Matt Steinglass
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Europe editor of The Economist. Don’t let them kill me https://youtu.be/WnE15v4Gets
A sampling from the article
February 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
A sampling from the article
From a profile of the Haarlem, Netherlands artist and Holocaust survivor Jules Chapon, whose father was among 10 people shot in reprisal for the killing of a Nazi police officer. wimdewagt.nl/joodse-gesch...
January 31, 2026 at 11:04 PM
From a profile of the Haarlem, Netherlands artist and Holocaust survivor Jules Chapon, whose father was among 10 people shot in reprisal for the killing of a Nazi police officer. wimdewagt.nl/joodse-gesch...
Very weird stuff happening on Gemini
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Very weird stuff happening on Gemini
So it turns out the congressmen who wanted to ban comic books in the 1950s were right, lionizing masked vigilantes has destroyed American democracy
January 28, 2026 at 11:02 PM
So it turns out the congressmen who wanted to ban comic books in the 1950s were right, lionizing masked vigilantes has destroyed American democracy
I see it is again time to enjoy an affordable vacation in some backward country with weak governance and an unstable currency
January 27, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I see it is again time to enjoy an affordable vacation in some backward country with weak governance and an unstable currency
Literally impossible to do the puzzle without using this
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Literally impossible to do the puzzle without using this
Having looked at the whole answer to that question I found it more measured than the Politico quote-collage suggested www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Having looked at the whole answer to that question I found it more measured than the Politico quote-collage suggested www.nato.int/en/news-and-...
This is a good headline
January 26, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This is a good headline
I see they’ve pivoted to “Alex Pretti, that poor man, a victim of the radical far-left networks that put him in front of an ICE agent who had no choice but to shoot him 10 times in the back”
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 AM
I see they’ve pivoted to “Alex Pretti, that poor man, a victim of the radical far-left networks that put him in front of an ICE agent who had no choice but to shoot him 10 times in the back”
I don’t really have anything interesting to add, but obviously, immediately labeling anyone shot in the back by police as a “terrorist” is what every fascist, theocratic or communist regime or military dictatorship in the world does. www.wsj.com/us-news/fede...
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I don’t really have anything interesting to add, but obviously, immediately labeling anyone shot in the back by police as a “terrorist” is what every fascist, theocratic or communist regime or military dictatorship in the world does. www.wsj.com/us-news/fede...
Nothing here Dutchies don’t know, but a quick profile for the rest of the guy who talked Trump out of Greenland tariffs, aka the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the Netherlands www.economist.com/the-world-in...
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Nothing here Dutchies don’t know, but a quick profile for the rest of the guy who talked Trump out of Greenland tariffs, aka the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the Netherlands www.economist.com/the-world-in...
Dutch postal service sending very coded signals of resistance to the Trump regime on mail from the US
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Dutch postal service sending very coded signals of resistance to the Trump regime on mail from the US
Massive change. Average unemployment in southern and northern Europe is now the same
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Massive change. Average unemployment in southern and northern Europe is now the same
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist
The face of a man who just saved Europe at least 0.02% of its GDP
January 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
The face of a man who just saved Europe at least 0.02% of its GDP
Veel bewondering voor het realistische zelfbeeld van Dion Graus www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
January 20, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Veel bewondering voor het realistische zelfbeeld van Dion Graus www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Nothing from Dutch very-far-right party FvD yet on Trump’s latest Greenland threats. But this from a few days ago mentions “restoring sovereignty and international ties”, suggesting they are not on board with US seizing Danish territory
January 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Nothing from Dutch very-far-right party FvD yet on Trump’s latest Greenland threats. But this from a few days ago mentions “restoring sovereignty and international ties”, suggesting they are not on board with US seizing Danish territory
Crazy how woke universities are these days. You're casually talking in the student cafeteria about a northern country behind a wall of ice where everyone has blond hair and blue eyes, and the next thing you know people are accusing you of giving "Nazi vibes" advalvas.vu.nl/campus-cultu...
January 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Crazy how woke universities are these days. You're casually talking in the student cafeteria about a northern country behind a wall of ice where everyone has blond hair and blue eyes, and the next thing you know people are accusing you of giving "Nazi vibes" advalvas.vu.nl/campus-cultu...
Haaaa ha ha ha ha people are terrible www.ft.com/content/9c3c... Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions?
January 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Haaaa ha ha ha ha people are terrible www.ft.com/content/9c3c... Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions?
