Today's post, on cousin marriage www.edwest.co.uk/p/keeping-it...

Today's post: The case for a Global Sanctuary City www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-f...

Fascinating post on Germany's love of Shakespeare. www.katjahoyer.uk/p/shakespear...

Still no subscribers in North Korea, two of the Stans, Syria, Yemen and most of Francophone Africa. Morocco the only non-western country with a large per-capita number (no idea why - never visited and never written about it) bsky.app/profile/samf...

being retweeted by a 300k follower Times journalist

reading an account of the Armenian genocide and a number of Arab officers refused orders and went to the British with accounts of the horrors. This was the account of Lieutenant Said Ahmed

Good piece by James Marriott on why echo chambers are good and probably for the best www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The dogs of Armenia