I’m still mostly over in the other place. I just come here to read one or two accounts.
20.11.2023 20:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rishi Sunak taking the same approach to the ECHR as as David Cameron did to the EU. Will end in the same way.
15.11.2023 17:14 — 👍 37 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0
Sunak already looking like he is auditioning for a venture capital job is not going to help keep Tory MPs calm
07.11.2023 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
That @stephenbc.bsky.social fella has nudged me over here. So far it all feels a big strange.
01.11.2023 21:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flicks through the papers; buys the odd book; listens to radio.
Words and acts have consequences even here.
"Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last"
Eastern Ireland. July '23.
Music, theatre, movies, that sort of thing. I’ll try not to be intemperate. Really.
Londoner, part 🇪🇸, adopted Catalan, free diver, #stonks, tech, astronomy, ADHD, poodle-owner. Work = climate stuff. Run Arsenal Supporters Club in Spain. Recovering entrepreneur.
Formerly EU affairs for Spain’s Prime Minister. Used to unsuccessfully try to head EU things. Recovering, and aspiring, think tanker. My views only, otherwise they would be interesting.
Civic entrepreneur building tech for democrats of all parties and none at Article7.eu. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy.
'Barcelona's foremost foam analyst' – Bloomberg. 'Credulous' – El Temps. Sketches of Spain for Time Out, Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Indy, Nat Geo & oh loads of others.
Serial immigrant. Writer and journalist. Writes about Spain for The Guardian and Observer.
Latest story collection The Jacket http://stephenburgen.com
Barcelona, Spain
AVISO: cuenta residual, irregularmente visitada. Para saber en qué ando, sigan a @ap.brid.gy primero y a @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy después, para mi 'feed' de Mastodon, que es donde escribo normalmente.
I am a Spanish correspondent for mergermarket. All views are my own.
Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Brussels stuff, from the slopes of the Wyngaerd Berg.
Journalism here
https://www.brusselstimes.com/author/frederic-moreau
Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
https://www.eurasiagroup.net
Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. Author of “Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation” (Bloomsbury)
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com)
Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
