Back Story culture columnist @TheEconomist; ex Moscow & Southern US correspondent. Booker-shortlisted author of Snowdrops & Independence Square
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Putin’s Ukraine obsession began 20 years ago with the Orange Revolution atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/uk…
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"Sometimes Britain seems to be turning into a giant, dysfunctional metaphor for itself."
A tour of the country, and of 14 years of Tory rule, for @TheEconomist
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Britain is “on its knees now. Any more and it’d be on its elbows—and your face would be in it!”
My survey of the Tories' legacy for @TheEconomist
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Britain on the brink: what does the country look like after 14 years of Tory government?
My podcast for @TheEconomist
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Progess is possible....and (even amid the gloom) it is happening @HumanDignityT
NEWS: In a historic move that will align the country with its immediate neighbours, today the High Court of #Namibia has struck down discriminatory laws that criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy. More information to follow.
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@DavidLinden Mr Linden, hello from The Economist magazine. Is it possible you could follow me here so I can DM you an interview request? Thank you, Andy
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My latest Back Story column in @TheEconomist is on Jürgen Klopp and one of the deep purposes of sport: it teaches you how to win--and how to lose
economist.com/culture/2024/0…
A love story about an assault: my Back Story column in @TheEconomist is on Salman Rushdie's bracing, uplifting memoir
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Fellow gloomy Brits: read this excellent, upbeat and clear-eyed piece on immigration and assimilation by my colleague @JoelBudd1 in @TheEconomist
If this is failure, "it would be nice to know what success looks like"
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"The Regime" is a frequently silly show with a deadly serious point--just like autocracy itself. Autocratic politics is a satirical pantomime, a spoof of democracy that dragoons everyone into the joke.
My Back Story column in this week's @TheEconomist
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Infatuation, kids, adultery, forgiveness: from Oppenheimer to Maestro & Anatomy of a Fall, together the Oscar nominees sketch a portrait of marriage. Here it is.
My Back Story column in this week's @TheEconomist
economist.com/culture/2024/0…
“The authorities are winning now, today. But in the long run, culture always wins.”
Great profile of Ludmila Ulitskaya, and reflection on Russian art and exile, by @GuyChazan in @FT
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Conspiracy theorists need not fret about Taylor Swift getting from her gig in Tokyo to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. Elvis is flying her in his UFO.
Last week's Back Story in @TheEconomist is on the overlap of polarised politics, conspiracy & celebrity
economist.com/culture/2024/0…
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Informative, but probably not in the way either man intended: my column in @TheEconomist on Tucker Carlson's botched interview with Putin
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My culture column this week
How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust? Two very different new films rise to the challenge—up to a point econ.st/3vBDmX8 👇
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner that I wrote this ode to the invincible post-Brexit/covid city in @TheEconomist
Thanks @crescenzi_r @brenthoberman @FryEmily @jackwbrown @PpeterPeter @OliverBullough @gemmacatney @Williamw1 @Babsogundeyi @jdportes
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Ridley Scott weaves the triumphs and disasters into a chronicle of Napoleon’s passion for Joséphine. It’s grisly stuff—and that’s just the love affair.
This week's Back Story in @TheEconomist is about "Napoleon" and the art of shaping a life into a story
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