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Dominic Newbould
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Academic in Hanoi 🇻🇳
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While I wheel around in Bluesky, finding my feet (or wings), I’m going to post pictures and comments on my life in Hanoi…
Whatever you think of communism, the October Revolution was a momentous event that shook the world. It initiated a new era for mankind – of struggle for freedom, equality and social justice, especially the movement for national liberation in colonial countries around the world, including Vietnam🇻🇳
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
How close we come, in every UK election, to jettisoning our rights, privileges, and freedoms – which have taken so long to win in the first place…
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.

Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump is still preposterous. He is still callous. And he is just as vain and attention seeking as ever.
Above all, his version of how the world works is utterly wrong.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
To the vatniks, campists, fascists and self-described "pragmatists" saying "maybe Trump has got a point":
There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine.
Ukraine.
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
February 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Bleakly beautiful
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Always a sorrowful sight in Hanoi – a child’s solitary shoe…
December 14, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Anthony Powell’s mesmerising series-saga, A Dance to the Music of Time is the English response to Proust.
As soon as I read the description of Widmerpool – “so wet you could shoot snipe off him”, I was hooked and netted.
Essential reading, too, if you want insights into the decline of empire
December 14, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Would you like me to recommend more books?
I have many to choose from
☺️📚📚📚🥰
December 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
BONUS BOOK 21 ☺️📚
December 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 20
December 11, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 19
December 11, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 18
December 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 17
December 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 16
A trilogy…
December 9, 2024 at 1:53 AM
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 15
December 8, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 14
December 8, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 13
December 8, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Hundreds of public libraries have been closed. The cause? Tory austerity policies since 2010, which squeezed local council funding.
Turning the clock back 14 years is nigh on impossible…so what can be done?
We have food kitchens.
Maybe book kitchens are the only answer (but short term, I hope).
December 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 12
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 11
December 4, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 10
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 9
December 2, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 8
December 2, 2024 at 2:05 AM