Tom Stevenson

Foreign correspondent. Contributing Editor @LRB.

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[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

In the new @LRB, I wrote about Xi Jinping and his father. https://t.co/oBWzVSzrCp

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

Scathing review of Paul D. Miller’s apologia by @TomFStevenson. The review would’ve benefited from a few paras on the Fort Bragg connection and the death squads. https://t.co/tyqhkhaT8D

[Tom Gardner @TomGardner18]

Great essay and reporting on the Horn of Africa's gold rush 👇

https://t.co/zGD4M5Cz6A

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Thomas Nagel's desire for the wicked to suffer https://t.co/val8chlfc2

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

In the new @LRB, I wrote about American memories of Afghanistan, and the route to the current war of retribution in the Greater Middle East https://t.co/aDXrncns3d

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

Bond vigilantes have repeatedly told @bankofengland that its aggressive QT actions were increasing Bailey premium.

the Bank's response was to stop asking them!

@adam_tooze @AndyBurnhamGM

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Richard Barrons: UK needs an expeditionary army for unforeseen deployments around the world, "like the war in Iran for example". https://t.co/Jw644Woaxx

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

A 12,000 word interview with Richard Overy: https://t.co/X03DaHHkm1

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

https://t.co/tN3KOupDXW

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

NLR 158 is out now.

Featuring Alexander Zevin on Trump’s Gulf War, Nathan Sperber on neoliberalism’s ends, Nancy Fraser on Gaza as world event and Richard Overy interviewed by Tom Stevenson on the Second World War.

Also in NLR 158: Loïc Wacquant on abolitionism; Marcus Verhagen on the Grenfell fire in art; plus book reviews – Sebastian Veg on Hong Kong and Thomas Meaney on the collapse of communism.

https://t.co/GWmdgUURWt

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

"The sun was out in London and people were going about their daily lives as if all was well in the world. In Lebanon, meanwhile, people went to sleep to the smell of smoke and woke up to the sound of drones."
I wrote about yesterday's attacks:
https://t.co/ku71Sbq9k4

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

After Habermas https://t.co/LB8koYpRuN

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Under Bombardment in Tehran https://t.co/amIW7qC3y1

[Umar Farooq @UmarFarooq_]

UNHCR: up to 3.2 million people in Iran displaced internally by the war, mostly fleeing Tehran. https://t.co/5CXe8ruQjT

[Jon Wiener @JonWiener1]

"Contrary to 90% plus of what one hears on the subject, the assessment of the US and of Israel for more than two decades has been that Iran does NOT have an active nuclear weapons program" – @TomFStevenson on @thenation podcast https://t.co/a4uvRPMgQI

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Yet again, a completely fictional version of Munich is deployed for current political skirmishes.

Can the raging consensus not think of a single alternative point of historical comparison? Or, failing that, actually read about 1938? (Hint: rearmament began in 1934, not 1939)

[Tom McTague @TomMcTague]

Britain is facing its biggest revolution since 1945. Can it adapt? John Bew in a major intervention in the ⁦@NewStatesman⁩ today👇 https://t.co/05zCcy7aRB

[Robert Malley @Rob_Malley]

Grateful to Adam Shatz for inviting the always brilliant @yarbatman and me to the LRB podcast for a discussion on Iran — in which he gets me to talk about Trump’s terrifying marriage of bottomless amorality and infinite power

https://t.co/bpnO7UYCu2

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Early from the next @LRB, the war in Iran, Week One. https://t.co/8RFfB9g50S

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

War in Iran: the dry and wet burn together https://t.co/NgMCzt4sQK

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

Completely divorced from reality.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Joint statement by leaders of UK, France, Germany:

France, Germany and the United Kingdom have consistently urged the Iranian regime to end Iran’s nuclear program, curb its ballistic missile program, refrain from its destabilising activity in the region and our homelands, and to cease the appalling violence and repression against its own people.

We did not participate in these strikes, but are in close contact with our international partners, including the United States, Israel, and partners in the region. We reiterate our commitment to regional stability and to the protection of civilian life.

We condemn Iranian attacks on countries in the region in the strongest terms. Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. We call for a resumption of negotiations and urge the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution. Ultimately, the Iranian people must be allowed to determine their future.

[Tom Stevenson @TomFStevenson]

It's become difficult to overstate the lazy ubiquity of the Munich analogy.

This is not a tabloid opinion piece, but @timjudah1 in the current @nybooks: