New episode - Interview with @lionelbarber, Editor of the Financial Times from 2005-2020, and author of The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times.
We discussed capitalism, Covid, Brexit, digital journalism, and more.
Watch here: https://t.co/BCyYIX644B
'Without understanding its history, it's hard to make sense of China's complexities today'.
Ahead of our #EnvisioningEurope online talk on 19/10, check out @Bkerrychina's interview with @PolBooksToday about how 'hybrid modernity' shaped China's identity: https://t.co/tvF3Ivk78o
Pandemics and the paradox of human progress
The more we destabilise the planet in the name of advancement, the more pathogens will emerge
BIG YES to @davidpilling latest column!
https://t.co/XvVxllHWnr
“The first part of this book should be compulsory reading for all Brexiteers. After about page 20, however, things begin seriously to go downhill.”
@RichardEvans36 on Robert Tombs’s This Sovereign Isle. https://t.co/k8fV869gOm
Grateful to @johnkampfner for joining me to talk about his latest book, ‘Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country’. A great book, and very timely too. You can watch the interview here: https://t.co/dIZA3TIYeM
Listen to this #podcast in which Danny Dorling, coauthor of FINNTOPIA, talks to host Prof. Anand Menon about the wealth and inequality gap. https://t.co/FicjAUie8x @agendapub#Brexit#Wealth#Inequality
Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explain how Finland came to demonstrate the benefits of investing in people – and suggest what its model might have to offer the rest of the world. https://t.co/20bLIvFVjv
My book is out today😊
What’s in it for me? criticizes the rise of tribalism, asserting that different worldviews reflect different interests. It’s £12.99 and available here:
https://t.co/6wX0K2TCCb
I’d be so grateful for retweets; it’s tough publishing during a pandemic!
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I spoke to Robert B. Zoellick, the former President of the @WorldBank, a few weeks ago about his new book on the history of US diplomacy and foreign policy. You can give it a watch here: https://t.co/9Z1jK4btvM
My new book on self-interest and political difference, 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦?, can now be pre-ordered (https://t.co/FR9HJSaa46). I've also got some great endorsements for the book...
This morning, I spoke to Thomas Prosser about his book, “What’s in it for Me? Self-Interest and Political Difference”, published by Manchester University Press this year. Thanks @prossertj! Watch here: https://t.co/047pDvkIUV
"A vastly ambitious new book whose argument seems even more urgent and intriguing in the light of the coronavirus crisis" Times Higher
"Is the world spinning out of control? I thought so until I read Slowdown." William Powers
Chapter 1 of Slowdown, here: https://t.co/7Pzh4wxT1P
Great to talk to @bradleyhope and @ScheckWSJ about their gripping book, “Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power”. https://t.co/RU5IPHNTg0
So, Trump is on the way out. “Superpower Showdown” by @bobdavis187 and Lingling Wei will help you better understand what has happened over the last four years. I did an interview with @Lingling_Wei about the book in August, which you can watch here: https://t.co/ziD2Mmf6HX
In early September, I interviewed @Bkerrychina, Professor of Chinese Studies at @KingsCollegeLon. We discussed the Belt and Road Initiative, the rise of Xi Jinping, and much more. You can watch the interview here: https://t.co/8whaNF1yHo