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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 2d

Got a piece on that coming soon

Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 2d

In both Britain and France we are witnessing the agonies of electoral systems ill-suited to political fragmentation and changing voter behaviour. In Germany, for all the grumbling and the pearl-clutching over the Brandmauer, we're not there yet.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 3d

The answer is right there: "Our European friends, many of whom are facing similar challenges to us, are thinking hard about partnering with third countries to deport illegal immigrants, and under my leadership this is a conversation the United Kingdom would be part of." Instead....this.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 3d

Kuenssberg: “Where would the 150,000 people you plan to deport each year actually go?”
Badenoch: “I’m tired of irrelevant questions.”
The Tories have an idiot in charge, one who doesn’t know NI voted Remain or why deportation deals even matter. #ukpolitics

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 6d

Will FCAS ever take off? One of the most ambitious military projects Europe has ever known is teetering on the edge, thanks to industrial bickering. With help from excellent colleagues
@sophiepedder.bsky.social & @shashj.bsky.social www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Europe’s biggest military project could collapse

Industrial bickering is putting the Future Combat Air System at risk

www.economist.com

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure if she made the explicit connectino with Putin, but she regularly said after 2015-16 that Germany/Europe should have acted earlier to pre-empt the movements by paying attention to what was happening in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon etc

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 6d

German asylum claims have halved in the last year. Nothing to do with border theatre; everything to do with developments outside the EU that hardly ever play a role in European countries' domestic migration debates. Still, take the win if it allows you to change the subject.

Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 6d

There are good reasons to think the number of small boat crossings may fall in the next couple of years - and it will have little to do with whatever has been announced at party conferences

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration
economist.com/internationa...

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 8d

It's the destiny that awaits all of us. The Dutch just got there first. Not even FPTP can protect you

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

Spätsommer Brandenburg

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 12d

Neuland, as a great politician once said.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 12d

do Brits realise how demented their ID card debate looks from basically every other European country?

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The Economist @economist.com · 13d

We are delighted to announce The Economist Insider.

From next month subscribers will get access to a weekly show from @zannymb.economist.com, our editor-in-chief, plus shows exploring geopolitics, defence, economics and tech. They can also submit questions.

Join us: www.economist.com/comingsoon

The Economist Insider teaser trailer

YouTube video by The Economist

www.youtube.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15d

What this actually means: "The US washes its hands of the conflict altogether; Ukraine seems to be doing fine on its own and it not, it's up to Europe to help it out; no more direct aid to Ukraine; the US now regards NATO as basically European and will help it from afar but not as a member."

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15d

Well this is something.

Trump: "I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form."

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 16d

For the first time the AfD has nudged ahead of the Union in this national polling aggregator, perhaps Germany's most reliable. Beware cope about the AfD losing this or that mayoral election, including in NRW this coming weekend. Something important is shifting.

pollytix-Wahltrend @btwahltrend.bsky.social · 16d

CDU/CSU 25,4
AfD 25,6
SPD 14,6
Grüne 11,2
Linke 10,8
BSW 3,9
FDP 3,1
FW 1,6

pollytix.de/wahltrend
@pollytix.bsky.social

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 18d

An occasional series

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 19d

So far the rise of the AfD in Germany looks less like a wave across the country than a wedge driven inside it. My report after North Rhine-Westphalia's local elections. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

www.economist.com

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 22d

I don't really have any Robert Redford takes other than to note that I went to Sundance in 2014 and it was just such a wonderful experience, far better than I'd imagined. Fantastic atmosphere, great films, lovely people.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 23d

There's no shortage of copium in the idea that the AfD, in tripling its score in NRW, somehow had a bad night. It's also true that it fell short of expectations, inspired strong resistance from centrist parties, and that some strong local candidates were able to stage effective anti-AfD campaigns.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 24d

RIP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsnQ...

Hermeto Pascoal - Jegue

YouTube video by Far Out Recordings

www.youtube.com

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 24d

Sometimes German headlines hit different

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 26d

I don't want to know what a groyper is and you can't make me

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 28d

At least we now have an answer to this.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 29d

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 29d

Enjoyable article about the "epidemic-like spread" of a Berlin coffee chain that has committed the one sin that some Berliners cannot forgive: attracting lots of custom by selling a good product at a low price.
www.the-berliner.com/berlin/lap-c...

LAP Coffee: The trouble is brewing - The Berliner

Fast-growing LAP Coffee is selling more than €2.50 cappuccinos. What does their rise say about the future of hospitality in Berlin?

www.the-berliner.com

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