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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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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 5h

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my great unpublished book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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5h

I have never watched and am holding out.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 6h

Carat in the wind.

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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 8h

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

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Trump bans ABBA and declares war on Sweden.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 1d

That's the one!

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 3d

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

I preferred Edwina Currie and the handcuffs to be honest.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

Unusual result.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

Content-free "content".

I am not content.

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

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

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

Content-free "content".

I am not content.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's one way of dealing with that Monday morning feeling.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

French prime ministers resigns three weeks after appointment on.ft.com/4pXeLDS

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns

Macron ally was appointed just three weeks ago

on.ft.com

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David Smith @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social · 5d

My Sunday Times piece: The chancellor has hinted at cutting official forecasts to one a year, which would be a mistake. Just treat one of the OBR’s two forecasts as advisory, not a call for immediate action:

Don’t shoot the messenger by burying OBR forecasts

www.thetimes.com/article/6040...

Don’t shoot the messenger by burying OBR forecasts

Rachel Reeves should avoid making the UK less transparent than competitor economies by cutting down the number of official forecasts

www.thetimes.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 6d

Had my book launch here last year and now look...
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...

David Ellis reviews The Macbeth: £4.95 pints? I think I'll move in

This is somewhere that feels real, says David Ellis — no play-acting, no plot to keep up with

www.standard.co.uk

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 7d

He has also now saluted Nigel Farage's indefatigability.

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