Christoph Meyer
@christophmeyer.bsky.social
UK & Ireland Correspondent for DPA (German Press Agency)
Pinned
Outside the BBC headquarters in London. By George Orwell.
Returned to Cairo after almost 15 years. Had my favourite meal (Kosheri). Didn’t have to pay because a stranger who sat next to me in the restaurant spontaneously decided to invite me. I ❤️ Egypt.
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Returned to Cairo after almost 15 years. Had my favourite meal (Kosheri). Didn’t have to pay because a stranger who sat next to me in the restaurant spontaneously decided to invite me. I ❤️ Egypt.
Seriously? Whole nut and Hazelnut chocolate bars branded health risk because nuts not listed on ingredients list in English….give me a break.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3717758...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3717758...
Huge brand urgently recalls three chocolate bars over dangerous health risk
A HUGE snacks brand is urgently recalling three of its popular chocolate bars over the dangerous health risk they pose to shoppers. Shoppers have been warned not to eat the chocolate as due to bein…
www.thesun.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Seriously? Whole nut and Hazelnut chocolate bars branded health risk because nuts not listed on ingredients list in English….give me a break.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3717758...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3717758...
I believe the possible impact of a Trump-style onslaught on institutions and the rule of law is massively underestimated in the UK. Yet that’s seems what we’re heading for.
Reform on track for biggest majority EVER in next election, new poll reveals
NIGEL Farage would storm to the biggest landslide in modern history if an election were held tomorrow, a new megapoll shows. Reform is set to sweep 445 seats and cut down Labour to a mere 73 …
www.thesun.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I believe the possible impact of a Trump-style onslaught on institutions and the rule of law is massively underestimated in the UK. Yet that’s seems what we’re heading for.
Just wondered how old the tea sieve I’m still using actually is. Turns out you can use things like this for longer than I thought—and it’s still good. Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit! 🇩🇪
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just wondered how old the tea sieve I’m still using actually is. Turns out you can use things like this for longer than I thought—and it’s still good. Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit! 🇩🇪
How is it that Zia Yusuf can falsely claim Starmer ‘incited violence’ against Farage and not even be challenged?
October 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How is it that Zia Yusuf can falsely claim Starmer ‘incited violence’ against Farage and not even be challenged?
With the weather in London, the state of the world, and an urgent need for comfort food, I hereby declare Sunday Roast Season officially open.
September 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
With the weather in London, the state of the world, and an urgent need for comfort food, I hereby declare Sunday Roast Season officially open.
Listening to Nicola Sturgeon on the @newsagents.bsky.social criticising Starmer for legitimising Farage’s claim about immigration being the main issue and not offering real solutions made me contemplate her own core promise of what would solve Scotland’s problems and how grounded it is in reality.
September 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Listening to Nicola Sturgeon on the @newsagents.bsky.social criticising Starmer for legitimising Farage’s claim about immigration being the main issue and not offering real solutions made me contemplate her own core promise of what would solve Scotland’s problems and how grounded it is in reality.
A lady on Sky News' Immigration debate just suggested that "if it was 1942 and we had the people that we currently have coming accross the channel in small boats, we would not have hesitated to deploy the navy and to line our shores with soldiers to protect us" and no one really challenged that.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A lady on Sky News' Immigration debate just suggested that "if it was 1942 and we had the people that we currently have coming accross the channel in small boats, we would not have hesitated to deploy the navy and to line our shores with soldiers to protect us" and no one really challenged that.
That was a very lengthy way of saying: „I don’t know what a free press is there for.“
June 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
That was a very lengthy way of saying: „I don’t know what a free press is there for.“
Imagine an EU-UK-summit in Brussels and the PA and BBC are not allowed in…well that’s the equivalent of what is going on here at the moment. Sounds like things are going very well with this reset.
Wrong handle. Sorry. Cabinet office not here as it looks.
May 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Imagine an EU-UK-summit in Brussels and the PA and BBC are not allowed in…well that’s the equivalent of what is going on here at the moment. Sounds like things are going very well with this reset.
Reposted by Christoph Meyer
The FPA is dismayed by Sir Keir Starmer's press accreditation policy for the EU-UK Summit of Monday 19th May. The vast majority of EU news outlets have been denied access. We have written to @10DowningStreet to urge him to reconsider.
@EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter
@EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter
May 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The FPA is dismayed by Sir Keir Starmer's press accreditation policy for the EU-UK Summit of Monday 19th May. The vast majority of EU news outlets have been denied access. We have written to @10DowningStreet to urge him to reconsider.
@EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter
@EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter
Reposted by Christoph Meyer
May 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Christoph Meyer
So we have a big EU-UK reset summit on Monday in London, but most of the European correspondents accreditations were rejected ? (ARD’s too)
What exactly is this about ? @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social
What exactly is this about ? @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
So we have a big EU-UK reset summit on Monday in London, but most of the European correspondents accreditations were rejected ? (ARD’s too)
What exactly is this about ? @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social
What exactly is this about ? @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social
Unpopular opinion? The UK better get itself a written constitution that can’t be changed without a two-thirds majority—sooner rather than later.
May 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Unpopular opinion? The UK better get itself a written constitution that can’t be changed without a two-thirds majority—sooner rather than later.
Bluebell-sunset
April 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bluebell-sunset
Sounds like the UK being at the back of the queue, eh?
Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers
US officials have split negotiations with countries into three phases, sources say, with South Korea taking priority
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sounds like the UK being at the back of the queue, eh?
Had exactly the same thought!
Reminds me of David Davies showing up in Brussels with no paperwork. Is it really just him and a translator?
⚡ Steve Witkoff, the US Special Envoy to the Middle East, has arrived in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin.
April 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Had exactly the same thought!
It’s bluebell season! 🥳
April 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It’s bluebell season! 🥳
I can’t let the recent buzz around tariffs pass without highlighting the intriguing etymology of President Trump’s favorite word. “Tariff” is actually an Arabic loanword, derived from “تعريف” (taʿrīf), meaning “notification”.
April 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I can’t let the recent buzz around tariffs pass without highlighting the intriguing etymology of President Trump’s favorite word. “Tariff” is actually an Arabic loanword, derived from “تعريف” (taʿrīf), meaning “notification”.
“A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered in glaciers and home to penguins, have been swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them with a 10% tariff on goods.”
EU threatens countermeasures and Asian markets plunge after Trump tariff announcement – business live
Ursula von der Leyen says tariffs a ‘major blow’ to world economy after US President Trump targets allies on what he dubbed ‘liberation day’
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered in glaciers and home to penguins, have been swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them with a 10% tariff on goods.”
How to protect a democracy from its enemies:
🇫🇷‼️ Le pen suspended from elections for five years with immediate effect
🇫🇷‼️ Marine Le pen banned from seeking election with immediate effect but length of ban still to be announced
March 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
How to protect a democracy from its enemies:
Reposted by Christoph Meyer
Giving voice to the despair about events in the us, @tribelaw.bsky.social , an icon amongst teachers of constitutional law worldwide www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it | Laurence H Tribe
What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Giving voice to the despair about events in the us, @tribelaw.bsky.social , an icon amongst teachers of constitutional law worldwide www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Danish foreign minister giving JD Vance a lesson in diplomacy: "This is not how you speak to your close allies"
Dear American friends.
We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option.
So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Danish Foreign Minister
We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option.
So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Danish Foreign Minister
March 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Danish foreign minister giving JD Vance a lesson in diplomacy: "This is not how you speak to your close allies"
What Trump‘s „Gulf of America“-row with AP is really about. 👇🏼
Opinion | The AP’s Freedom of Speech—and Yours
A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.
www.wsj.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What Trump‘s „Gulf of America“-row with AP is really about. 👇🏼