Simon Nixon

Good overview and commentary of current 🇪🇺 discussions

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The big danger for Europe now is complacency - that having apparently seen Trump off for now, that political leaders retreat back to their comfort zone."

Europe’s Greenland Moment Exposes a Misread Lesson of Appeasement Invoking the 1930s to confront Donald Trump over Greenland misses the real lesson of how Britain and France prepared for a world sliding into disorder.

Europe’s Greenland Moment Exposes a Misread Lesson of Appeasement -- via @nixonsimon.bsky.social

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After the TACO Thoughts on the economic consequences for Europe of a tumultuous week

After the TACO - thoughts on the economic consequences of Trump's Greenland climbdown, assuming that is what it was...

After the TACO Thoughts on the economic consequences for Europe of a tumultuous week

After the TACO - thoughts on the economic consequences of Trump's Greenland climbdown, assuming that is what it was...

Europe’s Greenland Moment Exposes a Misread Lesson of Appeasement Invoking the 1930s to confront Donald Trump over Greenland misses the real lesson of how Britain and France prepared for a world sliding into disorder.

Europe is congratulating itself for standing firm against Trump. But history suggests it’s drawing the wrong lessons from the 1930s, and still failing to prepare for a harsher world - my essay for @bloomberg.com

Europe’s Greenland Moment Exposes a Misread Lesson of Appeasement Invoking the 1930s to confront Donald Trump over Greenland misses the real lesson of how Britain and France prepared for a world sliding into disorder.

This piece by @nixonsimon.bsky.social is good:
"The lesson of the 1930s is that in such a contested world, containment is not enough. Europeans also need to build their deterrence, so they are better able to resist military and economic coercion"
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Europe’s Greenland Moment Exposes a Misread Lesson of Appeasement Invoking the 1930s to confront Donald Trump over Greenland misses the real lesson of how Britain and France prepared for a world sliding into disorder.

What Europe needs now is a Neville Chamberlain - an essay I wrote for @bloomberg.com on how Europeans are missing one of the key lessons of the 1930s

Mark Carney v the ‘American bully’ Plus: when should journalists publish military secrets?

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Alan Rusbridger and @lionelbarber.bsky.social disagree over when media outlets should publish military secrets. Plus, we revisit Simon Nixon’s take on Mark Carney.

Thanks Alex

This is a great piece

Only the non-oligarch owned ones though…

As Mette Frederiksen meets Keir Starmer in Downing Street, where no doubt she will be implored to agree to a deal with Trump that concedes some Greenland sovereignty, here's my latest for @euractiv.com on why Britain is Europe's weakest link

Davos delegates can’t ‘speak Trump’. Here’s what they should know World leaders trying to work out if the president was serious about seizing Greenland should study his business strategy — and listen to what he actually says

I’ve skimmed all the major UK and US papers today and can confirm that you will not find anywhere a more obsequious piece of Trump sane-washing than this. Reassuring to see that the readers aren’t buying it…

Here is another statement by a western leader, this time Friedrich Merz, that it is hard to imagine Keir Starmer or any other UK political leader making. Brexit has left Britain completely adrift, with nothing useful to say and no idea what to do as the old world order crumbles

Mark Carney's Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned The Canadian Prime Minister's powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon

Mark Carney's Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned – my latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/21/m...

Mark Carney's Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned The Canadian Prime Minister's powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues Simon Nixon

🔴Mark Carney’s Speech Showed America and Britain the Sort of Global Leadership They Have Now Abandoned

The Canadian Prime Minister’s powerful response to the growing threat from Donald Trump has put other world leaders to shame, argues @nixonsimon.bsky.social

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It will have been scraped from someone else’s reporting. Just look it up online

Fascinating to watch Bessent shred what lingering credibility he retained as a semi-grown-up in the Trump administration. The most powerful reason to sell the dollar is that this compromised cretin is in charge

I think politics generally has been debased by the dominance of tailoring everything to social media, which has reduced the ability of politicians to articulate and opportunity to share longer, more complex and nuanced arguments, which Carney did so brilliantly and concisely here.

I think you're too generous. The problem is the hollowing out of Britain's political class of anyone with any experience or insight - a grim consequence of the Johnson and Corbyn fiascos. There is simply no way that anyone of Carney's calibre would make their way in UK politics.

I'm sure Starmer could understand the arguments, though as you say, I don't believe he is capable of articulating them. But I wouldn't say the same for most of the Tory front bench

In the grim world of Daily Mail trained editors that now dominates the commanding heights of British mainstream journalism, what they call it is "talking points". A strong opinion that will agitate and titillate rather than inform

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Wealth of Nations | Simon Nixon | Substack European political economy and geoeconomics. Click to read Wealth of Nations, by Simon Nixon, a Substack publication.

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Don't underestimate the extent that columnists are there to serve the interests of their publishers not the readers. They operate within an Overton window of acceptable opinions set by the editor. Everything you see by a staff columnist should be read with that in mind - and discounted accordingly

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One reason I am gloomy about Britain’s ability to rise to this geopolitical moment is the sheer parochialism and unseriousness of much of its media. The Times, which used to be a serious paper, does not have a single comment piece today on the gravest international crisis in 80 years