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Retired dual national EU dweller. Trying to make it all make sense. #FBPE
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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British in Europe fully supports the statement from @the3million.bsky.social published on 22 September 2025 in response to Reform’s attack on the fundamental rights of millions of EU citizens and their non-EU family members living in the UK. 1/
the3million.org.uk/news/2025-09...
the3million.org.uk/news/2025-09...
the3million | the3million’s statement on Reform’s plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
Life in the UK shouldn’t be only for the rich. A serious government doesn’t play games with people’s lives.
the3million.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
British in Europe fully supports the statement from @the3million.bsky.social published on 22 September 2025 in response to Reform’s attack on the fundamental rights of millions of EU citizens and their non-EU family members living in the UK. 1/
the3million.org.uk/news/2025-09...
the3million.org.uk/news/2025-09...
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"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
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USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
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It's worse than that: because populism can't deliver its promises, it has to keep finding new traitors & enemies to blame. It has to keep tearing at the walls of its imagined prison.
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage
July 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's worse than that: because populism can't deliver its promises, it has to keep finding new traitors & enemies to blame. It has to keep tearing at the walls of its imagined prison.
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
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A little write up about my work on unpublished pieces by Erik Satie. Alexandre Tharaud has recorded some of them (Warner Classics digital album out tomorrow), and the whole collection will be in print next week to commemorate 100th anniversary of Satie's death.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A little write up about my work on unpublished pieces by Erik Satie. Alexandre Tharaud has recorded some of them (Warner Classics digital album out tomorrow), and the whole collection will be in print next week to commemorate 100th anniversary of Satie's death.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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This thread is spot-on, especially on the constitutional/legal points.
🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This thread is spot-on, especially on the constitutional/legal points.
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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."
~ Hannah Ahrendt
~ Hannah Ahrendt
June 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist."
~ Hannah Ahrendt
~ Hannah Ahrendt
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." -
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
June 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." -
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
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This 136th long read on my strategy blog is not a summary in English of my latest book, The End of Great Power Politics, but rather a discussion that builds on it, drawing on fruitful and candid exchanges with friends and colleagues on its main theses.
tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/about-the-...
tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/about-the-...
About The End of Great Power Politics
Beyond my New Book: an Attempt at a Strategic Road-Map
tenzerstrategics.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This 136th long read on my strategy blog is not a summary in English of my latest book, The End of Great Power Politics, but rather a discussion that builds on it, drawing on fruitful and candid exchanges with friends and colleagues on its main theses.
tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/about-the-...
tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/about-the-...
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At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
www.axios.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.
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👉 Join me at 6pm UK 1pm EST 8am PST etc... today (in 2.5 hours:) Livestream Session on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Creative Industries (Gerd Leonhard) buff.ly/zo1HosE
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Creative Industries (Gerd Leonhard)
I gave a talk on this topic at ScreenForce 2025 in Zurich, a few days ago in German, and may people have asked me to produce it in English as well, so.... he...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
👉 Join me at 6pm UK 1pm EST 8am PST etc... today (in 2.5 hours:) Livestream Session on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Creative Industries (Gerd Leonhard) buff.ly/zo1HosE
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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National Care Association's Nadra Ahmed: "Unskilled, low-paid" political rhetoric damages domestic recruitment. International recruitment is expensive and a last resort.
"If we can't get the workforce, we can't deliver the care. If we can't deliver the care, providers will not be in the sector."~AA
"If we can't get the workforce, we can't deliver the care. If we can't deliver the care, providers will not be in the sector."~AA
May 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
National Care Association's Nadra Ahmed: "Unskilled, low-paid" political rhetoric damages domestic recruitment. International recruitment is expensive and a last resort.
"If we can't get the workforce, we can't deliver the care. If we can't deliver the care, providers will not be in the sector."~AA
"If we can't get the workforce, we can't deliver the care. If we can't deliver the care, providers will not be in the sector."~AA
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The idea that it’s currently easy is also insane. I spent £17,000 over 12 years before I got indefinite leave to remain. Every time I changed visa type—which I needed to do multiple times—it took my time in the country back to zero. Each visa extension costs thousands of pounds.
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The idea that it’s currently easy is also insane. I spent £17,000 over 12 years before I got indefinite leave to remain. Every time I changed visa type—which I needed to do multiple times—it took my time in the country back to zero. Each visa extension costs thousands of pounds.
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The spreadsheet “names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories:
“Caved to Administration”
“Complying in Advance”
“Other Negative Action”
“Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks”
.. or “No Response.”
@klasfeldreports.com
www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
“Caved to Administration”
“Complying in Advance”
“Other Negative Action”
“Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks”
.. or “No Response.”
@klasfeldreports.com
www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world's most powerful firms.
www.allrisenews.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The spreadsheet “names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories:
“Caved to Administration”
“Complying in Advance”
“Other Negative Action”
“Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks”
.. or “No Response.”
@klasfeldreports.com
www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
“Caved to Administration”
“Complying in Advance”
“Other Negative Action”
“Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks”
.. or “No Response.”
@klasfeldreports.com
www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!
April 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is once again ready to host the circus!
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“Anyone who builds a wall rather than a bridge to keep out migrants is not a Christian.” - Pope Francis. R.I.P.
April 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Anyone who builds a wall rather than a bridge to keep out migrants is not a Christian.” - Pope Francis. R.I.P.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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Oh to be a red-eared snapper turtle sunning oneself in a pond at a centuries-old zen temple in the ancient shogunal capital.
April 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Oh to be a red-eared snapper turtle sunning oneself in a pond at a centuries-old zen temple in the ancient shogunal capital.
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1. White House, Monday, on a 90-day pause: “Fake news.”
2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
1. White House, Monday, on a 90-day pause: “Fake news.”
2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2. Bessent, today: a 90-day pause was discussed on Sunday. “This was his strategy all along.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...