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“A spectacular book”  – The Spectator
“A compelling and horrifying tale’ - The Economist
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For lovers of #AGentlemanInMoscow in print and on screen here are my thoughts on the spies and snoopers who passed through the revolving doors of Moscow's Metropol Hotel open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

A powerful piece from ⁦Julius Strauss⁩ at the end of his road trip along the front line in Ukraine. You can see all his posts on his Substack and find out what he’s doing to bring grizzly bears and wounded Ukr soldiers together in a good way open.substack.com/pub/backtothef…

‼️‼️Omg Mass Graves being found everywhere‼️‼️

WHERE IS ACCOUNTABILITY

190 Bodies Found in Nassau Hospital Mass Grave
They expect to find 700

🚨 BREAKING: 190 martyrs have been recovered so far from two mass graves discovered today at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis,…

Any similarity between Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Anna Urbana in 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and Stalin's favourite actress must be coincidental. Read my Substack on Stalin, the movies and Moscow's Metropol Hotel open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

More of my Substack tales from the Metropol Hotel and #AGentlemanInMoscow . This time: the women missing from the hotel in the TV adaptation, and an evil man who hid in plain sight in the Metropol for decades alanphilps.substack.com/p/someones-mis…

And the source of the fake newspaper's story is the Foundation for Battling Injustice, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin.

How Russian propaganda works: a “news story” from a nonexistent newspaper backed up by a photo taken from a 2015 music video clip. And it works!

MAP takes key step of calling on 🇬🇧to halt arms to 🇮🇱, noting 🇮🇱 military attacks on aid workers are the norm, not the exception.

This is a damning exposee of the IDF's unethical targeting mechanisms, which will lie at the centre of all future legal actions over the scale of civilian deaths in Gaza. Political decisions lie behind this. Vital journalism by ⁦+972 Magazine⁩ 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

How the IDF has been using unreliable AI software to cause civilians casualties of up to 95% in Gaza, from +972 Magazine 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

Substack post No. 5: In which I contrast the glitzy portrayal of Moscow's Metropol Hotel on TV in #AGentlemanInMoscow with the true state of the hotel in 1921. open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

From ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩

My latest Substack on Moscow's Metropol Hotel and #AGentlemanInMoscow on the launch date of the TV adaptation. This time: The journey of a coat from New York to Moscow and to Jerusalem, via the Gulag.
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A Count in the Gulag? Count Rostov, hero of #AGentlemanInMoscow , was forced to spend his life in Moscow's Metropol Hotel. What would have been his fate if he had followed the path of thousands of others into the Siberian Gulag? open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

Praise from the correspondent who really knows Putin’s Russia. Thanks Luke Headline Non-Fiction Pete Davis

Putin wants to us to believe he has no red lines - and given the reluctance of the US to provide the weapons Ukraine needs when it needs them, he seems to be convincing the west.

My second Substack about the Metropol Hotel and A Gentleman in Moscow - this time's everything you wanted to know about love and food in a once great hotel in the Stalin era open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

Moscow's Metropol is back in the news. The TV adaption of #AGentlemaninMoscow , Amor Towles’s best-selling novel about the Metropol is coming . My book, The Red Hotel, the true story of the lives of residents there, is out. Read on... Free on Substack! open.substack.com/pub/alanphilps…

Another great Battleground Ukraine podcast: The many missteps of the Vatican in wartime and me describing why the puppet show of the Russian election was so important for Putin podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bat…