Christopher LONGMORE
@clong40.bsky.social
Long retired to a houseboat on the Loire river, now faced with a deeply unpleasant world where the worst is a direct result of our own failures. Oxford PPE graduate, passionate about politics and freedom everywhere.
Trump is right on one thing.... Europe has cheated the US by not being able to defend itself.
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Saturday Synthesis #3
Europe is still dragging its feet.
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May 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Trump is right on one thing.... Europe has cheated the US by not being able to defend itself.
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The local election results in the UK with massive gains for Reform are bad for all of us:
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Local Elections in the UK
Why they matter.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The local election results in the UK with massive gains for Reform are bad for all of us:
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My Substack has become so successful that I am changing how it functions...
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The way forward....
My commitment to all of you.
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May 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My Substack has become so successful that I am changing how it functions...
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Canada won; Trump lost (again); We all won
Time to get started on the New World Order
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April 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Not quite sure why, but my Substack audience is growing very fast and what I post may be of interest here too...
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Europe and America? Moving Apart.
What happens now?
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April 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Not quite sure why, but my Substack audience is growing very fast and what I post may be of interest here too...
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I do a weekly at Substack on what I see as this week's key events. You may or may not agree, but reading will do no harm!
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A Brits View from France - Saturday Synthesis #3
A summary of this week's world events viewed in English from France
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April 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I do a weekly at Substack on what I see as this week's key events. You may or may not agree, but reading will do no harm!
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These are very dangerous times for all of us. Trump wants and is close to obtaining dictatorial power in the US. Europeans beware and find the courage to create EU Mk2 with the UK and preferably without Hungary or the Czechs.
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Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?
Congress is inert, but a deft Supreme Court might contain him
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April 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
These are very dangerous times for all of us. Trump wants and is close to obtaining dictatorial power in the US. Europeans beware and find the courage to create EU Mk2 with the UK and preferably without Hungary or the Czechs.
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I understand that BlueSky is very US facing, but some readers may be intereted in this.....
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Signs of a European spring?
France and the UK moving fast in the right direction
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April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I understand that BlueSky is very US facing, but some readers may be intereted in this.....
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Reposted by Christopher LONGMORE
Morning Bluesky.
A draft Executive Order seen by the NYT suggests the US is about to abandon Africa, which would be a big win for Russia and China.
The drastic overhaul of the State Department would eliminate almost all African operations and close embassies and consulates.
A draft Executive Order seen by the NYT suggests the US is about to abandon Africa, which would be a big win for Russia and China.
The drastic overhaul of the State Department would eliminate almost all African operations and close embassies and consulates.
April 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Morning Bluesky.
A draft Executive Order seen by the NYT suggests the US is about to abandon Africa, which would be a big win for Russia and China.
The drastic overhaul of the State Department would eliminate almost all African operations and close embassies and consulates.
A draft Executive Order seen by the NYT suggests the US is about to abandon Africa, which would be a big win for Russia and China.
The drastic overhaul of the State Department would eliminate almost all African operations and close embassies and consulates.
Ssme amy want to read my entirely free Saturday Synthesis of world politics...
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A View from France - Saturday Synthesis #2
A summary of this week's world events viewed in English from France
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April 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ssme amy want to read my entirely free Saturday Synthesis of world politics...
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Three things are saying that Trump is unfit to be the President os Sark let alone the US of A.. he is a danger to all of us everywhere. Here is why...
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Europe and the US - the chasm deepens
No European leader begins to understand Trump. They are rightly very worried
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April 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Three things are saying that Trump is unfit to be the President os Sark let alone the US of A.. he is a danger to all of us everywhere. Here is why...
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I have just read a Dean Blundell Substack suggesting that the US is preparing an armed incursion into Mexico. Anybody got anything concrete info on that one?
April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have just read a Dean Blundell Substack suggesting that the US is preparing an armed incursion into Mexico. Anybody got anything concrete info on that one?
Europe is facing a much bigger crisis than it is currently admitting. Trump's tariffs will force China to try to increase sales to Europe. That will destroy more jobs here. China is a foe. Sup with a very long spoon.
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Europe and France are necessarily in Beijing's crosshairs
The Sino/US trade war is going to cross the Atlantic. The missed opportunity for EU/US cooperation.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Europe is facing a much bigger crisis than it is currently admitting. Trump's tariffs will force China to try to increase sales to Europe. That will destroy more jobs here. China is a foe. Sup with a very long spoon.
christopherlongmore.substack.com/p/europe-and...
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This may well interest some readers here. A lightish summary from France of this week's news stories.
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A View from France - Saturday Synthesis
A summary of this week's world events viewed in English from France
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April 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This may well interest some readers here. A lightish summary from France of this week's news stories.
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Twelve small reasons for modest hope
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Twelve small reasons for modest hope
This week's slightly encouraging news
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April 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Twelve small reasons for modest hope
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Yesterday's events left my head spinning even faster than before. This kind of disastrous incompetence means that mutterings this side of the pond about dementia are getting louder. No European government could survive this level of total failure.
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My Anglo-French head is spinning
Europeans struggle with political hyper activity
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April 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yesterday's events left my head spinning even faster than before. This kind of disastrous incompetence means that mutterings this side of the pond about dementia are getting louder. No European government could survive this level of total failure.
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Trump's capacity to wreck his own country, fighting battles not even of the last century is astounding. When will some Congress Republicans show their head above the parapet?
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The tariff war is just the beginning...
Trump will (?already has) destroyed American democracy and will turn next to the Arctic - Canada and Greenland
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April 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump's capacity to wreck his own country, fighting battles not even of the last century is astounding. When will some Congress Republicans show their head above the parapet?
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My take on Mad Orange Man's obsessions - the World; Europe; and France. The only remaining question is the how deep will the slump be? Slump of some kind looks inevitable and the China/US spat could get very ugly indeed.
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The World, Europe, France
The tectonic plates are shifting everywhere.
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April 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My take on Mad Orange Man's obsessions - the World; Europe; and France. The only remaining question is the how deep will the slump be? Slump of some kind looks inevitable and the China/US spat could get very ugly indeed.
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It doesn't look as though the US markets like the Trump "medicine" any more than their European and Asian counterparts. Getting rid of Truss in the UK was easy - her own party turfed her out. The Republicans in Congress are too terrifed of MOM to act. How long will that last now?
April 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It doesn't look as though the US markets like the Trump "medicine" any more than their European and Asian counterparts. Getting rid of Truss in the UK was easy - her own party turfed her out. The Republicans in Congress are too terrifed of MOM to act. How long will that last now?
Britain: Building on success abroad, Starmer initiates the inevitable political realignment by endorsing and enacting much closer integration with the EU. The Lib Dem voters will agree as will many thinking Tories. The rest will move to a new Reform centred Hard Right. Badenoch is useless.
April 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Britain: Building on success abroad, Starmer initiates the inevitable political realignment by endorsing and enacting much closer integration with the EU. The Lib Dem voters will agree as will many thinking Tories. The rest will move to a new Reform centred Hard Right. Badenoch is useless.
Europe: 1) retaliates but with carefull targetted measures, not a blunderbuss; 2) re-thinks how it operates - Hungary et al cannot be the tail that wags the dog; 3) works out a new deal with the UK that both parties can claim undoes the damage of Brexit; 4) with the UK, can defend itself
April 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Europe: 1) retaliates but with carefull targetted measures, not a blunderbuss; 2) re-thinks how it operates - Hungary et al cannot be the tail that wags the dog; 3) works out a new deal with the UK that both parties can claim undoes the damage of Brexit; 4) with the UK, can defend itself
The US: 1) American Prices are going to rise; 2) Factories are not going to get built in the US - takes too long and Presidents change; 3) Retaliation is going to cost American jobs. 4) Every country on Planet Earth sees the US as hostile. Not bad for a day's work in the wreckers yard.
April 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The US: 1) American Prices are going to rise; 2) Factories are not going to get built in the US - takes too long and Presidents change; 3) Retaliation is going to cost American jobs. 4) Every country on Planet Earth sees the US as hostile. Not bad for a day's work in the wreckers yard.
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Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"
The poorest countries are the biggest victims of Trump's immoral madness. In Europe, France is the most vulnerable because of its own foolish profligacy:
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Trump is deranged and surrounded by sycophants - coming damage is huge.
France is the weakest link in Europe
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April 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The poorest countries are the biggest victims of Trump's immoral madness. In Europe, France is the most vulnerable because of its own foolish profligacy:
christopherlongmore.substack.com/p/trump-is-d...
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