Tom Nuttall
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File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
January 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
File under, we never quite know what's coming next.
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
One of my favourite embassy reports. The UK ambassador in East Berlin reporting in after the fall of the Wall...
RIP Sly Dunbar. Testament to his (and Robbie Shakespeare’s) skills that this highly eccentric Serge Gainsbourg number still somehow works.
youtu.be/egHsU2zBgKI?...
youtu.be/egHsU2zBgKI?...
Aux armes et caetera
YouTube video by Serge Gainsbourg - Topic
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
RIP Sly Dunbar. Testament to his (and Robbie Shakespeare’s) skills that this highly eccentric Serge Gainsbourg number still somehow works.
youtu.be/egHsU2zBgKI?...
youtu.be/egHsU2zBgKI?...
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hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM
hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
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“The sirens flashing red all over Europe have been turned off,” but leaders are now reckoning with the fallout from the Greenland crisis, Tom Nuttall tells “The Intelligence”. Listen now
Grave new world: the Greenland row’s lasting damage
Also on the daily podcast: who cares about TikTok’s deal and pop gets the blues
econ.st
January 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“The sirens flashing red all over Europe have been turned off,” but leaders are now reckoning with the fallout from the Greenland crisis, Tom Nuttall tells “The Intelligence”. Listen now
Who wore it better?
January 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Who wore it better?
Keir Starmer seems to be killing any hopes that Trump's aggression on Greenland might drive a UK-EU rapprochement. EU pressing on with €93bn retaliation, considering anti-coercion instrument. Starmer: "A trade war is in no one's interest".
January 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Keir Starmer seems to be killing any hopes that Trump's aggression on Greenland might drive a UK-EU rapprochement. EU pressing on with €93bn retaliation, considering anti-coercion instrument. Starmer: "A trade war is in no one's interest".
Part of the MAGA campaign for Greenland is to make this about Denmark, rather than NATO. Allies have every reason to counter this pernicious narrative
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Part of the MAGA campaign for Greenland is to make this about Denmark, rather than NATO. Allies have every reason to counter this pernicious narrative
If you're enjoying Denmark's foreign minister with a cigarette, have you seen him with a pipe?
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 AM
If you're enjoying Denmark's foreign minister with a cigarette, have you seen him with a pipe?
Punting Greenland's security to a working group and sending a symbolic troop deployment is probably the best Europe can do, for now.
But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness.
My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness.
My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Europe has three options for defending Greenland
Fending off Donald Trump may yet prove agonisingly difficult
www.economist.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Punting Greenland's security to a working group and sending a symbolic troop deployment is probably the best Europe can do, for now.
But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness.
My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness.
My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Spotting a factual error in the New Yorker always brightens one's day.
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Spotting a factual error in the New Yorker always brightens one's day.
V good Greenlandic fact www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
V good Greenlandic fact www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
FT always takes bylines to the next level
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
FT always takes bylines to the next level
I'm joining the BBC World Service Weekend show for the next couple of hours. Tune in!
January 3, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I'm joining the BBC World Service Weekend show for the next couple of hours. Tune in!
2026 will certainly be interesting. But Germans overdo it with this Superwahljahr thing. There seems to be one every other year.
2026 is set to be 'Superwahljahr' for Germany with five German Länder (federal states) going to the polls 🗳️🇩🇪
📅 8 March: Baden-Württemberg
📅 22 March: Rhineland-Palatinate
📅 6 September Saxony-Anhalt
📅 20 September: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania
📅 20 September: Berlin
📅 8 March: Baden-Württemberg
📅 22 March: Rhineland-Palatinate
📅 6 September Saxony-Anhalt
📅 20 September: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania
📅 20 September: Berlin
January 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
2026 will certainly be interesting. But Germans overdo it with this Superwahljahr thing. There seems to be one every other year.
Perhaps a little early to call it for 2026, but I cannot imagine seeing a better film this year than In die Sonne Schauen
January 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Perhaps a little early to call it for 2026, but I cannot imagine seeing a better film this year than In die Sonne Schauen
This podcast on the life and works of Fela Kuti is absolutely brilliant. Cannot recommend it highly enough. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
Jad Abumrad’s new show - Fela Kuti: Fear No Man | Dolly Parton's America | WNYC Studios
In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do? Today, Jad Abumrad is back with his first major project since Dolly Parton’s America. Fela Kuti: F...
www.wnycstudios.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This podcast on the life and works of Fela Kuti is absolutely brilliant. Cannot recommend it highly enough. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
A few days after I moved to Los Angeles, Philip Seymour Hoffman cycled up to the Venice cafe I was in. Two days later saw Bill Clinton getting mobbed by fans in a Santa Monica bookshop. Assumed that was life in LA, but then saw no more celebs in two years except Anne Hathaway in a bar one night.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A few days after I moved to Los Angeles, Philip Seymour Hoffman cycled up to the Venice cafe I was in. Two days later saw Bill Clinton getting mobbed by fans in a Santa Monica bookshop. Assumed that was life in LA, but then saw no more celebs in two years except Anne Hathaway in a bar one night.
The brief annual window in which fireworks may be legally purchased in Germany has begun. My preview of the most wonderful debate of the year. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Why German cities feel like war zones on New Year’s Eve
A dream for pyromaniacs, a nightmare for everyone else
www.economist.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The brief annual window in which fireworks may be legally purchased in Germany has begun. My preview of the most wonderful debate of the year. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
I love a bit of Bloomberg shade www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I love a bit of Bloomberg shade www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A few quick thoughts about this morning's decision. Don't believe the spin from various Russians & others: it's a big deal. The EU has now unambiguously demonstrated that it is able and willing to provide the external financial support Ukraine needs, for as long and as much as it takes. (1/N)
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My take on the EU's through-the-night summit to help Ukraine. The main thing is €90bn will find its way to Kyiv—though not funded by Russia's frozen assets.
It was a messy deal, from which recriminations will ensue. But Europe got there (mostly) in the end.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
It was a messy deal, from which recriminations will ensue. But Europe got there (mostly) in the end.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Europe finds €90bn for Ukraine—but not from Russia
An EU “reparations loan” using frozen Russian money collapses
www.economist.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My take on the EU's through-the-night summit to help Ukraine. The main thing is €90bn will find its way to Kyiv—though not funded by Russia's frozen assets.
It was a messy deal, from which recriminations will ensue. But Europe got there (mostly) in the end.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
It was a messy deal, from which recriminations will ensue. But Europe got there (mostly) in the end.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
It's amazing what turns out to be possible when you're staring into the abyss. As far as I can see Article 20, the basis for this EU decision to fund Ukraine, has previously been used for the likes of divorce law harmonisation and patents.
A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
🚨 The latest conclusions say the EU will trigger Article 20 of enhanced cooperation to ensure that any mobilisation of EU resources to guarantee joint debt "will not have an impact on the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia," as previously reported by Euronews.
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It's amazing what turns out to be possible when you're staring into the abyss. As far as I can see Article 20, the basis for this EU decision to fund Ukraine, has previously been used for the likes of divorce law harmonisation and patents.
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D-Day for Europe to shore up Ukraine funding.
As EU leaders huddle in Brussels, Stephen Paduano and I analyse the reparations loan in a new piece.
This is not only a "There Is No Alternative" (TINA) moment—but the financial and legal risks are also manageable.
1/
www.cer.eu/insights/ukr...
As EU leaders huddle in Brussels, Stephen Paduano and I analyse the reparations loan in a new piece.
This is not only a "There Is No Alternative" (TINA) moment—but the financial and legal risks are also manageable.
1/
www.cer.eu/insights/ukr...
The Ukraine Reparations Loan: How to fix Europe's financial plumbing
As US support for Ukraine vanishes, Europe must overcome Belgian opposition and improvise fiscally to provide Kyiv with €210 billion.
www.cer.eu
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
D-Day for Europe to shore up Ukraine funding.
As EU leaders huddle in Brussels, Stephen Paduano and I analyse the reparations loan in a new piece.
This is not only a "There Is No Alternative" (TINA) moment—but the financial and legal risks are also manageable.
1/
www.cer.eu/insights/ukr...
As EU leaders huddle in Brussels, Stephen Paduano and I analyse the reparations loan in a new piece.
This is not only a "There Is No Alternative" (TINA) moment—but the financial and legal risks are also manageable.
1/
www.cer.eu/insights/ukr...
The official Berlin New Year's party is called "Yeah 2026". www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...
Silvester-Party am Brandenburger Tor: Die wichtigsten Infos zu „Yeah 2026“
Wie läuft die neue Party am Brandenburger Tor ab? Gibt es noch Tickets? Wo erfolgt der Einlass? Infos zur Silvester-Party in Berlin im Überblick.
www.morgenpost.de
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The official Berlin New Year's party is called "Yeah 2026". www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...