Stanley Pignal
Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
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Charlemagne@economist.com
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- This is totally insane
- A few Arsenal fans at the Eurostar terminal on their way to Paris. I can’t say they looked very excited. More like off to an exam they hadn’t prepared for.
- What, like this? (HT @spignal.bsky.social)
- Here is this year's philosophy entrance exam for "Normale", the school at France's academic pinnacle. "You owe" Candidates have six hours Use of calculators is not allowed.
- fuck's anyone gonna do with a calculator
- 5318008,537
- Since Canada doesn't want to dance, who's up for being 51st state? Taiwan seems like the obvious choice: ~same population as Florida, rich, high-tech, hard-working, vulnerable as it desperately needs protection of larger entity.
- would be better if it is was, say, an English-speaking island isolated from its natural trade partners on a neary continent, with which America already has a far-reaching intel-sharing agreement. Maybe even shares part of a name with the United States. Will give it a think
- Preston explores royal family effect in here
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- Black polo-necks and Gitanes provided though, right?
- I have to say this doesn't look too bad..
- Apparently this will be announced today.
- That's an incredible scoop because let me tell you, the people of Europe, from Helsinki to Lisbon, one after the other have all been asking me the same question: "what is Charles Michel up to these days?"
- I just hate to disappoint the catholics of the world www.brusselstimes.com/column/15449...
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- The Omar interview here was conducted by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social in 2018. It got clipped and passed around MAGA Twitter again over the weekend without the context, of talking about Trump targeting Muslims in the name of preventing violence.
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- The the National Socialist German Workers' Party was the most popular party in 1933. And by far the most representative of East Germany.
- Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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- The European Union is looking into whether Hungary’s plan to deploy facial recognition technology to identify people attending LGBTQ+ Pride events is illegal. It marks the first real test of landmark EU AI rules. W/ @krmcsngr.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/hung...
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