Ed West
@edjameswest.bsky.social
Writer, Wrong Side of History substack
www.edwest.co.uk
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The story of Bess of Hardwick, who skilfully navigated the treacherous court and family politics of Tudor England: a fascinating tale, told by @edjameswest.bsky.social
Bess of Hardwick, mother of dynasties
All you need to know about Tudor England's richest woman
www.edwest.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The story of Bess of Hardwick, who skilfully navigated the treacherous court and family politics of Tudor England: a fascinating tale, told by @edjameswest.bsky.social
Today's post: Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome? www.edwest.co.uk/p/do-i-have-... (FREE)
Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome?
The US president is going to give us a thousand years of woke
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April 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Today's post: Do I have Trump Derangement Syndrome? www.edwest.co.uk/p/do-i-have-... (FREE)
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Love this from @edjameswest.bsky.social: 'How we'd talk if England had won in 1066': "In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. Alcoholics Anonymous would be renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers" www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...
A language of beautiful impurity
'English is both a Germanic and a Latin language' - and that's its strength
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March 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Love this from @edjameswest.bsky.social: 'How we'd talk if England had won in 1066': "In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. Alcoholics Anonymous would be renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers" www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...
Today's post, on our most underrate leader (free to read) www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-first-...
The First Briton
James I, the wise fool who dreamed of a Great Britain
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March 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Today's post, on our most underrate leader (free to read) www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-first-...
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Monday = London Review of Substacks in @semafor.com's daily global briefing
Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
January 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Monday = London Review of Substacks in @semafor.com's daily global briefing
Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Today's edition by @tomchivers.bsky.social features smart pieces by Daniel B., @edjameswest.bsky.social, and @stephenfhwebb.bsky.social www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
Today's post, on cousin marriage www.edwest.co.uk/p/keeping-it...
December 13, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Today's post, on cousin marriage www.edwest.co.uk/p/keeping-it...
Today's post: The case for a Global Sanctuary City www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
December 11, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Today's post: The case for a Global Sanctuary City www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
For those enjoying the Rest is History series on the Franks and the Battle of Tours, my post on the Germanic tribe who remade Europe is now free www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-day-th...
The day the world’s fate was played out
Or, how German are the French?
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December 10, 2024 at 8:22 AM
For those enjoying the Rest is History series on the Franks and the Battle of Tours, my post on the Germanic tribe who remade Europe is now free www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-day-th...
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The Ruffian has LANDED. This week: when opinions are just feelings about a story www.ian-leslie.com/p/maybe-your...
Maybe Your Opinion Is Just a Feeling About a Story
On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John & Paul'. Plus a Juicy Rattle Bag of Goodies.
www.ian-leslie.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:32 AM
The Ruffian has LANDED. This week: when opinions are just feelings about a story www.ian-leslie.com/p/maybe-your...
The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles. Me, in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles
I took my daughter to Athens for a short holiday at half-term. She is studying Ancient Greek at GCSE, which makes me immensely proud as I didn’t even get that far with Latin. Delphi was wondrous but M...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:43 AM
The right reason to give back the Elgin marbles. Me, in the Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Today's post, on the case for returning the Marbles www.edwest.co.uk/p/soothing-t...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
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December 3, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Today's post, on the case for returning the Marbles www.edwest.co.uk/p/soothing-t...
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The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster
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Times are changing and my new novel published next month will be the first of my books to contain this text on the copyright page.
October 19, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Times are changing and my new novel published next month will be the first of my books to contain this text on the copyright page.
Fascinating post on Germany's love of Shakespeare. www.katjahoyer.uk/p/shakespear...
November 24, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Fascinating post on Germany's love of Shakespeare. www.katjahoyer.uk/p/shakespear...
Still no subscribers in North Korea, two of the Stans, Syria, Yemen and most of Francophone Africa. Morocco the only non-western country with a large per-capita number (no idea why - never visited and never written about it) bsky.app/profile/samf...
November 24, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Still no subscribers in North Korea, two of the Stans, Syria, Yemen and most of Francophone Africa. Morocco the only non-western country with a large per-capita number (no idea why - never visited and never written about it) bsky.app/profile/samf...
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Dr Lawrence Newport is Britain’s most effective campaigner.
After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
‘I got XL bullies banned – now I am setting my sights on jailing career criminals for good’
Dr Lawrence Newport, who exposed death surge by bully dogs, campaigns to push Government for tougher approach on crime
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Dr Lawrence Newport is Britain’s most effective campaigner.
After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
After getting XL Bullies banned, he’s turned his sights on the criminal justice system and the need to focus resources on “prolific offenders”.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
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Enjoyed this take (from the right) on Bluesky and twitter.
Hierarchies must always exist, and Elon’s populist revolution has just replaced one aristocracy with a new - worse - one, the noblesse de robe giving way to the noblesse de slop. Today's post www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
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November 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Enjoyed this take (from the right) on Bluesky and twitter.
I'm almost never an early adopter but I remember listening to the very first episode of TRiH during the misery of Lockdown II and thinking this is going to be very popular bsky.app/profile/eate...
November 23, 2024 at 11:08 AM
I'm almost never an early adopter but I remember listening to the very first episode of TRiH during the misery of Lockdown II and thinking this is going to be very popular bsky.app/profile/eate...
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Bluesky is the New England of social media, says @edjameswest.bsky.social www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
www.edwest.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Bluesky is the New England of social media, says @edjameswest.bsky.social www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
Hierarchies must always exist, and Elon’s populist revolution has just replaced one aristocracy with a new - worse - one, the noblesse de robe giving way to the noblesse de slop. Today's post www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
Why we need an insufferable liberal elite
The Great Migration to Bluesky
www.edwest.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Hierarchies must always exist, and Elon’s populist revolution has just replaced one aristocracy with a new - worse - one, the noblesse de robe giving way to the noblesse de slop. Today's post www.edwest.co.uk/p/why-we-nee...
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I currently have my first ever photo exhibition running and I think this may be the best photo I've ever taken... Santa Maria della Salute from the Accademia bridge in Venice, in that soft post-sunset glow. I had no idea when I took it that this would be one of my most popular images ever.
November 22, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I currently have my first ever photo exhibition running and I think this may be the best photo I've ever taken... Santa Maria della Salute from the Accademia bridge in Venice, in that soft post-sunset glow. I had no idea when I took it that this would be one of my most popular images ever.
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Obv the main reason for people moving to this app is political. But I hope it will also be a signal to X that the market will punish suppression of external links and algo-slop.
Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.
Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.
November 22, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Obv the main reason for people moving to this app is political. But I hope it will also be a signal to X that the market will punish suppression of external links and algo-slop.
Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.
Or more precisely, it's not the market in the sense of the mass of users, but the more 'elite' and thus influential ones.
Today's newsletter is up www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
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November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Today's newsletter is up www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 25/25/25 point edges slowly closer. cc @jdriver89.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/luke...
🆕 Our latest voting intention finds the Conservatives hold a 3 point lead while Labour’s vote share hits a low of 25%
🌳CON 28% (-1)
🌹LAB 25% (-2)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
➡️ REF UK 19% (nc)
🌍 GREEN 8% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,002; Dates: 19 - 21/11; Change with 11/11
🌳CON 28% (-1)
🌹LAB 25% (-2)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
➡️ REF UK 19% (nc)
🌍 GREEN 8% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,002; Dates: 19 - 21/11; Change with 11/11
November 21, 2024 at 7:17 PM
The 25/25/25 point edges slowly closer. cc @jdriver89.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/luke...
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reminder of the time john prescott was given a state banquet on a trip to Beijing and then told them it wasn’t as good as Mr Chu’s in Hull
(source: hull daily mail)
(source: hull daily mail)
November 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
reminder of the time john prescott was given a state banquet on a trip to Beijing and then told them it wasn’t as good as Mr Chu’s in Hull
(source: hull daily mail)
(source: hull daily mail)