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
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In the plausible scenario Carlo Masala has offered in his new book, the head of Russian intelligence is quoted to say what you see in the video. Seems like a news story, with all that’s going on with #Ukraine & #Trump ‘peace’ plan. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/is-russia-...
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA #Journalism students Meena Iyer and Finola Clarke talk to members of a #Lewisham grassroots movement that's calling for houses meant 'for people not profit'. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
Meet the campaigners demanding 'housing for people, not profit'
MA Journalism students Meena Iyer and Finola Clarke talk to members of a grassroots movement in Lewisham
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December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA #Journalism students Meena Iyer and Finola Clarke talk to members of a #Lewisham grassroots movement that's calling for houses meant 'for people not profit'. thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/meet-the-l...
In the plausible scenario Carlo Masala has offered in his new book, the head of Russian intelligence is quoted to say what you see in the video. Seems like a news story, with all that’s going on with #Ukraine & #Trump ‘peace’ plan. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/is-russia-...
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In the plausible scenario Carlo Masala has offered in his new book, the head of Russian intelligence is quoted to say what you see in the video. Seems like a news story, with all that’s going on with #Ukraine & #Trump ‘peace’ plan. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/is-russia-...
Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady argues that #Trump 'peace' plan places #Ukraine️ in the most uncomfortable of Catch-22 situations, “trapped in a logic where every rational choice could lead to the same catastrophic result”. www.ft.com/content/acdb... via @financialtimes.com
Ukraine’s Catch-22 moment
Kyiv’s choices are between bad now and worse later
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December 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady argues that #Trump 'peace' plan places #Ukraine️ in the most uncomfortable of Catch-22 situations, “trapped in a logic where every rational choice could lead to the same catastrophic result”. www.ft.com/content/acdb... via @financialtimes.com
Important @nytimes.com piece on "imperial #Israel", whose regional military dominance has proved overwhelming since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, with its defense forces operating at will in the air, on the ground, killing enemies anywhere www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
‘Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
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December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Important @nytimes.com piece on "imperial #Israel", whose regional military dominance has proved overwhelming since the Oct 7, 2023 attack, with its defense forces operating at will in the air, on the ground, killing enemies anywhere www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
#Trump loyalist and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put herself at the centre of the strangest $200 million ad campaign for the American Dream "the right way"! Grab the popcorn and give it a watch! www.instagram.com/reel/DRhtnuS...
DaMon Cortez on Instagram: "Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem debuted a new ad on Fox & Friends as part of a multimillion-dollar ad campaign designed to encourage illegal immigrants to self-depo...
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, has launched a new ad campaign to discourage illegal immigration by promoting the CBP Home App and a stern message to those who cross the US border wit...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#Trump loyalist and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put herself at the centre of the strangest $200 million ad campaign for the American Dream "the right way"! Grab the popcorn and give it a watch! www.instagram.com/reel/DRhtnuS...
“There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this was very close to corruption,” said Daniel Woker, a former Swiss ambassador of 'gold bar diplomacy' with #Trump over tariffs www.ft.com/content/36c9... via @financialtimes.com
Swiss politicians decry ‘gold bar diplomacy’ in Trump trade deal
Backlash over role played in talks by executives from companies including Rolex and Richemont
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“There is a sense from some in Switzerland that this was very close to corruption,” said Daniel Woker, a former Swiss ambassador of 'gold bar diplomacy' with #Trump over tariffs www.ft.com/content/36c9... via @financialtimes.com
Spot on @sreenet.bsky.social : #Trump uses a sort of language that I would call “Soviet” (I should know as I lived in Moscow as a kid, at the height of the Soviet Union) when he talks about stuff like this. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/sreenet/...
The Most Sweeping Changes to U.S. Immigration Policy Are Coming
Then they came for the Afghans. Will you speak out?
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December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Spot on @sreenet.bsky.social : #Trump uses a sort of language that I would call “Soviet” (I should know as I lived in Moscow as a kid, at the height of the Soviet Union) when he talks about stuff like this. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/sreenet/...
Per @thecontinent.org : By one count, 177 African ethnic groups were arbitrarily split into discrete countries by colonial borders. Another count puts it at 230.
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Per @thecontinent.org : By one count, 177 African ethnic groups were arbitrarily split into discrete countries by colonial borders. Another count puts it at 230.
Per @thecontinent.org : A Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona is expected to win reelection this week. He has long disavowed any Nazi ideology, telling Bild that his father likely did not understand the historical significance of the name! www.thecontinent.org
The Continent | Africa
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Per @thecontinent.org : A Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona is expected to win reelection this week. He has long disavowed any Nazi ideology, telling Bild that his father likely did not understand the historical significance of the name! www.thecontinent.org
@thecontinent.org has it right about the "imaginary genocide" #Trump has dreamt up to punish South Africa! www.thecontinent.org
The Continent | Africa
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
www.thecontinent.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@thecontinent.org has it right about the "imaginary genocide" #Trump has dreamt up to punish South Africa! www.thecontinent.org
🟡Per @semafor.com: African leaders gathered in Algiers to push for the recognition of colonial-era crimes through reparations. At least 12.5m people were enslaved and forcibly transported from Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
🟡 Semafor Africa: ‘A heavy price’ | Semafor
In this edition: Shell’s new investment in Nigeria, a growing call for reparations, and celebrating African photography.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🟡Per @semafor.com: African leaders gathered in Algiers to push for the recognition of colonial-era crimes through reparations. At least 12.5m people were enslaved and forcibly transported from Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social makes a key point in his @thenewworldmag.bsky.social column: We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald #Trump, who see #misinformation as a weapon rather than an issue www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...
Alastair Campbell’s diary: We expect politicians to lie – and that’s the problem
We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald Trump, who see misinformation as a weapon rather than an issue
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social makes a key point in his @thenewworldmag.bsky.social column: We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald #Trump, who see #misinformation as a weapon rather than an issue www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...
Per @nytimes.com : In the #US, “electricity is the new price of eggs,” says Charles Hua, executive director of PowerLines, a nonpartisan group that aims to modernize utility regulations and reduce power costs. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
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December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Per @nytimes.com : In the #US, “electricity is the new price of eggs,” says Charles Hua, executive director of PowerLines, a nonpartisan group that aims to modernize utility regulations and reduce power costs. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
The inimitable Hanif Kureishi on the Bartleby school of thought: “Some of the world’s greatest works are about losers...Hamlet, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky...In a world obsessed with winning, the true rebels are those who find joy in losing.” open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...
THE FUCK-IT MANIFESTO
Now FREE to read..... Remember, success is fleeting, while failure is perennial; our enduring, constant companion.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The inimitable Hanif Kureishi on the Bartleby school of thought: “Some of the world’s greatest works are about losers...Hamlet, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky...In a world obsessed with winning, the true rebels are those who find joy in losing.” open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...
Oliver Kim for The Argument: Weimar Germany is not modern America — it’s not even the best model of how American democracy might slip into authoritarianism¹ — but avoiding its fate starts with understanding it. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
This is how you get Nazis
The economic origins of Hitler's rise to power
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December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Oliver Kim for The Argument: Weimar Germany is not modern America — it’s not even the best model of how American democracy might slip into authoritarianism¹ — but avoiding its fate starts with understanding it. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
Per @axios.com : "So far this century, 11 of 13 U.S. elections were "change elections," in which voters tossed out the party controlling the House, Senate or White House — a volatility streak unseen since the late 1800s, during the Gilded Age." www.axios.com/newsletters/... #axiosam
Axios AM - 👀 Part 2: Watch that pendulum
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Per @axios.com : "So far this century, 11 of 13 U.S. elections were "change elections," in which voters tossed out the party controlling the House, Senate or White House — a volatility streak unseen since the late 1800s, during the Gilded Age." www.axios.com/newsletters/... #axiosam
1/2 Astonishing revelation from @juddlegum.bsky.social : “Why does Witkoff appear to have so heavily favored Russia during the negotiations? The answer may be buried in Witkoff’s 33-page financial disclosure form, quietly posted to the White House website in September.
Top Trump negotiator retains partnership with Ukraine-sanctioned billionaire
Steve Witkoff coached a top Putin aide on managing Trump and created a peace plan that mirrored Russian demands
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December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
1/2 Astonishing revelation from @juddlegum.bsky.social : “Why does Witkoff appear to have so heavily favored Russia during the negotiations? The answer may be buried in Witkoff’s 33-page financial disclosure form, quietly posted to the White House website in September.
#Honduras presidential election – both frontrunners want to reverse the leftist incumbent’s 2023 switch to Beijing and re-establish ties with Taiwan! So the most nervous person in Tegucigalpa might not be any candidate, but Yu Bo, China’s ambassador www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Honduras election on a knife edge as Trump-backed man slightly ahead
The US president is threatening to cut aid to Honduras if his favoured right-wing presidential candidate does not win.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#Honduras presidential election – both frontrunners want to reverse the leftist incumbent’s 2023 switch to Beijing and re-establish ties with Taiwan! So the most nervous person in Tegucigalpa might not be any candidate, but Yu Bo, China’s ambassador www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great to see Zbig as second on Foreign Affairs 2025 top books and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social’s:
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Great to see Zbig as second on Foreign Affairs 2025 top books and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social’s:
#India hosts #Putin for a state visit. Saudi holds a joint business conference in Riyadh. Russia signs deals with 46 African countries. Is Russia winning that other war – for public opinion? Read #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/is-russia-...
Is Russia winning?
A new book floats a scary scenario. And a novel take on post-Soviet change
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November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#India hosts #Putin for a state visit. Saudi holds a joint business conference in Riyadh. Russia signs deals with 46 African countries. Is Russia winning that other war – for public opinion? Read #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/is-russia-...
As #India hosts #Putin, is #Russia winning? Read #thisweekthosebooks for context www.rashmee.com/as-india-hos...
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As #India hosts #Putin, is #Russia winning? Read #thisweekthosebooks for context www.rashmee.com/as-india-hos...