Timothy Garton Ash
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Timothy Garton Ash
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Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Only 31.5 % of Poles say they trust the Catholic Church, down from 58% nine years ago.
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The light is getting in…still time to join me to talk about Europe at 12 noon today @howthelightgetsin.bsky.social Kenwood House… The Ring
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Good that Zelensky u-turning on this but he/@AndriyYermak
must see *Ukraine's strongest supporters won't stand for authoritarian protection of corruption*. Nor will Ukrainians. Protest photo thanks to @ol_ignatenko. @timothysnyder.bsky.social @mylovanov.bsky.social @mcfaulmike.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Special Relationship
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
UK-EU summit today...
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The latest grave in the military cemetery in Lviv, the Field of Mars. He died as recently as 6 May.
May 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Kyiv. The forest of flags and photos of the fallen ever larger …
May 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Waiting for the overnight train from Przemysl to Kyiv. Amazing how normal the 24 hour trip via flight to Poland, car to Przemysl and overnight train has come to seem after three years of war. But ‘normalisation’ always has a dubious clang in this part of Europe.
May 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@bsky.app
What do you think of the court ban on #MarineLePen running for office?
Comments in reply thread here please...
April 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A good time to watch 'Against the Ice' (2022). Not the greatest movie (the Danish heroes seem more 21st century mid-Atlantic) but a nice reminder that the US was already trying to claim (part of) Greenland in the early 1900s...
March 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I was delighted to be in Paris for the launch of the French edition of Homelands, the 20th to appear so far, with its charming nostalgo- futuriste cover (below)…
And in this French moment for Europe…
@EditionsStock
@Grand_Continent
March 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
As @_FriedrichMerz & @spdde agree €500bn for modernisation inc 'digitalisation' I get snailmail @ZDF contract: 2 copies + Annex. 16pp. No email adr. - or even fax nr! Phone no. says Sachbearbeiterin away till 6 March.
I want to sign it w quill & return by horse-drawn carriage.
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This doesn't exactly look like a historic document, but it is…
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Meanwhile, in Ukraine… Air Alert map just now…
February 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Elon Musk @elonmusk seeks regime change in Europe, using eX-Twitter to promote it...
February 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Private Eye scores again
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Air Alert map of warnings of Russian air attacks on Ukraine just now, as #Putin is supposedly talking peace with #Trump
February 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Private Eye nails it again…
January 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hello. Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford) here. Another fugitive from #muskland and #muskomania
I’m also @fromTGA on Twitter (now aka Xitter) and will be posting on both platforms for now…I look forward to seeing you here …

Meanwhile, in Bratislava…
November 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM