#william dalrymple

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I started off the Sign of 4 both shocked and ecstatic that my niche knowledge of the Kohinoor Diamond and the East India Company was coming in handy, and ended it lying on the floor grinning like a maniac because of the Anita Anand and William Dalrymple cameos. A crossover event between my East India Company obsession and my Sherlock Holmes obsession was not on my 2026 bingo card, but I am definitely not complaining.

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I went mad when I first heard about this "news" but it turns out that it's nonsense produced by the long-time zionist loving Telegraph to cause trouble.

Also there's a 2001 article in The Guardian (a paper I don't love either) by William Dalrymple which is worth looking at:

Comment: no freedom of speech for Conrad Black's commentators

There are few more uncomfortable places for a foreign correspondent to be posted than Israel. Opinions are so polarised that it is almost im

Some excerpts (okay, it's most of it):

"There are few more uncomfortable places for a foreign correspondent to be posted than Israel. Opinions are so polarised that it is almost impossible to write a line on the conflict without outraging someone.

Since the second intifada exploded last October, as criticism of Israel has escalated and casualties mounted towards the 400 mark, this fact has been brought home especially to those who deal sympathetically with the plight of the Palestinians. All have found themselves deluged with complaints, which not infrequently include innuendoes - or outright accusations - of anti-semitism.

No one has been more ready to use this weapon than Conrad Black. Black is the (now former) proprietor of the Hollinger Group, whose British publications include the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and the Spectator, and who also owns the Jerusalem Post. The different papers all reflect Black's notably rightwing brand of Zionism which tends to regard the Palestinians, like their leader Yasser Arafat (to quote from an article he wrote in the Post in 1993,) as "vile and primitive".

As a result, uniquely among British papers, the foreign pages of the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs have contained a notable absence of clear, critical reporting of Israel's deadly methods of suppressing Palestinian dissent. Their comment pages have been even more extreme.

Recent highlights have included Edward Luttwack, a former Israeli tank commander and friend of Black, writing to celebrate the election of Sharon whom he praised as "a master of outwitting his opponents", and a "raging bull who is really a matador" - as if he were some sort of jolly sporting hero rather than the man who failed to stop the single most gruesome massacre in the entire Arab-Israeli conflict. Then there are the regular appearances of Black's wife, Barbara Amiel, who recently concluded a two-page spread in the Telegraph by comparing the Palestinians to "animals"..."

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"...all Spectator writers who had written to protest at the skewed coverage of Israel-Palestine in Black's papers - were denounced by Black as representative of "the depths of the problem of anti-semitism in the British media".

In fact, while anti-Jewish writing is today more or less confined to a few neo-Nazi hate rags, straightforwardly racist depictions of the Arabs are still widespread and relatively acceptable: in the past few months we have had Congressional candidates calling the Palestinians "lower than pond scum" and a senior Israeli rabbi denouncing them as "snakes and scorpions", quite apart from the epithets Black and his wife have thrown at them." ...

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"...Black's propensity for bullying was starkly demonstrated when nearly half the journalists on the Jerusalem Post were sacked when they showed what he judged to be an unhealthy enthusiasm for Palestinian rights. Now, after Black has made the strength of his prejudices clear, is it really likely that any Telegraph journalist will ever again put his neck and career on the line and write frankly of the sufferings of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation? Or that his editors will have the courage to publish such articles?

By insinuating that those who criticise Israel are actually closet neo-Nazis, Black is effectively trying to suppress and muzzle justified criticism of a thoroughly brutal occupation, and to bully into submission any of his writers who disagree with him. In doing so he makes himself complicit in the continued enslavement of the Palestinian people, the on-going seizure of their land, and the systematic abuse of their human rights. To put himself in this position, while appearing to be speaking up against racism, seem to me to be beneath contempt."

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This was happening in the early 2000s. And it's very much happening now under different publishers and different news outlets.

And as for Conrad Black, he's also also known for writing a loving biography of Trump, and was fully pardoned by Trump in 2019 (Black was convicted in 2007 for fraud and obstruction)

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Source

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(legit felt very sad reading about this ‘prophecy’ - anyone who makes a city here, loses it)

city of djinns, william dalrymple

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William Dalrymple

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You all have no idea how much I'm waiting for this book, and there's a REASON I named the giant road through Tales of Tremaine, The Golden Road, and get into India's influence along the Silk Road - and, you'll be surprised to learn there were many mini branches off/of the Silk Road. The Jade Way/Porcelain Road, you had a full maritime Silk Road (seriously), a Salt Road. So many that specialized on certain things and you could quite literally make an entire life being a specialized bandit along those ways. But, anyways, yeah, I'm so looking forward to this. Idk what I have to do for the publisher to get me an arc cuz...I want this now.

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Time for RESEARCH

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“To the sick man sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.” ― William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi