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Stefan Stern

@stefanstern.bsky.social

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Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · Jul 12

Almost a year since this happened. Book still available in the usual places. Audio version coming this autumn!
"Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition"

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 6h

I remember Maureen Lipman saying her hairdresser would always ask: "Been to Dubai yet?"

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 6h

A friend described it as "Croydon with sunshine". I was similarly underwhelmed.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 6h

Am interviewing Heseltine at the Wimbledon book fest in 10 days time. I will put your thoughts to him.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 22h

Useful antidote to/reality check on the Bezos "disagree and commit" idea which he seems to believe in but I have my doubts.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23h

daft banker war stories (with no moral, that might come later). backofmind.substack.com/p/secrets-of...

secrets of sydn

my great unpublished book

backofmind.substack.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 22h

Is it too pious/earnest to see a problem in a popular show that is essentially about lying? O tempora etc.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 23h

"It's the being so cheerful that keeps me going."

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 23h

I have never watched and am holding out.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 1d

Carat in the wind.

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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 2d

Susan Sarandon is transfixingly wonderful in Mary Page Marlowe — theatre review on.ft.com/42zSFxn

Susan Sarandon is transfixingly wonderful in Mary Page Marlowe — theatre review

She is one of five actors portraying the life of a woman in Tracy Letts’ gentle, elusive play at the Old Vic, London

on.ft.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, a ban on A-ha and war with Norway too.

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Trump bans ABBA and declares war on Sweden.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

That's the one!

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

Why is there a giant Jeremy Corbyn outside Said Business School in Oxford?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

I preferred Edwina Currie and the handcuffs to be honest.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Unusual result.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Content-free "content".

I am not content.

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

She won but he cheated and claimed he'd won.

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Content-free "content".

I am not content.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Honest and thoughtful from @stephenkb.bsky.social as ever:
www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly these people who dredge up some half-digested literary text and then try to expand the whole thing into a book...

Oh

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats to Prof Paul Cartledge for his superb refusal to be drawn into a discussion of the so-called Thucydides Trap on Start the Week on the grounds that the modern usage is, he believes, unsound. Top donning! #starttheweek

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