European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
I kid you not: for the connecting rail tracks in Bavaria, Germany hasn’t even decided on the route yet, let alone started building them.
European Commission⚒️ With over 220 tunnel kilometres excavated, the completion of the EU co-funded Brenner Base Tunnel is one step closer! 🇦🇹🇮🇹 Miners have now connected Austria and Italy via two main railway tunnels ↓
SIMPLICITY has been out for ONE YEAR today!!!! happy birthday to my little book :) we don't get paperbacks very often in the graphic novel world so it's tough to keep attention on something when it's no longer new, but i still think it's the best thing i've ever made. simplicitybook.xyz
Can’t believe Glen Hansard is gone. What an unbelievable tragedy. I loved his and Lisa O’Neill’s rendition of Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptay...
Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill Perform "Fairytale of New York" at Shane MacGowan's FuneralYouTube video by Consequencem.youtube.com
Glen Hansard, the Frames frontman and 'Once' star who won an Oscar for Best Original Song, has died at 56 following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning 'Once' Musician, Dead at 56Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who achieved international fame in the 2007 drama 'Once,' has died in a motorcycle crash at the age of 56.www.rollingstone.com
Beautiful vigil this evening in Soho Square, London, for Berlin’s Christopher Street Day attack. We stand with you, we grieve with you and we stand in solidarity with you. We will comfort and console and learn to dance with one another again. Tonight London stands shoulder to shoulder with Berlin.
No Europe, no World Cup. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UEFA Considering Boycott of FIFA Tournaments in Brewing FeudUEFA is considering a boycott of FIFA events, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a seismic rift between the most powerful governing bodies of football.www.bloomberg.com
Well I just finished this by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com & I didn't expect it to be quite so...stirring. My expectation was that it would be an enlightening read on a fairly dry topic & the reality was I closed it at the end, muttered "holy shit" and then stared at the wall for five solid minutes. 6/5
We Are Not MachinesA tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we worry that we’re robotizing our work, what if the real risk is that ...www.penguin.co.uk
roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker
“The Economist’s favourite, though, is for a note bearing half a dozen famous faces: Britain’s prime ministers since Brexit.” cc @tillraether.bsky.social A little note this week from me. #ECB economist.com/finance-and-...
How to design paper money that represents EuropeThe euro gets a makeovereconomist.com
