ADAM TOOZE

A Locust swarm the size of Manhattan can consume as much food in a day as the population of the New York tri-state… https://t.co/7ZJKzRQZyN

How population growth, GDP growth and efficiency gains are likely to bend the curve of demand for oil. As the IMF s… https://t.co/lgBGxZIuz6

From the urban sprawl of Jakarta to the rain forest: Fascinating report on dramatic decision to move Indonesian cap… https://t.co/cDk6rHHbnu

NYC has the largest homeless population in the US but it "manages" them in ways that make them less conspicuous tha… https://t.co/QXrFPFOF20

The Chinese market for wine is the most rapidly growing large market and it is highly volatile. Fascinating insight… https://t.co/E60h4ipTAk

The truth about the horrific Bologna bombing of 1980 is finally emerging. The P2 lodge were really the key. https://t.co/ve6lrEXMPB

Tanzanian Affairs by @BritTanzSoc – 1st editor Terence Ranger – remains an excellent source on current events in on… https://t.co/Zrdk2iO2nO

Tanzania’s population increase is remarkable: 1952 9 million 1967 12 million 1988 23 million 2012 45 million 2020 (… https://t.co/Dn9mqL45hS

To envision the energy transition we have to imagine how same (or similar) services can be produced in radically di… https://t.co/Beie0bpiwD

The Chinese market for wine is the most rapidly growing large market and it is highly volatile. Fascinating insight… https://t.co/LR2woJLBvt

Jakarta is ranked as one of most polluted, most congested, fastest sinking capital cities in world -> Indonesia is… https://t.co/1rSRDMnxUO

The US Department of Defense has approved at least $27 billion in arms sales and defense services for the UAE since… https://t.co/2YrOMGEIT2

UAE’s modernized armed forces that are now a major factor in Gulf geopolitics rely heavily on foreign expertise: in… https://t.co/7VZ9YSEHGh

@RichardGowan1 @CrisisGroup YUP. Thank you. Essential reading for the final lecture in series. Magnificent setting. Tough history.

“He has the führer complex. He’s used to adulation and he gets it,” On Herman Gref and Sberbank the showpiece refor… https://t.co/uUAT3DAo7a

In rearrangement of Russian power structure, central bank is selling its controlling stake in Sberbank to the finan… https://t.co/5f3MlUHIDh

Since the 1960s we have been in an era of Locust recession, is climate change taking us into a new age of mega swar… https://t.co/28m3OV3hZ9

Indonesia’s central bank has a cool new National Strategic Food Price Information website where you can look up pri… https://t.co/3PrHMqGPIV

Like an invading army: maps from the @FAO give an impression of the scale of the horrifying Locust infestation in E… https://t.co/MB8agHSuU4

Amidst a wasteland of car showrooms and tire shops, with the skyline in the background you might not expect to enjo… https://t.co/MeRWGa0O0u

The Locust mega swarms pose a threat not just to East Africa but also to a fragile agricultural economy in Pakistan… https://t.co/chi8aKXRIs

China accounts for about 80% of the world’s garlic supply -> coronavirus is sending shockwaves through the biggest… https://t.co/poBmLWiaOx

How did globalisation happen beyond the West? How did socialism connect the world? Our new collection, Alternative… https://t.co/ujlSQfvyu0

Pakistan is struggling to manage a food price crisis with supply shortages compounding impact of devaluation.… https://t.co/40hJzol4nx

UAE’s new strategic clout in the Gulf region is backed up by imported military expertise: Special forces are headed… https://t.co/1bipYqS04d

Since the 1960s we have been in an era of Locust recession, is climate change taking us into a new age of mega swar… https://t.co/YWgltxb5he

Maps from the @FAO give a horrifying impression of the scale of the Locust infestation in Ethiopia, Somalia and Ken… https://t.co/Wl9JTPmDX7

The Locust mega swarms pose a threat not just to East Africa but also to a fragile agricultural economy in Pakistan… https://t.co/j7hQgI32Yj

Merging ideas: Gutenberg’s Printing Press was a modified WINE PRESS. Johannes Gutenberg (c 1398-1468), inventor of… https://t.co/ElYADmvX9z

China’s share of Australian exports was 33% in 2018-19 vs 7% in 2002-03. Tourists from China jumped to 15% of total… https://t.co/fX1DiBNmBL

In the seventeenth century, Hamburg's printer and newsdealer Georg Greflinger published an influential newspaper: t… https://t.co/y1tGgGMTOg

Stunning R&D funding numbers coming out of @WhiteHouse today. How will this have America compete? NIH: -7% DOE: -1… https://t.co/SIOEosIw8M

“Brain machines”: In the 1960s the IRS’s IBM mainframe IT system was so sophisticated and sexy, they had to create… https://t.co/pl9qUYpSK0