Author - THE INVENTION OF AMSTERDAM is out now! (https://xitter.cf/t.co/T0jULUwrcm). Columnist @ADnl. Writer, aid worker, speechwriter, recovering Tory
Groene Hart, Netherlands
Joined July 2009
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Ben Coates retweeted
Just bought "The Invention of Amsterdam" by @bencoates1... loved "Why the Dutch are different", so can't wait to get started!
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A gentle reminder that I have largely left this place, after torrents of abuse and then being muted by the algorithm. But I still post quite a lot over on the other site, if you fancy taking a look.
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In the 1970s-80s measles was the single leading killer of children, 2-3 million died annually. Through EPI @WHO we brought it down to 450,000 kids who died annually by 2000. Through @gavi it came down to <100,000. Now the ignorant careless chuckleheads want to erase all our gains
Joe Rogan: "Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid, and what happened was you'd get sick for a few days, and then you'd be immune for life. They're making it look like everyone's dying from measles."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Joe Rogan was born August 1967.
Due to Vaccines Measles rates dropped significantly - so when he was a kid "everyone didn't get Measles".
He might be confusing Measles with Chicken Pox, which was prevalent at that time
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The Invention of Amsterdam: Europe’s greatest city in 10 walks dutchnews.nl/?p=257983
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A reminder that although I still post on X sometimes, I do much more over on the place where the sky is not green. Same username, much less inane spam. Check it out!
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I’ve recently finished @bencoates1’s riveting book The Invention of Amsterdam and enjoyed it immensely. I’m pretty sure I’ll be dipping back into it again in future. Here’s my Goodreads review, also posted on Amazon.nl
goodreads.com/review/show/79…
#memoirs #travelogue
Ben Coates retweeted
Chuffed to get a little shout-out from @RoryStewartUK on the all-conquering @RestIsPolitics podcast. Sneeze and you’ll miss it, but he says my Amsterdam book is “a lovely book”
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Ben Coates retweeted
Fantastische combinatie
(@bencoates1’s book & @asymco’s good old Ex Machina: The Critical Path on corporations, canals and the hidden forces behind one of the most interesting countries in the world - the Netherlands 🇳🇱)
Ben Coates retweeted
I’m so enjoying this book. I live in the Netherlands and I’ve never been an Amsterdam fan, but @bencoates1 is converting me. Such a wealth of ‘did you know’ facts and history. Wonderful!
A nice review in the TLS:
“The Invention of Amsterdam…. captures Coates’s infectious enthusiasm for his adopted home… The author… is an effortlessly charming guide… and has an excellent eye for the fetching fact”
the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
Ben Coates retweeted
Many people are Saying, this is One of the BEST books which was ever written By Someone for people to Read. Also, I think you should Buy it and Read it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Ben Coates retweeted
I’m looking forward to reading my copy of this!
A nice review in the TLS:
“The Invention of Amsterdam…. captures Coates’s infectious enthusiasm for his adopted home… The author… is an effortlessly charming guide… and has an excellent eye for the fetching fact”
the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
Ben Coates retweeted
Still only €9.99 for the paperback on bol.com!
bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-inventio…
Ben Coates retweeted
FLASHBACK:
Here’s 46-year-old Donald Trump looking at a 10-year-old girl and saying, “I am going to be dating her in ten years.” 🤮
Ben Coates retweeted
This is literally superpower suicide.
These are some of the most talented public servants doing critical work.
Champagne corks are popping in Beijing and Moscow after they already emptied the wine cellars celebrating the end of USAID.
Ben Coates retweeted
Mooi stuk. Labour doet goede dingen, vooral op het gebied van het snijden in bureaucratie rondom bouwprojecten, maar het draaien rondom belasting en bezuinigingen is funest voor het vertrouwen van kiezers én bedrijven.
“Voor een man die van voetbal houdt, is hij verrassend goed in het scoren van eigen doelpunten”
- my piece on why everyone hates Keir Starmer, in de Groene Amsterdammer
groene.nl/artikel/de-impopul…
Ben Coates retweeted
“Voor een man die van voetbal houdt, is hij verrassend goed in het scoren van eigen doelpunten”
- my piece on why everyone hates Keir Starmer, in de Groene Amsterdammer
groene.nl/artikel/de-impopul…
Ben Coates retweeted
Occasional reminder that if you enjoy my occasionally insightful posts on here, you may enjoy my much more insightful book too 👇
Available in all the places you usually buy books
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A nice review in the TLS:
“The Invention of Amsterdam…. captures Coates’s infectious enthusiasm for his adopted home… The author… is an effortlessly charming guide… and has an excellent eye for the fetching fact”
the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…