Head of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Gary Rawnsley
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Marco #Rubio, now US Secretary of State, speaking about the value of foreign aid & development assistance in 2015. Quoted by Nicholas Enrich, Into the Wood Chipper #USAID
Prince George to attend Eton College from September. Wow, I did not see that coming ….
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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
Happy #Bloomsday 2026 #Booksky
“… #USAID delivered arguably the highest impact dollar of any agency in the US government … with a global health budget in 2024 of just $24 per American (out of $15,000 paid per person in taxes).”
- Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social
And now we have #Rubio claiming #UFC = American soft power. I’m going to lie down in a dark room & go to my happy place …
“Swift evening spreads across Jakarta. The city lies inert in a hot brown twilight, which smells of petrol, frangipani & fear … but fear mounts like erotic excitement in these stormy nights of the north-west monsoon. #Jakarta waits always for explosions”
Today’s reading #Booksky
“Boston University researchers have conservatively estimated that (one year after closing #USAID) the shutdown has already killed at least three-quarters of a million people, most of them children” - Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social
“… we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would be, but then again, it has also been magic.”
- Virginia Evans, The Correspondent #Booksky
I’ve been looking forward to reading this for some time - a whistleblower’s account of how the #Trump administration has destroyed #USAID. Delighted my copy finally arrived @nenrich.bsky.social #Bookskyi
