Lily Cole Instagram – At @nolabookfest : I had the pleasure of speaking with my friend @itsmetarajane about her brilliant memoir – Educated, which feels more pertinent than ever.. I highly recommend reading it.
I also watched some very powerful talks on the state of US politics including Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Anne Applebaum, speaking with Editor of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg (at the centre of SignalGate). Links to all of the talks are on the @nolabookfest YouTube channel.
“I did expect an assault on the rule of law, I did expect them to attack journalists, I did expect them to seek to dismantle the Civil Service. I expected all of that. I didn’t expect the speed of it… I think it’s important that Americans understand that what’s happening here is happening at a greater speed and with more extremism than it did for example in Hungary or than it did in Turkey or that it did in Venezuela… it turns out that when you do it really fast, that’s also very confusing…” Anne Applebaum | Posted on 04/Apr/2025 20:29:09
