Simon Kuper

ICE to conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium, official says A government official says ICE will conduct immigration enforcement at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara. This comes just days after Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime performer.

Anyone who thinks this won't happen at the 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. is delusional.

Reform replacing the House of Lords as place where forgotten kooks go for the afterlife www.ft.com/content/0d8a...

How Trump turned international relations into a real-estate game With his Greenland obsession, the US president is reviving a national tradition: expansion via land grabs

Great article @financialtimes.com on American land grabs, which shares my conversation with @simonkuper.bsky.social on the power and unceasing allure of land

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the Chinacene

Agree. I think he backed down because the stock and bond markets were hit by his Greenland bullshit. Still, Europe was right to stand firm at last

Simon Kuper: 'Het idee dat dit een rampzalig land is, is belachelijk' | Journalist | Het Uur Een leven tussen Zuid-Afrika, Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en Leiden maakte van Simon Kuper een wereldburger. „In deze tijd van nativisme en Geert Wilders is dat geen populair ding." Toch voelt hij zic...

Het Uur is mijn favoriete Nederlandstalige podcast en het was erg leuk om mijn vriend @simonkuper.bsky.social als gast te horen. Altijd interessant, niet alleen over voetbal. Zijn blik op Nederland is altijd verrijkend.

At the 2022 NATO summit Biden congratulated Switzerland on joining the alliance, when he meant Sweden. He had some form of dementia too, but wasn't a sociopath and had a staff of mostly competent people

klinkt raar en bijna egoistisch, maar sinds ik heb gedoneerd voor generatoren voor Ukraine, verdraag ik de verschrikkelijke verhalen over de kou daar ietsje beter (of minder slecht). We zitten bijna op de twee ton. ANBI dus belasting aftrekbaar: vvodiel.nl/doneren/

Not the right moment to come out as out of touch with the actual world. UK leaving NATO now would be insane betrayal + shooting self in the foot à la Brexit but worse

FAZ: Norwegian intelligence anticipates that in the event Trump invades Greenland, Russia will launch a coordinated attack to seize the Norwegian archipelago of Spitzbergen

Resisting the Rule of the Rich | Oxfam International

Oxfam have a very topical new report out www.oxfam.org/en/research/...

Kavanaugh raid

By amazing coincidence, the very same people were also wrong about Brexit. Am sensing some kind of pattern

Various headlines in which Jacob Rees-Mogg, Liz Truss, Daniel Hannan, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage endorse Donald Trump.

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

I associate this winter with three things: cold, darkness, and gratitude. I am not mentioning Russian missiles and drones because they strike civil infrastructure all year round. That is why we in Kyiv are sitting at minus -17 degrees without heating, electricity, water, or communication. 1/1

The ‘big man’ era of football managers is past [FREE TO READ] As clubs have grown, the gaffer’s power has been diluted by multiple executives

FT editorial: the constant sacking of football head coaches (wrongly still called "managers") illustrates how badly most clubs are still run. Both clubs and fans need to realise that the head coach just isn't that important. Recruitment (= transfers) matters much more as.ft.com/r/73922630-9...

Afcon and the power of a footballing diaspora [FREE TO READ] A compelling tournament has shown the importance of players — and fans — raised outside Africa

And amidst the global madness, Morocco and Senegal today play the final of the African Nations Cup. Me @FinancialTimes on how the diaspora is revitalising African football, Zidane on the field and in stands, and the guy who's a Patrice Lumumba statue as.ft.com/r/6147632f-f...

Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.

How it started ... How it's going

Forever proud of my World War One medal

The impotence of Europe’s governing elite [FREE TO READ] From Brussels to Moldova, the men in blue suits know they’re in trouble. But what are they going to do about it?

European governing elites from London through Brussels to Moldova face the worst threats since 1945, from Putin, Trump, China, AI, climate etc. Why are they so unequipped to deal with them? Me on the men (mostly) with blue suits and diplomas who have landed in the jungle as.ft.com/r/b709f313-8...

Ik had het niet alleen over Nederlanders. Je weet dat het WK een wereldwijd evenement is

De meeste Nederlanders lijken anders best plezier te hebben in hun leven, Bo: gemiddelde tevredenheid met eigen leven is standaard hoog, in 2024 bijvoorbeeld 7,7 www.scp.nl/actueel/nieu...

Simon Kuper: 'Het idee dat dit een rampzalig land is, is belachelijk' | Journalist | Het Uur Een leven tussen Zuid-Afrika, Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en Leiden maakte van Simon Kuper een wereldburger. „In deze tijd van nativisme en Geert Wilders is dat geen populair ding." Toch voelt hij zic...

Ik sprak met de @nrc.nl podcast Het Uur over het voetbal-WK (ivm met mijn nieuwe boek De wereld aan mijn voeten), hoe ik Nederland als buitenstaander zie, en nog veel meer. Het NRC koos de juiste kop voor de aankondiging www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

OECD offers sound advice to a country about to be attacked by the US

Agreed - I think Trump is desperate for the protestors to turn violent and is disappointed and surprised it hasn't happened yet. He wants a Chicago '68 Democratic Convention type of event, with "punks" against "law enforcement" and most of the population terrified of former and rooting for latter

Hi, if you make the titanic effort to read just the very first line of the article, you'll see that I include the British elite in my "European governing elite"

Vox pop of an American at his first protest

Paul, if you read the article you'll see that I talk about politicians, civil servants, think-tankers and academic advisers

The impotence of Europe’s governing elite [FREE TO READ] From Brussels to Moldova, the men in blue suits know they’re in trouble. But what are they going to do about it?

European governing elites from London through Brussels to Moldova face the worst threats since 1945, from Putin, Trump, China, AI, climate etc. Why are they so unequipped to deal with them? Me on the men (mostly) with blue suits and diplomas who have landed in the jungle as.ft.com/r/b709f313-8...