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-...

Spot on.

Per @financialtimes.com editorial board: Allies say [#Pakistan's] Field Marshal Asim Munir models himself on Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, as a tough reformer. A more likely and grim analogy for the future is Egypt’s suffocating military regime.

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism #local #dulwich thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/dulwich-li...

Rather than lining their pockets by arming #India and #Pakistan to the teeth, the #US, #China and other world powers must encourage the two neighbours to seek a negotiated resolution to their disputes. www.ft.com/content/8624...

Tina Brown to @lulugn.bsky.social of @nytimes.com: "I’m always being asked by young people, How do I get into #journalism? Often I say you should go to #India, because India, in fact, has a very vibrant literary culture." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/m...

Tina Brown's descriptions never disappoint. Zuckerberg “Meta’s slippery salamander”; Prince Harry “ginger whinger”; Lauren Sanchez has “proved that landing the 4th-richest man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/m...

Superb piece @henriastier.bsky.social: The English word “integration” does not capture this supremely Gallic concept: regardless of race or creed, incomers can aspire to the blessings of Frenchness if they embrace the country’s way of life open.substack.com/pub/henriast...

#thisweekthosebooks explores third culture food and features Padma Lakshmi, Zaynab Issa and Jon Kung thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/more-ameri...

A delicious defence of immigration. #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com . Our 1st book, published just days ago, says apple pie is not American at all. TV host Padma Lakshmi writes that it “contains not one single ingredient indigenous to North America!” medium.com/@thisweektho...

#journalism in the age of #AI? @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social discusses @reutersinstitute.bsky.social's Jim Egan, @thetimes.com's Alex Farber, @londoncentric.media's Jim Waterson. Details👇🏽 We’ll have a livestream too but always better in person: www.youtube.com/live/ACW4YZA...

With friends like [email protected]'s ed @sanglesey.bsky.social: British "'patriot" Nigel Farage has wailed to all and sundry that the BBC has 'deeply offended the leader of the free world', a man without whose support Britain would be 'helpless'."

I have heard (but not believ’d) the spirits of the dead May walk again: if such thing be, #Epstein Appeared to prince and president o’er and o’er; for ne’er was dream So like a waking. www.rashmee.com/imagine-shak...

Brilliant #US politics sketch in @theguardian.com : White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who says a prayer before each briefing, was dispatched to defy the laws of moral physics by explaining the true wrongdoers were Biden & the Democrats. #epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Per @opendemocracy.net ahead of #Chile’s pivotal election: Political scientist Juan Pablo Luna once said Chile's political system was a ‘hydroponic lettuce’: “From above, you see...it in Congress & on TV...but...there are no roots – it's floating in water” www.opendemocracy.net/en/chile-gen...

Excellent @vermontgmg.bsky.social piece on Kash Patel's (not so) brilliant tenure at the #FBI www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/kash-patel...

Had the Bard been alive, he would’ve probably had something to say about the ghost of #Epstein haunting US and UK public life. In fact, he may already have. Here are subtly revised versions from various plays. Some have been left untouched! www.rashmee.com/imagine-shak...

Imagine #Shakespeare’s treatment of the ghost of Jeffrey #Epstein www.rashmee.com/imagine-shak...

🎶 @jeremycaplan.bsky.social provides some incredible tools via @Chris Dalla Riva: Who knew that Radiooooo, a free site, “allows you to listen to music not just from around the world, but across time, as curated by humans”. Say, 1980s Nicaragua! 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/wonderto...

Important developments in #Greenwich, via @greenwichwire.bsky.social

1/3 Pat Younge and the British Broadcasting Challenge's commonsense suggestions for the other #BBC, the public service broadcaster, are urgent and necessary:

Excellent pod discussion, mostly because it's sane and both @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com know of what they speak! #bbc #trump

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report. It's certainly pots, not quite kettles, as James Ball's excellent piece points out www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

A quick post that join the dots on the big news story and the world of books. Makes you smarter, faster. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Can the climate change...from talk to action? open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

@edwardluce.bsky.social on the strange reality of the #Epstein issue: Scores of Americans sustained Epstein's world but the 3 people who suffered consequences for their association with him are British – Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew M-W, Peter Mandelson www.ft.com/content/0fd7... @financialtimes.com

Per @economist.com: American food star Alison Roman’s 4th #cookbook, Something from Nothing, is out this week. She extols the virtues of not spending too much time cooking as well as a 'high-low' style – grocery-store radishes with “very yellow, very expensive butter”; crisps paired with caviar!

Not much #COP30 news unless you go searching...for eg., a #US politician making waves in Brazil...California’s Gavin Newsom, who said he came "because 1/2

Thanks for your great work. Mind-blowing what we just managed to avoid

Thanks for the link!

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social on the references in his diary to the late Dick Cheney: “If he was a Brit,” I noted of our first meeting in Washington, “you’d say total Tory.” via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...

@roads.org.uk 's amazing work on the Ringways, #London’s unbuilt urban motorway network (whew, just managed to dodge that one) www.roads.org.uk/blog/ringway...

Spot on @jerusalem.bsky.social: If the #Trump administration were truly concerned about deporting criminals it would be increasing, not decreasing the number of #immigration judges…What we’re seeing isn’t enforcement so much as performance open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

British Muslim Journalist to Be Freed From ICE Detention...Finally...all he seems to have been doing was #journalism while being #Muslim. zeteo.com/p/british-mu...

Chuffed to have raved about David Szalay's Flesh, six weeks before it won the #Booker Prize www.rashmee.com/im-on-book-f...

If #Trump wants to beggar the #BBC, @semafor.com 's @maxtani.bsky.social has a thoughtful take on the issue www.rashmee.com/if-trump-wan...

Per @semaforben.bsky.social in the brilliant @semafor.com : Giridharadas’ note is a rare public statement of something obvious: Public figures and institutions with something to lose are biting their tongues rather than criticizing the president #Trump www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

Can the #climate change…from talk to action? via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...

Fascinating @vittles.bsky.social on the murder by Beef Wellington in Oz: “We don’t know whether Patterson is a fan of MasterChef, but all murders reflect culture back to itself." www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/death-by-d...

As #COP30, the UN’s annual climate conference, opens in #Brazil, our shelves are increasingly loaded with cli-fi and cli-fact books. The only problem: fiction and fact seem to be skewing ever closer. via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...

As #COP30 begins, worth thinking about this. #thisweekthosebooks #climate thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Spot on @arusbridger.bsky.social: I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to 3 key people who rejected journalism... Who would you trust more to be impartial on the Middle East—Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott or Lyse Doucet? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

#thisweekthosebooks #COP30 via @medium.com : A scholar laments the screaming headlines about #climate. A storyteller imagines the worst…except that it’s not quite. medium.com/this-week-th...

As #COP30 gets underway...#climate #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

As #COP30 gets underway two brand new books speak truth to doomism #climate #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Fascinating @internationalintrigue.io index of #diplomat salaries: #Indonesia is the G20 country that pays the worst; #Mexico's haven't had a pay-rise since 1998...https://archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/special-edition-diplomat-salary-report-2025

Per @devex.com : The Global Peace Index reported there are now 59 active state-based #conflicts across the world.

@financialtimes.com 's @jemima.bsky.social identifies a vibe shift based on #Mamdani's victory and Martha Stewart's reissued cookbook www.ft.com/content/a95c...

Annie Jacobsen’s non-fiction account of what would actually happen in the #US after a #nuclear strike is frightening (for all that #Trump was so casual about his promise to resume testing). #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/nuclear-wa...