AI imagines the scene of a #US-#Iran agreement brokered by #Pakistan, in the style of the 1815 Treaty of Vienna that ended a nearly 100-year cycle of conflict. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pakistan-i...

#Pakistan brokered #US-#Iran ceasefire and the longer-term halt to hostilities. What does that mean for Pakistan's relationship with the US? #thisweekthosebooks has crucial context from 3 reads. Pl take a look thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pakistan-i...

#Pakistan brokered #US-#Iran ceasefire and the longer-term halt to hostilities. What does that mean for Pakistan's relationship with the US? #thisweekthosebooks has crucial context from 3 reads. Pl take a look thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pakistan-i...

Excellent argument by @daliborrohac.bsky.social re. #Moldova’s EU accession hopes: “EU accession should not be an all-or-nothing prize handed over only at the very end of a decades-long marathon. The smarter approach is to frontload the benefits of membership...”

One of the most heartening things in @reutersinstitute.bsky.social 2026 report by Jim Egan: Audiences are still mostly in favour of impartial #news: almost half (45%) prefer news that does not take sides. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Shows why local #news outlets matter..,they’ve got their ear to the ground (literally!) @publicinterestnews.org.uk

It's very rare in politics for someone to outright come out and say they were wrong. This was one of the more remarkable conversations I've had while covering local politics.

Spot on @oliverbullough.bsky.social in @codastory.com: "if Musk’s wealth seemed to be making him happy it wouldn’t be so bad, but it appears only to make him angrier. I like to think that if I had a trillion dollars, I’d do something more constructive than stir up protests against ethnic minorities"

Support your local #news outlet...if you want to find out about your neighbourhood, community & how politics works...or doesn't. It's Indie News Week. Thanks @publicinterestnews.org.uk for reminding us of the importance of your local news provider @greenwichwire.bsky.social @salamandernews.org

From David Goldblatt 's book The Ball is Round. #FIFA #worldcup #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/kicking-of...

Important piece from @persuasion.bsky.social on the importance of doing #journalism rather than activism if you’re a journalist. #canada open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

#thisweekthosebooks has 2 great reads and loadsa context #football #worldcup thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/kicking-of...

@julesboykoff.bsky.social, professor and former professional soccer player, writes as follows in his new book Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine. #thisweekthosebooks

This Week’s #Books via @medium.com An academic is disgusted by #WorldCup #sportswashing. A comprehensive account of #football and world history. medium.com/this-week-th...

Brand new book gives #WorldCup a red card. A bestseller on the beautiful game’s history. #football #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...

via @timesofindianews.bsky.social : Western rightwing’s George Floyd? The British government is trying to push back but there are limits to what a small country can do when the hyperpower tries to foment a race war. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...

#Football must be seen as an integral part of society, says David Goldblatt in his bestseller The Ball is Round. Or else, it comes to this…(short video below). #thisweekthosebooks

#football #worldcup2026. Two interesting books provide context. Free to read. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/kicking-of...

It's all kicking off. #Football and politics open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

Ahead of her US visit, Cheng Li-wun, head of #Taiwan’s main opposition & possible 2028 presidential contender, has urged the US & China not to treat the island as a “pawn”. Here are the sauces that show why Taiwain isn't Chinese via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...

Via @timesofindianews.bsky.social :Add in the hosting of langars & ceaseless habit of sewa, and #Sikhs were bathed in the glow of being a model minority. That was then. In 2026, the community is in the crosshairs of an international far right movement... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...

Totally agree with @jerusalem.bsky.social: The smartphone is a relatively new invention worldwide, just over half of all people, have them. We don’t need to call police for everything, society should just set the rules it feels are necessary for use (or abuse) open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

#Armenia's pivotal election throws up Nagorno-Karabakh basics. Boomtown Baku. Turkish taboo. Get context in less than 5 minutes. #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...

#Armenia's pivotal election throws up Nagorno-Karabakh basics. Boomtown Baku. Turkish taboo. Get context in less than 5 minutes. #thisweekthosebooks medium.com/this-week-th...

East or West? Armenia votes for one direction medium.com/this-week-th...

All eyes on #Armenia and its pivotal election: Context is key about the history of its dispute with neighbouring Azerbaijan and about its relationship with #Turkey. #thisweekthosebooks on Elif Shafak's bestselling novel thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/east-west-...

As #Armenia votes in a pivotal election, the basics on the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Plus a fabulous satire on boomtown Baku in neighbouring Azerbaijan. Elif Shafak’s bestseller on a Turkish taboo. Context is key #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/east-west-...

Hopeful takeaway from @JLFLitfest discussion on #Afghanistan: there WILL be change to the situation of #women but "it will take time", said @saadmohseni.bsky.social . Key insights from Lyse Doucet and Christina Lamb

Should be an interesting – and enlightening – conversation at Jaipur LitFest with three people who have a deep and abiding knowledge of, and interest in #Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni. Lyse Doucet. Christina Lamb. Details👇🏽 events.bl.uk/events/jaipu...

@mpmacy.bsky.social talks to @lbc.co.uk 's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about free speech, using a powerful example from Skokie, Illinois in the #US some 30 years after the #Holocaust

@mpmacy.bsky.social uses a powerful example from #America about free speech in his conversation with @lbc.co.uk 's @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Spot on re. Graham Platner, @jerusalem.bsky.social . “A scumbag” who #Maine should vote for. True too, cheating is wrong & Americans hate it (more than anyone except Turks & Indonesians!) Trump was re-elected despite dating wife #2 and #3 while married to previous 1 open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Hanif Kureishi is right: “Unknowability matters. It is important that people remain partly unknowable, because that opacity opens the possibility of conversation. We speak in order to find out who the other is.” open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...

Per @codastory.com : "Two decades ago, $100 bills made up 64.4% of the value of outstanding dollar banknotes; at the end of 2025, it was 81.8%." #moneyLaundering #crime

The sauces that explain why #Taiwan isn’t Chinese. Three books and a load of context via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

#Trump or not, there is more to #Taiwan than its status as a geopolitical chess piece or a “problem without a solution”, in the words of foreign policy wonks. #thisweekthosebooks via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

The sauces that explain why #Taiwan isn’t Chinese via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

With the #Taiwan question still bubbling away, here are 3 useful servings: A cookbook that stirs politics into Taiwan’s signature soy sauce. A cocktail of family lore and nature-writing. And a side order of political history & realism @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...

#Bangladesh is back in the news and #thisweekthosebooks provides context via @medium.com Have a read medium.com/this-week-th...

#Bangladesh is in the news nearly 2 years after an uprising that ousted its autocratic PM Sheikh Hasina. @tahmima.bsky.social just published Uprising, a novel on woman power & Bangladesh asked for another IMF loan. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/the-second...

The ‘second liberation’ of #Bangladesh? open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...

Passionate and insightful discussion with @tahmima.bsky.social on writing, the dignity of #women and a truly unusual setting for her new novel Uprising, at the Khushwant Singh Literature Festival in London.

Really looking forward to talking to @tahmima.bsky.social about her new book Uprising – a story about sisterhood that's both tender and hardbitten – at the Khushwant Singh Lit Fest London May 30. Please come along. Details👇🏽https://kslitfestlondon.com/program-2026/

Really looking forward to talking to @tahmima.bsky.social about her new book Uprising – a story about sisterhood that's both tender and hardbitten – at the @kslitfestlondon tomorrow, May 30. Please come along. Details👇🏽https://kslitfestlondon.com/program-2026/

#Tunisia’s democratic collapse was not, at its core, a crisis of institutions. It was a crisis of economic performance that...finally made authoritarian populism look like the rational choice. This provides both a parallel and a warning for America. open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Per @londoncentric.media : When Anna Mavrogianni, Professor of Sustainable, Healthy & Equitable Built Environment at UCL, started out as an academic in the early 2000s, the dominant research in her field was all about how to make homes warm. Now, she said, it’s about keeping them cool

Days after #Trump endorsed #Texas AG Ken #Paxton to replace John Cornyn as Republican candidate for the senate, here's what #Republican Senator Thom Tillis said: “To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder."

What of #Trump's promised deal of biblical proportions to end #Iran conflict, #Israel conflict, all conflict in the Middle East? As @economist.com's Anton La Guardia says "the wolf shall not dwell with the lamb, nor the American eagle with the Iranian lion—at least not yet"...

Pope Leo addresses AI but how real can artificial intelligence ever be? #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...

As the Pope addresses AI, crucial context on artificial intelligence. Our first book pick raises an essential issue:“How much further there is to go before our machines can argue for their own humanity.” #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-a...