Sam Wilkin
Contributor and Editor at Freelance
Freelance (managing) editor and media consultant. Former senior editor at Politico & MLex, reporter at Bloomberg & Reuters. Amateur essayist at https://t.co/lhWTUnEKcm
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6 days ago |
theleopard.eu | Sam Wilkin
Last week a driver deliberately ploughed his car into a crowd of football fans in Liverpool. Footage of the attack shows people bouncing helplessly off the speeding vehicle and others going under the wheels. Miraculously nobody was killed, but dozens were injured, including several children. In Europe, where guns are rare, cars and trucks are the deadliest weapons in circulation.
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2 weeks ago |
open.substack.com | Sam Wilkin
Never before in history has such a successful civilisation generated such self-loathing as the modern West. There’s no evidence of the Abbasids agonising over the slave trade as they counted their gold, nor of Qin nobles sparing a thought for the brutalised corvee labourers who built their palaces. Late Roman thinkers blamed the erosion of Roman values for their empire’s decline, not the values themselves. Other cultures have had their share of internal critics, but for failure rather than success.
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1 month ago |
open.substack.com | Sam Wilkin
Once upon a time it was impossible to know what was truly happening in much of the world. Elites could send letters, and later on hub cities would have a telegram, but in both cases access was limited to a small number of people who would invariably spin things their way with no threat of being contradicted. Beyond the city walls the picture was fuzzier still. Information would filter in with traders and travellers, all with their own story to tell.
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1 month ago |
wtwco.com | Sam Wilkin
Unlock More The annual Political Risk Survey, carried out by Oxford Analytica on behalf of WTW, combines in-depth interviews with a broader survey. There were 66 respondents to the survey and 15 participants in the interview panel. The survey sample is representative of globalized businesses, across geographic regions, industries, and company size.
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1 month ago |
thejc.com | Sam Wilkin
Iran to hold nuclear talks with UK, France and GermanyDiplomats from the E3 group of nations will sit down with negotiators on Friday as Tehran seemingly looks beyond its direct link with Washington
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RT @pietercleppe: Important point from @MrSamWilkin: https://t.co/NQhjcXK5be
Why do so many people in the West hate their own civilisation? I argue it's because of a lopsided teaching of history and culture, where the West gets an interrogation and other peoples get a hagiography. New essay: https://t.co/iGsUitVO9k
I never doubted you for a second @TheEconomist https://t.co/ZpwkRIN8ta
