Castle looking affy bonny all done up with the new lights. Very impressed.

So much love Callan! Come visit me in the office next time you're in edinburgh hehe

Thank you my friend, you are welcome to come by the office anytime, would truly appreciate your advice on this new play!

I said this in my wee statement thing but the list of fellows is so strong that can't be anything other than a huge honour to be amongst them. Huge, daunting, but very exciting!

More info here!

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/introdu...

Thanks Katherine! The hard work starts in January!

Needless to say it's an incredible honour to be on that list of fellows! Thanks Joyce!

bro it's immense, the challenge, the excitement, im so looking forward to it!

Few natural borders in the Sahel. Colonial lines on maps, things of fiction.

Escalating into a regional collapse.

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

If they take the city it'll turn Mali into Sudan. It will reingite all the factions that have been party to the ceasefire, including in the north, and probably invite foreign internvention - maybe even France will come back. It's going to be a disaster.

In Everything Under the Sun I was writing about the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers and what that could mean, what peace really means in a world like ours. This week's events have shown that sometimes even a deeply flawed world order is better than nothing as AQ closes in.