The Czech president, Petr Pavel, has urged Nato to “show its teeth” in response to Russia’s testing of the alliance’s resolve, with Russian provocations just below the A5 threshold his “biggest fear”. @shaunwalker7.bsky.social & I for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed after five years in a Belarusian penal colony as part of a US-brokered multi-country swap deal. Me for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Seriously though, name a better way of watching your team play away (except than actually being there in the away end) than this: at your team’s ground, in sunny weather, with pub tables by the river. I’ll wait.

Brilliant long read by the great @shaunwalker7.bsky.social on Ukraine, how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them. It's a long one, so put the kettle on. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Crazily busy two days covering the Munich Security Conference on #EuropeLive for @theguardian.com. Thanks to all reading and commenting.

@jakubkrupa.bsky.social does it again.

Planning my Munich visit for the MSC later this week. Are you around? Let me know, drop me a line.

Twelve years ago, I spent the first £100 I earned writing for UK media on a ticket to attend the Guardian’s masterclass, hoping to get some more luck in the future. Twelve years on, I’m a Guardian staff writer. Funny how these things work out. Feeling lucky, privileged & excited about what’s next.

Why are ICE agents going to the Winter Olympics in Italy? – video explainer

‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs For @guardian, we speak to veterans from allied NATO countries - Poland, UK and Canada - for their reaction to Trump’s comments about them “staying a little back” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Why Danish officials had to go to toilet to check on Trump’s Davos speech, how they found Trump dropped his tariff threat over a pan-fried turbot & what are EU leaders eating tonight - this & other burning Qs getting answered in late-night Europe Live. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

What Donald Trump's Davos speech tells us about his Greenland bid? My short video explainer for @theguardian.com brilliantly edited by Elena Moressi www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows

Another super busy day on @theguardian.com #EuropeLive with detailed coverage of all reactions to Trump’s comments on tariffs and Greenland from across Europe live as they come in. Privileged to be leading our blog coverage. More to come this week, no doubt. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Lord Peter Ricketts on BBC4 re Trump/Greenland: 'The right thing for the European countries is to react very calmly, to be firm & polite in public, ... making the case that America can have all its security interests served by working with Denmark and with Nato.' www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us. But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.

Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us. But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.

You can, and I wholeheartedly second this recommendation

I know social media are all about hot takes & viral posts, but if you want the quotes, the facts, and the analysis, can I just recommend our Greenland coverage on Europe live? Incl. latest DK/GL comments & info on who will join the new European military mission www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Świadomość polskiej historii? To nie “rana, która nie chce się zagoić, ale … jasność moralna”. Nieufność do instytucji? Zdrowy sceptycyzm zrodzony z twardego doświadczenia. Piękny i wzruszający list miłosny @benstanley.eu do Polski, Polaków i polskości. kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...

Donald Trump sues BBC for at least $5bn over edit of January 6 speech

"Border towns are always pulled between two impulses: liberal openness to difference, pluralism and complex identities or as an identity as a frontier post guarding against the Other." Lovely to have this post by @lewisbaston.bsky.social, author of Borderlines, on his visit to Nova Gorica/ Gorizia

Excellent thread on migration in general too

Do yourself a favour and read Jakub, who debunks some shit here from tabloids (AGAIN)

Great thread on what's really going on with Polish / UK migration vs the Daily Mail self-serving interpretation.

Me on Sunday: here’s a 21-post carefully-crafted and data-backed nuanced thread debunking the narrative on Polish returns from the UK Polish TV on Monday: hey, want to talk to us about the record-high en mass exodus returns of Poles from the UK? 😭

Superb thread full of facts and detail. I'll add that I am a Brit but moved to Poland back in 2019. The reason for this was 100% Brexit. I am part of a 'Brits in Poland' and over the last month publications like the Mail have been trying to get us to do interviews to fit their narrative like this.

A thread worth your time:

Great thread, on this particular migration, and also on migration in general. Families are transnational. People make careers across countries. My ancestors, 2 or 3 generations, bounced all over the world! But somehow *that* all got coded as enterprise, ambition, and economic development.

Do read this thread in full if you care at all about migration. 👇🏻

Few thoughts on the "Polish exodus" from the UK. 1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks. 2. Migration is really complicated. 3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure. 4. What you can do? THREAD 🧵

If you've read about the Mail article bemoaning the departure of Poles from UK after Brexit this is an excellent thread from @jakubkrupa.bsky.social with the real facts.

A very good thread.

Love this thread. All of it.

Sudden coverage of Poles leaving /UK being economically overtaken by PL has (complicated) factual basis but in essence a right-wing discourse of national decline geared to domestic politics. An old theme-Brit politics scholars speak of “declinism” I think. Not really respectful to Poland,as noted

Why all this talk about 'Polish exodus' from UK is wrong, and what you can do about it?: @jakubkrupa.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-al...

Few thoughts on the "Polish exodus" from the UK. 1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks. 2. Migration is really complicated. 3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure. 4. What you can do? THREAD 🧵

Many Poles arrive. Daily Mail: “THIS IS A CATASTROPHE OUR COUNTRY IS DYING” Many Poles leave again. Daily Mail: “THIS IS A CATASTROPHE PUR COUNTRY IS DYING” Do you want Poles or not?

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

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Jonn generously let me write for his Substack. There are 29 borders in my book, 47 in his… plus this extra one! I drew together some of the threads of Borderlines when I was in the twin cities of Nova Gorica 🇸🇮 and Gorizia 🇮🇹

The worst thing about these misinformed stories about ‘exodus’ of #PolesinUK - not really backed by data - is that they STILL have a whiff of awful sense of superiority of “how bad Britain must be if they’re going back to their poor, awful countries,” as per this poll.

My weekend essay for @financialtimes.com on grandmothers from lost worlds, dignity and surveillance (then and now)…

I talked to @newyorker.com about four books that inspired my writing about dignity. www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...