Lecturer @UniofOxford | Author of a NEW BOOK: ‘A New Axis of Upheaval: North Korea, Russia, China, Iran’ | Organist | Views my own
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Very pleased to announce that my latest book, 'A NEW AXIS OF UPHEAVAL: North Korea, Russia, China, Iran' will be published by @HurstPublishers later this year.
Amidst global geopolitical turbulence, there is no better time than the present to understand these dynamics.
St Lazarus is the patron saint of (amongst others) the poor.
How ironic that the Lazarus Group—North Korea’s state-run hacker group—is likely behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency heist of $6.3billion.
My latest for @spectator @SpecCoffeeHouse 👇
When the world's largest cryptocurrency heist takes place, it doesn't take long for the finger to be pointed at one particular country.
North Korea is known as the hermit kingdom. It is ruled by a regime that isolates its people from the internet out of fear of outside information infiltrating its borders. But when it comes to cyberwarfare, not least cryptocurrency thefts, Pyongyang is anything but a hermit.
With hackers stealing $6.3 billion overnight from the digital wallets of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, it is no surprise that North Korea is the likely perpetrator.
✍️ Edward Howell
Article | spectator.com/article/was-no…
If you would like to know how not to evaluate Mao’s legacy, read the below.
Utter tripe—which is unfair to the delicacy of tripe—at best, and a denial of the facts at worst.
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I wish more people remembered that *not* posting on the internet is always an option.
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“My proposal? Not one penny of public money should be funding this rubbish. These ideas are destructive and dividing, and they must go. You can decolonise all you want on your own dollar, but no public money should come your way.” spectator.com/article/we-nee…
What a sorry state of affairs.
Apologising for a statement of fact.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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A new must read!
Advance copies of my upcoming book, 'A New Axis of Upheaval', are available in November from @HurstPublishers
Click the link below to pre-order!
'An eye-opening and enthralling book bursting with insights about the complex relationships between North Korea, Russia, China and Iran. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our increasingly turbulent world' @peterfrankopan
hurstpublishers.com/book/a-n…
Advance copies of my upcoming book, 'A New Axis of Upheaval', are available in November from @HurstPublishers
Click the link below to pre-order!
'An eye-opening and enthralling book bursting with insights about the complex relationships between North Korea, Russia, China and Iran. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand our increasingly turbulent world' @peterfrankopan
hurstpublishers.com/book/a-n…
Stockpile food in case of cyber attacks and threats from hostile powers, Labour says, all the while the government continues to abandon increases in defence spending, pursue policies of appeasement towards China, and claim that social security is more important than national security.
Isn’t it ironic: the national crisis against which Labour warns is self-inflicted.
Households have been warned to stockpile food and water in case of cyber attacks.
Wes Streeting, the Defence Secretary, launched a “national resilience conversation” on Thursday, asking Britons to prepare for disruption caused by natural disasters or cyber attacks by hostile states.
🔗:telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Completely and utterly correct, @aliciakearns.
Powell must resign: as one of the core architects of the Chagos Islands 'deal', Powell is compromising Britain's insecurity and playing into the hands of Beijing.
He is not our National Security Adviser, but the driver of Britain's insecurity.
Jonathan Powell’s position as National Security Adviser is untenable.
His repeated meetings with the CCP were disclosed not by the British Government, but by Chinese Communist Party read outs, and serious questions remain over his role in the collapsed China spy case.
He is responsible for the Government’s disastrous Chagos negotiations and still advocates giving away billions in taxpayer money to surrender a British territory.
He has refused to appear before many Parliamentary committees.
Now, concerning material shared publicly by his wife raises further questions about his judgement and sharing access to sensitive information.
If he were a Minister, he would have to appear in front of Parliament to answer for these glaring concerns.
Instead, the man running our foreign policy and national security refuses any scrutiny.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
My small contribution to today’s @Telegraph on Healey’s (and Labour’s) hypocrisy:
Excellent to feature on @spectator.
For more on the links between the U.S.-Russia diesel deal and South Korea, check out my latest piece:
spectator.com/article/trumps…
Donald Trump is buying 300,000 tonnes of diesel from Vladimir Putin, with more to come later this year.
Critics say it’s another case of Trump cosying up to dictators. But with the Iran war choking oil supplies and fuel prices rising. could dealing with Russia be the only option?
Edward Howell, lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University, explains why some countries are turning to Putin.
Read Edward's full article here | spectator.com/article/trumps…
@TheEdwardHowell
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"Academics launch rival inquiry
Committee for Academic Freedom will examine [whether Jason Arday’s] employment at Cambridge met expected standards" (Times)
I’ll submit my own assessment of Arday's illiterate thesis. It failed to meet expected standards for PhD, let alone a Cambridge professorship.
Thank goodness Mary Beard is not designing the National Curriculum.
