Alexander Hurst
@iamhurst.bsky.social
Columnist on 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 for The Guardian @theguardian.com / GENERATION DESPERATION (Jan 2026) from Hodder & Stoughton / Hachette (🇬🇧), Goldmann / PRH (🇩🇪) Rep by @agentbal.bsky.social
Yet another angry column. Out how instead of following the US in a climate doom loop we need to finally stand up to it and force it to change www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
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Je ne pourrais être plus fier que de publier mon premier essai en français dans les pages de l’inimitable Revue21
Guillaume Gendron@ggendron.bsky.social · last mo.Les Etats-Unis soufflent leurs 250 bougies, même si le gâteau trumpiste a une drôle de tête. Pour fêter ça, @iamhurst.bsky.social a une idée : brûler la bannière étoilée. Texte puissant, lyrique et érudit de l'enfant de Cleveland exilé à Paris, son Tocqueville sous le bras.
My column today in The Guardian about why American oligarchs complicit in the Trump admin’s ecocide should face the same types of sanctions as Russian oligarchs complicit in Putin’s war and crimes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and his oil-and-coal oligarchy should face sanctions for their war on the environment | Alexander Hurst
Europe punished Russian billionaires over the war in Ukraine. It should do the same to those abetting an ecocidal regime, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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I wrote about spiritual death in the age of AI and how this cultish desire to insert it everywhere is the end stage of capitalism: a world of all capital, and no labor. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To be human is to live with friction. That’s something AI boosters will never understand | Alexander Hurst
We’re being sold a world where there’s no room for reflection or spontaneity. This is the Black Mirror stage of capitalism, says Alexander Hurst, who writes for Guardian Europe from Paris
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“Beyond France, where it never fully surrendered, I think we’re going to be surprised at how quickly the printed word will come raging back.” Heartening piece by @iamhurst.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today; h/t @lecrimedia.bsky.social & @revue21.fr.
Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst
From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst
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It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
While you're at it, why not read @iamhurst.bsky.social in yesterday's @theguardian.com, too!
Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst
How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it, says Paris-based Guardian writer Alexander Hurst
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Will Europe finally choose between Europe and the US? The only thing that can protect us is federalism and a rupture — a real one — with Trump. With the side bonus that just maybe, it will rally Europeans against the far right and shock Americans into action www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst
How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it, says Paris-based Guardian writer Alexander Hurst
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Hey @longreads.com, can I flag you on this narrative longform I did about French Guiana at the intersection of ecological collapse, climate change, European space autonomy, and the French Foreign Legion?
Alexander Hurst@iamhurst.bsky.social · 8mo agoI love the chance to write long things about places that we should be talking more about. A lot of work went into to this — 7 weeks in Guyane, 2 dozen interviews (many thanks to everyone who gave me their time!), and a month and a half spent drafting and editing www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
I love the chance to write long things about places that we should be talking more about. A lot of work went into to this — 7 weeks in Guyane, 2 dozen interviews (many thanks to everyone who gave me their time!), and a month and a half spent drafting and editing www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Rockets, gold and the Foreign Legion: can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon? | Alexander Hurst
It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing t...
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I love the chance to write long things about places that we should be talking more about. A lot of work went into to this — 7 weeks in Guyane, 2 dozen interviews (many thanks to everyone who gave me their time!), and a month and a half spent drafting and editing www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Rockets, gold and the Foreign Legion: can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon? | Alexander Hurst
It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing t...
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European leaders, however, would be wise not to wait. While the White House and the Kremlin are preparing their summit, Europe can calmly set the terms of the debate, outlining what a sustainable peace does and doesn’t look like. And they can prepare a worse-case response. /8
Genuinely confused at how so many people (not Margaret!) read this as an EU bashing column, or ‘hard Brexit’ equivalent, when it’s the opposite Brexit was delusional bc it involved a small power attempting to act like a big one; the EU is actually. Large power but acts like a small one. 1/
Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺@margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 12mo agoJa. "Europeans hate Trump & would probably unify in the face of a full-blown trade war... The first European politician to tell Trump where to shove it, in a crude, unapologetic & very public way, is going to surf a wave of never-before-seen emotion & support." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“It’s not just me. There is an entire internet subgenre of content extolling the virtues of French butter, or involving Americans who come to France and realise that this is what peaches, or strawberries, really taste like,” writes @iamhurst.bsky.social. Touché. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I grew up on American food. Trust me, it’s the last thing Europe needs | Alexander Hurst
The EU is under pressure to strike a trade deal with Trump, but an influx of mass-produced, low-quality food must be off the table, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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Perfect time to repost me from last month on why the EU should learn the right lesson (enfin, putain 🙄) and stand up for itself for once www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure | Alexander Hurst
The EU neither ‘kissed ass’ nor unleashed its most powerful trade weapon. Now it must provide the world with an alternative to US chaos
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Let’s demand more courage and leadership from those who… lead www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst
Political cowardice, corruption and greed have eroded our social fabric. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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"Electricity supply from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal-power output even as demand surged, whereas previous falls were due to weak growth."
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last yr.NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Can’t wait to see how Netflix, Max, Peacock, Apple TV, Disney, Prime react to being hit with a response tariff on their streaming subscriptions (the revenues from which should be earmarked for European public broadcasters) and same for Fox, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Universal (to fund local film)
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Trump says movies produced outside the U.S. are a national security threat. So he’s imposing a 100% tariff on all movies that are “produced in foreign lands.”
I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.President Trump on Tuesday joked to reporters that he would like to be the next Pope. He took it a step further on Saturday, sharing what appeared to be an A.I.-generated photo of himself wearing the traditional vestments of the pontiff.
I love stumbling onto the original influence for an artists sound Like - with alll due respect to LP - I thought their voice was quite unique, and then I listened to Pavlov’s Dog from the 70s…
This is the message. You may like Pritzker, you may not, but whomever the new leaders of a reformed democratic party are, they will carry this message. This is the way to win. My two cents.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
I’ve made several actual, real friends by talking to strangers
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last yr.this has been quote dunked far and wide so I'd like to say that the OP has my axe, talking to strangers when you're out and about in the world is nice and you don't realise what you're losing if you voluntarily shut yourself away from it
From an American doctor friend volunteering in Gaza: "So many dead little kids. This man showed up to the hospital today carrying this burlap bag asking for help. He said it held the remains of his daughter after his home was bombed yesterday. All he found was her head, her leg, and her hand."
I’m pretty sure I know who is targets are here … www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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Ce qui le fait vraiment inexcusable, c'est que cette série est une coprod européenne, notamment française... Et vous l'avez rendu tellement ennuyeux à vissionner en faisant ça 👇 que franchement, j'ai pas envie de continuer @cineteve.bsky.social
Alexander Hurst@iamhurst.bsky.social · last yr.There's something that really annoys me, which is when shows/movies are filmed in English for scenes where the characters obviously wouldn't be speaking English to each other I.e., "Kaboul" -- 0% chance the French ambassador would be speaking English to his French head of security.
There's something that really annoys me, which is when shows/movies are filmed in English for scenes where the characters obviously wouldn't be speaking English to each other I.e., "Kaboul" -- 0% chance the French ambassador would be speaking English to his French head of security.
