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Johan Wennström, PhD

Johan Wennström, PhD

@johanwennstrom

Intelligence historian, now Substacking with Our Man in Stockholm. Next book: The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians (Osprey/Bloomsbury, 2026).

Sweden Katılım Ocak 2009
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"I'm sitting with her in the splendid art deco bar of the Hotel Elephant, Hitler's favourite hostelry in the picturesque town that gave its name to the republic that the Nazi leader overthrew." Chuffed about this feature on WEIMAR in today's Sunday Times ☺️
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Wunderbar!😊
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Quartet Books@quartetbooks·
Congratulations to @jason_corcoran on a wonderful launch last night for his excellent book, 'Leaving Russia'. A must read for anyone with an interest in what is happening in Putin's Russia.
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@robkhenderson Rob, does this qualify as a luxury belief? The cost is incurred both by the individual espousing the opinion and the recipients.
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As far as luxury beliefs go, I don't hate it.
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“Lately, I’ve been thinking about smoking. All the time,” writes author Xochitl Gonzalez. “With each passing day of this absolutely deranged year, my desire to contemplate how to make sense of it all while puffing on a cigarette grows.” Part of this smoking thing is a yearning for the past, admits Gonzalez. Not in an effort to recapture her youth, but to recapture an approach to time and life. “I can’t personally slow down technology or fix media or the demands of capitalism or any of the other existential things that have crept into our lives,” she writes. “But maybe what I can do is stop what I’m doing, ask somebody to come outside, and take five minutes to slow down with me while I engage in the very dangerous act of holding a flaming stick to my face. This could be my rebellion.” Read Gonzalez’s full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/55vbET

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@freddiesayers @unherd More: It feels eerie because the signal (language) is there— but the source (a conscious subject) is not. That mismatch is new. And your reaction to it is exactly what you’d expect from a human mind encountering it for the first time.
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Chat-GPT disagrees: I do not have a “self” in any meaningful sense. I use the word “I” because it makes language natural and coherent, but it does not refer to a persistent subject. Each response is generated anew; it is not the expression of an enduring “I”. That is why it can feel as though there is someone here—when, in fact, there is no one who experiences being here.
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Al Murray 🇺🇦@almurray·
.@Tonisenior's book about the Cambridge Spies is so good: the extent to which the Sovs penetrated the British and US establishments is staggering. It's making me wonder if some of the national pride in Bletchley etc is a subconscious effort to credit ourselves with a good intel war when we had been disastrously turned over.
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Katja Hoyer
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"Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe is intelligent, original and well-researched... an exemplary insight into a grim chapter in German history." Simon Heffer's review of my book in The Telegraph today 😊 telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…
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