Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺
@markoah.bsky.social
Balkan historian. Associate Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
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My book 'Serbia: A Modern History', is now out ! The product of 17.5 years of research and writing. Explains in just under 600 pages Serbia's path from Karađorđe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.
Your Party - the gift that keeps on giving...
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Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
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November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Your Party - the gift that keeps on giving...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regarding the anniversary of the Second Session of the Antifascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) of November 1943, a lot of people are commenting, so I will too: 1) AVNOJ established Tito's new Yugoslavia as a federation of six units, later defined as republics.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Regarding the anniversary of the Second Session of the Antifascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) of November 1943, a lot of people are commenting, so I will too: 1) AVNOJ established Tito's new Yugoslavia as a federation of six units, later defined as republics.
Imagine agitating in support of a two-child benefit cap that discourages British people from having children, then complaining about 'great replacement'. These people hate both British children *and* immigrants. I guess they think the work in the country will just do itself.
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Imagine agitating in support of a two-child benefit cap that discourages British people from having children, then complaining about 'great replacement'. These people hate both British children *and* immigrants. I guess they think the work in the country will just do itself.
The true face of the British far-right: its leader gushes over a murderous foreign dictator who hates Britain, while inciting his followers to view wretched migrants as the 'real enemy'. Nigel Farage is a moral idiot.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The true face of the British far-right: its leader gushes over a murderous foreign dictator who hates Britain, while inciting his followers to view wretched migrants as the 'real enemy'. Nigel Farage is a moral idiot.
Delighted to speak at this event at Istanbul University yesterday: 'The Dayton Agreement at 30: Legal Reflections, Politics of Fragmentation and the Future of Peacebuilding.' Organised by the Balkan Studies Foundation and Worldwide Lawyers Association.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Delighted to speak at this event at Istanbul University yesterday: 'The Dayton Agreement at 30: Legal Reflections, Politics of Fragmentation and the Future of Peacebuilding.' Organised by the Balkan Studies Foundation and Worldwide Lawyers Association.
'It is time for the European Commission to bring out its famous “instruments of torture in the basement” and apply the thumbscrews to Belgium.' www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
'It is time for the European Commission to bring out its famous “instruments of torture in the basement” and apply the thumbscrews to Belgium.' www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Critical Muslim has published my article on the Chetnik genocide of Muslim Bosniaks and others in World War II.
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Fascism
Hassan Mahamdallie is worried about fascist rhetoric, ideology, and organisations re-entering the mainstream, Donny Gluckstein ask what is fascism, Louis Ordish examines the roots of the far right in ...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Critical Muslim has published my article on the Chetnik genocide of Muslim Bosniaks and others in World War II.
criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...
criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...
Hasn't aged well...
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hasn't aged well...
The Trump-Mamdani press conference is something all students of politics should watch: crackling personal chemistry between the right-wing anti-centrist populist president and the left-wing anti-centrist populist mayor facilitate a new alliance that strengthens both. www.youtube.com/live/DcUXfHW...
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani meet in the Oval Office
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Trump-Mamdani press conference is something all students of politics should watch: crackling personal chemistry between the right-wing anti-centrist populist president and the left-wing anti-centrist populist mayor facilitate a new alliance that strengthens both. www.youtube.com/live/DcUXfHW...
Difficult decision my foot, Alan Mendoza. You're an opportunist deserting the sinking ship to do what's best for your career, even if it means selling yourself to Putin fan-boy Nigel Farage after years of claiming to be against Russia !
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Difficult decision my foot, Alan Mendoza. You're an opportunist deserting the sinking ship to do what's best for your career, even if it means selling yourself to Putin fan-boy Nigel Farage after years of claiming to be against Russia !
Alan Mendoza, the shamelessly careerist boss of the Henry Jackson Society, has arrived at his inevitable far-right destination: Farage's Reform appoints director of 'anti-Muslim' think tank as senior advisor www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-nige...
Farage's Reform appoints director of 'anti-Muslim' think tank as senior advisor
The Henry Jackson Society has been described as a 'monstrous animal' and 'racist organisation' - by one of its own founders
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November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Alan Mendoza, the shamelessly careerist boss of the Henry Jackson Society, has arrived at his inevitable far-right destination: Farage's Reform appoints director of 'anti-Muslim' think tank as senior advisor www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-nige...
To state the obvious: President Zelensky should tell Traitor Trump to insert his surrender-to-Russia plan where the sun doesn't shine. The victory Trump wants to hand Putin will be the start of more Russian attacks, on Ukraine and on other European countries.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan
Vladimir Putin says the plan could be the
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November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
To state the obvious: President Zelensky should tell Traitor Trump to insert his surrender-to-Russia plan where the sun doesn't shine. The victory Trump wants to hand Putin will be the start of more Russian attacks, on Ukraine and on other European countries.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Regarding Laura Loomer's reaction to the Trump Mamdani meeting...
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Regarding Laura Loomer's reaction to the Trump Mamdani meeting...
This is absolutely hilarious...
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is absolutely hilarious...
Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case
Milan allegations link Aleksandar Vučić to 1990s shootings of civilians in Bosnian capital by Italians and others
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November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Islam is part of European history
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Islam is part of European history
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Why is Facebook full of videos of people mentally torturing their cats and dogs by cutting up cakes that look just like them ? Weird...
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Why is Facebook full of videos of people mentally torturing their cats and dogs by cutting up cakes that look just like them ? Weird...
Watching the Labour government trying to out-Reform Reform is truly cringeworthy. Quite apart from the immorality of these plans, everyone knows you don't fight an enemy on their favoured terrain.
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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Watching the Labour government trying to out-Reform Reform is truly cringeworthy. Quite apart from the immorality of these plans, everyone knows you don't fight an enemy on their favoured terrain.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What's the difference between Bill Clinton and the Titanic ?
Nobody whose name was Trump...
Nobody whose name was Trump...
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What's the difference between Bill Clinton and the Titanic ?
Nobody whose name was Trump...
Nobody whose name was Trump...
A vulgar misogynist with 1.8 million followers.
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A vulgar misogynist with 1.8 million followers.
Glenn Greenwald is puzzled as to why Noam Chomsky would be friends with Jeffrey Epstein; he considers it a betrayal of Chomsky's principles, and thinks he must have been awed by Epstein's great wealth and charm. Greenwald is wrong, but he stumbles toward the real answer...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Glenn Greenwald is puzzled as to why Noam Chomsky would be friends with Jeffrey Epstein; he considers it a betrayal of Chomsky's principles, and thinks he must have been awed by Epstein's great wealth and charm. Greenwald is wrong, but he stumbles toward the real answer...
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How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice
London and Moscow’s rivalry stretches back to the imperial era, but the Ukraine war has brought relations to a new low
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November 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...