@pburtsoff.bsky.social
Helsinki Correspondent x Monocle. Interested in design, urbanism, arts, politics and jazz. Trying to master the perfect pull on the La Pavoni. Now in 🇫🇮, previously in 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇺🇬🇺🇸.
Par for the course
29.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you politicise science and education, it’s a damn slippery slope.
“How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave
14.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 4122 🔁 926 💬 148 📌 47They changed the link. Now here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
26.09.2025 18:42 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
20.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 25743 🔁 6946 💬 1886 📌 654If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:
1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
23.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 18188 🔁 5400 💬 290 📌 226What’s that line about not shooting the messenger?
on.ft.com/4odo0PD Donald Trump to fire US labour statistics boss after weak jobs report
”People often become what they scorn. Donald Trump has become the deep state.
He is the keeper of the secrets. He is the one stealing away people’s liberties. He is the one weaponizing government and protecting the ruling class.”
Experimenting with the Timo variety today.
12.07.2025 08:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @lynneodonnell.bsky.social and @pburtsoff.bsky.social on Trump's Nobel Peace Prize prospects and other matters, plus Ali Watkins on her new book "The Next One Is For You", about 70s-era IRA gun-runners the Philadelphia Five. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
08.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Yes, he is that dumb.
09.07.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Without cooperation in this area between European and national authorities, and industry, to define the terms of technological cooperation, location, and value sharing, European defense will be stillborn. This begins with industry, not structures.” @nicolastenzer.bsky.social
29.06.2025 00:54 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1A must read.
10.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 510 🔁 89 💬 9 📌 2
As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...)
That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse.
His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.
”Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.”
30.05.2025 04:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
”The crucial divide in our politics is not defined by income levels; it’s defined by educational attainment, with more educated people swinging left and the less educated swinging right.”
23.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest Briefing on Monocle Radio. @burcuozcelik.bsky.social on Iran talks, @pburtsoff.bsky.social on Germany's Lithuania deployment, @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com on difficulties facing Hong Kong's independent media, and @feap.bsky.social on Brazil's bumper year in cinema. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
23.05.2025 13:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.)
on.ft.com/3GS1rPl
I was a Vatican correspondent during the previous sede vacante in 2013. I remember the long nights at St. Peter’s Sq, and the jubilation that followed the white smoke. Pope Francis was and has been immensely popular - now a power struggle is inevitable between the progressives and the conservatives.
21.04.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😀
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on.ft.com/3RWcglr
They sat on that headline for a while
