S Sebag Montefiore
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Historian. Jerusalem: a History of the MiddleEast.The World:a Family HIstory. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. TheRomanovs. CatherinetheGreat. Novels:the Moscow Trilogy
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Epic histories to understand our turbulent world today
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RT @_hudsonc: The four richest Africans have more wealth than half of the continent's entire 1.4 billion population.
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RT @antoneyz: @simonmontefiore Book on Stalin explained how he held control, how control was maintained and why Putin/Russians dream of its….
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RT @IbnBattuta1369: @simonmontefiore I just left Jerusalem after a short 4 day work trip. Since reading Jerusalem 3 years ago, I appreciate….
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No one does this better. @RoyalFamily.
✨ Final preparations are taking place ahead of this evening’s State Banquet in St George’s Hall, Windsor Castle.
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Amazing picture of imperial naval apotheosis.
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RT @ariel_oseran: WATCH: Saudi Journalist Abdulaziz @alkhames speaks at the Knesset’s lobby for promoting a regional security agreement and….
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RT @lacymacauley: How can the SDF, which includes the independent YPJ Women's Protection Units, just blindly join a new Syrian military tha….
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RT @peterfrankopan: Outstanding - and beautifully written - essay by @AlecuRussell on the looming crisis in Bosnia.
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Entente Cordiale 2025. Never more welcome nor essential.
👋 Au revoir! À la prochaine!. This morning, The King and Queen bid farewell to President Macron and Mrs. Macron. Ce matin, le Président @EmmanuelMacron et Madame Macron ont pris congé du Roi Charles III et de la Reine Camilla.
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The grandees. Mick Jagger and Elton John at the King’s banquet for President Macron. What a great photo. It is a strange but wonderful phenomenum that the great rockstars - gifted musicians for all sorts of backgrounds who rose to stardom in the 60s and 70s - attained
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RT @HowidyHamza: Across Berlin, as well as cities in North America, recent footage has shown individuals marching under Palestinian flags w….
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Save The birthplace of Black Sabbath.
Imagine a city with a small street featuring: . - The UK's first Rep Theatre.- The UK's oldest working cinema.- The birthplace of Black Sabbath & linked to 20 @rockhall inductees. Then letting it be run down or demolished by developers. You'd be furious at the stupidity, right?
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RT @simonmontefiore: Well done @britishmuseum .Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for the first time in 900 years.
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AI could spark white-collar revolution as enraged unemployed & educated young elites embrace catastrophically extreme ideologies - as I warned in The World. Has that already started?.
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Murder mystery reveals the ever darker realm of Filipino cockfighters.
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Life is getting ever more dangerous at the court of the Russian autocrat - as minister ‘kills himself’ after being sacked by Putin and favoured oligarch arrested.
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‘I’m gonna bomb the shit outta Moscow’ : Trump says he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine.
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