🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵
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Hungary has defended Europe against civilisational erasure - my latest on the scale of Peter Magyar’s achievement for @euractiv.com
This is my favourite: Trump as a pilot
🇮🇹❗️🇺🇸 Meloni: "I consider President Trump's words to the Holy Father unacceptable. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and it is quite right and normal that he calls for peace and condemns all forms of war."
Who did this one 😆😆😆
🔴 "Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’
Scoop by my colleague Adam: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months"
Trump’s Iran policy is a hot mess. The Hormuz blockade is an act of desperation by a president forced to back away from more extreme options. In reality, the war is driving another nail in the coffin of the global rules-based order with wide-ranging economic consequences for the world. My latest
Disentangling Europe from US dependence won't be easy, given Trump’s readiness not only to weaponise dependencies in defence, to energy, technology and finance but to target individuals. My latest
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It's hard to overstate how important Magyar's win in the Hungarian election is for Europe. You don't need to be starry-eyed about his policies to acknowledge what a disaster it would have been if the result had gone the other way. My latest
open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
Thoughts on the economic consequences of Trump's elusive peace, can Europe escape its US dependency problem, why the Hungarian election is a watershed moment regardless of who wins, and why cybercrime is the next catastrophic risk
Thanks!
Thanks Chris!
A necessary breakdown (that might inspire an actual breakdown)
This is excellent - packed with interesting information and insightful analysis
Thoughts on the economic consequences of Trump's elusive peace, can Europe escape its US dependency problem, why the Hungarian election is a watershed moment regardless of who wins, and why cybercrime is the next catastrophic risk
Your podcast is consistently brilliant. I’m in awe of your range and output…
Morning.
David Frost wants to be part of an ethereal reality.
It is odd how climate change has almost entirely left the conversation - and yet it, and the attempt to address it, lies at the core of so many of the challenges that Britain, Europe and the world are facing right now
Superb episode even by @ppfideas.bsky.social peerless standards. Fascinating on how various post-war trots such as Christopher Hitchens ended up as neo-cons and the bizarre SpikedOnline crowd ended up as right-wing populists
Iran exposes Europe’s strategic dependency on the US - Trump’s NATO threats are a wake-up call for Europe to reduce its dependency on the US. But Europeans need to be realistic about how hard this will be. My latest for @euractiv.com
VERY EXCITED to announce my brand new show at the Edinburgh fringe 2026 and UK tour. If you’ve signed up to my mailing list, you can get tickets for my tour now, but for everyone else tickets are available tomorrow. Felt the best way to tackle the Labour government was a show with aliens in it.
Iran exposes Europe’s strategic dependency on the US - Trump’s NATO threats are a wake-up call for Europe to reduce its dependency on the US. But Europeans need to be realistic about how hard this will be. My latest for @euractiv.com
Is Trump’s Iran debacle undermining support for his far right allies in Europe? It’s starting to look that way. My latest on a shard of good news for Europe
Why everyone should watch Palestine 36, a terrific new(ish) film about the Palestinian Revolt of 1936-1939, shamefully ignored by most of the UK media, which explores an important episode in history that sheds light on the conflict that lies at the heart of so many of the world’s troubles today
How those suspicious oil market moves 15 minutes before Trump’s Iran TACO post - and wider suspicions of a Trump Syndicate profiting from administration’s policies - are deeply corrosive of trust in US financial assets. My latest
Perhaps Donald Trump’s most legacy-defining contribution to US history will have been the president that squandered America’s exorbitant privilege. My latest on why Trump’s Iran War debacle is likely to prove long-term dollar bearish and may give rise to the birth of the Petroyuan
Trump’s very bad options - any why the markets are right to fear that this time, TACO isn’t one of them. My latest on the Pressure Index and why markets may have further to fall
Trump’s very bad options - any why the markets are right to fear that this time, TACO isn’t one of them. My latest on the Pressure Index and why markets may have further to fall
Perhaps Donald Trump’s most legacy-defining contribution to US history will have been the president that squandered America’s exorbitant privilege. My latest on why Trump’s Iran War debacle is likely to prove long-term dollar bearish and may give rise to the birth of the Petroyuan