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Eh, look, they went on for decades, variously shagging each other, hating each other, and basting themselves in cocaine. It wasn’t all going to be perfect
Exactly. A natural process of evolution.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Exactly. A natural process of evolution.
He was also very much of the Fleetwood Mac generation himself. I’m not sure any of his songs were particularly considered in terms of their philosophical positions, tbh
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
He was also very much of the Fleetwood Mac generation himself. I’m not sure any of his songs were particularly considered in terms of their philosophical positions, tbh