Ed West

Bess of Hardwick, mother of dynasties All you need to know about Tudor England's richest woman

The story of Bess of Hardwick, who skilfully navigated the treacherous court and family politics of Tudor England: a fascinating tale, told by @edjameswest.bsky.social

Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome? The US president is going to give us a thousand years of woke

Today's post: Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome? www.edwest.co.uk/p/do-i-have-... (FREE)

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A language of beautiful impurity 'English is both a Germanic and a Latin language' - and that's its strength

Love this from @edjameswest.bsky.social: 'How we'd talk if England had won in 1066': "In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. Alcoholics Anonymous would be renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers" www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...

Incidentally, when I went to Gunpowder Plot experience at Tower Hill last year, our group were told that it would kill hundreds or maybe thousands, and at the end we had to vote on whether to inform the authorities - only me and one other person chose to. the other 16 or so voted against!

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The First Briton James I, the wise fool who dreamed of a Great Britain

Today's post, on our most underrate leader (free to read) www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-first-...

Monday = London Review of Substacks in @semafor.com's daily global briefing

Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Today's post, on cousin marriage www.edwest.co.uk/p/keeping-it...

Today's post: The case for a Global Sanctuary City www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-f...

The day the world’s fate was played out Or, how German are the French?

For those enjoying the Rest is History series on the Franks and the Battle of Tours, my post on the Germanic tribe who remade Europe is now free www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-day-th...

Maybe Your Opinion Is Just a Feeling About a Story On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John & Paul'. Plus a Juicy Rattle Bag of Goodies.

The Ruffian has LANDED. This week: when opinions are just feelings about a story www.ian-leslie.com/p/maybe-your...

2011-2019: anti-capitalism, Occupy, Corbyn etc etc
2020 anti-lockdown
2021 anti-vax
2022 metooed
2023 claiming to be a baptised Christian and appearing on Tucker Carlson

The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles I took my daughter to Athens for a short holiday at half-term. She is studying Ancient Greek at GCSE, which makes me immensely proud as I didn’t even get that far with Latin. Delphi was wondrous but M...

The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles. Me, in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles

Today's post, on the case for returning the Marbles www.edwest.co.uk/p/soothing-t...

The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster

Times are changing and my new novel published next month will be the first of my books to contain this text on the copyright page.

Fascinating post on Germany's love of Shakespeare. www.katjahoyer.uk/p/shakespear...

Still no subscribers in North Korea, two of the Stans, Syria, Yemen and most of Francophone Africa. Morocco the only non-western country with a large per-capita number (no idea why - never visited and never written about it) bsky.app/profile/samf...

‘I got XL bullies banned – now I am setting my sights on jailing career criminals for good’ Dr Lawrence Newport, who exposed death surge by bully dogs, campaigns to push Government for tougher approach on crime

Dr Lawrence Newport is Britain’s most effective campaigner.

After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

I'm your first follower! An honour!

Enjoyed this take (from the right) on Bluesky and twitter.

thank you!

Incredibly bleak time and it was one of the few things to cheer us up. Especially remember the early St Cuthbert plague episode for that reason

I'm almost never an early adopter but I remember listening to the very first episode of TRiH during the misery of Lockdown II and thinking this is going to be very popular bsky.app/profile/eate...

being retweeted by a 300k follower Times journalist

i've actually edited it to make that clear, worry when people often think I'm being serious

Why we need an insufferable liberal elite The Great Migration to Bluesky

Bluesky is the New England of social media, says @edjameswest.bsky.social www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...

It’s a joke

Why we need an insufferable liberal elite The Great Migration to Bluesky

Hierarchies must always exist, and Elon’s populist revolution has just replaced one aristocracy with a new - worse - one, the noblesse de robe giving way to the noblesse de slop. Today's post www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...