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Author of Free Agent, Song of Treason, The Moscow Option, Spy Out The Land and non-fiction Dead Drop. Simon & Schuster UK/Penguin US. Agent:

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    16 Jul 2018

    I will stop plugging this soon*, but if you're looking for a read about Ian Fleming working for MI6 while writing Bond, Nazi war criminals and spies creeping around Berlin in the Cold War, please do buy my new ebook short: *Conditions may apply.

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    30 minutes ago
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    And then there’s this

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    39 minutes ago
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    At which point does James stop digging? His comments reveal a lack of rigour that is quite frightening for a university lecturer. Wading into a discussion to criticise you, with only cursory knowledge of your claims and not even having read the thesis being discussed. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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    41 minutes ago

    After your intervention I’m now more convinced has questions to answer, if this is what passes for intellectual rigour i can well see how a dodgy thesis could get through.

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    52 minutes ago

    There is no obligation to comment on every claim either. Choosing to do so while proudly admitting that you have no intention of investigating the facts is just risible.

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    1 hour ago

    To this reader, you appear to have characterised and addressed the accusations as accurately and comprehensively as the captain of the Titanic avoided icebergs.

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    1 hour ago

    James voicing a strongly held opinion about a piece of work that he has not bothered to read. Okaaaaay.....

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  8. You completely mischaracterized my central claim to dismiss it as wrong in public. You've claimed I don't know what I'm talking about while admitting you haven't even checked (ie by reading the thesis). All your tweets on this have been thoroughly depressing.

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    1 hour ago

    If you want to participate in this debate and rely in it on the absence of evidence of his involvement *in the thesis*, which you * have not read*, yes.

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    1 hour ago

    However, by your own admission, you haven’t read the thesis. Do you generally make bold pronouncements on texts you haven’t read?

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    1 hour ago

    Absolutely this. Depressing that an academic is arguing in essence: "The claims are a priori wrong, so I'm not going to look at the evidence, please shut up". It's essentially a faith based position. And the defences seem to be a mixture of ad homs and appeals to authority.

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  12. 1 hour ago

    This isn't the brilliant zinger you might think, Dr Baldwin. Is it common at Royal Holloway to mischaracterize and dismiss claims in sources you haven't even checked?

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  13. 1 hour ago

    A shame you missed its central point when dismissing it on here, then. Perhaps it might, after all, be a good idea for you to check my claims against the thesis before repeatedly suggesting in public my allegations are wrong.

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    2 hours ago

    Well why not? It seems to be the baseline requirement for holding this discussion. And it does involve your academic colleagues, so you may have institutional interest. Best wishes.

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  15. 2 hours ago

    You could have started by just reading my blogpost. I didn't claim in it what you decided to dismiss, publicly, as a lecturer at Royal Holloway. It's not me who doesn't know what he's talking about here.

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    4 hours ago

    so yesterday an academic who had spent the day wanging on about how unjustified accusations against Bastani were revealed himself to be unaware of basic details mentioned at the start of the blog post. This cultlike defence from people who know better won't end well.

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    3 hours ago

    The thesis is now public. If your claim is that Bastani did not in fact conceal his leadership role, perhaps you can provide page references for where he does so?

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  19. A lecturer at Royal Holloway, revealing they can't follow a blogpost: I didn't claim it was 'wrong to study a movement that you're involved in', or that Bastani concealed he was involved in it. I show that he repeatedly concealed how highly significant his involvement was.

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  20. Hats off, this account is utter genius.

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  21. It's actually even more suspect than that, Jimi - I live in Swedish-speaking Finland! Make of that what you will. Follow the breadcrumbs to uncover who I really am.

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