Writing for the algorithm? @cfieschi.bsky.social talking to @catherinedevries.bsky.social. Can something be 'shareable' without losing its complexity? What do you think @sbeverts.bsky.social @anthonyzach.be @garethbxl.bsky.social ?

Thank you @catherinedevries.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation about writing. We don’t think often enough about what drives us to write, and the nature of the experience. It was a pleasure to do so on a sunny summer morning!

Ravie d’avoir eu cet entretien sur l’extrême droite en Europe avec @lexpress.fr x.com/lexpress/sta...

Bon, Poutine n’est pas en Turquie. Nouvelles sanctions Européennes contre la Russie des lundi, n’est-ce pas?

I hate to think his last official meeting was with that creepy little shit Vance…

@fotoole.bsky.social brilliantly trenchant as always on Trump’s obsessions and their impact on Transatlantic relations www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Le Pen's ban from elected office has sparked accusations from populist movements of antidemocratic behavior. But the ruling shows a commitment to the rule of law, which is the only way to counter claims that the system is rigged, says @cfieschi.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

“What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted” Robert Peston

🇨🇦 Off to mail my Canadian ballot paper! Super-efficient service from #ElectionsCanada for voters based abroad 🇨🇦

While all eyes are quite understandably on Ukraine I’m starting to wonder whether the first real NATO/Europe/US dilemma won’t come from Greenland abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

🇪🇺🇧🇪The Bundestag has just adopted Merz’s so-called ‘budget bazooka’. This is a truly historic moment. Germany is turning its back on decades of budgetary orthodoxy and massively boosting defence spending. As Merz put it: it’s a ‘giant step toward a European defence community’. #Zeitenwende at last

Today in Rome and other Italian cities #PiazzaPerLEuropa A call for a massive public show of support for Europe ❤️🇪🇺 Thank you #MicheleSerra and @larepubblica.bsky.social

Dear @financialtimes.com , why is there no clickable share button to @bsky.app built into your articles ? Why only FB, X and LinkedIn? 🤷🏻‍♀️

An excellent episode — that also contains a real nugget: the US have forbidden the UK to share their UK intel gathered in conjunction with US with Ukraine. Now *that’s* what I call a special relationship! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Pretty good, short address to the nation by Macron tonight. Heavy emphasis on Russian threat (made a point of taking up Z’s arguments in Oval office re Putin) rather than Trump focus. Opening convo on extending French nukes deterrent to Germany (not a new story, but 1st time Germany has asked).

Dublin was always wonderfully charming, it’s become ever cooler 😎🇨🇮

And the full-on response here from Trudeau 🇨🇦 (best summed up as: 😳🤨🖕🏼) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Canada getting its skates on! 👀💪🏼🇨🇦 www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The perks of doing early morning TV in Paris 😊

Yes: so striking that Vance picked the fight. This was a planned attack designed to corner and humiliate Zelensky. Obscene, and the direct continuation of Vance’s Paris and Munich behaviour. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What’s also extraordinary is the fact that Vance is the one that lit the fuse and fed Trump his lines. It’s only after Vance decided to fake taking offence that Zelensky lost it and Trump joined in.

Two words for Zelensky: brass balls www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...

A piece in Germany's FAZ making the case that a cautious fiscal policy, such as Britain's in the 1930s, cannot prepare a country for war. www.faz.net/pro/weltwirt...

From Trump via @FT “It’s been a long time since we’ve had an election. You have leadership [in Ukraine] now that’s allowed a war to go on that should have never even happened.” These are the words of a tyrant. They should be enough to force Europe into unity at any cost.

Un peu en retard — but replay available! 😊

Am really starting to think that the right way to understand #Trump is as ‘Repo man’. Takes all your stuff from you on whatever pretence, real or false — and you have to buy it all back. At his price.

The short answer is ‘no’. www.politico.eu/article/fact...

Interesting that commentators are increasingly and naturally referring to the ‘Trump regime’ rather than the ‘Trump administration’. #framing

OK, so keeping up with the US by going backwards…? 👍🏻🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe we complete financial markets union, increase our defence spending, and sound a clear collective ‘no’ when a NATO ally threatens an EU partner’s territorial sovereignty, instead? www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

So true! 😂

Well, they’ve managed to make the #inauguration feel like a cross between a Miss America pageant and a mob wedding.

Book of the month…? Year…? #tech #power #capitalism @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Exposing the naïveté and lack of digital literacy that underpins the UK’s #AIActionPlan … As @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social says: there are so many fab people working in tech in the #UK. Why are they not in PM’s team?

Finished the #Musk/Weidel bad date… we buried Jimmy Carter in more ways than one today.

Listening to #Musk/Weidel chat in the other place. Pretty unedifying. Fact is, for all his faults, craziness, and complete fuckwitery Musk isn’t stupid and you can actually hear him struggle to deal with just how plodding and thick Weidel is. Lots of ‘yahs’, silences, and weird giggling #BadDateVibe

In #Austria “The question of how to save billions of Euros to comply with the EU deficit of three percent proved so (…) impossible, ultimately impeding their ability to prevent a far-right government”. A great piece by @gabrielagreilinger Cautionary tale… #France euobserver.com/eu-political...

On this first full day back at work… #2025 🫣

In 2003, the biggest corporate spenders on R&D in the U.S. were Ford, Pfizer and General Motors. Two decades later, it’s Amazon, Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook)”. No such renewal - or innovation- in Europe. An excellent piece by @matthewkartnitschnig. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

🇫🇷👀 Pourquoi ne parle-t-on pas du tout de la #motion déposée par le #RN? Le RN pourrait, s’il souhaitait se dédire, ne pas voter la motion #NFP (qui ne passerait donc pas) mais voter la sienne. Donc envoyer un ‘signal fort’ à sa base (‘même pas peur’), tout en ne courant ni le

🇫🇷👀Given the social media reactions of #MarineLePen’s voters to the idea of signing a motion of no confidence drafted by the left NFP alliance and led by #Melenchon (that very specifically insults them), I’m thinking Le Pen could find a way of backtracking in her decision to vote against the govt in

🇫🇷 👀 Between now and Xmas French MPs will get several chances to topple Michel #Barnier’s govt. over his proposed budget. The 60 billion euro question is whether #MarineLePen will vote to bring the govt down (nothing can happen without her troops). Le Pen and her party have upped

In @FT today great piece by #JananGanesh The Partial Outsider “Now I see that an authentic Everyperson, a Pierre Poujade type, wouldn’t know how to bend the establishment against itself. Boris Johnson (Etonian but never rich) and Nigel Farage (privately schooled but not a graduate) emphatically do”.

Elevensies #Vienna style 🥰

👀‼️🇩🇪 New Germany poll: CDU/CSU 33% SPD 15% Greens 11% AfD 18% All others below 5%

Marking #1000Days of the Russian #war against #Ukraine in Banská Bystrica last night. Only 240 kms from the Ukrainian border.