Apocalypse Now? Trump, Iran & the Return of End-Times Thinking YouTube video by History Uncensored

Honored to appear on @historyuncensored.bsky.social with @biancanobilo.bsky.social and, among others, the far superior Anathea Portier-Young.

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What Freedoms Do Iranians NOT Have in 2026? #iran

What is the Donroe/Monroe Doctrine?

What part of history or geopolitics would you most like to see explained - from origins to consequences?

Book I mentioned: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Paul Kennedy

Might Makes Right, Right?

Thank you 🙏🏼❤️

Trump says Venezuelan President Maduro has been captured by US forces and flown out of the country. Has this happened before? What does it mean?

I have, right after I read the book it was based on. I thought the movie was excellent, and great acting (especially court room scenes & train station) but I preferred the book a touch.

Protests across Iran turn deadly. How are they connected to 1979?

Thank you Mark! 🙏🏼

History belongs to the people willing to look foolish long enough for the world to catch up.

Full episode on the History of Magic & Alchemy out on YouTube now ✨🧪

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A VERY short history: US & Venezuela

HISTORY UNCENSORED EPISODE 2 OUT NOW: History of Magic, Alchemy & the Search for the Philosopher’s Stone

🔮What was alchemy, really?

⚗️ Isaac Newton’s secret search for Philosopher’s Stone

🧪 Michio Kaku on how alchemy led to modern science

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'History has forbidden questions... ones that feel morally dangerous.'

We start asking them in Episode 1 of History Uncensored, where I investigate the Nuremberg trials and ask whether the Nazis were 'normal', drawing on the experience of my own family.

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5/5 China – Dongzhi Festival (winter solstice)

Turning point in the cosmic balance of yin and yang. Families gathered. Ritual foods eaten (glutinous rice balls in m south & dumplings in north). Emphasis was on the restoration of harmony after the peak of darkness.

Chinese winter solstice festival

4/5 Persia– Yalda Night (winter solstice)

Longest night of the year, associated with danger & darkness. Families stayed awake together, lit fires, recited poetry & ate symbolic fruits like pomegranates to guard against evil + ensure the return of light.

Safavid Persian miniature (16th c.)

3/5 Norse Scandinavia – Yule (Jól), midwinter

Multi-day festival: feasting, ale-drinking, unbreakable oath-swearing & sacrifices for prosperity and victory. Fires were kept burning. Toasts made to gods like Odin and Freyr, to rulers and the dead.

Altnordisches Julfest (1880) by Ferdinand Lindner

2/5 Ancient Rome – Saturnalia (17–23 December)

A public festival honouring Saturn. Work stopped. Slaves and masters dined together. Roles inverted. Homes were decorated with greenery. Small gifts were exchanged, like figurines and candles.

Long before Christmas, cultures across the world marked midwinter in strikingly similar ways, because they were responding to the same existential reality: the darkest, coldest, most dangerous time of the year…

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My brand new YouTube show History Uncensored launched today!

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🧛🏻‍♀️Origins of the Vampire Myth
✨Isaac Newton’s Secret Search for the Philosopher’s Stone
⚔️ Cannibalism during the Crusades?!
🧠 Psychology of Nazi Leaders

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Were The Nazis 'Normal'? Uncovering Nuremberg With Bianca Nobilo | Feat Brian Cox YouTube video by History Uncensored

Kickoff episode of the intriguing new history series by @biancanobilo.bsky.social
Were The Nazis 'Normal'? Uncovering Nuremberg With Bianca Nobilo | Feat Brian Cox - YouTube
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Maps, myths and footnotes are my happiest place - and the BEST bit is, now I get to bring you into it.

Step into my paper-strewn study of book towers, peculiar relics and other questionable acquisitions…

Now, to my continued disbelief, I get to spend my weeks buried in books, talking to world-class experts whose work I’ve loved since university, tracing the taboo, contested and long-hidden threads of the past.

History Uncensored is coming soon to YouTube & Spotify.

My Year 3 report said I wanted to be a “historian & history presenter.”
I’m still that kid (minus the orthodontics).

What formula doesn’t capture:

•FX shifts – currency changes can offset tariff effects
•Retaliation – does not take counter-tariffs into account
•Supply chains – e.g. rerouting via third countries
•Long-term shifts – firms may relocate, buyers may substitute etc

Intention: eliminate bilateral trade deficit

Depends on:
1. Elasticity. If demand is price-sensitive, small tariff shrinks import volumes sharply.
2. Pass-through. If exporters absorb costs, U.S. prices stay low, imports don’t fall.
3. Larger import volume= bigger tariff needed