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By day, mild-mannered Deputy EU Editor at POLITICO Europe, Declassified columnist, occasional stand-up comedian, and writer/performer at The Schuman Show. By night, same.

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Game of Gnomes: The politics of small garden ornaments The European Parliament is the latest in a long line to mix politics and gnomes.

Game of Gnomes! This week's Declassified available for your delight/abject horror/indifference @politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/game...

10.10.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Competitive Europe Summit β€” live updates All the latest updates and analysis from POLITICO’s big competitiveness gathering.

It's the big @politico.eu Competitiveness Europe Summit and you keep up with what's going on with our blog
www.politico.eu/article/comp...

01.10.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flat-pack diplomacy: The UN’s tiny Ikea table takes center stage Trump likes gold. Putin likes giants. The United Nations likes its tables to be very cheap.

Soft (furnishings) power in this week's Declassified column @politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/decl...

26.09.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Testing times for Ursula von der Leyen, the heavy metal Commission chief European Commission president has a musical past, but is she now secretly a fan of heavy rock?

New Declassified column @politico.eu rocks 🀘
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

12.09.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is London sexy or a dangerous hellhole? It’s a divided world out there, pitting the β€œWoke Leftist Brigade” against the late Silvio Berlusconi.

Which is sexier, London or Brussels? Declassified has the answer @politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/is-l...

30.08.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet the Fanatic Four: ICE Man, Tattooed Can’t Watch Porn Man, the Human Torch, and Good Jeans Woman! We need a new superhero franchise, so let’s call Sydney Sweeney and some bloke who used to be Superman!

In this week's Declassified @politico.eu I come up with a new superhero franchise
www.politico.eu/article/meet...

08.08.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The aliens are coming! Donald Trump and locusts vs. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau The world is in a terrible state, and the extraterrestrials are planning to invade. Happy summer!

This week's Declassified @politico.eu has...
Donald Trump
Katy Perry
Justin Trudeau
A plague of locusts
and Aliens!
www.politico.eu/article/dona...

01.08.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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18 times Donald Trump’s golf habit got political The U.S. president loves playing golf but his hobby can get him into trouble.

With Donald Trump heading to Scotland, here are 18 times his love of golf got political
www.politico.eu/article/18-t...

25.07.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump, Putin and Ozzy Osbourne’s deals with the devil Russia bans the devil, so he heads straight to the White House.

This week's Declassified is a little devilish πŸ‘Ώ
www.politico.eu/article/dona...

25.07.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Hulkamania to Trumpamania: Hulk Hogan’s political journey Hulk Hogan once claimed he wanted to be U.S. president.

Hulk Hogan, basically Donald Trump with muscles and a mustache. More by me here...
www.politico.eu/article/hulk...

24.07.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The political wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne The heavy metal icon, who has died aged 76, had several brushes with the political class.

I wrote about Ozzy Osbourne and politics
www.politico.eu/article/ozzy...

22.07.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Le Roi et moi! Macron (and 90+ penises) make British trip Britain gets Emmanuel Macron and the Bayeux Tapestry (for a bit).

After an extended break, my weekly humour column, Declassified, is back @politico.eu
www.politico.eu/article/emma...

11.07.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paris is disgusting,Β and I love it: A bedbug’s tale Parisians are furious about bedbugs but are they right to be? We asked a bedbug.

Paris is full of bedbugs, so I went and spoke to one

06.10.2023 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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