Bill Emmott
@billemmott.bsky.social
Writer, former ed-in-chief of The Economist, author “Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Risk of Conflict over Taiwan” (IISS 2024), addict of all things Japanese, Italian and geopolitical
Remember what fascism brings: death and destruction.
Nicholas Whithorn@nickwhithorn.bsky.social · last yr.2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1
My essay for Engelsberg Ideas on how a conservative nostalgia promises to hinder Japan's ambitious prime minister open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Sanae Takaichi's backward-looking vision
Essay on Japan published today by Engelsberg Ideas
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My new essay on Japan’s nostalgic prime minister
Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · last wk.Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to raise Japan’s game. But, given her reputation as a pioneer, she is remarkably backward-looking. Nostalgia hinders Takaichi’s vision for Japan | @billemmott.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/nosta...
Daily Beast: "Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker" We must not overestimate Putin's remaining staying power. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker
Vladimir Putin ventured out in public for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails. Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stun...
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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Another long night. But I am just going to end the day by leaving this here.
On July 14, Judge Boasberg of the US Federal District Court in DC put a stay on the travel ban imposed last December on Clare Melford of the Global Disinformation Index, Thierry Breton and three other European researchers. Bravo! open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
A victory for free speech in and about America
An article written in my capacity as Chair of the Global Disinformation Index about the attempts by the Trump administration to demonise and block our work
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Welcome to Number 10, Mr Burnham: the path back to Europe must run via electoral reform. My piece on Substack and for La Stampa: open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Welcome to Number 10, Mr Burnham
English original of article published yesterday in Italian by La Stampa
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Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoKeir Starmer declared that his “work is done” as he delivered a resignation speech outside Downing Street ahead of Andy Burnham’s arrival at Number 10 as Britain’s seventh prime minister in the past decade. Follow the latest here: ft.trib.al/tpXksiy
It is time to tell Trump and Hegseth that America's 40-plus military bases in Europe are a privilege, not a right open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
The purpose of NATO is to guard against Russia, not to appease Donald Trump
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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America this week represented a cascade of emotions: sadness, at military failure and decline; hope and joy, at the World Cup; and the very Wall Street blend of fear and greed with SpaceX's bid to repeat Britain's South Sea Bubble of 1720 open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
O, America! On failed wars, sporting emotion and the space version of the South Sea Bubble
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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Ukraine’s destiny is European. And the EU’s destiny is to embrace Ukraine
Wouldn’t you like as a member of your club an applicant who has just humiliated your most dangerous enemy through an audacious attack? That is what Ukraine did this week with its drone…
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All three of the combatants in the US-Israel-Iran war of 2025-26 have lost and now are in no shape to continue the fighting. Which is why the oil markets’ optimism about a deal looks sound open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Finally, Kissinger's joke has come true
English original of article published in Italian by La Stampa this morning
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With Trump's America both unreliable and cuddling up to Putin's Russia, European NATO members need to get ready to act on their own open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
For the time being, Europe needs to assume it is on its own -- and plan accordingly
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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It is not NATO that can or will "show teeth" to Russia but European members of NATO acting separately from Russia's supporter, Donald Trump: open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
For the time being, Europe needs to assume it is on its own -- and plan accordingly
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2mo ago🇺🇦🇨🇿 Czech President Calls on NATO to "Show Teeth" to Russia The alliance should respond to Russian provocations "quite decisively, potentially even asymmetrically," says Petr Pavel.
When Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, he will be in the weaker position, for he needs China's help on Iran and China knows it open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Donald Trump's coming kowtow to the Chinese dictator he so admires and envies
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa. Footnotes and references added.
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Don't Hegseth & Trump understand how absurd they are? 1. They prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz without consulting any allies. 2. They don't know how to open the Strait again, so they blame their innocent allies. 3. Take note: Nobody will listen to idiots.
Should the West accept invitation to Trump's G20 Summit at his Doral Golf course 14-15 December? No! Don't! Trump's kleptocracy is a major global problem & Doral is his private golf club. To go there means to support Trump's corruption. /1
How China will play a crucial role in any Iran-US peace deal open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Next, an Iran nuclear deal with Chinese characteristics
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa
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High time for all republicans to realize that Trump & Vance and the whole leadership of the GOP supports Russia, Putin, autocracy, kleptocracy, lying and Russian imperialism. No person who supports that can be considered decent.
Completely agree. This is an appalling shirking of responsibility. George Robertson is right to make his criticism public
Philip Stephens@philipstephens.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is a real failure of leadership on Starmer's part. Security is the first duty of government. The Treasury says Britain cannot afford to defend itself. The prime minister's job is to tell the Treasury to find the money. www.ft.com/content/88b1...
Evaluating the new possibilities -- good and bad -- created by America's blockade of Hormuz open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Blockade v blockade, and the world's wholly unnecessary energy crisis
English original of article published this morning in Italian by La Stampa
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Wow! Wonderful news, and not only because it is a slap in the face for the Trump-Vance-Putin axis
Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4mo ago💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.
Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.
Sober and therefore all the more devastating analysis by @ldfreedman.bsky.social The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat
The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...
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Why Hungary's election tomorrow matters, for Europe and for the world open.substack.com/pub/billemmo...
Time to give the Trump-Putin-Orban axis a slap in the face
English original of article published in Italian this morning by La Stampa. [Additions in square brackets.]
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