@rashmee
Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. FRSA. Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette Sign up: This Week, Those Books https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com https://medium.com/this-week-those-books
Hearing of Coleman Barks' passing, I thought of Rumi, whose poems in English translation he released from their "cages". As Rumi said: "When for the last time
you close your mouth,
your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time."
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@vermontgmg.bsky.social : What could $11.3 billion have bought the US if spent at home rather than 1st week of #Iran war? In 2020-2021 school year, $21 billion went to near universal school lunches and breakfasts...
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@vermontgmg.bsky.social, spot on: I wish the media would start to trumpet what seems clear to anyone actually reading the coverage: Every news story needs to start leading with the fact that Trump is lost at sea [with] a disastrous foreign war-of-choice www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...
Ivan Krastev in @financialtimes.com : #Trump’s experience of time is central to his political behaviour. The president doesn’t think in terms of long-term strategy but rather in terms of deadlines...a director who does not shoot films but only trailers www.ft.com/content/5813...
2/2 The story is about the US capital but could really apply anywhere. In Britain, there is a propensity to government inquiries, which can often take a long time!
Interesting insight from Kelsey Piper in The Argument about a “pernicious tactic of delaying-through-reports that elected officials use to seem like they are being thoughtful and rigorous while kicking the can down the road.” 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
3/3 “Despite China being a repressive, surveillance-state dictatorship…people still think the USA is worse? So it would seem.”
2/3 He writes that in a live poll of 2,000 Irish people who had come to hear him talk to Anthony Scaramucci about all things “Orange Man-Baby”, by more than nine to one, 92% to 8%, our Dublin audience went for the Americans as global wreckers.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social ’s searing piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social really tells it like it is about the #Trump effect on #America’s image in a world disordered by the US president. 1/3 open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...
Brilliant cover from @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
@internationalintrigue.io 's take is worth reading. They look at #Iran war by recalling Filippino Lippi’s 15th cent painting of Mary & Jesus. Looks odd shoulder-height rather than hung high in a church. Let's not analyse each day at shoulder-height archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/reduced-si...
As #Nepal gets a 35-year-old rapper, who positions himself as the voice of Gen Z, for prime minister, here’s crucial context from two reads and the back story in #thisweekthosebooks open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...
Humbled to receive a Civic Award from the mayor of Greenwich and Leader of the Council www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/news/2026/sp...
#Nepal gets a new beat with its rapper PM, having felt the effects of multiple crises in the past 25 years. #thisweekthosebooks offers context with a 5-minute read from 2 books. via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...
#Nepal, an old country with ancient traditions, will get its youngest prime minister ever. Crucial context from two books and the back story from #thisweekthosebooks. A 5-minute free read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/nepal-gets...
#Nepal gets a new beat with its rapper PM. Two books offer crucial context #thisweekthosebooks open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...
#Oil crosses the psychologically important mark of $100 per barrel as #Iran war escalates. via @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/08/i...
@semaforben.bsky.social : Stephen Walt in Foreign Affairs described Trump’s foreign policy as “predatory hegemony”...but...to quote Ernest Hemingway...a consistent policy of predatory hegemony could cause US global influence to decline ‘gradually and then suddenly. www.semafor.com/article/03/0...
Insightful @Hanif Kureishi: “In William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he wrote ‘Without Contraries is no progression.’ To stay in a relationship, or a friendship, or even a functioning democracy, is to keep discovering how much disagreement we can bear" open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...
The events playing out in #Chagos and around the islands underlines the extraordinary intertwining of far right British politics with neo-imperialist Trumpian America and the use of emotive arguments about homeland, belonging, #decolonisation and self-determination. www.rashmee.com/chagos-islan...
How the rights of peoples of #Chagos intersect with #Trump and #Farage politics. @thecontinent.org has the story www.rashmee.com/chagos-islan...
2/2 Muhoza, who works for online outlet La Nova Burundi was sentenced to four years in prison for 'undermining the territorial integrity of the nation and racial hatred'. She shared information in a private WhatsApp group about the government allegedly distributing arms.
@thecontinent.org: "Sandra Muhoza, a Burundian journalist who was jailed in April 2024, has been released on parole... 1/2 www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
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Thanks for a great post on strong women. Every day should be women’s day!
Reading Lyse Doucet’s book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, right now, with great interest, @nikatalbot.bsky.social, not just because I lived in Kabul for a year, but I had the privilege of co-presenting on the World Service with her. 1/2
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2/2 Balen will now have to manage not just his people’s hopes and expectations but a shifting landscape with its giant neighbours #China and #India
My piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social offers crucial context about #Nepal, which most people know only as the home of the world's highest mountain, Everest. It's just elected a former rapper and structural engineer,35-year-old Balen Shah,as its youngest PM thenewworld.substack.com/p/can-a-rapp...
2/2 Thanks for a great post on strong women. Every day should be women’s day!
Reading Lyce Doucet’s book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, right now, with great interest, @nikatalbot.bsky.social, not just because I lived in Kabul for a year, but I had the privilege of co-presenting on the World Service with her. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...
@sarayasin.bsky.social , former managing editor of the LA Times, has launched a magazine that aims to fill the gaps in the #Palestine story with all those untold tales spiked in the mainstream media. I’ve just subscribed and am sharing a link: www.thekeymagazine.com/subscribe?re...