Giacomo Benedetto

Woodland and daffodils but with sign saying private, no public access.

Welcome to England. A first glimpse of spring but with no right to roam.

Education Excellence Award 2025, banner.

I am delighted to have been nominated for a @royalholloway.bsky.social Education Excellence Award. One of the comments from a nominating student said:

'From facilitating the greatest and most inspirational lectures and seminars...

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A thread on twitter between Matthew Goodwin and Giacomo Benedetto

I was just going through my old files when I found this: my calling out of Matt Goodwin on twitter from January 2017.

Photo of people in a room

This evening I attended a rejoin #Erasmus+ celebration at Westminster addressed by Europe Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds MP @europeanmovement.co.uk

What? Oh yes, the US, the country where the shore can be private property and the subject of big beautiful real estate deals. #Feudalism

Not sure which country's head of state you mean. In many European countries and in Canada, head of state and head of government are not the same person.

If a Latin American head of state can be kidnapped, the same can happen to the head of government of a NATO country.

Bulgaria joins the eurozone as its 21st country after formally adopting the euro.

Daffodils

Spotted, 27 December 2025 in Hampshire. #Daffodils #ClimateChange

I did spot daffodils two years ago on 26 December.

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Some good news: UK to rejoin #Erasmus+ but let's cautiously wait until details are published tomorrow.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

What actually explains Gill's reselection in 2019, regardless of #Farage now claiming he was merely a bad apple? It's extraordinary given the deselection or voluntary retirement of 21 of the 24 Brexit Party/UKIP MEPs.

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UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes

In 2014, 24 MEPs were elected for #UKIP. In 2019, only 3 were reselected for the Brexit Party: Farage himself, Gill and one other www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... 1/2

🇪🇺🇬🇧At the 11th edition of the Oxford Symposium, the 3rd panel discusses redefining the state & public policies:

🔺 Giacomo Benedetto
🔺 Andy Western MP
🔺 Maria Jepsen @eurofound.europa.eu
🔺 Pascal Smet
🔺 @afscharian.bsky.social
🔺Joni Smith
🔺 @francoisbalate.bsky.social

👉 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...

@rhulpir.bsky.social

2/2: and to have authored a chapter on European public investment and progressive policy in a new book on the Great Unravelling co-authored by Patrick Diamond and @aniaskrzypek.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/feps...

11th Oxford Symposium - Foundation for European Progressive Studies FEPS, Progressive Britain, and the Karl-Renner-Institut are proud to co-organise yet another edition (11th) of […]

I am very pleased to have taken part in the @feps-europe.eu Oxford Symposium 2025 feps-europe.eu/event/11th-o... 1/2

a train track is going through a field with a lot of grass on the side . Alt: A very fast TGV

That's not a HST. This is

Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster' He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling

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www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Text from Guardian interview with Alan Sked

#NigelFarage reference in a 2014 Guardian interview with UKIP's founder Alan Sked, 1/2

Text from article in The Guardian

Sked's reference to the Farage of 1993 around the time of the Newbury byelection was more strongly worded than what is reported in that interview in The Guardian, which nevertheless concludes:

And this #DulwichCollege #NigelFarage bsky.app/profile/lbc....

Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

I'll not forget what Alan Sked told me at the LSE about the attitudes that Farage had when he and Sked first met in the early 1990s, a decade after the reported incidents at Dulwich www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But youth mobility is a fantastic opportunity for the UK just as are home fees for EU students, which would re-open a source of future talent for the UK's knowledge economy.

Dans le Nord, des activistes anglais d’extrême droite veulent stopper les migrants

Dans le Nord, des activistes anglais d’extrême droite veulent stopper les migrants

View of Salzburg

#Salzburg

Yes of course, but AP was not the centre-right until the late 80s when UCD collapsed.

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Urne aperte in Veneto, Campania e Puglia: oggi e lunedì si vota Il presidente uscente Luca Zaia ha votato a San Vendemiano accompagnato dalla moglie

Regional government elections are being held today in Veneto, Puglia & Campania. If things go as predicted there should be easy wins for the centre-right in Veneto & the centre-left in Puglia. Campania should also go to the centre-left by a smaller majority. Voting continues tomorrow until 3 p.m.