Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall

Alastair Campbell’s diary: Trump isn’t World King, he’s a narcissist The president’s trip to Scotland proves there’s a real harm in not holding his actions to account

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social : "I suspect the reason [#Trump] loathed #Sturgeon is that she did not react as he wished to his green ink letters complaining about windmills near his [#Scotland] golf course." www.thenewworld.co.uk/alastair-cam...

MORE LIFE Later, we would visit her father in Tuscany, strolling around an old-fashioned Italian coastal resort, eating good food and looking out to sea.

Hanif Kureishi on the modern #novel: “as necessary and relevant as it has ever been when it comes to conveying the weight and texture of life…it is cheap to produce, unlike film or television, & novelists are freer than screenwriters" open.substack.com/pub/hanifkur...

With Donald Trump hosting Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the White House at a peace summit meant to end their historic enmity, #thisweekthosebooks gives you crucial context thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/trump-play...

As #Trump prepares for a much anticipated peace pact between the two former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, #thisweekthosebooks has 3 great reads that explain their painful history. Please read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/trump-play...

Trump’s tariffs leave us in the second worst of all worlds We may have avoided a global trade war but American consumers and businesses will still suffer

Harvard's Jason Furman : Levying #tariffs is like a person simultaneously shooting himself and another person in the foot. If the other person responds by shooting both himself and the original person in the foot, that would leave both unable to walk. www.ft.com/content/6791... @ft

27 Notes on Growing Old(er) Age is a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

via Persuasion piece by Ian Leslie: The American poet George Oppen said about aging, “What a strange thing to happen to a little boy". It evokes a bewildered child trapped inside an aged body; a boy staring at his wizened hands & wondering what on earth is going on
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Superman 2025’s success shows the world is crying out for a saviour | Rashmee Roshan Lall I watched Superman, the 2025 film, the very weekend that statues honouring the hero, his girlfriend and his creators went up in Cleveland, Texas. It was a coincidence but both things can be seen as a ...

I watched #Superman the very weekend statues honouring the hero, his girlfriend and creators went up in Cleveland. It was a coincidence but both things can be seen as a measure of the response to Superman’s return – to the big screen and the global conversation. www.rashmee.com/superman-202...

Superman 2025’s success shows the world is crying out for a saviour | Rashmee Roshan Lall I watched Superman, the 2025 film, the very weekend that statues honouring the hero, his girlfriend and his creators went up in Cleveland, Texas. It was a coincidence but both things can be seen as a ...

Superman 2025’s success shows the world is crying out for a saviour www.rashmee.com/superman-202...

‘King’ Trump’s tactical embrace of Pakistan’s pious soldier | Rashmee Roshan Lall Donald Trump’s America is turning towards Asim Munir’s Pakistan rather than away from Narendra Modi’s India. (Click here to read Trump Vs Modi: The ‘king’ battles a ‘world guru’, the first part of thi...

It’s a major reset considering #Trump once accused #Pakistan of giving the #US “nothing but lies and deceit” and safe havens to terrorists. The reference was to the remarkable discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
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‘King’ Trump’s tactical embrace of Pakistan’s pious soldier | Rashmee Roshan Lall Donald Trump’s America is turning towards Asim Munir’s Pakistan rather than away from Narendra Modi’s India. (Click here to read Trump Vs Modi: The ‘king’ battles a ‘world guru’, the first part of thi...

‘King’ #Trump’s tactical embrace of #Pakistan’s pious soldier www.rashmee.com/king-trumps-...

Trump Vs Modi. The ‘king’ battling a ‘world guru’? | Rashmee Roshan Lall The spat between Donald Trump’s America and Narendra Modi’s India would be amusing if it weren’t so serious a matter. But this is not a boxing match between two strongmen with a penchant for grand sel...

This is not a boxing match between two strongmen with a penchant for grand titles. #Trump has likened himself to a “king” and #Modi has allowed himself to be hailed as a "vishwaguru" or teacher to the world. Instead, a reset is underway.
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Trump Vs Modi. The ‘king’ battling a ‘world guru’? | Rashmee Roshan Lall The spat between Donald Trump’s America and Narendra Modi’s India would be amusing if it weren’t so serious a matter. But this is not a boxing match between two strongmen with a penchant for grand sel...

#Trump Vs #Modi. The ‘king’ battling a ‘world guru’? www.rashmee.com/trump-vs-mod...

Epstein and Empire There's an angle to the Trump-Epstein affair that most people are missing: In the Virgin Islands, silence and impunity have long been the price of paradise.

@katz.theracket.news on why it's worth looking at the #Epstein saga alongside the colonial status of the US Virgin Islands. He and :his former paramour and convicted pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell became two more of historical colonizers" theracket.news/p/epstein-an...

Epstein and Empire There's an angle to the Trump-Epstein affair that most people are missing: In the Virgin Islands, silence and impunity have long been the price of paradise.

@katzonearth on why it's worth looking at the #Epstein saga alongside the colonial status of the US Virgin Islands. He and :his former paramour and convicted pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell became two more of historical colonizers" theracket.news/p/epstein-an...

Per @washingtonpost.com : After campaigning on a pledge to free business from worrying about Washington’s dictates, #Trump has made public policy — and his own norm-busting behavior — the primary variables affecting the $30 trillion U.S. economy, economists said

Turns out the Smithsonian was just tidying up when it removed information about Donald Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit in the National Museum of American History. It's promised to restore them "in the coming weeks" www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

“You can’t bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets,” University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers said after Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the monthly jobs report for July came in far weaker than expected!

What a French lunch discount card tells us about London fare dodging Plus: When are we getting al fresco summer dining in the centre of the capital — and the bale of hay dangling from a London bridge.

Incroyable! From @jim.londoncentric.media 's @londoncentric.media : French tourists in #London realised their prepaid discount lunch cards from back home could be used to trick the Underground’s systems into letting them through barriers open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

Tax breaks for savings and the role of opinion polling Welcome to the 172nd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), in which I have heroically battled to avoid the temptation to do a whole piece about Ipsos adding commas to one of their regular party leader ...

Good use of polling by @markpackuk.bsky.social on the issue of any likely changes to #UK policy on tax-free savings: …the polls can tell us is how big a shift in mindset it would take to change policy. open.substack.com/pub/theweeki...

Brilliant read from @codastory.bsky.social on #Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Yasser Abu-Jamei, who managed to flee #Gaza with his family to Cairo. Only then did he learn that the house he & his wife spent 17 years building had been destroyed. mailchi.mp/codastory.co...

America is a bully, Europe is weak and the West is dead English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa

Exactly. As @billemmott.bsky.social says “#Europe is weak, but perhaps working together with the #Arabs will be one way in which it can show it is not irrelevant.”
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ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not ! OpenAI closes gap, but another opens of 110.000 chats

@henkvaness.bsky.social: “what #OpenAI missed in their cleanup attempt
– Original URLs may be dead, but Archive.org links work perfectly
– Google can't see them anymore, but anyone who knows where to look can” open.substack.com/pub/henkvane...
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How the government successfully spun the Daily Mail (Odds and Ends #73) Plus the council leader who lives with his mum, and the best post-Trump portrayal of the Presidency in film

I didn’t know that the leader of my council, #Greenwich, Anthony Okereke, still lives at home because he can’t afford to buy in the borough he leads! Thanks for quoting that Inside Housing piece @jamesomalley.co.uk open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...

Now, Japan fears both abandonment and entrapment English original of article published in Japanese and English today by the Mainichi Shimbun

Interesting analysis from @billemmott.bsky.social on #Japan’s fears of entrapment in someone else’s war, as senior US defence officials reportedly press it on whether it would fight to defend Taiwan in the event of an attempted Chinese invasion or coercion
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Sticking With a Strategy Or getting lost in the tactics.

Love the photo @janisseray.bsky.social (and the steer towards Justin Welsh). Agree with much of what you say about the struggle to find a clear direction of travel because…it’s complicated…life is. open.substack.com/pub/rhizosph...

Only reason to care Trump agrees Gaza’s starving. Will he use his power to stop it? | Rashmee Roshan Lall There is only one reason to care that Donald Trump has actually acknowledged Gaza is starving: Will he use his power to stop it? Mr Trump has the power and influence to call a halt to the naked suffer...

If he ends starvation in #Gaza, the world would forgive Donald #Trump nearly a decade of linguistic, stylistic and ethical affronts. He will have taken a moral stance and saved lives. www.rashmee.com/only-reason-...

Only reason to care Trump agrees Gaza’s starving. Will he use his power to stop it? | Rashmee Roshan Lall There is only one reason to care that Donald Trump has actually acknowledged Gaza is starving: Will he use his power to stop it? Mr Trump has the power and influence to call a halt to the naked suffer...

Only reason to care #Trump agrees #Gaza’s starving. Will he use his power to stop it? www.rashmee.com/only-reason-...

Welcome to the neighborhood, Mr. Trumpite Travels, Tales, Tunes and Tips to help you keep rocking

Love this portrait of one NYC neighbourhood and surrounds Richard Pretorius open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

Edinburgh fest. Trump’s art of some deals. A great flood Your round-up of books relevant to this month’s big news stories

Your round-up of books relevant to this month’s big news stories #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

Asked about starvation in #Gaza, #Trump said the US has contributed tens of millions but aid is being stolen and complained he hasn’t received a thank you. “People are stealing the food, they’re stealing the money...they’re stealing everything. It’s a mess. That whole place is a mess.”