Daniel’s Substack
An honest take on politics, shaped by a strange life and a dodgy accent.
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New Project - From Sidra (opens the original)
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I finished my first book at the end of last year. Like most self-published work, it vanished. I’d promised to publish it here on Substack, but life intervened, and this newsletter has sat neglected ever since.The past few months have been strange, a tangle of creative energy and genuine ill-health.In late May, I felt a collapse of energy that wouldn’t lift. My doctor ran blood tests; vitamin D deficiency came back as the culprit. I was happy. Something minor that could be fixed. But something di
Chapter Four (opens the original)
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“All we ask is that fans respect our laws, just as we are expected to respect yours when we visit you.”Qatar Deputy Prime Minister Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Al Jazeera 2024In 2010, FIFA, football’s global governing body, awarded Qatar the right to host the 2022 World Cup, the sport’s largest international tournament.For this small Gulf state of three million people, it was a moment of celebration as well as one of strategic signif
Chapter Three (opens the original)
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“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,”Barack Obama, Roanoke, Virginia, 2012Have you ever noticed how the promise of sweeping change dissolves the moment an election ends?Stickers are torn down. Ballot boxes vanish into storage. Pollsters retreat to recalibrate their algorithms so that when the next cycle arrives they sound like the expert who called it right, not someone offering
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