Tom Nuttall

Typo of the year contest is over, thanks
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Nuts. Given comparable dynamic for German automakers, curious to know how such considerations affect the EU's negotiating stance

It does feel as if something may be starting, belatedly, to shift in Germany. See also mini-rebellion among SPD rank and file towards govt's position. Merz's explanation for not signing the UK-organised round robin plainly makes no sense. Let's see if Macron can shift him tonight.

25 Staaten fordern sofortiges Ende des Gaza-Krieges Der internationale Druck auf die israelische Regierung wächst. In einer Erklärung fordern Staaten um Großbritannien, Frankreich, Kanada und Japan ein Ende des Krieges im Gazastreifen. Deutschland ist ...

Policy wasn't my focus. But I learned in my reporting that the German government believes it unwise to deepen Israel's isolation through excessive condemnation. So it's not a surprise to see its name left off this letter, signed by almost all its closest allies. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asie...

Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza Atonement for the Holocaust has sometimes become unquestioning support for Israel

Last week, with some trepidation, I wrote this column on how Germany's regard for its own past has warped its debate on Israel and Gaza.
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Nothing but admiration for the precision with which Berlin's hay fever season yields to its wasp season.

Britain and Germany sign a historic treaty The two countries hope it will alleviate a set of mutual ailments

The two countries hope it will alleviate a set of mutual ailments

Spats over judges aside, a sentence I hear more and more from German conservatives is "The SPD needs to understand that it is a 13% party", which I'm not sure bodes especially well for the future of this coalition.

Germany...has been discussing this for a year...and...France just...tweeted it out

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Rhine looking fit this morning

Moving to The Economist (from 1994 as political editor), Lipsey felt he had "died and gone to heaven". His "Bagehot" column won an Orwell Prize in 1999, having been runner-up three times. One such column, "Reinventing Michael Portillo", was plagiarised by a 15-year-old schoolboy to win The Guardian's Young Journalist of the Year award. When challenged, the boy said: "I didn't think The Economist was widely read".

The Telegraph obit for Lord Lipsey is excellent and contains this corker
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Good luck everyone

Tunes 2025 Playlist · Tom Nuttall · 14 items · 2 saves

It's hot as hell, you're bored, irritable and sick of Glasto discourse, and the pre-holiday lull has started to descend.....could there be a better time to listen to my new playlist? The best music I heard in the last 12 months, and none of it is by Bob Vylan open.spotify.com/playlist/77p...

Serious high-end political beef about some dire band shooting their mouths off at Glasto...have we ever been so back?

Sentences that would have had you sectioned if you'd uttered them five years ago: two-thirds of Germans, including 46% of AfD and 41% of Die Linke voters, agree that the defence budget should increase to 5% of GDP.

No worries, I lived there. In The Hague this is an accepted way of communicating.

And now he'll take that thunderously bad mood with him to The Hague

Iconic

Trump smashes Iran—and gambles the regime will now capitulate He says American strikes have “obliterated” the nuclear programme

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DE govt: "The German government believes that large parts of Iran's nuclear program were compromised by the airstrikes. A detailed damage assessment will be available later...Chancellor Merz reiterated his call for Iran to immediately begin negotiations with the US & Israel"

German defence ministry: new phone, who dis?

Blocköverskridande överenskommelse nådd om historisk upprustning I dag presenterar regeringen, tillsammans med Socialdemokraterna, Sverigedemokraterna, Vänsterpartiet, Centerpartiet och Miljöpartiet, en...

Sweden commits to debt-financed defence-spending boost to 3.5% of GDP, NATO target likely to be agreed next week.

Like (I think) every other ally that has made this pledge, Sweden's debt stock is low (32% of GDP). Not really an option for Italy, Spain or France.

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It's an iPad mini

Not only is it an ipad, it's the least interesting thing in the photo with the possible exception of the salt cellar

If Mitteleuropa offers any old-world charm greater than chowing down on pork shoulder and slurping a sparkling Apfelschorle while riding the Knödelexpress along the Elbe, I don't want to know about it

When I moved to south London I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to explore other parts of south London. Haha no

Germany's interior minister, in the job for precisely one month, taking credit for a fall in asylum numbers that began many months ago.

Pro: remove the sting from the story, ditch the symbolic anti-Schengen policies, move on to something else

Con: treating voters like fucking morons

He did once say that Musk's AfD endorsement "could not be left unchallenged..."

Merz is doing CNN and Fox shortly, immediately before flying back to Berlin. Just a spectacular never-to-be-repeated opportunity to make an arch, patrician joke about the chaos he is leaving behind