Europe is ablaze
New records are being set for devastation
A scary dispatch from the world's fastest-heating continent--Europe. My latest for @theeconomist. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
#Wildfires #globalwarming #climate #climatechange #Europe #EU
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25.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore
Patrizia Nanz is trying to make the European University Institute relevant
Big changes afoot at Europe’s thought factory in the hills above Florence
#EUI #EU #Europe #Europa #Firenze #Florence
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
08.08.2025 17:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now
Countries must be completely safe before asylum-seekers can be sent back
#Italy #Italia #migration #migranti #asylum #asilo
A landmark judgement on Italy’s controversial policy of sending migrants to Albania is not quite what it seems.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
08.08.2025 17:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I hope you got good odds!
08.05.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A team at the Corvinus University of Budapest did an analysis led by a game theory expert and Czerny emerged as the ‘cardinal most likely to’. The same team apparently predicted Bergoglio~Francis. #conclave #pope #vaticano #machilosa
08.05.2025 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Just a thought, but why has NO ONE put Cardinal Michael Czerny on their list of papabili? Right age. Heads a big Vatican department. Too outspoken? Or someone’s ace-in-the-hole contender? #conclave #pope #vaticano
08.05.2025 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated!
27.04.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The pope’s last coded message
Trump and Zelensky attend in Rome with 250,000 others
My report on the significance of Pope Francis’s funeral for @economist.com
The pope’s last coded message
economist.com/europe/2025/...
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26.04.2025 12:55 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Live from St Peter’s… #pope #vatican #conclave
23.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cardinals in: choosing the next pope | The Intelligence from The Economist
Thoughts on the approaching conclave to elect the late Pope Francis's successor for @economist.com's The Intelligence podcast
shows.acast.com/theintellige...
22.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Extraordinary indeed: "Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps." But the researchers found him (?) it (?) out...
27.03.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders
His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen
Trump becomes "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social for @economist.com: www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right
27.03.2025 18:56 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
Augustinian friars are protesting against a redevelopment plan
Frazzled friars take on the developers in tourist-saturated Florence. A dispatch from the ecclesiastical frontline for @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2025/... #Florence #Firenze #Italy #Italia #Catholic #overtourism
27.03.2025 18:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Trump is becoming "a real problem" for his fellow-nationalists in France and Italy. My take with
@sophiepedder.bsky.social
for
@economist.com
www.economist.com/internationa... #france #italy #trump #alt-right
27.03.2025 18:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch.
Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.
For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning those who approach.
The men, some of whom wear masks and body armor, are residents of this small, majority-Black town. They say they’re protecting their own. And they’re on edge.
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From yesterday's Times Diary. A gem.
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I couldn't agree more!
12.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@natashaloder.bsky.social How come you knew the delightful Tim Radford? He was deputy features ed of the Guardian an age ago when I was assistant news ed. Morning conferences were never the same without his Tiggerish enthusiasm.
12.02.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Don’t look up…
10.02.2025 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is very good
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It’s called prioritising, I believe…
02.02.2025 21:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.
This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs
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They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.
02.02.2025 13:50 — 👍 1688 🔁 395 💬 40 📌 12
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