The company that Swedes trust the most is the government alcohol monopoly. IKEA is a distant second.

The case for bundling substacks www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-f...

My piece about visiting Ukraine this month www.edwest.co.uk/p/ukraine-di... A long read. as long as one of Putin's monologues about Russian history

The story of Bess of Hardwick, who skilfully navigated the treacherous court and family politics of Tudor England: a fascinating tale, told by @edjameswest.bsky.social

Today's post: Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome? www.edwest.co.uk/p/do-i-have-... (FREE)

Love this from @edjameswest.bsky.social: 'How we'd talk if England had won in 1066': "In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. Alcoholics Anonymous would be renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers" www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...

Today's post, on our most underrate leader (free to read) www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-first-...

Monday = London Review of Substacks in @semafor.com's daily global briefing Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

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...

For those enjoying the Rest is History series on the Franks and the Battle of Tours, my post on the Germanic tribe who remade Europe is now free www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-day-th...

The Ruffian has LANDED. This week: when opinions are just feelings about a story www.ian-leslie.com/p/maybe-your...

The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles. Me, in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Today's post, on the case for returning the Marbles www.edwest.co.uk/p/soothing-t...

The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster

Times are changing and my new novel published next month will be the first of my books to contain this text on the copyright page.

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...

Dr Lawrence Newport is Britain’s most effective campaigner. After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

Enjoyed this take (from the right) on Bluesky and twitter.

I'm almost never an early adopter but I remember listening to the very first episode of TRiH during the misery of Lockdown II and thinking this is going to be very popular bsky.app/profile/eate...

Bluesky is the New England of social media, says @edjameswest.bsky.social www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...

Hierarchies must always exist, and Elon’s populist revolution has just replaced one aristocracy with a new - worse - one, the noblesse de robe giving way to the noblesse de slop. Today's post www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...

I currently have my first ever photo exhibition running and I think this may be the best photo I've ever taken... Santa Maria della Salute from the Accademia bridge in Venice, in that soft post-sunset glow. I had no idea when I took it that this would be one of my most popular images ever.

Obv the main reason for people moving to this app is political. But I hope it will also be a signal to X that the market will punish suppression of external links and algo-slop. Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.

Today's newsletter is up www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-great-...

The 25/25/25 point edges slowly closer. cc @jdriver89.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/luke...

reminder of the time john prescott was given a state banquet on a trip to Beijing and then told them it wasn’t as good as Mr Chu’s in Hull (source: hull daily mail)

Some great accounts. In fact I'm only going to follow people on this list bsky.app/profile/seba...

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

Urbanists often look to places like zoning-free Houston, the private places of St Louis, and privately-developed exurban communities like Irvine. There we see rules about land use emerge between residents and via developers. I wrote about another example. theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl... 🧵

Today's post, on Perfidious Albion www.edwest.co.uk/p/progressiv...

Today's post: Who speaks of the Armenians? www.edwest.co.uk/p/who-speaks...

Follow me here for a more centre-left friendly version of my Twitter takes, the AJ+ to my Twitter account's Al Jazeera Arabic. My substack - sadly suppressed by King Elon - can be found at www.edwest.co.uk

I've created a starter pack of housing accounts worth following: go.bsky.app/CiCBZee

We've revamped our page on the COVID-19 pandemic at Our World in Data! Today, we published 2 new articles (below), updated our page & added new charts. • 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic • How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19 Check it out:

A language of beautiful impurity. My recent post about the nuances of English www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...

The dogs of Armenia