Anne-Marie Weeden
@amweeden.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, working on environmental crime, corruption and illicit finance. Chasing a healthier, happier world, for people, nature and security.
(All tweets my own, etc.)
(All tweets my own, etc.)
As a colleague said “nothing bad ever comes from leaders asking for info on journalists”.
Authoritarian leaders rush to harness the new narrative, to dig the dirt on dissidents. “Distorting” forces or simply pro-democracy activists. History will decide.
#fico #AuthoritarianAbuse #anti-democracy
Authoritarian leaders rush to harness the new narrative, to dig the dirt on dissidents. “Distorting” forces or simply pro-democracy activists. History will decide.
#fico #AuthoritarianAbuse #anti-democracy
February 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
As a colleague said “nothing bad ever comes from leaders asking for info on journalists”.
Authoritarian leaders rush to harness the new narrative, to dig the dirt on dissidents. “Distorting” forces or simply pro-democracy activists. History will decide.
#fico #AuthoritarianAbuse #anti-democracy
Authoritarian leaders rush to harness the new narrative, to dig the dirt on dissidents. “Distorting” forces or simply pro-democracy activists. History will decide.
#fico #AuthoritarianAbuse #anti-democracy
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 10: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen’s lyrical prose was my first real experience of nature writing. What an intro - she writes beautifully. She also taught at my old university, tho not while I was there!
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 10: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen’s lyrical prose was my first real experience of nature writing. What an intro - she writes beautifully. She also taught at my old university, tho not while I was there!
February 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 10: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen’s lyrical prose was my first real experience of nature writing. What an intro - she writes beautifully. She also taught at my old university, tho not while I was there!
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 10: Findings by Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen’s lyrical prose was my first real experience of nature writing. What an intro - she writes beautifully. She also taught at my old university, tho not while I was there!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 9:
The George Smiley Collection by John Le Carré.
Bit of a cheat this one, as it’s 9 in 1. I liked Le Carré but neglected Smiley until stuck at home with a bug back in 2016 & took the plunge. Masterful!
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 9:
The George Smiley Collection by John Le Carré.
Bit of a cheat this one, as it’s 9 in 1. I liked Le Carré but neglected Smiley until stuck at home with a bug back in 2016 & took the plunge. Masterful!
February 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 9:
The George Smiley Collection by John Le Carré.
Bit of a cheat this one, as it’s 9 in 1. I liked Le Carré but neglected Smiley until stuck at home with a bug back in 2016 & took the plunge. Masterful!
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 9:
The George Smiley Collection by John Le Carré.
Bit of a cheat this one, as it’s 9 in 1. I liked Le Carré but neglected Smiley until stuck at home with a bug back in 2016 & took the plunge. Masterful!
Good to see @nytimes.com reference
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on the 3 pillars of state capture. Her work on the topic is normally applicable to understanding kleptocracy in developing nations, but this is for a 101 for Americans, and much closer to home. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on the 3 pillars of state capture. Her work on the topic is normally applicable to understanding kleptocracy in developing nations, but this is for a 101 for Americans, and much closer to home. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Good to see @nytimes.com reference
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on the 3 pillars of state capture. Her work on the topic is normally applicable to understanding kleptocracy in developing nations, but this is for a 101 for Americans, and much closer to home. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on the 3 pillars of state capture. Her work on the topic is normally applicable to understanding kleptocracy in developing nations, but this is for a 101 for Americans, and much closer to home. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 8:
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis.
An eye-opening book which shone a light on the injustices meted out across Africa, and some of the malign actors responsible. It became somewhat of a call to arms.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 8:
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis.
An eye-opening book which shone a light on the injustices meted out across Africa, and some of the malign actors responsible. It became somewhat of a call to arms.
February 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 8:
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis.
An eye-opening book which shone a light on the injustices meted out across Africa, and some of the malign actors responsible. It became somewhat of a call to arms.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 8:
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis.
An eye-opening book which shone a light on the injustices meted out across Africa, and some of the malign actors responsible. It became somewhat of a call to arms.
I urge you all to read Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
It is sumptuously and sensuously written, lyrically summing up precisely how remarkable Earth is, and how humanity is at once both tiny and insignificant & also the most important, malign influence upon it. A startlingly good book of our time.
It is sumptuously and sensuously written, lyrically summing up precisely how remarkable Earth is, and how humanity is at once both tiny and insignificant & also the most important, malign influence upon it. A startlingly good book of our time.
January 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I urge you all to read Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
It is sumptuously and sensuously written, lyrically summing up precisely how remarkable Earth is, and how humanity is at once both tiny and insignificant & also the most important, malign influence upon it. A startlingly good book of our time.
It is sumptuously and sensuously written, lyrically summing up precisely how remarkable Earth is, and how humanity is at once both tiny and insignificant & also the most important, malign influence upon it. A startlingly good book of our time.
Last week during a walk on Crooklets beach in Bude I was soaked up to my knees by incoming tide due to a schoolgirl error…. After letting them dry out all week I treated them with some “dubbin” style salve. I’ve had them four years and this is the first time I’ve put anything on them at all. Oops.
January 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Last week during a walk on Crooklets beach in Bude I was soaked up to my knees by incoming tide due to a schoolgirl error…. After letting them dry out all week I treated them with some “dubbin” style salve. I’ve had them four years and this is the first time I’ve put anything on them at all. Oops.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 7:
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux.
Read this before moving to Africa, soaking up Theroux’s love of this magical continent. Read it again, after years of life in Uganda, where Theroux lived for a while. 💛❤️🖤
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 7:
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux.
Read this before moving to Africa, soaking up Theroux’s love of this magical continent. Read it again, after years of life in Uganda, where Theroux lived for a while. 💛❤️🖤
January 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 7:
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux.
Read this before moving to Africa, soaking up Theroux’s love of this magical continent. Read it again, after years of life in Uganda, where Theroux lived for a while. 💛❤️🖤
#booksky
#bookchallenge
No. 7:
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux.
Read this before moving to Africa, soaking up Theroux’s love of this magical continent. Read it again, after years of life in Uganda, where Theroux lived for a while. 💛❤️🖤
Hope is here and love knows,
We have so much to do.
We have so much to do.
January 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hope is here and love knows,
We have so much to do.
We have so much to do.
Pilgrimage to #BarterBooks #BookHeaven
January 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pilgrimage to #BarterBooks #BookHeaven
And here is the pic! I left my brain in 2024…
January 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
And here is the pic! I left my brain in 2024…
Forgot to attach the image. Durr.
January 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Forgot to attach the image. Durr.
It’s been a busy week hosting and full of merriment whilst still in recovery from flu. Lovely time with family. Have neglected my #20books series. Normal service will resume at some point in the NY. Maybe :-)
December 30, 2024 at 12:13 AM
It’s been a busy week hosting and full of merriment whilst still in recovery from flu. Lovely time with family. Have neglected my #20books series. Normal service will resume at some point in the NY. Maybe :-)
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 4:
Wintering by Katherine May.
This was a perfect (seasonal) guide to my own period of retreat, during 2 years of chemo against a backdrop of Covid. It was a balm. Perfect book to mark #wintersolstice
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 4:
Wintering by Katherine May.
This was a perfect (seasonal) guide to my own period of retreat, during 2 years of chemo against a backdrop of Covid. It was a balm. Perfect book to mark #wintersolstice
December 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 4:
Wintering by Katherine May.
This was a perfect (seasonal) guide to my own period of retreat, during 2 years of chemo against a backdrop of Covid. It was a balm. Perfect book to mark #wintersolstice
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 4:
Wintering by Katherine May.
This was a perfect (seasonal) guide to my own period of retreat, during 2 years of chemo against a backdrop of Covid. It was a balm. Perfect book to mark #wintersolstice
Dreich day. But the first where I felt able to walk the dog - at least a little way - after two weeks of proper, Victorian-style flu.
Photo is not black and white btw, but the day was.
Photo is not black and white btw, but the day was.
December 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Dreich day. But the first where I felt able to walk the dog - at least a little way - after two weeks of proper, Victorian-style flu.
Photo is not black and white btw, but the day was.
Photo is not black and white btw, but the day was.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 3:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
TSH came out between my 2nd- 3rd yrs at uni. I identified with some of the characters. But they did bad things, so it felt conflicting. Isn’t literature delicious?
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 3:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
TSH came out between my 2nd- 3rd yrs at uni. I identified with some of the characters. But they did bad things, so it felt conflicting. Isn’t literature delicious?
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 3:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
TSH came out between my 2nd- 3rd yrs at uni. I identified with some of the characters. But they did bad things, so it felt conflicting. Isn’t literature delicious?
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 3:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
TSH came out between my 2nd- 3rd yrs at uni. I identified with some of the characters. But they did bad things, so it felt conflicting. Isn’t literature delicious?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 2:
Complicity by Iain Banks
Everyone rates the Wasp Factory. But what that held in dark attraction is more than matched by the suspenseful narrative of this tale. Scottish noir at its finest.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 2:
Complicity by Iain Banks
Everyone rates the Wasp Factory. But what that held in dark attraction is more than matched by the suspenseful narrative of this tale. Scottish noir at its finest.
December 18, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 2:
Complicity by Iain Banks
Everyone rates the Wasp Factory. But what that held in dark attraction is more than matched by the suspenseful narrative of this tale. Scottish noir at its finest.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 2:
Complicity by Iain Banks
Everyone rates the Wasp Factory. But what that held in dark attraction is more than matched by the suspenseful narrative of this tale. Scottish noir at its finest.
Thank you to @kristoftiteca.bsky.social who cheered a flu-ridden dark December day with the delivery of his book on Nasser Rd’s political posters of Uganda.
Within the poster trade in Nasser Rd lies a brilliance in mythmaking of folk heroes and demons in ways the Daily Mail can only dream of.
Within the poster trade in Nasser Rd lies a brilliance in mythmaking of folk heroes and demons in ways the Daily Mail can only dream of.
December 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Thank you to @kristoftiteca.bsky.social who cheered a flu-ridden dark December day with the delivery of his book on Nasser Rd’s political posters of Uganda.
Within the poster trade in Nasser Rd lies a brilliance in mythmaking of folk heroes and demons in ways the Daily Mail can only dream of.
Within the poster trade in Nasser Rd lies a brilliance in mythmaking of folk heroes and demons in ways the Daily Mail can only dream of.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 1:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
The last quartet contains the most perfect set of lines to live by. They have been a personal (and at times professional) mantra ever since I first read them, aged 18.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 1:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
The last quartet contains the most perfect set of lines to live by. They have been a personal (and at times professional) mantra ever since I first read them, aged 18.
December 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 1:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
The last quartet contains the most perfect set of lines to live by. They have been a personal (and at times professional) mantra ever since I first read them, aged 18.
#booksky
#bookchallenge
Book No. 1:
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
The last quartet contains the most perfect set of lines to live by. They have been a personal (and at times professional) mantra ever since I first read them, aged 18.
Sad to discover a stranded, dead thresher shark on #Clovelly beach this morning. Rare to see this species off the Devon coast. Apparently this one was caught in some fishing nets recently and despite being successfully released, was obviously mortally affected 😞 🦈
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Sad to discover a stranded, dead thresher shark on #Clovelly beach this morning. Rare to see this species off the Devon coast. Apparently this one was caught in some fishing nets recently and despite being successfully released, was obviously mortally affected 😞 🦈