Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall
@rashmee.bsky.social
Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. FRSA. Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette Sign up: This Week, Those Books https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com https://medium.com/this-week-those-books
Hear, hear @financialtimes.com's @pollymackenzie.bsky.social: "Only active communities, backed by an active state, can rescue our town centres at the scale and pace that’s needed...Not every high street can have an outpost of No 10 but most could host more of the state" www.ft.com/content/f438...
How to save the British high street
Communities need help to tackle the blight of delinquent landlords who let empty properties decay
ft.com
#Myanmar’s military junta released photos of a meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi & Arnaud de Baecque of the Red Cross. It said the meeting took place in Naypyidaw, Aug 3. A 2021 military coup removed Suu Kyi’s elected government. Sent to prison, she's not been seen since late 2022
Per @untoldmag.org : "While #Europe hesitates, #Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, #Palestinian suffering is the price of admission." untoldmag.org/albania-isra...
Coloniality by proxy: Albania's road to Brussels runs through Tel Aviv - Untold
While Europe hesitates, Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, Palestinian suffering is the price of admission
untoldmag.org
Important update by @henkvaness.bsky.social on #Google hitting pause on the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July open.substack.com/pub/henkvane...
Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth
Google has rolled back the image generation feature it launched in Google Earth on 30 July.
open.substack.com
@economist.com is marking the 40th birthday of its Big Mac index: In America $100 buys about 16 Big Macs. That's roughly the same for 100 euros, 426 Chinese yuan, 8,039 Japanese yen. But $100 buys about €87 or 677 yuan or over ¥16,000 in the foreign-exchange markets!
Incredibly important piece by @henkvaness.bsky.social on #Google’s insane idea of allowing everyone create their own “fun feature” on its maps, which means invented things are (floods of refugees; a nuclear plant in Iran etc) are “welded to genuine coordinates..." open.substack.com/pub/henkvane...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
open.substack.com
Oh to be a city mayor! #thisweekthosebooks on why many believe mayors should rule the world. Free to read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/mayors-are...
The biggest byelection in British history is for a #mayor. #thisweekthosebooks has context from two books on why mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world? via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...
Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?
A manifesto for trickle-up politics. Memories of the power and peril
medium.com
The July 30 contest for mayor of Greater Manchester has more than 2 million eligible voters and was brought on by Andy Burnham’s job upgrade to UK prime minister. #thisweekthosebooks on why mayors are in fashion. And could they lead the world? via @medium.com medium.com/this-week-th...
Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?
A manifesto for trickle-up politics. Memories of the power and peril
medium.com
#thisweekthosebooks offers context in 5 minutes on city mayors. Could they herald “a miracle of civic ‘glocality’”? Please read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/mayors-are...
Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?
A manifesto for trickle-up politics. Memories of the power and peril
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com
@thekoreaherald.bsky.social editorial: “Washington’s rapid shift from temporary global duties to new Section 301 #tariffs shows that #protectionism is no longer a temporary negotiating tactic but an enduring element of economic policy”. 1/2
Tomorrow’s funeral for the late #US Senator Lindsey Graham will bring major world figures to Washington. It’ll also tee up White House meetings for Israeli PM Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, both looking to shore up support after losing one of their highest-profile backers in D.C.
Fascinating piece by @tmgneff.bsky.social , formerly of @nytimes & a Marine, who fought in #Afghanistan: He returned to the country to speak to the former enemy in search of answers and closure. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
nytimes.com
Per @equatormag.bsky.social : #Indian poet @ranjithoskote.bsky.social : "For our generation, the key moment of crisis and trauma was 6 December 1992, when the Babri Masjid #mosque was torn down. We wondered if everything we’d believed in was about to vanish"
Overheard from a child at a Farmer’s Market on a dairy farm: “Best day out ever, except for the smell.”
Jonathan Coe's satirical novel on #Thatcherism is a reminder of some of what happened in the late 1980s and 1990s – an internal market was created in everything, so that healthcare became a commodity. #neoliberalism #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
The Grand Egyptian Museum is both architecture & argument. It naturalizes a version of the country in which conflict, inequality & rupture are treated as noise rather than memory. It presents this as the only story with the right to fill space. @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/egyptian-mus...
Building Belief: The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Architecture of State Power - Untold
Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of Egypt feel seamless, permanent and unquestionable
untoldmag.org
Big news from @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social , its planned expansion of international coverage. Way to go... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-cen...
CBC/Radio-Canada expands international news, including five new bureaus to be launched around the world
Over the next two years, CBC/Radio-Canada will place journalists in Beijing, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and a new location in Europe, to be determined.
cbc.radio-canada.ca
Prime Minister Andy Burnham will need a lot of luck to rewire #Britain. The neolibs are dead serious about an agenda that includes ending the 'equality premise' and smashing the #environmental movement. thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
My piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social : As we come up to the fifth anniversary of Taliban rule in #Afghanistan, how long can its brutally repressive regime against #women last? www.thenewworld.co.uk/rashmee-rosh...
The Taliban’s no.1 priority – crushing half the population
The Taliban has been back in power for five years and has introduced a brutally repressive regime against women. How long can it last?
thenewworld.co.uk
Rewiring Britain: Can Burnham do it? #thisweekthosebooks has a rollicking satirical novel on the Thatcher years + 2 great reads on the #neoliberal agenda. Get some context. A 6-minute read via @medium. medium.com/this-week-th...
Rewiring Britain: Can Burnham do it? #thisweekthosebooks has a rollicking satirical novel on the Thatcher years + 2 great reads on the #neoliberal agenda. Get some context. A 6-minute read via @medium.com. medium.com/this-week-th...
Rewiring Britain
Rollicking family saga on the greed-is-good life. And neoliberal logic
medium.com
From Jonathan Coe’s fabulous satirical novel on the Thatcher years, which kicked off neoliberalism in #Britain. Can #Burnham change things? #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
Andy Burnham wants to rewire #Britain but can he break the circuit on #neoliberalism? #thisweekthosebooks has 3 great reads – Jonathan Coe’s fabulous satirical novel & 2 primers on what the neolibs really really want. Context in 5 minutes. Free to read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...
