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Eduardo Suárez

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Director of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Journalist. I love trains, opera and books. From León, Spain

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 15d

I’m honoured to take on my new role as Director of Editorial of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social, which combines digital strategy, editorial responsibilities and a new reporting project to explore some of the most pressing issues facing journalism today

Full announcement below

Eduardo Suárez, appointed Director of Editorial of the Reuters Institute

Under his leadership, the Institute’s original reporting and digital footprint has grown substantially. In his new enhanced role, he’ll create an in-depth series on journalism.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 10h

Bragging about Brexit is a bit like bragging about falling on a banana peel

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

🕰️ Times change.

📉 Even amongst Tory voters Brexit is seen as a failure and there is an acknowledgement that it has made Britain poorer.

Read more of our exclusive new polling below 👇

https://www.bestforbritain.org/tory_voters_say_brexit_has_failed_and_damaged_uk_economy

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 10h

What could go possibly wrong?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move

www.theguardian.com

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11h

🚨 BREAKING: Europe’s main political parties have agreed to roll back green rules for businesses after a whirlwind day of political negotiations that nearly collapsed the centrist ruling consensus.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/soci...

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 13h

"In the AI era, advertising won’t be the only consumer business model on the internet. If subscriptions become the norm, companies will be able to use pricing power as a competitive advantage. Eventually, OpenAI needs to make more money per user than it spends"
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

🟡 Semafor Tech: The champions league | Semafor

In this edition, how OpenAI is preparing to face its toughest competitor: Google. And Deloitte experiences chatbots’ biggest problem.

www.semafor.com

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 20h

Playing Marilyn to Putin's JFK

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 23h

El original lo tiene bastante eh? Pero da para serie sin duda

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Tarzan

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 1d

El @nytimes.com ha entrevistado a más de 700 personas en Gaza en los últimos dos años. Ha intentado contactarlas de nuevo. Ha conseguido volver a hablar con unas 100. Todas habían perdido a alguien o algo desde que hablaron con el periódico www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them.

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 1d

"George Eliot was a 'man of genius, declared The Economist [after Adam Bede was published], explaining that novels by male authors 'are more in keeping with the actual world, have a wider out-look, and are more profitable than the best novels by women.'"

From Clare Carlisle's The Marriage Question

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news?
These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸

🔗 Full report
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🧵 Key findings in thread

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

"Mimicking the far right on migration or women’s rights has demonstrably failed for parties across Europe – and it has already proven costly for the conservatives in Spain as well"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right | María Ramírez

Migration is barely mentioned – instead, failed policies on housing, wages and employment are driving young voters into the arms of Vox, says María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

www.theguardian.com

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this here for no particular reason
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A prime minister defending immigration? It can happen. It just did here in Spain | María Ramírez

Pedro Sánchez’s tone sharply contrasts with that of his European counterparts. He needs to prove it’s not just rhetoric, says Guardian Europe columnist María Ramírez

www.theguardian.com

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

An important statement at this moment in time
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

A doorstopper more than a showstopper. But @leaypi.bsky.social might have different views

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

For some reason none of these right-wing politicians speak about the rights of the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens who live in Spain, Portugal or France

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

A Tory rising star proposes EU citizens living in the UK shouldn't be allowed to get welfare benefits.

Being an immigrant in the UK is being at the receiving end of public discourse every single day for no particular reason beyond paying taxes
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

¡Dimite el primer ministro francés!

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 2d

Le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu a remis lundi sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l'a acceptée, a annoncé lundi l'Elysée dans un communiqué.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d

"Netanyahu took much personal credit this weekend for an emerging plan to free all remaining hostages from Hamas and end the war. But it was abundantly clear to Israelis, and to Palestinians and others, that the one calling the shots was President Trump"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Strong-Armed by Trump, Netanyahu Embraces Gaza Deal as a Personal Win

www.nytimes.com

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3d

Según este sondeo nuevo de @40dbes.bsky.social Vox es el partido con mayor intención de voto entre los españoles de 18 a 44 años
elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3d

This is a good piece, with inspiration from Brazil, Poland, Serbia and the Philippines
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3d

Oh dear

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

If I ever write a lede like this, you have my permission to take my computer, attach it to a 500-lb block of concrete, and toss it into the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In the 1993 film “Groundhog Day,” a cynical man is doomed to wake up every morning in the same town to relive the same day’s events. The Middle East can feel a bit like that, only bloodier and more tragic.

Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3d

A mosque in East Sussex has been damaged in a suspected arson attack, which police are investigating as a hate crime"
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.com

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 3d

So the Tories look at the nightmare unfolding in the US (people shot in the streets, parents kidnapped without due process, kids left without their parents, award-winning journalists deported) and they say: "Yeah, that's what no-growth, Brexit-impoverished little Britain needs"

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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