Alexander Hurst
@iamhurst.bsky.social
Columnist on 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 for The Guardian @theguardian.com / GENERATION DESPERATION (Jan 2026) from Hodder & Stoughton / Hachette (🇬🇧), Goldmann / PRH (🇩🇪)
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Depending on how Harvard’s resistance goes, other universities and colleges should seriously start to consider what I suggested in November, and then again last month…
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Depending on how Harvard’s resistance goes, other universities and colleges should seriously start to consider what I suggested in November, and then again last month…
The 'let's all go back to the land and grow all our own food' conversation is often deeply the domain of people privileged enough to not even realize the degree to which their ability to fantasize about that is supported by massive, interlocking economies underneath, all possible bc of ag surplus
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The 'let's all go back to the land and grow all our own food' conversation is often deeply the domain of people privileged enough to not even realize the degree to which their ability to fantasize about that is supported by massive, interlocking economies underneath, all possible bc of ag surplus
I wrote about something along those lines about a year and a half ago
April 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I wrote about something along those lines about a year and a half ago
To any Greenlanders out there, let me tell you about when the United States once promised every freed slave “40 acres and a mule”
April 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
To any Greenlanders out there, let me tell you about when the United States once promised every freed slave “40 acres and a mule”
This guy probably just became an absolute WSB legend for (I imagine) buying calls, tweeting this, then unloading. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such successful manipulation
April 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This guy probably just became an absolute WSB legend for (I imagine) buying calls, tweeting this, then unloading. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such successful manipulation
Paris joining the April 5th protests
April 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Paris joining the April 5th protests
Please let them keep at this all the way until May, 2027 🙏
April 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Please let them keep at this all the way until May, 2027 🙏
American Chad beef vs European weak beef
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
American Chad beef vs European weak beef
It’s hard to describe how ineffectual this kind of weak response from the EU is going to be
Plus nobody wants to vote for a supplicant anyway
Plus nobody wants to vote for a supplicant anyway
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s hard to describe how ineffectual this kind of weak response from the EU is going to be
Plus nobody wants to vote for a supplicant anyway
Plus nobody wants to vote for a supplicant anyway
This is a legit point that I tried to hint at this morning but I haven’t seen many people talking about in depth
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is a legit point that I tried to hint at this morning but I haven’t seen many people talking about in depth
What’s pretty incredible is how essentially everyone in the French political class is more disliked than they are liked
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What’s pretty incredible is how essentially everyone in the French political class is more disliked than they are liked
4) Regardless, the rule of law means something. And the support outpouring from Putin, Musk, Trump, Orban for Le Pen makes it all the easier to tag the party as a whole with a lot of things Europeans *hate* right now - don’t underestimate the devastating unpopularity of Trump & the US
March 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
4) Regardless, the rule of law means something. And the support outpouring from Putin, Musk, Trump, Orban for Le Pen makes it all the easier to tag the party as a whole with a lot of things Europeans *hate* right now - don’t underestimate the devastating unpopularity of Trump & the US
Brazil very clearly looking at what happens when a President tries to overthrow the government and stay in power and the courts let him and his minions off and going “yeah, nope”
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Brazil very clearly looking at what happens when a President tries to overthrow the government and stay in power and the courts let him and his minions off and going “yeah, nope”
That morning coffee on an empty stomach moment
March 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
That morning coffee on an empty stomach moment
Well as I argue in the piece…
March 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Well as I argue in the piece…
Eowyn: Mark Carney
Wasn’t even supposed to be there, showed up anyway and changed the day
Wasn’t even supposed to be there, showed up anyway and changed the day
March 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Eowyn: Mark Carney
Wasn’t even supposed to be there, showed up anyway and changed the day
Wasn’t even supposed to be there, showed up anyway and changed the day
The EU: Gandalf
Needed a big moment of transition to evolve into its more powerful form
Needed a big moment of transition to evolve into its more powerful form
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The EU: Gandalf
Needed a big moment of transition to evolve into its more powerful form
Needed a big moment of transition to evolve into its more powerful form
The Eagles: France
Europe’s most powerful air force, can turn the tide when it commits, carries the EU in the right direction
Europe’s most powerful air force, can turn the tide when it commits, carries the EU in the right direction
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Eagles: France
Europe’s most powerful air force, can turn the tide when it commits, carries the EU in the right direction
Europe’s most powerful air force, can turn the tide when it commits, carries the EU in the right direction
Isengard: The US
Saruman: Elon Musk
Used to be good, spent too much time looking into the Palantir and got corrupted and flipped sides (how messed up is it that Peter Thiel named his company after the Palantir?), also destroyed the environment around it
Saruman: Elon Musk
Used to be good, spent too much time looking into the Palantir and got corrupted and flipped sides (how messed up is it that Peter Thiel named his company after the Palantir?), also destroyed the environment around it
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Isengard: The US
Saruman: Elon Musk
Used to be good, spent too much time looking into the Palantir and got corrupted and flipped sides (how messed up is it that Peter Thiel named his company after the Palantir?), also destroyed the environment around it
Saruman: Elon Musk
Used to be good, spent too much time looking into the Palantir and got corrupted and flipped sides (how messed up is it that Peter Thiel named his company after the Palantir?), also destroyed the environment around it
The Wood Elves: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Galadriel: Kaja Kallas
“The free world needs a new leader”
Galadriel: Kaja Kallas
“The free world needs a new leader”
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Wood Elves: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Galadriel: Kaja Kallas
“The free world needs a new leader”
Galadriel: Kaja Kallas
“The free world needs a new leader”
The Elves of Rivendell: Sweden and Norway
This one’s pretty obvious…
This one’s pretty obvious…
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Elves of Rivendell: Sweden and Norway
This one’s pretty obvious…
This one’s pretty obvious…
Aragorn: Macron
European Autonomy was a lonely struggle for a long time, but now the Fellowship is forming
European Autonomy was a lonely struggle for a long time, but now the Fellowship is forming
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Aragorn: Macron
European Autonomy was a lonely struggle for a long time, but now the Fellowship is forming
European Autonomy was a lonely struggle for a long time, but now the Fellowship is forming
Germany: Rohan/Theoden King
Had fallen under the dark whisperings of Gazprom, now awakened
“Perhaps the kings fingers would feel their old strength if they were to grasp the king’s sword”
Had fallen under the dark whisperings of Gazprom, now awakened
“Perhaps the kings fingers would feel their old strength if they were to grasp the king’s sword”
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Germany: Rohan/Theoden King
Had fallen under the dark whisperings of Gazprom, now awakened
“Perhaps the kings fingers would feel their old strength if they were to grasp the king’s sword”
Had fallen under the dark whisperings of Gazprom, now awakened
“Perhaps the kings fingers would feel their old strength if they were to grasp the king’s sword”
Ukraine: Gondor
Zelensky: Boromir
“By the blood of my people are your lands kept safe!”
Zelensky: Boromir
“By the blood of my people are your lands kept safe!”
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ukraine: Gondor
Zelensky: Boromir
“By the blood of my people are your lands kept safe!”
Zelensky: Boromir
“By the blood of my people are your lands kept safe!”