While committing one war crime after the other in the Occupied Territories, Israel now terrorises the staff of the International Criminal Court. Time to boycott, divest from, sanction Israel - like we did in the case of SA's apartheid regime. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling 'FINISH THEM'on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

All hail Cold War Steve, ladies and gentlemen, all hail Cold War Steve

Horrific scenes from Rafah tonight.
Too awful to re post- charred and decapitated bodies of children.
And all while the world watches.
I truly hope that in my lifetime we see those in power held to account - those who could have stopped this and failed to do so
The appalling

“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis”

A brilliant, confronting new poem by Zaffar Kunial, written into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this moment.

Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser.
It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment.
To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends.
More on the project below.

Congratulations to the finalists for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2024!

'We are proud to shine the spotlight on these extraordinary writers tackling important subjects with style, precision and urgency.' - Janine Gibson, Chair of Judges

Find out more: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…

Congratulations to our eight finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024!

'Every work here is testament to the power of blazing imagination and patient craft in our complex times.' - Alexandra Harris, Chair of Judges

Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…

Congratulations to the finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024!

'Many of the books we have chosen are sure to become modern classics. It will not be easy to choose a winner.' - Peter Frankopan, Chair of Judges

Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…

Our Empire Podcast series on Imperial America continues with its examination of all the contradictions inherent in the self-proclaimed Empire of Liberty. Don't miss this week's episodes:

George Washington, Plantation Slavery and the Dispossession of the Indigenous Americans

🚨 New episode 🚨

Mrs Genghis Khan

Börte came from a powerful nomadic tribe and in many ways her marriage to Genghis Khan set him up to become the great conqueror we know.

William Dalrymple + anita anand + Marie Favereau

This weekend's recommendation from the back catalogue is...

Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia

William Dalrymple + anita anand + S Sebag Montefiore on the brutality of Ivan the Terrible and the dawn of the Russian Empire.

New Empire Podcast double bill:
The Virginia Company, Jamestown & Pocahontas:
The First English settlements in North America

Genius, fun, learned and with some wonderful 30 million listeners to Empire Podcast, with William Dalrymple and anita anand the warmest BRAVO to you both, these are simply terrific!

⁦Empire Podcast⁩ America series so far birth of America, real Pocahontas, French-British tensions, George Washington’s Yorkshire connections!
Bloodshed, land grabs , colonialism…seems not much changes
🙏🏽⁦anita anand⁩ ⁦William Dalrymple⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emp…

Listen Empire Podcast as William and anita anand dive into the early life of Thomas Jefferson and try to understand the contradictions of a great champion of Liberty who kept six hundred human beings enslaved.
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Yet, throughout his life he possessed over 600 enslaved people, of whom he freed only ten. He also had sexual relations with several, including Sally Hemings, his wife's enslaved half-sister, with whom he had six children. These he freed. Sally Hemings he did not.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the most complex figures in the whole American Revolution. A child of the Enlightenment, it was he who wrote 'we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are born equal'.

New Empire Podcast drop-
The Founding Fathers mini-series part 2:
Thomas Jefferson before the American Revolution

Hrithik Jignasa Sanjeev khandekar ‏سنجیو کھنڈیکر संजीव खांडेकर William Dalrymple Indian Art Gopali Ghosh 🇬🇧🇮🇳 🇺🇦 Amit Guha DrMadhuTeckchandani Several inscriptions on the complete work with V&A, the work is attributed to Abul Hasan.