Check out the latest Russia Contingency. I join the head of Lasar’s Group, one of Ukraine’s best and lesser known drone units to talk about their experience, how drone use is evolving, adaptation on both sides, and what the future holds. @WarOnTheRocks warontherocks.com/episode/ther...

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban being like “we allow zero migrants in without permission… for that we have to pay €1 million to the Brusselian [sic] budget daily,” and Trump is probably thinking “the Brazilian budget? I just gave Argentina €20 billion, I know what that’s like…”

The economist in me loves this. European 10y gov bonds have a yield of 3.2%. They assume 4%. Fine. Should Euroclear not be able, with some prodding, to generate above 4% nominal returns?

For this week's issue of @economist.com I got to think hard about something I've not had to think about for more than 20 years: the world of dating and singles. What I found shocked me. Rates of singlehood (singledom) have been rising for decades, but have suddenly accelerated in recent years. 1/

Huge Nexperia news The Netherlands is prepared to suspend a ministerial order that gave it control over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia if chip shipments resume in the coming days

Our cover this week. economist.com/leaders/2025...

⚡How the war changed Ukraїner’s focus ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/... Julia Tymoshenko discusses how the Ukraїner project has evolved since its early days, and what it takes to make the world truly hear #Ukraine. Support: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld

The big news of today is that Germany's best footballer, Said El Mala (Real Madrid of the North, aka 1. FC Köln, 19 years old) has been called up for national duty ahead of the World Cup qualifiers.

“I think as a thought experiment, great,” said one urban planning expert who works in Saudi Arabia. “But don’t build thought experiments.” Fun piece and fantastic visuals. Have a look.

You are a Post-Padawan now!

To be fair, in most of Norway, your nearest neighbour is about 30km away.

It's time to start to thinking about Christmas presents, isn't it? I have an idea, that costs just £22 a month. 📰 subscribenow.economist.com

Yeah, that’s going to be fun. #ECB

Clearly a lot of details to work through in how it’s implemented but this new pay per mile charge for EVs is a necessary& fair policy. Hope HMT are engaging with devolved nations & local gov on its design as this is a real opportunity to think creatively & more holistically about motoring taxation

Now that is a cool paper, on how labour markets with hourly workers/zero hour contracts push unpredictability and slow business days onto workers. (She exploits weather and minimum wage variations.)

Only high-quality child care is good (enough). That makes it very expensive. There is no way around it. economist.com/finance-and-...

Would be such a shame if Germany didn’t qualify in the end, I want to see Woltemade in that 1990 retro kit, he already has the hairstyle and moustache for it.

Building a gilded palace during a government shutdown isn't a good look.

#Ukraine has a few buffers left if the EU's decision on the reparations loan takes more time. That's good news (though not a reason to postpone the decision). kyivindependent.com/kyiv-plots-h...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The German train company DB had its worst month ever, only 51.5% of its long-distance trains were on time. I am sure by the end of the year, they can get this below 50%.

"As for his own sisu, the 57-year-old president, a physical-fitness nut, looks ready to charge into enemy trenches personally, should the need arise." www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

There is a tour guide in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf which the museum advertises as “grumpy” and “highly unpleasant”. His tours are sold out for months. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

In 1983, households aged 75+ were 5% richer than the average. In 2022, they were 55% richer. Meanwhile, under-35 households went from 21% of average wealth to just 16%. America’s wealth is aging way faster than its population. www.nber.org/digest/20251...

The legacy of the Eastern Bloc is that today, as I struggled to find the right word in Arabic, I could retrieve its equivalent in Russian, and the ceramics seller in East Jerusalem understood: his father had studied in the USSR and had forced him to learn some Russian as a child.

“The city isn’t quite at Copenhagen or Amsterdam levels, but it’s closing in. Over 40 percent of locals commute by bike — about ten times the rate of a typical North American city — and you feel it immediately.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Antwerp has come a long way since I worked there in 2019.

Almost a minor footnote in the grand scheme of things, but Kyrgyzstan is set to pass new legislation to grant security services access to telecom operators & block communication in cases of “emergency” The “revolution-proofing” of Kyrgyzstan continues kg.akipress.org/news:2357741...

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This is such a pernicious piece of disinformation I got out of bed to type this thread with a real keyboard. First off I strongly recommend against withdrawing your money from a bank because TikTok told you to. It's a giant waste of your time. Second: don't trust a man that drinks blue Gatorade Zero

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Clouds — Gerhard Richter, 1978

A tour of global geothermal power projects under development www.reuters.com/markets/comm... 🔌💡

this is a total galaxy brain take, but one of the things i like most about solar + batteries is how much it directly literalizes the metaphorical term used to describe capital goods in the economy: "physical plant"

A rule of law transition period? Let's see what that looks like. The Commission could avoid accusations of double standards (after all, there was the CVM for Romania and Bulgaria) but much will depend on how seriously it takes implementation.

Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase. HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.

Just perfect. "Been in Europe 3 yrs, never felt this close to Russia, you are repeating line by line the propaganda on Russian TV," Pussy Riot artist tells a stunned Putin-Versteher Sarah Wagenknecht to her face, on prime-time TV.

Braiding a 75 ton Technora rope at LangmanRopes.

The prospect of funding the war in Ukraine is exposing divisions within the EU. But a long-term solution would help Europe build the financial and industrial muscle it needs to defend itself

In this op-ed for The Economist, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social responds to our cover story a while back on the greenlash. It’s a very good piece, take a look.   economist.com/by-invitatio...

Fun fact: the original is in Swedish (Vårt land) and the music was composed by a German immigrant.

The end of the rip-off economy economist.com/finance-and-...

”Shy of thy poorness never be; be calm, be glad, be free." #Finland's national poem Maamme (Our Land) contains this small sentence, which made me think about the country's national character and life philosophy. My latest for The @economist.com. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

My premiere as Charlemagne on #Finland and sisu. 👇🏻

Our cover this week. economist.com/leaders/2025...

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Ah *that* Heidelberg. Phew.

All ready for this years’ Young Königswinter Conference, starting tomorrow at Europäische Akademie Berlin. Looking forward to this autumn edition of our summer conference! @johnkampfner.bsky.social @birgitbujard.bsky.social

Brutal for Trump with young people