Belated Happy Birthday ! Hope you'll enjoy it; each chapter better than the next. We are very very proud of it (and sorry that OUP make these volumes so $$$)

Thank you 🙏

To kill time while waiting for news of a deal re Iran, I’ve tuned out and greatly enjoying @alexharvv.bsky.social’s Little Kingdoms

Trump’s America dazzles us in space but wreaks havoc on Earth The new age of uncertainty is spawning scientific genius and political volatility. The rest of us must adapt

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Thank you !

Absolutely brilliant series.

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Global Impact Of Economic Shocks | 1973 - Oil and the 20th Century | 3 Spotify video

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And - surprise suprise - ill-judged western intervention in Iran, regime change, and seizing the oil. Who said history repeats? 4/5

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Come for coal and horses; stay for the new clean technology of the early 20th century: oil 3/5

We explain why the geology and geography of this part of the world are uniquely important 2/5

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Behold ! @afuahirsch.bsky.social and I have done a two part episode on the history & importance of oil in Iran & the Gulf 1/5

The return of the Five o'clock Follies: only good news about Iran, please. As has become expected, the news from Washington it excellent, really excellent.

This and more (and free to read) on #GlobalThreads

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That has created a surreal cycle of alternative realities. The truth is Iran has played a weak hand of cards well. 3/4

During the Vietnam war, journalists were only fed positive stories. It’s the same for Trump: two minute videos each day of things in Iran being blown up 2/4

It’s the return of the Five o’clock Follies - only good news for the President please 1/4

Out today in the UK buijones.com/books/everyt... … cc @uselesstree.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social (should be available at Blackwell’s on Broad Street ) @prashantrao.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social (and some London bookstores too)

That's very kind - and a lovely message to receive on my birthday !

OK, finally finished this masterpiece by @peterfrankopan.bsky.social . Probably the most informative and thought-provoking non-fiction book I've read in the last decade. A tour through time and space of the inter-relationship between the earth, the climate, and the lifeforms.

Thank you ! 🙏

This is one of my favourite podcasts.

(and very grateful, lovely people, for a RT and a follow !)

Great Environmental Shocks in History | Darkness at Noon - The Justinianic Plague | 2 Podcast Episode · Legacy · 17 March · 45m

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As well as mass migration, violence and new connected worlds from Scandinavia to Spain, from the the Middle East to South Asia 5/5

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The acceleration in the spread of global religions along the #SilkRoads across Africa, Europe and Asia 4/5

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Pandemic disease that led to one of the great mass mortality events in history 3/5

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We have mega-eruptions 2/5

New episode has just dropped in our series on Great Environmental disasters in history on #Legacy 1/5

The follies of the US ‘excursion’ in Iran Apologies - this post went haywire when it went out yesterday, so am re-posting now.

For more, and free to read on #Global Threads: The follies of the US ‘excursion’ in Iran 5/5
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t's worth paying attention not only to what senior figures in the US administration are saying - but what they are doing 4/5