Mark Braund 🇺🇦

Currently serialising my novel, The Roaring Twenties, on Substack. I also write on politics, economics, civilization and culture at Progress/Survival.

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Chapter 26 of my historical novel, Maynard’s War, is out now.

I cried when I wrote this chapter, and I still cry when I read it.

https://t.co/ZCN2kI1IMT

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Sending my latest piece to @RestIsPolitics in case @campbellclaret or @RoryStewartUK are interested.

https://t.co/UAKNsyRvRv

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Key point in Dan’s brilliant take down of fantasies of left on tax. Equivalent fantasy on right is huge painless spending cuts.

We can have bigger state and more tax on average earners. We can have smaller state and real cuts in public services/benefits.

Thats it. The choice

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Billy Cobham, 81, on phenomenal form with the Guy Barker Big Band at Ronnie Scott's tonight.

I knew I should have bought tickets for the second show as well.

If there's a better drummer ...

#jazz #fusion

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

Remembering the great Lance Reddick, born 63 years ago today in Baltimore.

Gone but not forgotten.
June 7, 1962 – March 17, 2023

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

@RichardBratby @glyndebourne Ha!

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

The Bad Plus on top form @ronniescottsofficial tonight.

Four exceptional musicians playing some of the most exquisitely crafted #jazz you will ever hear.

Dave King's drumming never ceases to amaze.

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

Alert to the only person who can save many thousands of starving Palestinian babies in Gaza between now and the end of the month. The UN’s Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC that 14,000 babies could die in a few days unless the trucks carrying food for them on the Gaza border—paid for by U.S. taxpayers—are allowed to enter and immediately reach their destination safely. Fletcher says thousands of trucks are right on the border ready to go, but are blocked by Netanyahu’s savagery.

Netanyahu broke the truce you took credit for earlier this year. Put an American flag on each one of those trucks that American taxpayers paid for and order them into Gaza immediately. Netanyahu would never dare to try to defy you in such a dire crisis with the whole world watching. Also, tell him to let American reporters in to tell the American people what is being done with their tax dollars. He arrogantly has been blocking them for years. Tell him, also, to reinstate the ceasefire. There is no fighting in Gaza now, according to Israeli media. Only Israeli government terrorism obliterating human beings and what is left of the buildings there.

As you once claimed, “I alone can fix it.” -R

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

This is doing little more than putting a big tick mark next to everything Reform claim. Stupid and self-defeating.

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

This guy Gary Stevenson makes soooo much sense.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

This guy Gary Stevenson makes so much sense

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

If you suffer from #migraine and you've struggled to find an effective treatment, read my latest post.

After 20 years of increasingly frequent attacks, I've been migraine free for 6 months now, thanks to a drug I was prescribed for something else.

https://t.co/JoOyoFaZ18

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Another great post here by Robert Reich:
https://t.co/IZk2lodjFb

He’s absolutely right: it is a coup, and the mainstream media need to start reporting it as such.

But what to do about it?

In my short story How it Ends I imagine one potential solution.

https://t.co/4FrYd3WLPe

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Update of a piece I wrote in 2008 on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Spoiler alert: things are a lot worse than they were 17 years ago, which is why it's still the most important day of the year.

https://t.co/L1TDowCUXJ

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Chapter Six of my historical novel, Maynard’s War, is now available to read.

This week Vanessa Bell hosts a party for her friends in the Bloomsbury Group, with opinions divided on the war.

It’s free to read, though paid subscriptions are available.

https://t.co/HwGjvMUeVd

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

New long read from me on the threats posed by Trump's second term and what we can do about it.

https://t.co/SmjvZ4VmD4

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Chapter 5 of my historical novel, Maynard’s War, is now available.

This week we meet other members of The Bloomsbury Group, and learn about John Maynard Keynes’ rather disappointing love life.

It’s free to read through paid subscriptions are available.

https://t.co/L7XZFggViU

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

A reminder that the first four chapters of my novel, Maynard's War, are now available on substack.

And they're free to read. Though if, despite Christmas, you're feeling flush, paid subscriptions are available.

#History #fiction #books #bloomsbury

https://t.co/CbdjyLQbPY

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

Chapter Four of my historical novel, Maynard’s War, the first book in The Bloomsbury Trilogy, is now available on substack.

It’s free to read, though paid subscriptions are very welcome 😉

Chapter 5 follows next Sunday, 12th January at 11am.

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

The first 3 chapters of my novel Maynard's War are now available to read on substack.

The first novel in The Bloomsbury Trilogy, it should appeal to anyone with an interest in The Bloomsbury Group or in World War I.

And it's free to subscribe.

https://t.co/CbdjyLQbPY

[Mark Braund 🇺🇦 @MarkBraund]

It’s now less than 24 hours until the serialization of my novel, Maynard’s War.

First chapter tomorrow at 11am, the next two on Friday and Saturday, with the rest to follow each Sunday morning.

Subscribe for free so you don’t miss a chapter.

https://t.co/mCiVrfxxtu