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
Sign up: This Week, Those Books https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com
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"We’ve spent a lot of time fighting against the end of the world, but maybe not enough helping people make it to the end of the month": @davidbelliard.bsky.social, the Greens’ candidate for #Paris mayor after Zohran Mamdani's NYC campaign
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"We’ve spent a lot of time fighting against the end of the world, but maybe not enough helping people make it to the end of the month": @davidbelliard.bsky.social, the Greens’ candidate for #Paris mayor after Zohran Mamdani's NYC campaign
Arts reviewing: Pleasure or pain? Discuss. Join @theguardian.com 's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com 's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle, @thenerve.news's Lisa O Kelly and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social 's Terry Kirby. Details 👇🏽
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November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Arts reviewing: Pleasure or pain? Discuss. Join @theguardian.com 's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com 's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle, @thenerve.news's Lisa O Kelly and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social 's Terry Kirby. Details 👇🏽
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#thisweekthosebooks got a mention in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. We wrote about 4 books on international summits, a format that seems increasingly irrelevant in the age of #Trump, 75 years since Churchill suggested “summit” as a term for high-level diplomacy www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
Why is a summit called a summit?
As the G20 gathers in South Africa without the US, international deal-making faces another steep climb up the Everest of diplomacy
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#thisweekthosebooks got a mention in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. We wrote about 4 books on international summits, a format that seems increasingly irrelevant in the age of #Trump, 75 years since Churchill suggested “summit” as a term for high-level diplomacy www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
@billemmott.bsky.social is 100% right: By making a loan, the EU will finance Ukraine for the next two years and will demonstrate to Russia that it has resolve even if America does not… open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
The weakest US president in the past 100 years
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning, on Trump's capitulation to America's old enemy, Russia, and Europe's moment of destiny
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November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@billemmott.bsky.social is 100% right: By making a loan, the EU will finance Ukraine for the next two years and will demonstrate to Russia that it has resolve even if America does not… open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If Russia Wins while Trump pushes Ukraine down | Rashmee Roshan Lall
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. It’s a bad moment to have this slim volume (just 130 p...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
My @thenewworldmag.bsky.social piece as the #G20 gathers in South Africa without the #US. The Everest of diplomacy. How did this format of international talks get the badge of 'summit' and which four books tell us what we need to know www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
Why is a summit called a summit?
As the G20 gathers in South Africa without the US, international deal-making faces another steep climb up the Everest of diplomacy
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My @thenewworldmag.bsky.social piece as the #G20 gathers in South Africa without the #US. The Everest of diplomacy. How did this format of international talks get the badge of 'summit' and which four books tell us what we need to know www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Paramount owner’s growing influence: “We don’t think one man or one corporation named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the #news and decide who watches what and who says what.” #journalism #media
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
US Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Paramount owner’s growing influence: “We don’t think one man or one corporation named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the #news and decide who watches what and who says what.” #journalism #media
It’s a bad moment to have Carlo Masala's slim book in your hands. The professor asks what if there isn’t a happily ever after? What if #Russia wins? What if it takes victory in #Ukraine as an encouraging signal for greater ambitions in the Baltic states? www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If Russia Wins while Trump pushes Ukraine down | Rashmee Roshan Lall
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. It’s a bad moment to have this slim volume (just 130 p...
www.rashmee.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s a bad moment to have Carlo Masala's slim book in your hands. The professor asks what if there isn’t a happily ever after? What if #Russia wins? What if it takes victory in #Ukraine as an encouraging signal for greater ambitions in the Baltic states? www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
It’s a bad moment to have Carlo Masala's slim book in your hands. The professor asks what if there isn’t a happily ever after? What if #Russia wins? What if it takes victory in #Ukraine as an encouraging signal for greater ambitions of Baltic conquest? www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If Russia Wins while Trump pushes Ukraine down | Rashmee Roshan Lall
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. It’s a bad moment to have this slim volume (just 130 p...
www.rashmee.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s a bad moment to have Carlo Masala's slim book in your hands. The professor asks what if there isn’t a happily ever after? What if #Russia wins? What if it takes victory in #Ukraine as an encouraging signal for greater ambitions of Baltic conquest? www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If #Russia Wins while #Trump pushes #Ukraine down www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If Russia Wins while Trump pushes Ukraine down | Rashmee Roshan Lall
In an unfortunate coincidence, I’m reading German political science professor Carlo Masala’s bestselling alt-facts book If Russia Wins right now. It’s a bad moment to have this slim volume (just 130 p...
www.rashmee.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Scary to read Carlo Masala’s If #Russia Wins while #Trump pushes #Ukraine down www.rashmee.com/scary-to-rea...
If you wanted proof the illiberal, illegal world order is here, and with impunity, look no further than four developments #ukraine #nickiminaj #palestinian #lutnick www.rashmee.com/take-four-il...
Take four: The illiberal, illegal world order is here | Rashmee Roshan Lall
If you wanted proof the illiberal, illegal world order is here, and with impunity, look no further than four developments: The Trump administration’s 28-point ‘peace’ plan to end the war in Ukraine: N...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you wanted proof the illiberal, illegal world order is here, and with impunity, look no further than four developments #ukraine #nickiminaj #palestinian #lutnick www.rashmee.com/take-four-il...
Der Spiegel reports that Stuttgart 21 — the €11 billion scheme to build a massive railway hub beneath the eponymous German city — is being indefinitely postponed. 1/3
Why We Need Abundance
Francis Fukuyama is interviewed by Leonora Barclay, Head of Podcasts at Persuasion, about what’s stopping the United States from building infrastructure, how to encourage public participation without ...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Der Spiegel reports that Stuttgart 21 — the €11 billion scheme to build a massive railway hub beneath the eponymous German city — is being indefinitely postponed. 1/3
Via @medium.com @padmalakshmi.bsky.social explores what “#American food” looks like today, ranging across myriad communities — Afghan, Cambodian, Greek, Cuban, Chinese, Nigerian, Arab, Thai, Ukrainian & Gullah Geechee, enslaved Africans brought to the southeastern US. medium.com/this-week-th...
More American than apple pie
Three books on third culture food say it’s a delicious defence of immigration
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November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Via @medium.com @padmalakshmi.bsky.social explores what “#American food” looks like today, ranging across myriad communities — Afghan, Cambodian, Greek, Cuban, Chinese, Nigerian, Arab, Thai, Ukrainian & Gullah Geechee, enslaved Africans brought to the southeastern US. medium.com/this-week-th...
With #Samoa’s only daily newspaper, Samoa Observer, banned from attending press conferences with the country's prime minister, one has to wonder how much of this comes from the example being set by #Trump's America. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Samoa PM suspends country’s only daily newspaper from press briefings amid dispute over coverage
Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New Zealand
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November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
With #Samoa’s only daily newspaper, Samoa Observer, banned from attending press conferences with the country's prime minister, one has to wonder how much of this comes from the example being set by #Trump's America. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Arts reviewing has its pleasures & pains. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social brings together @theguardian.com's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle and Ursula Kenny, former books ed Observer New Review. Details 👇🏽
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Art of the review
Cultural criticism: Pleasures and pains of arts reviewing
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Arts reviewing has its pleasures & pains. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social brings together @theguardian.com's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle and Ursula Kenny, former books ed Observer New Review. Details 👇🏽
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Really moving short film by Substack on the inimitable, indefatigable Hanif Kureishi and how he writes with the help of his son Carlo. The affection between father and son is unmistakable…the patience they have for each other and their mutual respect open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...
A SHORT VIDEO DOCUMENTARY FOR SUBSTACK
My collaboration with Carlo
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November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Really moving short film by Substack on the inimitable, indefatigable Hanif Kureishi and how he writes with the help of his son Carlo. The affection between father and son is unmistakable…the patience they have for each other and their mutual respect open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...
Has #Trump cracked the kingship formula? Actor Jeff Bridges once said “unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man”. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince #MBS, appears to treat Trump like royalty. (pic of golden Oval Office when SA prez visited) www.rashmee.com/the-court-of...
The court of Donald Trump | Rashmee Roshan Lall
It took the visit of a real prince to show the court of Donald Trump in all its gilded glory. When Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House on November 1...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Has #Trump cracked the kingship formula? Actor Jeff Bridges once said “unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man”. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince #MBS, appears to treat Trump like royalty. (pic of golden Oval Office when SA prez visited) www.rashmee.com/the-court-of...
Per @semafor.com : #Ghana’s kente cloth has received geographical indication status, so only the one it produces (like French champagne & Mexican tequila) is recognized as authentic. Good, because #China-manufactured imitations have proliferated. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
🟡 Semafor Africa: No shortcuts | Semafor
In this edition: South African minister says Elon Musk’s Starlink will not get preferential treatment, green finance opportunity, and Google to pay media outlets.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Per @semafor.com : #Ghana’s kente cloth has received geographical indication status, so only the one it produces (like French champagne & Mexican tequila) is recognized as authentic. Good, because #China-manufactured imitations have proliferated. www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
Agree 100% with Alex Trembath in @theargument.bsky.social . In fact, a recent post on This Week,Those Books had two brand new books that speak truth to #climate doomism.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Agree 100% with Alex Trembath in @theargument.bsky.social . In fact, a recent post on This Week,Those Books had two brand new books that speak truth to #climate doomism.
open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
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@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student reports on how #Greenwich, #England plans to tackle the trash. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-...
Greenwich has a £5m plan for a fly-tipping problem equal to 50 double-decker buses
BA Journalism Year 1 student Ayesha Manzoor-Karimuddin reports
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November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student reports on how #Greenwich, #England plans to tackle the trash. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/greenwich-...
Gr8 discussion at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with Jim Egan of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, Alex Farber of @thetimes.com & Jim Waterson of @londoncentric.media on whether there's life in #journalism in the age of #AI. Link to livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA...
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Gr8 discussion at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with Jim Egan of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, Alex Farber of @thetimes.com & Jim Waterson of @londoncentric.media on whether there's life in #journalism in the age of #AI. Link to livestream: www.youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA...
What's the future of #journalism in the age of #AI? | Join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social , Tuesday Nov 18, from 5.30 pm. Details 👇🏽
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November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What's the future of #journalism in the age of #AI? | Join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social , Tuesday Nov 18, from 5.30 pm. Details 👇🏽
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Per @semafor.com: Lina Khan, who is on Zohran Mamdani's transition team will be "excavating and enforcing the law” to find ways to give NYC things like cheaper hot dogs www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things)
Zohran Mamdani’s new aide will focus on “excavating the law” to lower prices, borrowing from her legal playbook at the Federal Trade Commission.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Per @semafor.com: Lina Khan, who is on Zohran Mamdani's transition team will be "excavating and enforcing the law” to find ways to give NYC things like cheaper hot dogs www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
@katz.theracket.news : Trump keeps treating the Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty. theracket.news/p/operation-...
Operation Southern Spear(ed)
The world's largest aircraft carrier nears Venezuela and the administration lies about drug stats as the Nobel Peace Prize wannabe eyes another war.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@katz.theracket.news : Trump keeps treating the Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty. theracket.news/p/operation-...
Spot on.
This is very concerning. In future the BBC should submit any proposals for the Reith Lectures to Karoline Leavitt at the White House so that President Trump can sign off on them. Maye Pete Hegseth next year?
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Spot on.