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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#Nuremberg #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com : The ‘carpenter of war crimes tribunals’. A novel set in the Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis? medium.com/this-week-th...
Nuremberg is back, but what have we learnt?
The ‘carpenter of war crimes tribunals’. A novel set in the Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis?
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November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#Nuremberg #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com : The ‘carpenter of war crimes tribunals’. A novel set in the Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis? medium.com/this-week-th...
@economist.com's incoming South Asia bureau chief Tom Sasse reports an interesting conversation with UP CM Yogi Adityanath. In relation to the recent unrest in Britain, including riots that flared in towns & cities, Adityannath asked if Britain needs a dose of “bulldozer justice”?
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
@economist.com's incoming South Asia bureau chief Tom Sasse reports an interesting conversation with UP CM Yogi Adityanath. In relation to the recent unrest in Britain, including riots that flared in towns & cities, Adityannath asked if Britain needs a dose of “bulldozer justice”?
It’s not often that journalists are so tragically and so consistently part of the story they’re trying to cover – two years of war, punishing military operations, displacement, hunger. #gaza @rorypecktrust.bsky.social www.rashmee.com/gaza-ruled-b...
Gaza ruled – both in terms of who won and those who lost the final battle | Rashmee Roshan Lall
To no one’s surprise this year’s Rory Peck Awards this year were dominated by Gaza. Not just the winners but those who lost the ultimate battle – for life – while covering the story. It’s not often th...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It’s not often that journalists are so tragically and so consistently part of the story they’re trying to cover – two years of war, punishing military operations, displacement, hunger. #gaza @rorypecktrust.bsky.social www.rashmee.com/gaza-ruled-b...
@yaschamounk.skystack.xyz you’re doing a public service by sharing this!
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The Day I Got a Call From “Google”
Scammers are getting more sophisticated by the day.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@yaschamounk.skystack.xyz you’re doing a public service by sharing this!
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Insightful and entertaining discussion on the life of the arts critic at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with @theguardian.com 's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com 's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle and @thenerve.news 's Lisa O'Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Insightful and entertaining discussion on the life of the arts critic at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social with @theguardian.com 's Arifa Akbar, @variety.com 's David Benedict, Mail on Sunday's Tim de Lisle and @thenerve.news 's Lisa O'Kelly.
Agree that “we need to set the credibility bar higher” but Twitter/X’s geolocation feature can still, on occasion, yield gems, IMHO @jamesomalley.co.uk open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism
And surely BBC Verify should actually... verify... things?
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November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Agree that “we need to set the credibility bar higher” but Twitter/X’s geolocation feature can still, on occasion, yield gems, IMHO @jamesomalley.co.uk open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
Common sense view from @jerusalem.bsky.social in The Argument. Smartphones are incredible tools that make most people’s lives better. In all the whinging about social media, it’s easy to forget that we’ve given most people a computer that lives in their pockets. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
The answer to bad tech is better tech
A kinda, sorta review of life with a dumbphone
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November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Common sense view from @jerusalem.bsky.social in The Argument. Smartphones are incredible tools that make most people’s lives better. In all the whinging about social media, it’s easy to forget that we’ve given most people a computer that lives in their pockets. open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
@vermontgmg.bsky.social correctly notes that perhaps the only good thing Elon Musk has done since he bought Twitter is making public the 'location' feature. So many of the far-right’s MAGA accounts actually turn out to be based in Nigeria, Russia, Bangladesh www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-very-b...
The Very Big Business of Lying To You
Turns out "America First" is hugely profitable overseas
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
@vermontgmg.bsky.social correctly notes that perhaps the only good thing Elon Musk has done since he bought Twitter is making public the 'location' feature. So many of the far-right’s MAGA accounts actually turn out to be based in Nigeria, Russia, Bangladesh www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-very-b...
Most countries have an army. In #Pakistan, it’s the army that has a country www.rashmee.com/most-countri...
Most countries have an army. In Pakistan, it’s the army that has a country | Rashmee Roshan Lall
Almost unnoticed, Pakistan has flipped into military rule. There are no tanks on the streets and two civilians remain in the offices of president and prime minister. Pakistan’s parliament appears to b...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Most countries have an army. In #Pakistan, it’s the army that has a country www.rashmee.com/most-countri...
The #G20 issued the 30-page Johannesburg declaration, with world leaders pressing on without the US. It shows that the format of the international #summit is alive and well, even in the age of #Trump. via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social 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 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The #G20 issued the 30-page Johannesburg declaration, with world leaders pressing on without the US. It shows that the format of the international #summit is alive and well, even in the age of #Trump. via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
@financialtimes.com reports #US & #Ukraine have drafted a new 19-point peace plan. Ukraine's 1st dy FM Sergiy Kyslytsya: "We were not sitting in the Netflix headquarters writing scripts that will be Oscar-nominated. We should not be driven by excitement or hype"
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US and Ukraine draft new 19-point peace plan but defer biggest decisions
The most politically sensitive elements are left for Trump and Zelenskyy to discuss
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November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@financialtimes.com reports #US & #Ukraine have drafted a new 19-point peace plan. Ukraine's 1st dy FM Sergiy Kyslytsya: "We were not sitting in the Netflix headquarters writing scripts that will be Oscar-nominated. We should not be driven by excitement or hype"
www.ft.com/content/883e...
www.ft.com/content/883e...
My op-ed on #MAGA gone global: New US franchise has no golden arches. Instead, the American megaphone is now being used to cheer the inversion of norms, from South Korea to Brazil via @timesofindia.bsky.social timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...
MAGA gone global
New US franchise has no golden arches. Instead, the American megaphone is now being used to cheer the inversion of norms, from South Korea to Brazil A hardline politician who complained about immigran...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My op-ed on #MAGA gone global: New US franchise has no golden arches. Instead, the American megaphone is now being used to cheer the inversion of norms, from South Korea to Brazil via @timesofindia.bsky.social timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-ed...
Art of the review. 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. Nov 25 from 4.30pm. Details 👇🏽
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Art of the review. 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. Nov 25 from 4.30pm. Details 👇🏽
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An inspirational story by a 1st year #journalism student of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/from-cance...
From cancer survivor to champion: Camberwell woman tells her story
BA Journalism Year 1 student Willow Abbate-Thompson reports
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
An inspirational story by a 1st year #journalism student of @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/from-cance...
Three great reads on how to think about justice for crimes against humanity. #nuremberg #thisweekthosebooks
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Nuremberg is back but what have we learnt?
The 'carpenter of war crimes tribunals'. A novel set in The Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis?
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Three great reads on how to think about justice for crimes against humanity. #nuremberg #thisweekthosebooks
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Hey @sreenet.bsky.social, it was lovely to watch your interview with Zohran Mamdani when he was a largely unknown candidate for the NY State Assembly (He looks so different, carefree, hippie-like even, though I guess that’s because it was 5 years ago and he was 29!) open.substack.com/pub/sreenet/...
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hey @sreenet.bsky.social, it was lovely to watch your interview with Zohran Mamdani when he was a largely unknown candidate for the NY State Assembly (He looks so different, carefree, hippie-like even, though I guess that’s because it was 5 years ago and he was 29!) open.substack.com/pub/sreenet/...
#nuremberg #justice #thisweekthosebooks featuring David Scheffer, "carpenter of war crimes tribunals", Katie Kitamura’s novel set in a Hague court and Jack El-Hai’s book that inspired the movie. (tbh, the book is more nuanced!)
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Nuremberg is back but what have we learnt?
The 'carpenter of war crimes tribunals'. A novel set in The Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis?
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#nuremberg #justice #thisweekthosebooks featuring David Scheffer, "carpenter of war crimes tribunals", Katie Kitamura’s novel set in a Hague court and Jack El-Hai’s book that inspired the movie. (tbh, the book is more nuanced!)
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/nuremberg-...
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#thisweekthosebooks has three books that explain why the new Russell Crowe film is a reminder of what HASN’T happened. #nuremberg #warcrimes #gaza #ukraine
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November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
#thisweekthosebooks has three books that explain why the new Russell Crowe film is a reminder of what HASN’T happened. #nuremberg #warcrimes #gaza #ukraine
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#nuremberg #warcrimes #ukraine #gaza #thisweekthosebooks
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Nuremberg is back but what have we learnt?
The 'carpenter of war crimes tribunals'. A novel set in The Hague court. And just how ordinary were the Nazis?
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social : #COP30's difficult ending and the #G20's troubled start does not mean the international summit is dead. By 1955, Churchill's coinage of “summit" as a term for a high-level parley, was picked up by the US State Department.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
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 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
via @thenewworldmag.bsky.social : #COP30's difficult ending and the #G20's troubled start does not mean the international summit is dead. By 1955, Churchill's coinage of “summit" as a term for a high-level parley, was picked up by the US State Department.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
"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...