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Britain's wartime leader was also a gifted amateur painter, whose oeuvre, close in style to the English impressionists, offers a striking perspective on his extraordinary life.
Winston Churchill’s world in paintings | Peter Caddick-Adams
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Britain's wartime leader was also a gifted amateur painter, whose oeuvre, close in style to the English impressionists, offers a striking perspective on his extraordinary life.
There are some great recommendations for summer reading here, in amongst evocative anecdotes and memories. It's in alphabetical order so you will need to read right to the end for my contribution.
'As Turkey’s descent into autocracy quickens, this is a timely and vital reminder of the impact on the people living through it'
@hannahluci.bsky.social picks #FromLifeItself by Suzy Hansen as a summer read for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social.
The Turkish president has pacified his country's political opposition, bringing about the culmination point of two decades of pragmatic authoritarianism.
Erdogan’s coup is complete | Hannah Lucinda Smith
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Alexandra Wilson
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Singapore's survival in an increasingly tricky neighbourhood holds pointed lessons for Europe's smaller states.
What small states can learn from Singapore | Floris van Berckel Smit and Deborah Koh
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The heritage of Tyre, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, is under threat in the latest phase of the conflict in South Lebanon.
Tyre: a city in the sea | Katherine Pangonis
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Spufford's new novel conjures a wartime London at once enchanting and terrifying, alive with metamorphic possibility.
Francis Spufford’s incorrigibly plural world | @mathewlyons.bsky.social
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🎧The EI Podcast: Why Armenia’s elections matter
Thomas de Waal joins EI’s Jack Dickens to discuss how the recent elections in Armenia could reshape geopolitics in the Caucasus and beyond.
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Throughout the Cold War, Sweden pursued a shrewd diplomatic strategy in the Baltic, calming tensions between the superpowers while quietly aligning itself with the democratic West.
Sweden’s Cold War tightrope | Magnus Petersson
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Russia's geopolitics has been shaped by centuries of dealing with both the settled communities of the west and the nomadic peoples of the steppe to its east and south.
The statecraft of the steppe | David Chaffetz
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Singapore's survival in an increasingly tricky neighbourhood holds pointed lessons for Europe's smaller states.
The Turkish president has pacified his country's political opposition, bringing about the culmination point of two decades of pragmatic authoritarianism.
Russia's geopolitics has been shaped by centuries of dealing with both the settled communities of the west and the nomadic peoples of the steppe to its east and south.
Throughout the Cold War, Sweden pursued a shrewd diplomatic strategy in the Baltic, calming tensions between the superpowers while quietly aligning itself with the democratic West.
