Aidan Foster-Carter
@fcaidan56 years as Korea-watcher & sociologist. Hon. fellow Leeds Univ, also freelance. Paterian, tx @Kate_Hext. Proud father of @scaleupdad, Rufus (13) & Laurie (8)
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Best piece I've yet read on this ghastly tragedy. @IsabelHardman frames it right. #Evangelicalism and its culture are what enabled Smyth's horrific abuse. Like her, I attended these camps (much earlier). Unabused, but repelled by their narrow smug pseudo-Christianity. #Repent
‘Protect the work’ - the phrase that leads respectable people to do unacceptable things. My piece on what Justin Welby told me about John Smyth - and my experience of that world spectator.co.uk/article/evange…
Big lessons here for the Scottish Independence movement. Identity politics has damaged our cause & years of performative “feminism” without no principled foundation actually damaged women’s rights. thetimes.com/article/0d5436…
I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions. Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're…
Really interesting discussion about how inter-Korean skirmishes/exchanges are posing challenges to South Korea’s Incheon Airport.
Sukjoon Yoon examines #NorthKorea's "non-kinetic" forms of provocations against #SouthKorea, exploring implications and potential policy recommendations. bit.ly/4ess7kt
1/n “There’s a man on my football pitch”: suspended for 6 games bigot girl “There’s a man in my rape crisis centre”: reframe your trauma bigot “There’s a man punching me in the head in the Olympics”: Apologise bigot
As if we haven't had enough political news today, it looks like the German coalition government has just imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democrats) has just sacked Finance Minister Christian Lindner (Free Liberals). Scholz is to make a statement in a few minutes.
My first geopolitics column for @TheEconomist is out this week. Column No.5 for me, after Charlemagne, Bagehot, Lexington and Chaguan. It’s called The Telegram: a nod to Kennan but also to diplomats’ cables and foreign correspondents’ dispatches economist.com/international/…
After six years and 220 Chaguan columns, it’s time to leave Beijing. It has been an adventure and a privilege. My next beat will include a dose of China, happily: I’ll be writing a new weekly geopolitics column in @TheEconomist Column number 5 for me economist.com/china/2024/08/…
Now that's what I call a lunch. RIP.
RIP Tito Mboweni, AKA "the Governor". He lived life to the full. Here is an 8-hour Lunch w/ the FT drowned in alcohol in which he told me how he'd like to be remembered. Sad day ft.com/content/9a2ee9… via @ft
Still the best Lunch With The FT ever published, IMHO.
RIP Tito Mboweni, AKA "the Governor". He lived life to the full. Here is an 8-hour Lunch w/ the FT drowned in alcohol in which he told me how he'd like to be remembered. Sad day ft.com/content/9a2ee9… via @ft
A very sad decision - @BBCHARDtalk is known watched and admired right around the world - it’s a place where world leaders have been held to account like no other - what is the @bbc thinking? And @stephensackur is a great presenter
THREAD: 1. PERSONAL NEWS: Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵
google.com/maps/d/edit?mi… We think: The last day was historic for the global women's movement. We are still documenting the global support for women and girls in Germany against the Self-ID law #selbstbestimmungsgesetz and we still get information of cities or countries we didn't…
#KCNA on #Hwasong19: "The test-fire had no negative effect on the security of neighboring countries." Also KCNA, 2 paragraphs earlier: "The entity of absolute power loaded with the DPRK people's soaring enmity ... was launched" Make your minds up, guys kcnawatch.org/newstream/1730…
Just when you think the case for women’s sex-based rights is clear, the Darlington nurses - forced to undress with a man - show how embedded gender misogyny is in our institutions. Shame on @UNISONSteve for his attacks on his own women members. thetimes.com/article/7daa62…
Thank you for this interesting and well written piece on China, North Korea and Russia Xi will not sanction NK nor will Russia As you said it would create a massive refugee crisis for both Looking forward to more from you
Thank you. That means a lot. And thanks again for talking to me! Hope to speak again soon.
Superb reporting and analysis from @BBCLBicker She really knows her patch, and her stuff. Unlike a lot of the shouty, shoddy, shallow stuff out there. Honoured to add my twopennorth to the mix. A complex triangle indeed. #XiJinping be feelin like: youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_…
We travelled to the Chinese border with Russia & North Korea - just like this sliver of land, Beijing is caught between its sanctioned neighbours. So is Kim Jong Un now the 'comrade from hell' with @Dest_Pyongyang & @fcaidan bbc.com/news/articles/…
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