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Posts by John Hooper

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Europe is ablaze New records are being set for devastation

A scary dispatch from the world's fastest-heating continent--Europe. My latest for @theeconomist. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#Wildfires #globalwarming #climate #climatechange #Europe #EU
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Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore Patrizia Nanz is trying to make the European University Institute relevant

Big changes afoot at Europe’s thought factory in the hills above Florence
#EUI #EU #Europe #Europa #Firenze #Florence
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now Countries must be completely safe before asylum-seekers can be sent back

#Italy #Italia #migration #migranti #asylum #asilo
A landmark judgement on Italy’s controversial policy of sending migrants to Albania is not quite what it seems.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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In Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic church chooses a middle path Also on the daily podcast: the trouble with choking AI-chip flows and a tribute to Martin Graham, bricklayer and opera-house founder

My early thoughts on the election of pope Leo XIV, interviewed on @economist.com 's podcast The Intelligence: www.economist.com/podcasts/202... #conclave #pope #popeleoXIV #vatican

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I hope you got good odds!

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A team at the Corvinus University of Budapest did an analysis led by a game theory expert and Czerny emerged as the ‘cardinal most likely to’. The same team apparently predicted Bergoglio~Francis. #conclave #pope #vaticano #machilosa

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Just a thought, but why has NO ONE put Cardinal Michael Czerny on their list of papabili? Right age. Heads a big Vatican department. Too outspoken? Or someone’s ace-in-the-hole contender? #conclave #pope #vaticano

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Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated!

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The pope’s last coded message Trump and Zelensky attend in Rome with 250,000 others

My report on the significance of Pope Francis’s funeral for @economist.com

The pope’s last coded message
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Live from St Peter’s… #pope #vatican #conclave

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Cardinals in: choosing the next pope | The Intelligence from The Economist

Thoughts on the approaching conclave to elect the late Pope Francis's successor for @economist.com's The Intelligence podcast

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The coming struggle to choose the next pope A conclave of 135 cardinals may pick someone very different from Francis

First thoughts on the next conclave for @economist.com : www.economist.com/internationa...

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Extraordinary indeed: "Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps." But the researchers found him (?) it (?) out...

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Trump is driving American scientists into Europe’s arms But the continent will have to invest more to lure top talent

Can Europe benefit from a science exodus from America?

It's complicated. My latest for @economist.com. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen

Trump becomes "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social for @economist.com: www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right

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A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence Augustinian friars are protesting against a redevelopment plan

Frazzled friars take on the developers in tourist-saturated Florence. A dispatch from the ecclesiastical frontline for @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2025/... #Florence #Firenze #Italy #Italia #Catholic #overtourism

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How Trump is becoming "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social
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@economist.com
www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right

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Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.

This sounds innocent and normal. Nothing to see here. “President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch. Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.

For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning those who approach.

The men, some of whom wear masks and body armor, are residents of this small, majority-Black town. They say they’re protecting their own. And they’re on edge.

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Witkoff Says ‘Summit’ of Developers Will Convene on Gaza Future Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, says a summit will soon be held with real estate developers and planners from the region to discuss the administration’s co...

Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East says a summit will soon be held with real estate developers and planners to discuss the plan for the future of Gaza.

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From yesterday's Times Diary. A gem.

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I couldn't agree more!

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@natashaloder.bsky.social How come you knew the delightful Tim Radford? He was deputy features ed of the Guardian an age ago when I was assistant news ed. Morning conferences were never the same without his Tiggerish enthusiasm.

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Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act became law in 1977. In 2024, the Department of Justice announced 24 cases related to the anti-bribery statute.

Dovetailing neatly with the removal of the director of the government ethics office… www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

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Don’t look up…

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This is very good

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It’s called prioritising, I believe…

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Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.

Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.

This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs

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They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.

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